Golden Boughs and Jade Sins: A Power Minister's Schemes to Win a Wife

Before being reborn: A power-hungry princess versus the foremost treacherous minister, the Grand Tutor After being reborn: A deranged princess versus her devoted Grand Tutor A marriage alliance crisis made Zhongli Huangqing realize that even though she was the most esteemed princess of Southern Chu, and every bit as accomplished in scholarship and warfare as her brothers, in the emperor’s eyes she was nothing more than a pawn to be used for a marriage alliance and to win people over. Power had to be in her own hands. Her imperial brother had been ambushed and was on the brink of death, stirring her desire to seize the throne. For five years, she had maneuvered against her “former lover,” Qu Chengshu, Southern Chu’s most notorious treacherous minister. Their plots and counterplots were on the verge of success when a cold arrow pierced her body. Only then did Zhongli Huangqing understand that someone had long since replaced her imperial brother. That person had used her for five years and now killed her without batting an eye to seize the throne. Meanwhile, the treacherous minister Qu Chengshu had nearly died helping her fight her way out of the encirclement. As she lay at death’s door, she learned that he had refused to become her consort and had helped the Third Prince seize the throne in order to gain power, all to repay the kindness of the Third Prince’s full sister, the Second Princess. But hadn’t it actually been her who helped him? She was furious! Reborn, she found herself back at the moment of his rescue. Without a second thought, she stepped down from the carriage, making sure Qu Chengshu got a clear look at her from every angle. Kill the villain before he can grow powerful? No. I’ll make him work for me.