Born in the Entertainment House, I Coax a Mad Emperor into Giving Me the Phoenix Throne

[Palace Intrigue] [Not a Pure Romance] [Clear-Headed] [Ruthless] [Play the Pig to Eat the Tiger] [Unhinged Heroine]

In her past life, after Xie Zhaoyu and Zhao Yunyao became sworn sisters at the Jiaofang Bureau, Xie Zhaoyu helped her become Consort Zhao, The Outcast, second only to the emperor and above everyone else.

Who could have known that after Zhao Yunyao became Consort Zhao, she would cause Xie Zhaoyu's parents to die tragically, then drug her together with Xie Wanyuan, her identical twin sister, and force her to become a tool for Consort Zhao to curry favor with Prince Cheng?

After being reborn, Xie Zhaoyu wants only power, not the slightest bit of affection. She kills her wicked twin sister and enters the palace by switching the civet cat for the crown prince.

Pretending to fall into the water, she seizes the chance to tumble into the arms of Emperor Dantai Yanlin.

A nobody? Humble? No one else gets to decide what Xie Zhaoyu's life will be like this time around.

She plays the pig to eat the tiger, treating Emperor Dantai Yanlin as her most precious patron and the ladder she will climb to the top.

At first, the concubines in the harem take her for nothing more than a seductive woman who relies on her beauty to serve men, and look down on her.

Later, when they watch the emperor promote her step by step until she becomes Imperial Noble Consort and then empress, they grow so envious they bite through the handkerchiefs in their hands.

Emperor Dantai Yanlin was taken hostage at the age of nine. At eighteen, he killed his father and ascended the throne. When he first met Xie Zhaoyu at twenty-five, he merely trained her into a little cat for his amusement.

Because the emperor is heartless.

But later, he realized that this cat had sharp claws. He wanted to help her sharpen them and become the ladder that would let her rise higher and higher.

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The emperor sneered. "She's nothing but a plaything I favor when I seek pleasure."

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The emperor pressed the phoenix seal into her hand and, for the first time in his life, bent down to plead: "Be my wife. I will be the pawn you use for revenge. How does that sound?"