Reborn: Good Fortune for the Empress's Sister-in-Law

Blurb One:

In her previous life, Shen Chengen became the tyrant everyone talked about.

The first half of her life was bleak. She fled and fought in wars, and while disguised as a man, she was forced to marry her elder brother’s wife, who had been cast aside by the crown prince.

In the second half of her life, she used power as bait and danced with the tiger. The Empress Dowager lay dying in Renshou Palace, while the empress kept her doors shut.

She achieved her goal of ascending the throne and believed she now held the world in the palm of her hand.

Until the general she trusted broke into Xuanwu Gate and knelt before Prince Ning, Shen Zhen.

Only then did she realize that everything had been paving the way for Prince Ning.

Shen Zhen ascended the throne, and her corpse hung from the city tower for over half a month. Her spirit drifted through the palace, unable to leave.

She went from anger to calm. Her spirit wandered aimlessly until she finally came to Kunning Palace, where she saw the empress she had neglected for years copying scriptures for her.

Again and again.

First she was the crown prince’s wife. Later, she became her empress.

When she regained consciousness, Shen Chengen had returned to ten years earlier.

At the time, the rebels had stormed the imperial city. The late emperor and the crown prince had abandoned the city and fled, while she was on the run with the former crown princess.

[Ruthless, scheming top x gentle, resilient empress bottom

Prince disguised as a man x beautiful female general and empress]

Blurb Two:

To fifteen-year-old Shen Chengen, Zhao Yuanxi was undeniably enviable, and even hard to like.

Compared with Shen Chengen, who was born in the Cold Palace and despised by the emperor, Zhao Yuanxi, the legitimate daughter of a powerful clan who had already been granted a noble title and high office, shone like the bright moon.

That day, when the Western Liang cavalry charged into the heart of the capital, Zhao Yuanxi donned her armor. Her noble bearing and beauty captivated countless young men from powerful families.

Her enviable qualities made people jealous.

But that was also when Zhao Yuanxi’s misfortune began.

First, she was forced to marry into the Eastern Palace. Then the crown prince cast her aside. But when the realm fell into chaos, she married Shen Chengen, who had become Prince Li.

In her previous life, Shen Chengen would sometimes think:

In the end, Heaven is fair.

If her tragedy began with marrying the crown prince, it only grew worse when she married Shen Chengen next.

She watched Zhao Yuanxi’s wings get clipped, watched her be crushed into the dust and fall from her pedestal, step by step.

When the country fell and Shen Chengen died full of hate, she finally realized that the conspiracy had quietly begun as soon as she and Zhao Yuanxi married.

Reborn, Shen Chengen was determined to make everyone who had humiliated her pay in blood.

And Zhao Yuanxi would be an important part of her revenge.

She thought she understood Zhao Yuanxi very well.

Until she saw that the other woman was no longer as quiet and reserved as she remembered. She would lower her head and smile at happy moments, and her eyes would shine with curiosity.

All these changes made Shen Chengen, reborn into the past, feel that something was wrong.

Then, after she quelled the rebellion and ascended the throne, the officials knelt before her. Zhao Yuanxi, clad in silver armor, knelt before her as a general and looked up. Only then did Shen Chengen realize what was wrong.

Theme: May I be true to both the Buddha and my beloved.