The Emperor's Love: His First-Rank Sycophant Consort

[One couple, sweet romance with no angst, a powerful team]

That day, with beacons blazing and smoke rising, she looked down on the army of thousands beneath the city walls. “Don't be afraid. I won't slaughter you all. I'll let you eke out a miserable existence for another hundred years so you can tell your descendants how my Empress Dowager Wen Shi Yinrong committed the ultimate treason, seized power, and changed the dynasty's surname from Yan to Wen.”

This woman is the Empress Dowager of Great Yan, named Wen Qi. The common folk call her the Demon Empress.

In a nutshell, this is the story of a proud emperor being raised into a loyal dog, a bloodthirsty emperor's tragic tale of stepping aside to become a male consort, and the story of the bewitching Empress Wen bringing ruin to the nation and chaos to the realm.