The Emperor's Daughter's Plot: The Phoenix Rises to Rule the World

A cold, aloof, restrained male heartthrob versus an intelligent woman with a hidden agenda who will do whatever it takes to achieve her goals. At nine, she witnessed her mother's brutal death. She denounced her father, the emperor, as unjust, and was banished to the Cold Palace. Scheming, betrayal, plotting, manipulation: she saw every facet of the world. So when Gu Mo'e pulled her back from the brink of death, she understood the truth: the strong survive, and the weak die. After years of plotting, she returned like a queen. She schemed against her father and brothers, poisoned the palace consorts, squeezed the court ministers, used the emperor to control the feudal lords, and seized the pinnacle of power! But in the end, she couldn't outmaneuver Chancellor Gu Mo'e's sincere heart. “If I marry you, will you take me as your wife?” she asked, standing before him in her wedding gown. He turned away without hesitation. “No.” With that flat reply, he swept off. So the very next day, the son of the Vice Minister of Rites became her lucky groom. She curled her lip into a faint smile. “If you won't marry me, I'll marry someone else.” Gu Mo'e never involved himself in anyone else's affairs, yet time and again, he rescued Ye Wuge when she was on the brink of disaster. He supported every decision she made and paved the way for every step she took. But the curse that had haunted him for twenty-five years pushed her to the edge of despair. Three years later, he reached out and freed her from the stake. “I'll marry you. Will you marry me?” She sneered. “I won't.” He smiled, just as haughty as she had been all those years ago, and hoisted her over his shoulder. “You don't get to decide.”