On the way to a political marriage, Tao Xi bumped her head and lost her memory.
Her attendant told her she was chosen for the marriage because she was the number-one beauty in the capital.
The bad news: To be the number-one beauty, you need talent, virtue, and beauty. Right now, she only has the beauty part. Her mind is a blank, and she has forgotten every skill, from music and chess to calligraphy and painting.
The good news: She discovers she can rewind time, so if she messes up, she can try again.
So... keeping her title as the capital's number-one beauty shouldn't be hard, right?
Word has it the capital's number-one beauty is breathtaking, graceful, and a master of music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. The people of Han eagerly await her arrival, hoping the tyrant Xiao Wujin will become so enamored with her beauty that he'll kill fewer people.
But the capital's number-one beauty has barely reached the palace doors when she trips on the steps and lands flat on her face, letting out a loud, "Ow!"
Xiao Wujin: That's it? The capital's number-one beauty?
Xiao Wujin raises a hand to have her dragged away, but suddenly his vision blurs.
The next second, Tao Xi is standing perfectly fine at the entrance, stepping over the stairs with poise. Her voice is soft and sweet. "Long live Your Majesty."
Xiao Wujin: ?
From that day on, the cruel, warlike tyrant feared by everyone finds his whole world turned upside down.
When Xiao Wujin gives his subordinates orders, it goes like this: "Go release the Imperial Preceptor, release, release, release..."
His daily life goes like this: It takes him eighteen tries to lift a bowl of medicine for a sip, twenty-seven tries to get dressed for court, and climbing the nine steps before the Imperial Ancestral Temple feels like scaling a mountain...
Xiao Wujin is so furious he wants to kill someone, but he can only watch the guards come in again and again to drag people away, and no one's head ever hits the ground.
That woman must be a demon sent by the capital to destroy him!
The demon Xiao Wujin imagines: A sorceress who uses immortal magic to rewind time over and over, eavesdrop on state secrets, and pass them to spies from the capital...
But after watching her closely...
Tao Xi: "That didn't sound sweet and lilting enough. Again."
Tao Xi: "Did the tyrant see me cross my legs? That's no good."
Tao Xi: "I'm hungry already, even though the banquet just ended. Let's eat it all again! I'm so clever to have thought of that. I really am the best."
Xiao Wujin: ...Enough!
Xiao Wujin tries to send her back to the capital, but he can't. Whenever he tries, the sky never grows dark, and the day refuses to end.
Tao Xi: "It'd be so embarrassing for the capital's number-one beauty to be sent back. Was my smile not perfect enough? Was my posture not graceful enough? Let's try again, again, again, again..."
Xiao Wujin: ...
Unbelievable!
A pretty airhead who thinks she's amazing x a tyrant whose whole demeanor gradually falls apart
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