Reborn and Remarried to a Noble, Powerful Minister—This Empress Refuses the Throne

Xie Chen has a strange dream in which Shen Huiyan is destined to become a bewitching empress who brings ruin to the realm. So he turns the situation to his advantage: he marries her and keeps her under his watch. After being reborn, Shen Huiyan chooses not to become the empress who worked herself to death in her previous life. Instead, she personally schemes to marry Xie Chen—the sworn enemy and infamous treacherous minister from her former life. When she pretends to be weak and innocent, he patiently pretends to believe her. When she feigns boundless devotion, he holds her with only half-belief. When she pretends to want a child, he loses all reason and climbs into her bed... As time ...