Reforming the Court with My Reborn Archenemy

In her previous life

Shen Chuzhao was the legitimate daughter of a high-ranking official, famed throughout the capital for her beauty and talent. But the great general Li Xinye maliciously pursued her hand, making her the wife of a coarse military man.

From then on, she hated Li Xinye with all her heart.

She hated how he took her by force and ruined her match; hated how dull and inscrutable he was; and hated even more that he was nothing like her first love, Song Tan, who would humble himself and do anything to please her.

Later, Li Xinye's achievements became so great that they threatened the throne. The emperor wanted to eliminate this future danger, and Shen Chuzhao naturally became the emperor's sharpest blade, aimed at Li Xinye.

But after she poisoned Li Xinye, her northern nemesis swept south. Yujing fell, the imperial family was captured, and Shen Chuzhao leapt from the thousand-foot city wall, taking her own life. Her final words were, "In this life, the only person I have wronged is the great general Li Xinye."

Yet even after Shen Chuzhao died with regrets, she could not escape the remorse she carried from her life as Shen Chuzhao, no matter how many times she was reborn. Nor could she escape her fate of dying by suicide.

Until He Nian became the unexpected exception.

He Nian was a doctoral student researching Shen Chuzhao. She had devoted her entire life to Shen Chuzhao, and when she transmigrated into Shen Chuzhao's body, she learned that she was the reincarnation of Shen Chuzhao's "wronged spirit."

Her soul returned to her previous life. At first, she only wanted to change the tragedy and join hands with Li Xinye to repel their enemies.

But later she discovered that the words she had spoken in her previous life, "In this life, the only person I have wronged is the great general Li Xinye," could also be understood as, "In this life, the only person I have loved is the great general Li Xinye."

A sharp-tongued, spoiled young lady of a noble family x a seemingly cold general who loves her deeply

The male lead's story:

Li Xinye grew up amid the vast northern frontier.

Snowy mountains, white wolves, and the sound of horns accompanied his free and untamed childhood.

Then, at the age of twelve, in Yujing, he caught a fleeting glimpse of the most spoiled and beautiful young lady in the world.

From that moment on, the wild boy's heart knew sorrow.

But before he could taste the sweetness of love, his father died in battle, and six hundred thousand soldiers perished in vain. From then on, the young man no longer dared speak of love. All he had was a fierce courage, drenched in blood and forged through battle.

On his twentieth birthday, the emperor issued an urgent order summoning him back to the capital.

There in Yujing, he saw that young lady again, only to find that she had been betrothed to the Song family, his sworn enemy, whom he would one day cut down with his own blade.

He snatched her away.

From then on, the moon in the sky became the woman beside him, yet all she thought about was joining forces with outsiders to kill him.

Later, he died beneath her, just as she had wished, only to see her weeping torrents of tears.

The following winter, after faking his death to escape, he was recuperating alone in the mountains when he heard that she had jumped to her death from a tower in Jiangling.

For the first time in his life, the young general acted out of spite. He lost the love of his life, and also the land she loved.

Li Xinye could not let go of his regrets. After death, he refused to enter the cycle of reincarnation, and just as he was about to become a vengeful ghost, he was granted a chance to be reborn.

But fate played a cruel trick on him: he was reborn on the very day he married her.

This time, he did not dare drag her into danger.

But the stubborn young lady insisted on standing by his side, accompanying him as he avenged his great wrongs and set the court in order, and staying with him to watch the sun rise and set and share in the everyday joys of life.

He Nian, Chuzhao, the moon; how many cycles have human lives turned?

[Must-Read Notes]

1. Slow burn, romance-focused and plot-focused, with court intrigue and revenge.

2. The heroine is very clever, and the hero is a powerhouse in combat.

3. The heroine poisoning the hero involves a difference in perspective and a gap in information.

4. The heroine is reincarnated and transmigrates into her past life's body. The premise is complex, spanning past and present lives, because it involves reincarnation and sets up the modern-day story of the two leads.

Theme: Face north, raise your sword toward the stars, and spend your life worrying for your country.