Si Ningchi transmigrated into the mad villainess empress in the hottest comic of the day. She was beautiful, but insane.
To enter the palace, she killed her half-sister, who shared the same father, and buried her beneath a peach tree. Then, gazing at Prince Jing with delight, she smiled and said, "You said you loved her. Open your eyes and look."
"Oh, you can't see anymore?" The breathtakingly beautiful woman smiled with dazzling abandon, as if admiring a masterpiece beyond compare.
The empress ruled supreme over the six palaces. The world despised and rejected her, yet feared her too. After arriving, Si Ningchi tried to keep her head down and behave, but...
Zhao Zongheng frowned deeply. "Why do I feel... the empress is even more ill than before?"
The court was full of talk that the emperor was desireless and indifferent to women, and that the emperor and empress were merely married in name, distant as strangers. Everyone looked forward to the emperor deposing her.
But as they kept waiting, one day they heard the emperor had gone to Fengyi Palace for a meal. The next day, they heard he and the empress had strolled hand in hand through the garden. And after that...
"The emperor still isn't attending court today!? It's been three days!!!"
"...I'm not going."
The unyielding, crazy empress who responds to tenderness but not force x the weak, pitiful emperor who doesn't realize he's acting like a lovesick puppy
1. Mutual firsts, one-on-one romance, palace intrigue, with the other consorts effectively nonexistent
2. The emperor realizes the empress has been replaced on the very first day she arrives, but can't be bothered to expose her
3. The emperor is the original female lead's cherished second male lead. They have no romantic storyline in the original
4. Fictional setting with no historical research. Don't read if that bothers you
