Long Live the Princess

In the fourth year of Chengde, Aunt Jin held a baby in her arms, rocking him gently as tears streamed down her face.

The empress, barely clinging to life in bed, glanced at her newborn and closed her eyes. "Tell His Majesty it's a princess."

In the nineteenth year of Chengde, the imprisoned Princess Huazhang left her residence and was sent north to marry into the Northern Di. Five years later, on the eve of the Great Yu delegation's arrival, she died of grief and loneliness.

Zhao Jin spent half a lifetime in vain, a muddleheaded pawn in someone else's hands, and died full of resentment. Reborn into this life, he stirred up the winds and clouds and wielded power in court, determined to make everyone who had hurt him pay.

As for this notorious "vicious woman" of Jingyang, perhaps only Chen Xiang, that unscrupulous nobody who would stop at nothing to climb higher, would dare become his consort.

Two cycles of rebirth, with the timeline turned upside down and a different kind of angst.

Tsundere, slow-burn princess bottom x scheming, poisonous consort top

Zhao Jin (Jin Xiangyu, Jin Huanghuang) x Chen Xiang (Chen Gou'er)

Content warnings: Rebirth power fantasy. The characters will slowly grow wiser. The bottom is universally adored, and there will be more than one disposable top.

The top only loves the bottom in both his past and present lives. His greatest talent is crawling around in the shadows and secretly pining.

Theme: There will always be someone in this world who loves you