When the Crown Prince contracted smallpox, the Emperor ordered him to move out of the Eastern Palace, and he ended up at the Minister of Personnel’s residence. Everyone avoided Xie Yuzhao like the plague, except for Jiang Yitang, who fearlessly approached him.

Her birth mother was lowly, dying in a well with no one to care.

As Jiang Yitang trembled while cleaning Xie Yuzhao’s pustules, her mind was set on gambling for a dream of imperial power.

Later, when Xie Yuzhao failed in the succession struggle and was confined to his princely estate, Jiang Yitang’s dream of becoming a consort shattered completely. She lived in constant fear, not daring to see Xie Yuzhao, terrified of ending up like her birth mother.

Thus, after the new emperor ascended the throne, fearing implication, she was forced to drink poison by her so-called biological father, her fragrant life extinguished in the same small courtyard where her mother had died.

After being reborn, whenever Jiang Yitang recalled the gut-wrenching pain of the poison, she trembled with fear.

She remembered this time when Xie Yuzhao was on the brink of death with no one to care for him.

In her previous life, she had rushed forward without hesitation, but now she was too afraid to approach.

Xie Yuzhao was imprisoned for five years. During his time of power, Jiang Yitang, who had once been tender and affectionate toward him, never once looked his way.

In his previous life, after he successfully seized the throne, before he could see her tearful pleas, news arrived that Jiang Yitang had taken her own life to atone for her sins.

Jiang Yitang valued her life above all else, even fearing suffering. How could she dare to take her own life after so eagerly cutting ties with him when he fell from grace?

The last time Xie Yuzhao saw Jiang Yitang, she was covered in bruises, her clothes stained with blood, a sight too gruesome to behold—enough to show the immense torment she endured before her death.

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Upon waking, Xie Yuzhao found himself back in his youth, having just contracted smallpox and been sent to the Minister of Personnel’s residence.

He saw Jiang Yitang stumbling in, trembling as she grabbed his sleeve, her voice shaking: “Xie Yuzhao, I’ll save you. Will you protect me in the future?”

Xie Yuzhao’s eyes slightly closed.

He gently took Jiang Yitang’s hand, lowering his gaze: “Yes.”

In his previous life, he enfeoffed Jiang Yitang as Empress, shocking the world.

But no one knew that when he was on the verge of death, there was one person who, despite trembling with fear, refused to leave.

In this life, he would not be confined again, and Jiang Yitang would never have another chance to leave him.

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