Your Majesty, Stop Acting, The Empress Knows You're Faking It

【Ancient-style marriage-before-love: a scheming, dramatic yandere tyrant x a little-sun healing-type straight-laced empress (younger)】 Chi Xinian pacified Xizhou, quelled the northern rebellion, and dutifully led the Chi family's iron cavalry through six years of warfare for Great Jing—only to earn the emperor's suspicion just as peace settled over the realm, forcing her to marry into the palace while still holding military power. Outsiders all pitied her, saying her lifetime of achievements had turned to dust, and that the favor she received was nothing but a mirage bought with her military command. Yet holding those jade-like fingers, gazing at that beautiful face beside her, Chi Xinian...