The Usurper Emperor’s Regret Remedy

A note before you begin: The second male lead rises to the top, and the heroine rekindles her relationship with him after they break up. Blurb One: In the palace, inside Shoukang Hall, the young new head of the cabinet, Li Yun, stood before the emperor and empress dowager. Kneeling beside him was Huang Ning, eldest daughter of General Huang Wang, whose entire family was being sentenced to execution and exile. Huang Ning knelt with her head bowed. From where she was, she could see the hems of the empress dowager's and emperor's robes and their boots, but none commanded her attention like Li Yun did. Li Yun moved his foot slightly, and Huang Ning drew back the hand she had pressed to the ground, as if afraid he might step on it. Ever since Li Yun had chased her all the way to the palace, Huang Ning had felt that something was wrong. At this hour, shouldn't he be at home, busy bringing a second wife into the household? How could he have time to concern himself with the whereabouts of an old flame, the daughter of a condemned official? Just as she had expected, even though she had been raised in the palace since childhood and shared a bond of gratitude with the empress dowager, Her Majesty could not withstand Li Yun's pressure. She revoked the decree she had just agreed to, which would have let Huang Ning divorce Li Yun and go into exile with her mother and younger sister. When the ruler is weak and his ministers are strong, power changes hands. The emperor used to be in the Huang family's grasp. Now, someone else had taken control. Across the Great Wei Dynasty, the Li family's dominance was already a foregone conclusion. Huang Ning no longer cared to listen to what the emperor or the empress dowager said. All she remembered was the humiliation of Li Yun grabbing her, hoisting her over his shoulder, and carrying her across the entire palace, and the pain when he roughly threw her into the carriage and she hit its side. Before she could cry out, Li Yun climbed in after her and hemmed her into a corner. So this was his true face. The refined, mild-mannered, courteous Grand Tutor had finally torn off his mask and revealed just a glimpse of what lay beneath. Blurb Two: Not long after the new emperor ascended the throne, Huang Ning, a former county princess and daughter of a disgraced official of the previous dynasty, set out from her remote place of exile to return to the imperial capital. The new emperor did not wait for her in the palace. Instead, he went to the old residence where he had lived before ascending the throne: the Li family estate. Li Yun sat in a small courtyard in the three-courtyard Li family residence. The layout had not changed in the slightest. He leisurely sipped tea, then picked up and toyed with an embroidery piece that the courtyard's former owner had left unfinished. That woman had once fled from this very courtyard. Now he was waiting here, waiting to see her return to him step by step, just as she had once fled. If there were a pill for regret in this world, Huang Ning would certainly swallow it. She would stay far away from Li Yun and never have anything to do with him again. If there were a pill for regret in this world, Li Yun would stop at nothing to get it and swallow it. He regretted everything. He wished he could start over. Power, glory, family: he would give them all up for her, if only she would not give him up. Other completed works: 1. The Second Consort Blurb: When Li Su heard a eunuch report that the Second Consort was about to jump from the city wall, he didn't take it seriously. Wang Er had always been spoiled, throwing tantrums without a care for anyone or anything. He assumed this time would be no different. Without looking up from the document he was writing, he replied,