Kept by the Reborn Empress

Yuri / reborn / transmigrate into a book / evenly matched leads / empress / rekindled love / mutual salvation

Xie Chuheng transmigrated into a book.

According to the script, she was supposed to be bound to a System and win over all the male leads. But when she opened her eyes, the System was out of contact, not a single male lead was in sight, and a golden lock had appeared around her wrist.

The one who had locked her up was Xiao Suzhi, an overlooked little princess in the original book.

But the little princess was no longer the same. She had killed all her political enemies, ascended the throne, and become the reigning empress, feared by all.

As for the male leads, weeds had long since grown over their graves.

Xie Chuheng: "..."

Wasn't something about this plot off? Even stranger, Xiao Suzhi seemed especially fond of her, keeping her by her side every day and not letting her take a single step away.

Xie Chuheng quickly figured it out: Xiao Suzhi had been reborn, and seemed to have loved the former "Xie Chuheng" desperately.

But there was a problem. She wasn't the original owner! She had no idea how the original owner had gotten along with the empress. If her secret identity was exposed, she'd definitely be chopped up and fed to the dogs!

To stay alive, Xie Chuheng had no choice but to do her best to please the tyrannical empress while secretly plotting her escape.

Using her gradually awakening special abilities, Xie Chuheng escaped the imperial palace, concealed her identity, and hid among the common folk, traveling the world with a woman knight.

She saw the world under the empress's rule with her own eyes, and sealed memories began to return bit by bit. Only then did she realize there had never been any impostor or secret identity. She was the original owner all along.

In her previous life, she had tried to change this world, only to be betrayed by the very people who repeatedly claimed to love her, and driven to the brink.

Only the little princess had always stood by her side. She had even been willing to die with her.

Reborn, Xiao Suzhi killed her old enemies and seized the realm.

She also turned the ideals Xie Chuheng had once described into reality, one by one.

When Xiao Suzhi first met Xie Chuheng, she was still an overlooked little princess deep in the palace. Xie Chuheng was the moon in the heavens.

Her imperial brothers liked her. The general liked her. The young nobles of the great clans liked her, too.

Xiao Suzhi liked her most of all.

She loved listening to Xie Chuheng talk about that distant world. Xie Chuheng said that there, women could study, hold office, choose whether or not to marry, and stand proudly before others through their own abilities.

She also said she hoped that one day, women here could do the same.

Later, she sought to reform the world. But the princes, generals, and ministers she had once helped professed their admiration for her even as they condemned her for defying convention.

Xiao Suzhi watched helplessly as that bright moon fell. Not one person in the court pleaded for mercy. Only she chose to die alongside Xie Chuheng.

When she opened her eyes again, Xiao Suzhi had returned to many years earlier. That person no longer remembered her.

But this time, she would keep her by her side forever.

The new policies threatened the old nobility's interests, and rebellions erupted across the land. Xiao Suzhi led her army into battle herself, only to be ambushed. Amid a rain of arrows, she fell from her horse and was gravely wounded. She thought this was probably where her life in this second chance would end.

But just before she fell, that familiar voice crossed a thousand troops and horses and came to her side once more.

Theme: Salvation across time and space. Women, too, can bring peace to the realm.