Two Wicked Schemers, and I’m Done Being a Royal Consort

In her previous life, Chen Yunjiao lived every moment calculating how others felt, only to realize that not one person she had sincerely cared for had ever truly cared for her in return. Reborn, she returned to the night when everything first went wrong. In her previous life, she married into the imperial family. This time, she would choose another path for herself. Drugged, she nevertheless stepped without hesitation into the residence of the most notorious treacherous minister. Chu Yuan held the imperial court above and ruled the provinces below. Everyone believed he deserved to die. In this life, he had little conscience and cared only about answering to himself. There was just one person who had given him a place to shelter and make a life for himself when he was at his most helpless and desperate. When Chu Yuan discovered that Chen Yunjiao was the person he had searched so long for, he also learned she was destined to be empress, and betrothed to the crown prince. So what? He would simply take her for himself.