After I Led On and Abandoned the Cold, Powerful Official

Everyone under heaven knows that Chancellor Pei Hezheng loved his wife more than life itself and willingly remained a widower for ten years after her death.

But no one knows that the grave of his late wife holds the body of the empress dowager, who should have been buried in the imperial mausoleum beside the late emperor.

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Before the edict naming her empress arrived, everyone told Jiang Lanjun that becoming the new empress would be difficult and the road ahead impassable. But she refused to believe them.

No matter how hard the road, it was no match for ambition.

Jiang Lanjun was willing to gamble, and she made the right bet. Within two years, the emperor had breathed his last.

With the new emperor still a child, she flourished as regent empress dowager.

One day, after getting drunk at the imperial retreat, she took a male favorite to her bed. When she woke, he was gone without a trace.

From then on, the austere, aloof minister Pei Hezheng fought her tooth and nail at court.

Who could have guessed that she would soon be poisoned to death and reborn ten years later?

Everyone in her new household was scheming against everyone else.

So at first, Jiang Lanjun only lingered around Pei Hezheng to use his influence.

But gradually, she realized his gaze seemed to grow stranger and stranger.

So Jiang Lanjun decisively turned away.

The gentle young heir to a prince, the lovestruck young general, the shy young nobleman... Which of them wasn't better than him?

So today she had tea with one, tomorrow she went boating with another. What a delightful life.

After hearing the report, Pei Hezheng set down his brush with a cold expression. "Are you happier with them than you are with me?"

"...Yes. I hear she's getting married soon."

Pei Hezheng's expression changed in an instant.

He led his troops on a night raid and brazenly seized the bride in front of everyone.