The Empress Is My Sister

Heroine’s version:

Her mother was murdered, her childhood friend died a horrible death, and she was sent to Daliang as a hostage, where she suffered every torment imaginable, living a fate worse than death.

Five years later, she escaped and vowed to turn the court upside down, make her enemies suffer a fate worse than death, and secretly set everything in motion. She never expected that person to throw all her plans into disarray.

Raise a tiger, and it will eventually become a threat. In the end, she must take back everything that belongs to her with her own hands!

Hero’s version:

As a child, he nearly died beneath a butcher’s knife. Without Qin Xia, he would have had no future. He thought exile would be the rest of his life, until someone found him and told him to take, at any cost, the things Qin Xia treasured.

He had long known Qin Xia was not of royal blood. When she stood between him and the blade and saved him, a seed was planted in his heart. Years later, that seed sprouted and bloomed, and he could no longer control the love swelling within him.

Set in an alternate history, with no historical research.

The leads are not related by blood.

Theme: The heroine grows and transforms through adversity.