Before she died, Jiang Zhinian swore:
If she were given another life, she would rein in all her sharpness
and stop competing for the title of the capital's foremost talented woman.
Then she would never have caught the Crown Prince's eye,
never become entangled in all the grudges and conflicts that followed,
and never have entered the palace after the man she loved died, only to lose herself in the schemes and betrayals of the fight for the phoenix throne.
She would never have watched her parents take their own lives before her eyes,
while her little brother, not yet five, died with his eyes open, and the entire Jiang household was buried alongside her.
Who could have known that when she returned to the age of eight, before she had even met the Crown Prince,
word would spread throughout the imperial capital that the legitimate daughter of Hanlin Scholar Jiang was destined to become empress?
Later, Jiang Zhinian really did become empress.
But she did not marry the Crown Prince.
The man who married her
was the one who had died young on the battlefield in her previous life,
but in this life was like a god: a young general, brilliant strategist, and undefeated warrior.
He was the man she loved, Gu Yulan.
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