How Do I Escape After Being Played by Her Majesty the Empress?

In the final years of the Liang Empire, propriety crumbled, eunuchs brought calamity, the realm descended into chaos, and disasters ravaged the land as unrest spread in every direction. At this moment, when the empire's very survival hung in the balance, the fierce woman Dugu Yue descended from the heavens, determined to turn the tide.

And I, Xiao Chengming, the greatest sorcerer in all of Great Liang, seem to have been wrapped around this empress's finger?