60 epsWho Owns the Glass Slipper?
Dying upon the marble ballroom floor for the third consecutive lifetime, the poisoned scullery maid realized the charming prince was hunting witnesses to his treason.
Starving in a prison cell, the emperor remembered his own dismemberment, then woke up with a system and a grudge.
Shattock wakes as Emperor Ling of Great Xia, a ruler everyone has already written off. The Empress Dowager holds the court, his allies are gone, and history says he starves in a cell before being executed piece by piece.
He refuses that script. A system gives him an edge, and he uses it to chip away at the Empress Dowager's grip, one ally and one conspiracy at a time. Along the way the Empress takes his side, and his quiet rise turns into open confrontation. The court has tried to kill him once already, and this time he is the one hunting.
60 epsDying upon the marble ballroom floor for the third consecutive lifetime, the poisoned scullery maid realized the charming prince was hunting witnesses to his treason.
72 epsEvery wish he made to save himself landed twice as hard on the man who had already buried him once.
60 epsWaking upon a gilded dragon throne flanked by hostile guards, the transmigrated scholar realized the treacherous court planned his formal execution before nightfall.
64 epsThe puppet emperor signed his own death warrant, then woke up in the same body with a modern mind and no intention of kneeling.
67 epsWatching imperial executioners drag her maternal uncles to the scaffold, the favored daughter realized her father's lifelong pampering was a calculated imperial assassination scheme.
63 epsWhile her husband toasted his campaign beside his mistress, the mob matriarch he betrayed filed her own papers to run against him.
60 epsWhile the emperor bathed in the perfumes she blended to soothe his shattered mind, the hostage bride was measuring the exact dose that would kill him.
70 epsWaking inside the body of a disgraced provincial noblewoman three centuries after her royal assassination, the founding empress casually poured out the poisoned tea.
64 epsThe war goddess scrubbed her captor's floors for the ninety-ninth time while her dead child waited for her in another realm.
60 epsAt her adopted son's engagement banquet, the matriarch found her husband in bed with the future daughter-in-law and died for the discovery.
60 epsStanding before the laughing northern lords after his betrothal scroll was burned, the dismissed hunter awakened the slumbering time-space divinity within his chest.
67 epsWhile debt collectors pounded on her grocery store door, a medieval commander stepped through a portal in her freezer aisle and asked for bread.