Who Rules The Court?

When a sales girl, Jiang Xi is fired and her landlord chases her out of the apartment, she roams around the streets of Beijing, stranded, homeless, and penniless. She gets hit to death by a truck and gives up the ghost thinking she can finally rest after everything she has been through in her life.

But contrary to her expectations, she gets transmigrated into the body of a young aristocratic maiden in Ancient China. She who has always fallen from one struggle to another in her past life is completely speechless - so many food and clothes, how could she possibly wear them all!?

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When a royal ancestor of Ancient China, Li Yan gets reincarnated into the body of his descendant and current king who is riddled with nightmares from all his past atrocities, he is furious at the destruction left after his death. He must endeavor to correct all the misdeeds of the original owner of the body and bring back peace in the land.

This doesn't seem to be easy however with the several royals and commoners around him who profit from the destruction. And to top it all, he finds he has been betrothed to Jiang Xi, the daughter of the Grand Minister who wants him dead.

He couldn't be even more furious!

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A 16-year-old maiden, Jiang Xi gets married to the king, Li Yan, and has to navigate the good and bad of the royal palace and the drama unfolding daily. It doesn't help that the King and the Empress Dowager happen to think that she is a spy sent to destroy them.

When swords and arrows collide in form of tricks and schemes, who will be the ruler of the royal court?

*This is an original work of mine, not a translated work.*