Lin Songtang loves the newly appointed top candidate in the palace exams, while Li Yanzhou wants to marry the Prime Minister's legitimate daughter. The two have disliked each other since childhood, yet an imperial edict binds them together, forcing them to play the loving couple in public.
To seize the throne, Li Yanzhou has the newly appointed top candidate killed. Lin Songtang and the Prime Minister's daughter are captured together, but only Lin Songtang survives.
From mutual dislike to bitter hatred, Lin Songtang cuts off Li Yanzhou's path to power. He fails to seize the throne and is sentenced to death, yet as he is dying, Li Yanzhou still sends her off with a cup of poisoned wine.
But when Lin Songtang opens her eyes, she discovers she has been reborn on her wedding night.
The good news: none of it has happened yet.
The bad news: Li Yanzhou has also been reborn.
-Reader's guide:
-The leads are not good people in the traditional sense. They have flaws and are far from perfect.
-A couple who go from pure hatred and mutual destruction, to love and mutual destruction, to pure love (?)
-I want to write a story with a dark, antagonistic romance.
-I don't know which plot points might be triggers, so there are no trigger warnings.
-This is listed in the transmigration-to-ancient-times category because a supporting character transmigrates.
Theme: Keep striving to reach new heights
