The Aloof Chancellor Begs Me Not to Leave, but I'm Busy Becoming Empress

In her previous life, Shen Jinghong was the innocent, devoted legitimate daughter of a military family.

She entered the imperial palace as a consort and gave her whole heart to a faithless man, only to see her entire family executed and end up a pile of bones in the Cold Palace.

Only as she lay dying did she learn that Gu Changyuan, the cold and aloof powerful minister whom she had used all her life and never once looked at properly, had buried her, avenged her, and lived out his days alone for her.

Reborn into a new life.

Shen Jinghong says: Love? She doesn't need it. She wants power, status, and the whole realm.

She wields beauty as a blade and strategy as a shield, training the powerful regent minister, feared throughout the court, like an obedient dog.

"Sit." "Go bite him." "Good job. Here's your reward."

The officials tremble: That's the living King of Hell! How dare you?

Gu Changyuan lived twenty-six years, keeping himself chaste and avoiding women.

Until she appeared.

She says: "Between us, it's just a transaction."

He says: "Fine."

Later, when she asks for a divorce, he kneels in the rain, eyes red: "Wherever you go, I'll follow."

When she wants the throne, he places half the realm in her hands himself: "Is this enough? If not, I'll give you my life too."

She says he's lost his mind.

He says: "Yes, I lost it for you."