The Tyrant Prince Only Spoils Her

Wei Zheng was the strongest fighter left alive at the end of the world. She opens her eyes in the body of a noble daughter the whole capital writes off as an idiot, days away from a sentence that would send her entire family into exile. She stops playing the fool. Her household expects nothing of her, and that turns out to be useful. She picks off the informants the court's worst faction relies on, empties the private vaults corrupt officials have been filling for years, and turns that money over to the state treasury. A soldiering family with generations of loyalty behind it is facing ruin on false charges, and she gets them out of it. Qin Yanchu holds more power than anyone at court and a reputation for settling matters without hesitation. With her he behaves differently. He lets her lies stand, and more than once he takes the blame for something she did. In front of the emperor the two of them perform a devoted couple. Away from the throne room they are testing each other constantly, neither willing to be the one who gives ground first, and neither able to leave the other alone. They work through the capital's schemers one faction at a time until the arrangement of power at court has been turned completely around. Once it is finished, there is nothing holding either of them there. They leave the capital behind and go looking for the life they actually want.