After Faking My Death, I Became the Tyrant's Beloved

[Ice-cold, favored son of heaven and love-struck emperor] x [Clear-headed, gentle but strong, scheming concubine-born daughter]

Before her death, Zhu Si learned that her husband and his elder sister had conspired to ruin her chastity, and that every one of her blood relatives had died without a peaceful end.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back at the autumn hunting banquet when she was sixteen. She met the gaze of the impossibly handsome young emperor sitting alone on the high platform and curled her lips. That's the one.

He was destined to become an emperor for the ages, a tyrant who would one day conquer the world and shake the realm, only to die young: Yan Xiu, Emperor Wu of Qin.

In her previous life, she had been sent to Yan Xiu's bed and fled in a panic, setting her bleak and tortuous life in motion.

This time, she won't run. She will become Emperor Wu of Qin's first woman. She will climb the ranks by any means necessary, and use Yan Xiu to exact her revenge on each of her enemies.

But why isn't the tyrant anything like she imagined? He's hard to placate and even harder to handle, yet pure-hearted and easy to fool.

Her former husband, who has regained his memories of their past life, also approaches her with tender affection. "Sijia, why don't we start over?"

With her revenge complete, on the eve of her coronation as empress, Zhu Sijia sets Changle Palace ablaze and fakes her death to escape. The world is vast. She no longer has to be trapped by romance or caged in the imperial palace.

But after she fakes her death, Yan Xiu goes mad.

Snow spreads across the young emperor's temples. He sits motionless amid the ruins of Changle Palace for three days and nights, clutching her fine clothes. He even defies all convention by bringing her memorial tablet into court to keep him company.

Everyone says she has become the unforgettable love of the emperor's life.

On the day their child turns three, the emperor corners her in a deserted spot, his eyes red. "How dare you let the Crown Prince of Qin grow up as an outcast!"