I Played the Obedient One to Win the Tyrant’s Favor, Then Slaughtered His Entire Household

Living a second life, she reaches out with a trembling little hand and grabs the belt at the emperor’s waist. In her previous life, Qiao Yumian was a poor little thing whose mother had died and whose father had remarried. She couldn’t adapt to changing circumstances, and her stepmother and her two children took everything from her. Beaten, punished, and forced into a substitute marriage, she became the laughingstock of the capital. In the end, after enduring every kind of humiliation, she died miserably in a dilapidated temple to Guanyin. Her body was left in the wilderness, and her family erased her from their records. Reborn, she decides that everyone loves a gentle, false-hearted climbing vine, so Qiao Yumian will hide her sharp claws. She puts the past behind her and helps her father resolve a political crisis, unaware that she set the whole scheme in motion herself. She is generous and proper as she helps her younger sister pursue happiness, unaware that she is leading her straight into a bed of thorns. She becomes a woman praised by everyone in the capital, gaining both fame and fortune. Even her fiancé’s family, who once wanted nothing to do with her, are now desperate to bring her into their household. But no one knows that on that night in the temple, she bent her supple waist and slept with the most powerful man in the land. That night, the moonlight swayed as the tyrant’s hand closed around her slender neck. “Lady Qiao, you’ve deceived me so thoroughly. Tell me, how should I punish you?”

*Xie Jingxuan is the newly enthroned emperor of the Great Yu dynasty. In the three years since his accession, he never imagined that a young woman could stir his heart. She is soft and alluring, and the sound of her calling him “Your Majesty” makes his bones melt. Even when she’s a little spoiled, Xie Jingxuan is willing to lavish her with affection. He had planned to bring this climbing vine into the palace as his consort, but he never expected her to slip right through his fingers when he let his guard down. If she runs away, he’ll just catch her again.