Ode to Shangqing

[Obsessive, Devoted Emperor x Clear-Headed, Ambitious Beauty] [Two Powerful Leads] [Both Devoted to One Another] [Reborn for Revenge] [Sweet on the Outside, Dark Within Heroine] [Redemption]

Reborn three months before her ritual sacrifice, Jiang Qingyao's survival plan was simple: conquer the tyrant and live to the end! Before the tyrant died, she'd cling to his favor and escape being buried with him!

But His Majesty was perceptive and suspicious, and every attempt she made to please him failed in some absurd way.

Jiang Qingyao looked up at the sky and sighed. Why was this tyrant impossible to sway? Then she suddenly realized that she'd died unjustly in her previous life because someone had framed her. Fine, then: this conquest would become an investigation. She'd drag the impossible emperor into it and hunt down the mastermind together!

From then on, the tyrant's rivals inexplicably met with disaster, while Jiang Qingyao watched from the sidelines, quietly enjoying the show and keeping her contribution a secret.

Everyone said she had won his favor with her beauty, a unique little bird in the emperor's palm.

No one knew that she had chosen this master for herself.

She helped him purge his court and escape a deadly trap. He had her father imprisoned, helping her avenge herself.

Only after she had stripped her enemies of everything and brought down the mastermind did anyone realize: perhaps she had never entered the palace to compete for the emperor's favor at all?

On the eve of her coronation as empress, she used her achievements to atone for her faults and asked only for a letter of release from her marriage.

The young emperor finally shed his calm facade. His eyes held an obsession and madness she had never seen before.

"In this game of mine, there is only you. It can only be you. It will never end until death."