But in the book she saw, the body inhabited by Wan Ge was the female lead, and she wanted to cling to the male lead's coattails, but initially she didn't have any hostility towards Wan Ge.

After spending some time with the male lead, she fell in love with him and felt that she should bravely pursue her true love and never allow anyone to interfere, especially the original female lead.

So Guan Nianxiang started all sorts of things to frame Wan Ge, including the one that's going viral in Kyoto today, all with the aim of making the male lead hate Wan Ge.

But Guan Nianxiang didn't expect that Wan Ge would find her so quickly and identify the person who spread the rumors so quickly.

…

Guan Nianxiang collapsed to the ground after Wan Ge left; she was truly terrified.

When she first arrived in this world, she was very arrogant, but as she gradually saw the fate of ordinary people, servants, and slaves, she slowly began to feel fear and started to restrain her temper.

That's why she wanted to curry favor with Mu Qingzhou, the great general who protected the country. Only by becoming the general's wife could she gain status and no longer be a commoner.

She originally thought that with her intelligence, winning over Mu Qingzhou would be no problem, but she didn't expect the original female lead to be even more difficult to deal with than she imagined.

I originally thought that such a vicious female lead would be easy to deal with, but now that I think about it, someone so vicious can become the female lead, she must be extraordinary.

At first, Guan Nianxiang did not believe that Wan Ge was the vicious heroine in the book, until she saw her order a maid to be beaten to death. Only then did she begin to believe it.

…

At that moment, no one noticed that a pair of eyes on the second floor were staring downstairs until Wan Ge left and the event ended, at which point they turned their gaze away.

The man took a sip of his tea and asked, "Who was that woman just now?"

His guard immediately spoke up: "Your Majesty, are you referring to the shopkeeper, Miss Guan? Miss Guan is from Yunnan. It's said she's a destitute girl who came to the capital seeking refuge but couldn't find any relatives. However, Miss Guan is very talented in literature, and her cooking is also..."

He was interrupted before he could finish speaking: "I was referring to the one with the whip."

Upon hearing this, the guard quickly replied, "The one who just left with the whip was the young princess of the Marquis of Jing'an's residence."

"It's her. The little princess that Marquis Jing'an asked me to bestow a marriage upon Mu Qingzhou half a year ago?"

"Yes. It's said that the young princess and General Mu were childhood sweethearts, and the young princess has loved General Mu deeply for many years, always following him around. But..."

"Just what?" Ye Zhao's slender fingers tapped the table absently.

"It's just that after General Mu met Miss Guan, he fell in love with her. However, the General's Mansion did not agree to General Mu marrying a commoner woman, which led to the current situation where none of the three of them are married."

"I understand." Ye Zhao also got up and left.

…

Less than two hours after Wan Ge returned home, an imperial edict suddenly arrived, leaving her completely stunned.

She knelt on the ground with her father and brother.

"Shen Wange, daughter of the Marquis of Jing'an, is devout in managing the household, gentle and virtuous, and elegant and dignified. She was granted the Empress's seal and ribbon and entered the inner palace..."

Wan Ge didn't listen to a word her father and father-in-law said. She... became the empress? The kind of empress who was conferred the title overnight?

She had heard a little about Emperor Ye Zhao, and that he was tyrannical, cruel, and indiscriminately killed innocent people.

His rumors were far more credible than his own, after all, they were things he had done in full view of the public.