The Powerful Official Wants to Usurp the Throne

[A devoted, power-worshipping minister x a clever, career-minded empress]

Barely six months after ascending the throne, she learns from words that suddenly appear before her that history has already cast her as the empress who lost her kingdom.

Song Yingning slowly looks up at Cui Wangxi, the minister who is about to usurp her power and take control of her court.

He entered the court at a young age, is unmatched in strategy, elegant and handsome, and is also a candidate to become her imperial consort.

But when Song Yingning's mother, the current retired empress, asked him about it, Cui Wangxi had refused with righteous conviction.

His reason was that the royal family was fickle in love, and he wanted only one person to love.

Song Yingning: ? When had she ever been fickle in love?

Having learned what the future holds, Song Yingning resolutely sets out to change course and prevent the tragedy.

She's busy removing the ambitious military governors, rescuing the capable officials who have been framed, and protecting her closest friends...

And while she's busy, the powerful and arrogant Chancellor Cui Wangxi, who constantly clashes with her, suddenly comes to her and calls her by name, full of defiance yet looking pitiful: "Yingning..."

1. This is not a rebirth story. In the original timeline, neither lead is perfect, but there is no national enmity between them, and the female lead's kingdom does not fall because of the male lead.

2. One-on-one, both leads are each other's first and only. They are both strong. The male lead's secret love comes true, and the female lead gradually falls for him.

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At her senior brother's suggestion, Leng Shuang takes a young man named Hua Su as her disciple at the sect's grand ceremony. He is a once-in-a-thousand-years prodigy.

But she doesn't know...

Her disciple hates her. He only pretends to be obedient so he can claim her Glazed Prajna Heart.

It is the purest thing in the world, and possessing it ensures that one's cultivation will never be hindered by demonic obstacles.

Leng Shuang quietly watches her disciple fawn over her. She doesn't understand why, but she remains unmoved.

Gradually, something starts to feel wrong.

Her disciple grows ever more intimate with her, and even his gaze takes on a hint of possessiveness.

In private, Hua Su gazes at her and says solemnly, "I love you, Master. Even if I have to defy the whole world, I want to be with you."

But Leng Shuang happens to overhear him telling his fiancee, "I'm only humoring her. The Glazed Heart is all I've ever wanted."

She freezes, touching her chest.

Were all those strange gestures meant to get this?

Later, Hua Su falls to demonic corruption for reasons unknown, becoming a laughingstock to the world. Leng Shuang returns to being the aloof and heartless Dao Lord Lingwei, her cultivation undisturbed.

Until her senior brother senses something is wrong and follows the clues to a secluded mountain barrier. Inside is an exquisite, magnificent palace, where his junior sister, eyes brimming with tears, begs him for help.

The gold chain around her wrist has left a faint pink-red mark.

"Senior Brother..."

"Kill him."

At first, I wanted her heart.

Later, I still wanted her heart.

The story of a wooden master who doesn't know how to raise a disciple and suddenly realizes her disciple has gone astray.

1. The male lead is completely inexperienced. His fiancee was chosen for him by the female lead, and he doesn't love her.

2. The female lead truly doesn't understand love, and the male lead truly is a mad dog.

Theme: Keep hope in your heart, even in adversity