After Taking Credit for Someone Else's Kindness, the Mad Emperor Loved Me Even More

[Clear-Eyed, Selfish, Fussy, Silly Beauty x Possessive, Pure-Hearted Yet Sly, Obsessive Emperor]

[Reverse Self-Sabotage Turns into Competing for Favor + Forbidden Coercive Love + Intense Push and Pull]

Pei Shu has a dream and discovers that she's the vicious supporting female character in a historical romance novel.

She stole credit for saving the current emperor's life, a favor actually owed to her elder sister. Relying on her beauty, she acts arrogantly and tyrannically in the harem. Three years later, the truth is exposed, and she is cruelly sentenced to death by a length of white silk.

To save her life, Pei Shu, who knows perfectly well that she's greedy, vain, and silly, decides to turn the tables and seek survival in the opposite way:

She'll cause as much trouble as she can! Demand pearls, throw tantrums, and act spoiled by the emperor's favor, all in the hope that the seemingly gentle but actually ruthless emperor will grow sick of her and banish her from the palace.

But the more she makes trouble, the more the pure-hearted yet sly emperor closes in on her instead of getting angry.

She pretends her leg hurts, and he kneels by her bed in the middle of the night to rub her knee himself.

She breaks things, and he even moves her into Zichen Hall overnight so he can keep her under his watchful eye.

Until one day, the truth about who took the blade for him is about to come out.

Pei Shu thinks her death is at hand, packs up her belongings, and prepares to flee in the middle of the night.

But the man corners her against the palace wall, leaving her nowhere to go.

Madness gleams in his eyes. His long fingers grip her slender waist as he smiles chillingly. "Shu Shu, I don't need you to be compatible with me. I just need you to stay. Even if we go to hell, you'll stay right here in my arms."