The Harem's Champion Is Reborn: This Time, I'm Checking the Cards

[Ambitious black-lotus empress x master actor, seemingly gentle yet secretly ruthless emperor]

[Two powerful spouses who love and fight each other + a courtly battle for her affections]

Cui Rongshao was born into a lowly family, yet she alone won the emperor's favor and became a notorious consort.

Want to know her secret? Nothing special. She just knows how to act.

Before noblewomen, she's a loyal and devoted maid.

Before the crown prince, she's a pitiful girl who gets bullied.

Before the emperor, she's a charming and bewitching consort.

She climbed her way to the top and spent half her life acting, but before she could enjoy her wealth and glory, Cui Rongshao was murdered.

She returns to life in the body of the deposed empress, only to discover that everyone in the former court and inner palace is playing a role:

The broad-minded, reserved imperial guard who can barely get a word out actually kills without batting an eye?

The brilliant scholar of humble birth, pure as moonlight, who supposedly kept faith with his late wife for years was never even engaged?

The spoiled marquis, who seems to care about nothing but eating, drinking, and having fun, actually wants to become an upright and loyal official?

But the most terrifying one is the man who shares her bed...

The cowardly, weak-willed puppet emperor, supposedly controlled by the aristocratic clans, is the real mastermind behind the game.

His apparent tenderness and devotion are all fake. His plans and schemes are real.

The person who killed her may be hiding behind one of the many false faces in this imperial palace.

If that's the case, she'll keep acting.

This time, the question is who can keep up the act until the very end.