Reborn: Shen'er, Stop Drinking Herbal Medicine

Dou Yifang was reborn. She returned to her youth, still living under her aunt's roof, not yet having stepped into the man-eating Han Palace.

This time, she saw the hottest secret frozen in the depths of her heart: the one she loved had never been Liu Heng, but Nie Shen'er, the woman she had personally pushed into the abyss, who hated her to the bone.

In her past life, she had carefully maneuvered her way to becoming empress, only to sever with her own hands the path to the one her heart desired. This life? Hah. She wants the throne, and she wants that contrary, bewitching "little sister" even more!

In the eyes of the world, she is the gentle and virtuous Dou Yifang. But for Nie Shen'er alone, she's a gentle madwoman who bares her fangs. Her possessiveness is etched into her bones? She admits it. She'll stop at nothing? She admits that too. As long as she can keep that prickly little fox who calls her "Sister, Sister" locked by her side, she'll gladly suffer a thousand calamities.

Nie Shen'er thinks Dou Yifang has gone mad! Why has the "good sister" who always looked at her with pity, then dealt her a fatal blow, suddenly become a different person? Her gaze is so passionate it could burn right through her, and she presses forward relentlessly, leaving her nowhere to run. She should hate her, so why... is that embrace so damn warm and intoxicating?

Then a bout of fever floods Nie Shen'er's mind with memories of her past life: betrayal, despair, hatred etched into her bones... and the secret dependence and affection she had deliberately ignored in the depths of the palace. Hah, Sister, so you've repeated your old mistakes too? This time, it's not so clear who will be whose prey!

She runs, she chases, and neither of them can escape!

She plays the innocent flower, she plays the black-hearted lotus, and their acting clash sparks everywhere!

She takes by force, she pretends to resist, and their push and pull is devastatingly intoxicating!

When Dou Yifang finally ascends the throne over mountains of corpses, ministers bow their heads and foreign nations come to pay tribute.

Yet, before all the people of the realm, she takes Nie Shen'er's hand and places the phoenix seal, symbol of the empress's honor, firmly in her palm:

"I offer you this realm as my betrothal gift, with all the world as witness."

"Shen'er, I denied you the empress's throne in my past life. I'll give it back to you in this one. You are destined to be my empress!"

Also known as "After Being Reborn, Dou Yifang Takes Her by Force," or "Why Be a Consort When You Can Be My Empress?" or "Cherish the One Before You" (just putting on airs)

P.S. This is only fanfiction based on the drama Beauty's Rival in Palace! It is not based on history! If you dislike yuri or female emperors, please turn back now!

Nearly all the characters get happy endings, resolving their regrets.

Theme: Facing trauma is the only way to heal it