In the fourth year of Yong'an, Empress Ye Qingge died on her way home from a military campaign, bringing her life to an end.
Looking back on the past twenty-three years, she had seen siblings turn against one another and both her parents die cruelly. In a world full of peril, every schemer wanted her dead...
To avenge herself, she slaughtered her treacherous relatives and corrupt ministers, then climbed to the throne over mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.
The world called her cold and heartless, never knowing how deeply she loved. Sadly, fate had other plans: she and the one she loved in this life were never meant to be, and she suffered the full pain of parting and death.
As she died, all she wished was that in her next life she would not be born into the imperial family. But Heaven delighted in tormenting her.
Reborn, she found herself back where it all began. Her parents were still alive, her enemies unchanged, but the little tyrant in her heart had become a timid little rabbit.
So be it. Since she had been reborn, she would make the best of it.
After weighing the situation, Ye Qingge set down her vision for imperial rule: cleanse the court and the inner palace of all who opposed her.
She would have the throne.
And she would have her little rabbit.
At that year's grand banquet, her little rabbit leaped into her arms in front of the assembled ministers and their families.
The ministers below: We once risked our lives to remonstrate and failed. Now she's gone too far, showing off her love in public! Bring out the memorials! We must submit memorials!
Wansi Hongzhao: That girl up there absolutely cannot be from the Wansi family. Where's a crack in the ground? I need to crawl into one and collect myself!
Ye Qingge: That's my girl! She finally threw herself into my arms of her own accord...
Wansi Longyue: I swear, this really was an accident. Should I play dead, or play dead...
Note:
1. Matriarchy, one-on-one romance, both leads are reborn.
2. Companion story to the previous-life tale, I Won't Be Born into the Imperial Family Again in My Next Life GL [Matriarchy].
3. I'm terrible at writing blurbs. Thanks to the sisters who read this far.
Theme: May I be like the stars and you like the moon, shining together night after night.