[Woman Disguised as a Man x Rivalry x Taking by Force]
In her previous life, Cui Mingzhang held power over the entire court. She managed to force a hopeless fool onto the throne and kept him there for eight years.
She never expected that, at thirty, the ungrateful wretch would poison her with a cup of poisoned wine.
The first thing she did after being reborn at twenty-two was go kill the wretch.
Then she would do what she had always wanted to do in her previous life, but had never quite brought herself to do.
There was someone whose taste she had never had the chance to experience before she died. It was a terrible shame.
At the time, Lu Yingqing had only just entered public service disguised as a man, and was still an unknown minor official.
She didn't know Cui Mingzhang yet.
Nor did she know that eight years later, she would hand the emperor the poisoned wine that killed her.
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In the spring of the twelfth year of Zhenyuan, barely a month after the examination results were posted, someone else sat on Dashuo's throne.
Six months later, a junior Hanlin Academy official was summoned to the new emperor's bedchamber.
In the quiet bedchamber, a slender, snow-white arm hung limply from the trembling brocade curtains, only for a sinewy hand to pull it back onto the bed.
The emperor gripped the chin of the person beneath her and forced her lips apart. Her voice was cool as jade: "You disguised yourself as a man and deceived the throne. Should I punish you for it?"
The other person only stared back stubbornly. Though pain made her body tremble, she didn't let out a sound.
She covered the other's eyes with one hand and, smiling, thrust inside.
Theme: Break free from shackles and keep your heart pure.
