Year Five of the Da Ming era.
On her first night in the palace, summoned to the bedchamber of Emperor Shengyuan,
Jiang Suisui was reborn.
She had returned to the year she was fifteen.
In her previous life, she had fought with all her might to become empress. But in the end, she couldn't protect her own family, and the entire Chancellor's household was sentenced to death.
The emperor was cold-hearted. He sent her to the Cold Palace and left her to waste away from illness.
In this life, she was determined to stop coveting the throne, to keep away from the emperor, body and soul, and simply live out her days in her own little courtyard.
She had planned it all out on her abacus, but things never went as expected.
At another consort's birthday banquet, the emperor made an appearance.
The consorts wore splendid robes and jeweled hairpins.
But the handsome, refined Emperor Shengyuan slowly raised his deep-set gaze. It passed over the many beauties and jewels, coming to rest on the girl's pale, lovely face as she heartily devoured her food in a corner.
As she stared at him in panic, the emperor gave a quiet scoff. His gaze settled on the crumbs at the corner of her mouth, and he asked coolly, "What, have I been mistreating you?"
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Song Yan always had his eye on the woman living in Yungui Courtyard.
She acted timid and cautious around him, but behind his back, she was always trying to tempt him.
At a small banquet, she had been cold and distant toward him. Later, in a garden in the palace, she left one of her embroidered shoes on the path he was about to take, luring him over.
He had always hated consorts playing these little games.
But as he watched her sleeping, her face hazy in the lamplight, he thought of measuring her foot to expose her true nature. Yet when his warm hand closed around her dainty foot, he felt only smooth, fair skin.
For a moment, he couldn't bring himself to let go, lingering over it again and again.
Later, when he heard someone say she was timid and afraid of trouble, he scoffed.
She even dared to deceive him. She had to be utterly audacious.
But why was she acting this way...
His brows drew together as he pondered.
It was only later that Emperor Shengyuan finally understood: he had spoiled her into it.
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As the lowest-ranking consort in the palace, with the emperor suppressing her as well,
Jiang Suisui kept her original resolve in mind at all times. She told herself she had to stay farther and farther away from Emperor Shengyuan.
But later, when the emperor faced the condemnation of the realm and shut himself away in the palace,
she couldn't hold back a moment's pity. She braved layer upon layer of security to reach him.
When she saw him, her hand brushed across the handsome lines of Emperor Shengyuan's face.
She murmured softly, "I believe in Your Majesty."
The emperor fixed his gaze on the girl before him. Hearing the same words in her heart as those she had spoken aloud, he let a smile touch his features, hidden in the darkness.
He said, "Since that is so, I will make you empress."
When the edict appointing her empress arrived, she was in the middle of carefully planning her escape amid the current chaos: "???"
That damnable compassion of hers had caused her no end of trouble.
Jiang Suisui: In this life, all I wanted at first was to protect myself and my loved ones. But seeing him sink into loneliness in the abyss of court politics, I couldn't stand by any longer. Perhaps only now have I finally seen him for who he truly is.
Also known as:
#The Harem Consort Who's Always Coveting Me#
#Turns Out I Was the One Coveting Her#
#You Ignored Me in My Past Life, Now I'm Out of Your League#
P.S.
A bright, mischievous beauty × a deep, dark emperor who says one thing and means another
Both leads are virgins / Sweet romance, no major angst / Dive in without worry
The heroine is reborn from the start. She's clever, calculating, and no pushover.
The two leads can hear each other's thoughts after an accident.
The heroine misunderstood the hero in her past life, but the misunderstanding will be cleared up.
In this life, the hero has to pursue her through hell and high water.
Theme: Love of country and family
