The Night I Transmigrated as a Substitute Bride, I Saw the Tyrant’s Killing Intent

[Marriage Before Love] [Substitute Bride] [Legitimate Daughter] [Love Grows Over Time] [Palace Scheming] [Transmigration] [Emperor] [Exclusive Favor]

When Shen Hanyue opened her eyes, she had transmigrated to the Great Zhou dynasty and become the legitimate daughter the Shen family had pushed forward to take someone else's place and avert disaster.

Her stepmother couldn't bear to send her own daughter into the perilous imperial palace, while her birth father, Shen Boyong, looked on coldly and allowed it. A marriage contract sent her into the inner palace to wed Xiao Jingrui, an emperor ruthless in his methods and consumed by suspicion.

On their wedding night, the red candles flickered, but the bridal chamber was bitterly cold.

At the instant a blade touched her neck, Shen Hanyue clearly saw the surging black aura surrounding the emperor. It was undisguised murderous intent.

Everyone in the imperial harem tried to curry favor with the ruler, surviving on whatever scraps of affection he deigned to show.

But she knew that simply kneeling and begging for mercy would only get her killed faster.

"If Your Majesty wants me dead, why go to all this trouble? Keeping me alive is far more worthwhile than ending my life."

Gifted with the power to perceive other people's emotions, she sought a way to survive in the perilous inner palace.

A domineering consort watched her like a hawk, factions at court stirred beneath the surface, and the Shen household outside the palace still sought to treat her as a pawn.

She had never hoped for the emperor's favor. She only wanted to hold on to the leverage that belonged to her and escape a fate in which others could do as they pleased with her.

Yet the man who had been full of murderous intent on their wedding night began to fix his gaze on her, more and more.