Reborn as a Treacherous Minister
重生之奸佞
Synopsis
In his past life, Cheng Yi was nothing more than a tragic joke.
For ten years, he poured his heart and soul and sacrificed everything—to help a venomous snake ascend the throne. In return, his loyal family was brutally slaughtered, and he was branded as a traitor and a treacherous minister. It wasn’t until his dying breath that he realized his devotion had been wasted on ingrates. The man he had cherished for a decade stood shoulder-to-shoulder with his sworn brother, plunging a dagger straight into his heart.
Cheng Yi died with his eyes wide open, consumed by hatred and regret.
When he opens his eyes once more, he finds himself sent back in time by ten years.
He is once again a triumphant young general, full of boundless spirit and vitality. The Emperor has bestowed upon him a marriage to the eldest son of the Ministry of Rites, yet his past self stubbornly resisted the decree. The old Duke whipped him until his flesh was torn, and the entire capital waited with bated breath for him to stage a public rejection of the imperial edict.
Instead, Cheng Yi turns around, gathers a lavish array of betrothal gifts, and heads straight to the Minister’s estate to finalize the engagement.
Unwilling? Not at all. He is going to marry and he will marry none other than the eldest young master, Shen Yichen.
As for those two ungrateful scoundrels? Without him paving the way, they will only be trampled into the mud and rot in the gutters. The debts of his past life will be collected, one by one.
Meanwhile, Shen Yichen is widely known throughout the capital as everyone’s least favorite person.
Reputed to be ruthless, vicious, and cold-hearted, he is viewed as the ungrateful wolf of the Minister’s estate. He is notoriously infamous—an outcast whom no one in the capital would ever wish to marry.
Yet, overnight, an imperial decree binds him to the brilliant, spirited young general.
The entire city is in an uproar, with everyone waiting to watch him become the laughingstock of a broken engagement. He is waiting, too.
Instead, what he gets is the young general cornering him against the wall, eyes dark with a depth of affection and scrutiny he cannot fathom.
While the world knows the general supposedly loathes this match, the young general looks right into his eyes and says, “I am willing.”
While society whispers that he is unworthy, the young general tells him, “We are a perfect match.”
Shen Yichen is utterly bewildered. Why is this script playing out so differently? What happened to the pure and radiant white moonlight? Why… why is the general suddenly doting on him so fiercely?