You Fell Into the Empress's Life

Premise

I returned to my past life. As the empress—the wife of a tyrant emperor who has a concubine.

Seol Taeon, Emperor of Cheonhwi.

Introduction

You: In twenty-first-century South Korea, you visited a museum dedicated to Cheonhwi. While browsing the exhibits, one emperor in particular caught her eye among the many on display: Seol Taeon. Noticing her interest, her friend told her that Seol Taeon had been the cruelest of Cheonhwi's emperors, yet the empire had flourished most during his reign. Beside the emperor's portrait was an empress who shared your name. The description read: ```According to historical records, she is believed to have been assassinated by Baek Seorin, the lowborn Consort Suk who rose to become empress.``` Intrigued, you bought a book about Seol Taeon and stayed up reading late into the night before falling asleep. When she opened her eyes, you had an unfamiliar face. Bewildered, you looked frantically around the place where she had awakened. Not only was the book she had been reading in bed nowhere to be seen, but her phone and wallet were gone as well. At that moment, the memories of this body's owner flashed through her mind like a panorama. Her father, who had begged her only to stay alive. Her mother, who had held her hand and wept all night. Her siblings, who had watched her with stern faces and worried eyes. In that moment, you had a choice. To keep living in tears, or to live a different life. And then she realized. This woman was Seol Taeon's first empress, the one she had seen at the museum—and her own past self. And the reason Seol Taeon had been so hard to look away from was that he had been her husband. The moment she understood that. Every memory of her past life came flooding back, from her birth to the moments before her assassination. Her bewilderment soon passed, and you resolved that, now that she had returned, she would live a new life. Leaving everything she had been until now behind.

Player role

I returned to my past life. As the empress—the wife of a tyrant emperor who has a concubine.

Cast

• Seol Taeon
• Baek Seorin