The Empress Dowager Takes a High-and-Mighty Beauty by Force (Reborn)

In her previous life, Xie Mingshu was the legitimate daughter of the chief minister. Though her status was noble, she was like a wisteria vine trapped in a cage, with no freedom. When she came of age, she happened to meet a young general. From then on, she projected her sense of self onto him and chased after him for three years.

Unfortunately, relying on someone else to save you is no long-term solution. The general went off to the frontier, with his childhood sweetheart by his side. They were the enviable couple of the Northern Frontier.

Xie Mingshu still ended up in the imperial palace, shut away behind its deep walls and becoming Emperor Zhou De's second empress. She thought, perhaps she should accept her fate. The emperor was capable, the consorts were kind, and living out her life this way would be fine.

Who could have known that two years later, rebels would rise up and the country would fall? In the end, Xie Mingshu became a trophy the enemy hung on the city wall.

Heaven opened its eyes, and she got another chance at life.

Xie Mingshu finally understood that she had to save herself from the flames and the flood. What did a general or a deep romance matter? Nothing was more important than herself! She would survive!

So she planned carefully at every step, gathered allies, and gradually changed the outcome of her previous life. In the end, she took power into her own hands and became the first Empress Dowager of the Great Zhou dynasty to rule from behind the curtain.

The road was long and difficult, and the people beside her changed again and again. Fortunately, one Daoist priest in a blue robe remained by her side throughout.

Later, she plucked with her own hands the jasmine flower seated high upon the altar.

"Your Highness, be gentle."

Broken sobs and the red marks spreading at the corners of his eyes made him look like a crushed flower, heartbreakingly fragile.

#I plotted and schemed only so you would look at me a little longer#

#The aloof beauty willingly falls from his pedestal#

Reading guide:

1. The male lead is in love with her in both lives, and his feelings come true. In her previous life, the female lead's feelings for the general weren't romantic.

2. One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins.

Theme: A puppy who cries gets a treat