A Calamity Too Hard to Resist

Gu Mingtang spent her life treading carefully, devoting herself to the affairs of state. The only thing she ever did that crossed the line was fall helplessly in love with Xie Lin, the Imperial Tutor, despite being the Empress Dowager.

Only when the man she loved was framed by treacherous officials and his entire family was wiped out, and the emperor she had raised from childhood pointed at her and called her a calamity who had brought ruin with her beauty, did she realize the depth of her guilt.

Mingtang was only twenty-four when she died, consumed by grief.

Reborn, Mingtang is terrified of dragging anyone else down with her and tries to bury her love deep in her heart. But the man who had kept her at arm’s length in her previous life suddenly shows up to ask for her hand…