The White Lotus I Raised Turned Evil After Being Reborn

[Recommended to let this build up]

[For various reasons, the story went off the rails. The author is working hard to revise it, at a snail's pace (:з"∠)_]

Xie Anning was the legitimate daughter of the prime minister. She spent her whole life pursuing her unattainable love, scheming and plotting until she finally helped him seize the throne. But on the very day she was made empress, he rewarded her with a cup of poisoned wine, and her entire family was sentenced to death.

Years after her death, she unexpectedly came back reborn as the daughter of an enemy kingdom's great general, destined to be sent to the new emperor as a concubine.

She had heard the new emperor was unpredictable and cruel, and that no one who entered his harem ever came out alive.

Xie Anning immediately made a run for it, afraid she'd end up back in the morgue.

Then one day, Xie Anning ran into the new emperor...

Wait! Why does he look so familiar?!

Wait! Isn't this the little brat I raised in my previous life?!

Xie Anning: “I think I could go claim him as family. No blood test needed.”

The new emperor: “I think we could become even closer than family.”

Xie Anning, who schemed her way through her previous life but just wants to lie flat and coast through this one & Gu Feiye, a sweet, obedient little boy as a child who grows up into a gloomy, possessive yandere

[Reading Guide]

I'll do my best to keep the characters in character.

Theme: We were young then, but already grown.