[Girls' Love Blurb]
During the Yong'an era, everyone from cabinet ministers to ordinary citizens knew one thing: Empress Jiang Yuyue hated Qi Zhilin, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet.
They also knew another thing: the empress had no harem, but she kept someone hidden away in a golden house in one particular place.
"But what they don't know is that the golden house is my cabinet, and the one I keep in it is my Grand Secretary."
[Serious Blurb]
Newly enthroned and barely fifteen, Empress Jiang Yuyue couldn't handle that crowd of civil and military officials, nor could she deal with the treacherous eunuchs.
She set aside her pride and asked Elder Qi for help, only for someone to mock her mercilessly before agreeing.
Only later did Qi Zhilin realize that after helping her deal with her rivals, one day she would turn around and "deal with" him.
[All Over the Place Blurb]
"I've borrowed other people's knives to kill countless people, and stepped over piles of corpses to get where I am. I can't even remember if I ever had a gentle side, or where that so-called conscience of mine is. I'm afraid of people getting close to me. I'm afraid they'll scheme against me and stab me in the back."
Qi Zhilin held her. Only when looking at her was her gaze gentle. She said softly, "I wasn't there for the empress's first fifteen years. But I can swear that for the next several decades, as long as I am here, I won't let the empress suffer for even a single day."
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[A ruthless, few-words empress x peerless female scholar and Grand Secretary]
[No fixed top or bottom, switch couple, ten-year age gap.]
[The romance comes first. The court politics are just for reference.]
[The author's brain got eaten ×]
