The Crown Prince Fakes His Death to Marry His Childhood Love, So I Seduce the Emperor and Claim the Phoenix Throne

Jiang Lanyin was the legitimate daughter of a marquis's household. The day after she became engaged to the Crown Prince, he died in battle. The cousin who had been raised in the marquis's home took her own life for him.

Her father said:

“You're a coward, yet you got your cousin killed! How did the Jiang family end up with a wretch like you?”

Her mother wept as she beat her:

“Your cousin was just a child. Why wasn't it you who died?”

Her elder brother, who had always doted on her, forced her to sever one of her hands and spend the rest of her life mourning the Crown Prince, praying for her cousin by the lamplight of a Buddhist shrine.

She endured it for a full ten years.

Jiang Lanyin was on her deathbed.

Yet the Crown Prince returned alive with his cousin, both of them safe and sound.

To clear the way for her cousin to become empress, the marquis's household had Jiang Lanyin killed.

“Yinyin, bear with it. Just a little longer, and this life will be over.”

Reborn, Jiang Lanyin would endure no more.

The Crown Prince faked his death so he could marry his childhood sweetheart?

Fine. She'd turn around and set her sights on the emperor.

The marquis's household valued her cousin more than her?

Fine. She'd make sure the Jiang family graves were packed full.

After killing her enemies with her own hands, all Jiang Lanyin wanted was to live this life to the fullest.

She never expected that later on,

the exalted emperor himself would bend down and hold her ankle as he slipped an embroidered shoe onto her foot:

“The ground is cold, Yinyin. Just step on me as you pass.”