Reborn, the Beauty Takes on the Role of a Treacherous Official

A fickle, treacherous minister as the pursued lead x a gloomy emperor as the pursuer

#All that hatred comes down to resenting him for not loving enough.

In the eighteenth year of the Tianxi era, on the Winter Solstice, heavy snow fell.

Duan Yunci, the all-powerful chief secretary who held the court in his grip, braved the blinding snow to personally carry a sickly abandoned child out of the Cold Palace.

He cured the boy's chronic illness, corrected his bad habits, and paved the way for him.

He even overcame fierce opposition to make him emperor.

But the little wolf cub from the Cold Palace was impossible to tame and wouldn't warm to anyone. The slightest lapse in attention earned Duan Yunci a vicious bite.

"One day, I will kill you with my own hands, you shameless treacherous minister!"

Duan Yunci didn't move.

After letting the boy bite him until a ring of blood appeared, he gently wiped the blood from his fingertip onto the boy's lips, smiling with careless abandon.

"Your Majesty, does a great traitor's blood taste sweet?"

Years later, the once-weak wolf cub had grown into an emperor for the ages, with wings strong enough to soar.

Under Duan Yunci's careful guidance, he mastered literature, martial arts, and the art of ruling. Yet he also grew increasingly sensitive, suspicious, gloomy, irritable, and competitive.

After lying low for years, he finally struck back.

In front of everyone, he issued an imperial decree sentencing Duan Yunci to the dungeons, where he was subjected to every humiliation.

That night, a madness unlike anything before gleamed in the ruthless, obsessive emperor's eyes as he closed in step by step.

"My dear minister, why are you hiding?"

"The thunder and the rain are both the emperor's grace!"

P.S.

1. Mutually faithful leads, one-on-one romance, happy ending

2. Set in an imaginary world, with elements from various dynasties mixed together. All worldbuilding serves the plot.

Theme: Carry on the lost teachings of the sages and bring peace to all generations