Wei Yilan transmigrates into a novel about a tyrant as the doomed, cannon-fodder empress. The original empress loved the emperor but never won his favor. Only when she was given poisoned wine did she learn that he had been using her to take the fall for his beloved, and she died full of bitterness.
For the sake of his mission, Wei Yilan arrives in the story determined to stay true to the original's devoted persona.
When the tyrant falls ill, he stays by his side and tends to him.
When the tyrant is attacked, he rushes to take the blade for him.
When the tyrant tells him to get lost so he can sleep, Wei Yilan still has to cry a little before leaving.
A bootlicker's 996 work schedule. Even the donkeys in the production team would weep to see it.
At last, the emperor's beloved returns to the capital. Exhausted to the point of collapse, Wei Yilan excitedly goes to see the emperor, only to arrive just as the tyrant is about to execute his beloved.
He freezes on the spot. The speech he had prepared comes out all wrong: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, on welcoming back the one I love. I'm tired of being empress, too, so please grant my wish..."
Wait! What did I just say?
I don't covet his beloved!
I know all about your love-hate relationship!!
Wei Yilan is horrified to feel the hand around his waist tighten at once, as if it might crush him to death. A gentle yet sinister voice murmurs in his ear: "Then tell me, Empress, what is it you like about him?"
Wei Yilan shudders. The overworked wage slave is suddenly ecstatic: Yes, go ahead and kill me! I like that he can help me get off work early!
Yin Ran is cruel by nature, hated by his brothers and despised by his mother. After becoming emperor, he is someone everyone avoids.
Only the empress, neglected and ridiculed, knows that Yin Ran has someone else in his heart, yet remains devoted and treats him as she always has. The two are destined to be entangled for life, and buried together a hundred years later.
Yin Ran believed that, too, until one night he woke to hear his usually aloof empress sobbing: "I'm so tired. I get up at six every morning to work, then have to attend the emperor in bed until midnight. When is this damn emperor going to send me to the cold palace for the sake of his beloved?"
#How does an overworked wage slave get driven to madness#
#Someone's going to go crazy, so why not go crazy together#
Two childish sweethearts in a goofy romance. The bottom is stunningly beautiful.
Theme: Love and hope endure forever
