The Beauty's Trap

Chu Yunge was the legitimate daughter of the General's Manor and went to war in her father's place. She came back having won, and the Emperor and her own cousin had already arranged the charge that was waiting for her. Her family was wiped out. She got away alive, and came back into the palace as Lian Yuheng, a daughter of the Marquis of Haihun, with papers and a face nobody there connected to the general's girl. She uses a love parasite to work on the Emperor and keep him bound to her, sets traps that her cousin walks into, and drags one piece of the cousin's deceit after another into the open where the court can see it. The complication is the crown prince of the enemy state, who is taken for a simpleton and about whom she has feelings she did not plan for and cannot use. Every step of the revenge sits close to being found out.