Schemes of a Commoner

In her previous life, Yin Qiluo was a lowly concubine-born daughter of the Chancellor's household. She spent ten years plotting and helping Prince Rui seize the throne, climbing from his concubine to the Eastern Palace one step at a time. To her, men had always been nothing more than a means of gaining power. Then the "Crown Prince Case" erupted. The crown prince took his own life, and she became the first crown princess in the Phoenix Dynasty to be executed by strangulation.

Reborn, she makes one careful move after another as a concubine-born daughter, no longer staking her hopes on a man.

But somehow, she ends up provoking Prince Yi, the man she had never truly understood in her previous life.

"How do you know I can't give you what you want?" In her past life, he came through the night, soaked in blood, his eyes like an abyss.

In this life, he presses close to her. "If you want me, then I'm yours."

When she takes revenge, he orders, "Watch and cheer her on."

When she disrupts the government, he kills to make an example. "Loose tongues deserve to be cut off."

When she plots rebellion, he beats the drums and raises an army. "A new dynasty is coming."

Yin Qiluo, a little concubine-born daughter with enormous ambitions: he insists that she include him among them.

There's no helping it. In this life, she wants both power and a man.