Schemes of a Commoner

In her previous life, Yin Qiluo, a lowly concubine-born daughter of the Prime Minister's household, spent ten years plotting and helping Prince Rui seize the throne. She rose from his concubine to the Eastern Palace. To a girl of her status, a man had always been nothing more than a means to power. But in the end, when the Crown Prince Case broke, the Crown Prince hanged himself, and she became the first Crown Princess in the Phoenix Dynasty to be executed by strangulation.

Reborn, she plotted her every move as a concubine-born daughter, no longer staking her hopes on a man.

Yet somehow, she caught the attention of Prince Yi, the man she had never truly understood in her previous life.

"How do you know I can't give you what you want?" In her previous life, he had come through the night, drenched in blood, his eyes as deep as an abyss.

In this life, he pressed himself against her. "If you want me, then I'm yours, too."

When she sought revenge, he ordered, "Watch and cheer her on."

When she meddled in politics, he killed someone as a warning. "Loose tongues deserve to be cut short."

When she rebelled, he beat the war drums and raised an army. "A new dynasty, a new reign."

Yin Qiluo was a little concubine-born daughter with enormous ambitions, and he was determined to make her include him among them.

There was no helping it. In this life, she wanted both power and a man.