Bewitching the Powerful Minister Again

Coming next: Your Highness, May You Live in Peace and The Spoiled Beauty. Please add them to your favorites. Scroll down for the blurbs. This book is also known as A Beauty Has to Seduce Her Ex to Get Revenge Blurb: Rong Xi, Princess of Yue, has skin like ice and bone like jade, and a beauty so extraordinary that she is universally acclaimed as the most beautiful woman in the world. When she was sixteen, political turmoil forced her imperial brother to arrange for Ji Tingyun to take her out of the palace to safety. Ji Tingyun, a grand academician, is upright in both bearing and appearance. Though still young, he holds a high position and is much admired by women of marriageable age. But his aloof nature and rigid ways have kept him from marrying. Rong Xi happens to like men like him, and soon sets her heart on winning him over. After spending time together, a celestial beauty descends to earth, and Ji Tingyun takes the bait. But their good fortune doesn't last. Rong Xi is told that the Rong family's reign ended long ago, and that Ji Tingyun, the chief among the treacherous ministers who usurped the throne, was behind it. Everything was a lie. Rong Xi fled, taking the pregnancy she had just discovered with her, and sought refuge with a prince from another kingdom. Four years later, she returns to her homeland with revenge in her heart, determined to settle every debt one by one. Though she hates Ji Tingyun with all her heart, Rong Xi decides to seduce him once more and become the apple of his eye, so she can use him. By now, Ji Tingyun is a deep and calculating chancellor. Rong Xi, meanwhile, appears to be the woman of a prince from another kingdom, and already has a daughter. She exhausts herself planning and putting on an act, hoping to make Ji Tingyun fall from grace again. But not only does he not suspect her, he accepts everything she offers. He sees through her act but doesn't call her out. He knowingly boards the pirate ship, then shamelessly asks her, "Would you have a daughter for me too?" Content notes: 1. The leads remain physically and emotionally faithful to each other throughout. The daughter is the male lead's. 2. The male lead is reborn, and there are reasons behind the bad things he does. 3. A fictional setting, very loosely based on anything real. 4. A little angst at the start, then it gets sweeter and sweeter. Happy ending. #An overflowing bowl of melodrama# Blurb for Your Highness, May You Live in Peace: The boldest thing Jiang Kou ever did was take her sister's place in the palace selection for consorts. The Jiang family had fallen into decline, and her sister was frail. The palace was a place that devoured people without a trace, and the emperor was incompetent and tyrannical. Her sister might never return if she entered the palace. Only by going herself could Jiang Kou give the Jiang family a chance to forge a new path. After entering the palace, Jiang Kou was cautious at every turn. Apart from dealing with the emperor, her days went fairly smoothly. She thought she had made the right choice. That is, until Regent Sikong Che returned to court victorious, turning Jiang Kou's peaceful life upside down. This reclusive, ruthless uncle of the emperor rejected the many beauties the emperor offered him, yet fixed his gaze on Jiang Kou. Before long, the emperor followed Sikong Che's suggestion and made Jiang Kou empress. On the night of the coronation, the emperor and empress were supposed to share a bed. Jiang Kou sat upright on the extravagant bed in Fengyi Palace, but the one who arrived was Sikong Che, dressed in robes embroidered with a four-clawed golden dragon. Ignoring the servants' alarm, he strode toward her and lifted a hand to grip Jiang Kou's chin. Though her face was drained of color, Jiang Kou forced herself to say coldly, "Uncle, you're drunk." A glimmer of amusement shone in Sikong Che's usually icy eyes. His thumb brushed over Jiang Kou's lips. "In that case, let the empress attend to me tonight." Theme: Always stay positive.