This Empress Isn't That Ambitious

[Obsessive tyrant versus career-minded empress]

[The leads are each other’s first love. The story is all about a fierce wolf turning into a cuddly puppy.]

[The hero never mistakes her for someone else. No substitute romance.]

Yan Yuan once saved a boy who was the most exalted person in the world at the time, in the borderlands.

Back then, she was a young female general disguised as a man. Acting on military orders, she single-handedly dragged the boy out of a snowy wasteland.

Later, she fell ill and had no choice but to enter the palace in search of a cure.

Before she left, her father repeatedly warned her:

“The imperial harem is nothing like the battlefield. You must never use force to win favor.”

“Your employer is the Empress Dowager. From now on, respect your employer’s wishes.”

“That tyrant is no good. Keep your hands off him, preferably don’t even see him!”

Yan Yuan certainly had no intention of provoking that tyrant.

He was gloomy and erratic, surrounded himself with powerful ministers, doted on wicked concubines, and even his tastes were a mystery, okay?

She just wanted to be a diligent employee in the imperial palace. Staying alive was what mattered!

Until one day, she found a spirit tablet in the emperor’s secret chamber, bearing the name she’d used while disguised as a man.

Yan Yuan: “…???”

Yan Yuan: “Then goodbye, Boss!”

But before she could get away, she was cornered beneath the moonlight.

The tyrant gritted his teeth and whispered in her ear, “So you’re going to abandon me for the second time?”

Yan Yuan: “…”