The Empress Stole My Husband? Reborn, I Lured the Emperor to Soar into the Clouds

Lu Wanyang is a fake heiress, yet everyone in the capital envies her for marrying so well.

Her husband, Xiao Yan, became Right Chancellor at a young age. He's handsome, devoted, and highly regarded by Empress Li.

But when her father falls gravely ill, Xiao Yan takes the only medicine that can save his life and offers it to the empress as a birthday gift.

She kneels outside the palace gates for three days, begging to see the empress and ask for the medicine, but all the palace servants bring her is a change of clothes for Xiao Yan.

Tucked inside is a red phoenix-and-mandarin-duck bellyband.

That night, her father passes away.

She faints outside the palace gates, and the three-month-old baby in her womb doesn't survive either.

In one fell swoop, she loses both father and child. Spitting blood and on the brink of death, all she gets from Xiao Yan is a scornful, "You can't tell what's important."

He declares righteously, "His Majesty is bedridden, and the empress is laboring to govern the country. It's obvious which matters more: the realm or your father-in-law's life!"

So, before breathing her last, Lu Wanyang has the love letters he wrote to the empress plastered all over the streets.

She wants to see which matters more to the empress: power, or Xiao Yan's life!

When she opens her eyes again, she's back before the two of them married.

At this point, the emperor, Xie Wuwang, is still a dissolute playboy, worn down by illness and wasting his days away.

She presents him with the prescription left behind by the Medicine King. "Break off your engagement to Li. I'll save your life."

But for some reason, Xie Wuwang's gaze grows more and more intense.

On their wedding night, he throws Xiao Yan, who came to beg for reconciliation, into the river, then presses his lips to her ear and murmurs,

"My life is already in your hands..."