Liu Ruyan

**Liu Ruyan** is a consort of the Emperor. She is also the FL of the first arc's small world.

## Appearance

Liu Ruyan is a very beautiful woman with long bright pink hair and gentle blue eyes and very pale skin. She often wears simple and neat clothing to appeal to the emperor and reinforce her image of a 'sweet' and 'innocent' girl.

In her previous life, she looked like a normal background character. With long dark hair and pale skin. Her eyes are not shown.

## Background

In her former life, Liu Ruyan was a consort not favored by the emperor and thus died tragically after being hounded to death by the servants and other consorts. After her rebirth, she used her past knowledge and killed everyone in her way. She often acts in an innocent and pure manner to hide her evil scheming side. In the end, she lived a long and happy life with the emperor.

### Arc 1

When she found out Su Lüxia adopted the fourth young prince Yun Ling, she invited her to her banquet, believing she falsified decree and took in a young prince without authorization, but this backfired on her.

After her birth, Su Lüxia fakes a divine sign of the phoenix in timing with the koi fish blessing planned by the 9th prince. These two signs tricked her into believing it was a true auspicious sign.

Things started to deteriorate for her when Su Lüxia built the suspicions that Liu Ruyan was cheating on the Emperor with the ninth prince, who was her childhood sweetheart, and that the child was not the emperors. Due to this rumor, the help of Consort Shu, and the faulty paternity test, she lost favor and was sent to the lane of perpetuity.

While in the cold palace, Liu Ruyan was visited by Su Lüxia, whom informs her that the emperor does not love her anymore, returns the now broken knot she gave him with the message that "The knot of love has come undone, never to meet again." After Liu Ruyan tried to beg Su Lüxia to meet the emperor once more, Su Lüxia questions her lack of concern over the ninth prince, and informs her that he was forced to drink poison by the emperor. This news enranges Liu Ruyan, who attacks Su Lüxia, blaming her for her problems. Su Lüxia shoves her back and chastises her for being so foolish despite living two life times.

After Su Lüxia left with the promise of convincing the emperor to visit her one last time, she drugged the tea she made and while the emperor was incapacitated, stabbed him to death before she stabbed her own neck to follow him to the grave, promising to be with him forever.

## Relationships

### Su Lüxia

After her reincarnation, Liu Ruyan saw Noble Consort Su as a major threat, and thus framed her as a cruel and awful person to get her demoted, causing Su Lüxia to bash her head against a pillar to kill herself. Had Su Lüxia not transmigrated into the story, Liu Ruyan would have also ruined the entire Su family.

During the events of Arc 1, she stated that Su Lüxia was a foolish woman who only got her noble consort status due to her appearance and family background. That was why she thought Lüxia falsified an imperial decree to adopt a prince.

### Emperor

Liu Ruyan fell in love with the emperor during her second life, and would have lived a long happy life with him if Su Lüxia's didn't appear in this world.

### The Ninth Prince

Liu Ruyan and him were childhood sweethearts. It is implied that both still cared for each other even after she entered the palace.