Li Tianxiang transmigrates into a power fantasy novel about a domineering hero, becoming the male lead's concubine.
Knowing how the story unfolds, she quickly latches onto the male lead, the Crown Prince, and uses every means at her disposal to become his secondary consort.
As for the cannon fodder in the book, Pei Ruobai, the current prime minister, she knows he is destined to die by the male lead's sword. Taken with his exceptionally handsome face, she abuses her power to make his life miserable. Knowing he loves someone else, she still forces him to sleep with her, spending her days in bed with him.
Pei Ruobai hates her and vows that one day he will repay her tenfold for every humiliation he has suffered.
Li Tianxiang doesn't care in the least. Instead, she treats him even worse, deliberately killing his family and friends until he has no choice but to submit to her.
With the day of the Crown Prince's coronation fast approaching, Li Tianxiang gathers herself and happily prepares to rise from a lowly branch to become a phoenix, hoping the Crown Prince will make her empress.
But Pei Ruobai storms into the Eastern Palace, carrying the Crown Prince's corpse to her.
That day, wild-eyed with rage, he grabs her by the throat and shoves her onto the bed. He calls her debauched, calls her a venomous-hearted viper, and curses her deluded dreams for turning him into the twisted man he has become...
She does become empress, but she becomes Pei Ruobai's.
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Pei Ruobai was born into a family of great wealth and status. His ancestors had practiced benevolence for generations, and he followed their example, doing good deeds from an early age.
At sixteen, he met his mother's former adopted daughter, who was also his younger sister. By then, she was near death, unable to move. The only difference between her and a corpse was her faint pulse and the warmth of her body.
His mother refused to acknowledge her, and her father wanted nothing to do with her.
He brought his sister home from the estate, cared for her devotedly, and they relied on each other.
Sadly, affection could not change fate. His sister eventually stopped breathing and passed away.
He spent years copying Buddhist scriptures for her, until he met Li Tianxiang, a woman with a face identical to his sister's, cold and aloof, so detached from the world that she seemed almost gloomy.
Perhaps she was just a clown imitating his sister. Perhaps she was his sister's lingering evil spirit. Perhaps... she was the lovely little sister he held dear in his heart.
Whatever the truth, he had to hold on to her and keep her trapped, even if she was a madwoman, even if she was a wicked woman.
The way she is now is not her fault.
*The female lead is sexually inexperienced, while the male lead is not. One man and one woman. Pseudo-incest: the female lead is the male lead's younger sister. There is no romantic development between them while they remain related.
The female lead forces the male lead into a relationship early on; later, the male lead forces the female lead into marriage.
The female lead is a cold, gloomy beauty. In short, both leads are gloomy and obsessive.
Theme: Live well