I Played the Obedient One to Win the Tyrant’s Favor, Then Slaughtered His Entire Household

Living another life, she reaches out her trembling little hand and clutches the belt at the emperor's waist.

In her previous life, Qiao Yumian was a pitiful girl whose mother died and whose father remarried. She couldn't adapt, and her stepmother and the woman's two children took everything from her. Beaten, punished, and forced into a replacement marriage, she became a laughingstock throughout the capital. After enduring endless humiliation, she died miserably in a dilapidated Guanyin temple, her body left in the wilderness and her name struck from the family register.

When she is reborn, she decides that everyone likes a gentle, deceitful dodder flower, so Qiao Yumian hides her sharp claws.

She puts the past behind her and helps her father resolve a political crisis, never letting on that she set the whole scheme in motion herself.

She is generous and proper, helping her younger sister pursue happiness, never letting on that she's sending her into a briar patch.

She becomes a young lady praised by everyone in the capital, gaining both fame and fortune. Even her betrothed's family, who had always wanted nothing to do with her, is now eager to bring her into their household. But no one knows that on that night in the temple, she arched her soft waist and slept with the most exalted man under heaven.

That night, the moonlight swayed as the tyrant's hand closed around her slender neck. "Lady Qiao, you've deceived me so thoroughly. Tell me, how should I punish you?"

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Xie Jingxuan, the new emperor of the Great Yu Dynasty, has been on the throne for three years and never imagined that one day a young lady would stir his heart.

That young lady is soft and alluring, and every time she calls him "Your Majesty," his bones melt.

Even though she can be a little spoiled, Xie Jingxuan is willing to indulge her and dote on her.

He had intended to take this dodder flower into the palace as a consort, but before he knew it, she had slipped right through his fingers.

If she runs away, he'll just catch her again.