After the Noble Consort Renounces All Desire, the Crown Prince Fights to Win Her Back

[Palace intrigue + household intrigue + reborn for revenge + entering the game at personal risk] The Gu family’s twin daughters were considered inauspicious. Gu Jinshu, the younger twin, was sent to a Taoist temple to cultivate from childhood. When she turned seventeen, her family brought her home. It turned out her twin sister, a noble consort, had died at home during a visit to her family. Afraid the emperor would blame them, the family made Gu Jinshu take her sister’s place in the palace. Ten years after entering the palace, she found her sister’s murderer, helped her family rise to power, and granted her fiancé’s family every favor they asked for. She raised the Third Prince with loving care, and when the emperor died, she became the honored Empress Dowager. She had poured her heart and soul into becoming her family’s protector. She thought her good days had finally come, but her twin sister had faked her death. Together with the Gu family, she poisoned Gu Jinshu on a snowy night, so her sister could become the honored Empress Dowager. Reborn, she returned to the day before she entered the palace. Her fiancé gently deceived her: “If you enter the palace, I’ll wait for you and remain by your side for the rest of my life. I’ll never marry anyone else.” Her parents coaxed her: “Jinshu, your elder sister is dead. She died at home. If the palace finds out, our whole family will be doomed. You’re the family’s only hope.” She knew her sister had faked her death because she was carrying her fiancé’s child. She also knew the Gu family saw her as a snake and scorpion, scheming behind her back to exploit her until nothing was left, then make way for her sister. This time, she wouldn’t let them have their way. She would enter the palace and become Empress Dowager, no matter what. But after the former emperor died, she did not become Empress Dowager. Instead, she became the new emperor’s empress.