Maybe 'The Dark Lord and His Wily Bride' is another one. It has a similar theme of a somewhat 'evil' or at least very shrewd male lead and a clever female lead as in 'the evil king wicked consort novel'. There are battles for power within the kingdom and a lot of emotional turmoil between the main characters.
One similar novel could be 'The Ruthless King and His Cunning Queen'. It also features a complex relationship between a powerful king and his consort with lots of political intrigue and power plays.
There is also 'The Tyrant King and His Sly Consort'. This novel shares the aspect of a king who may not be entirely good and a consort who has her own ways of dealing with the court politics and the king. It's full of twists and turns as the relationship between the two develops in the face of various challenges in the kingdom.
Chapter 744, "Dig Three Feet into the Ground to Find Her!", is the clearest early answer because it turns Jiang Li's situation into a concrete plot event. The chapter turns that into something concrete by moving from What?!" Wen Jiaojiao directly questioned out loud, "On what basis are...
Chapter 788, "Don’t be so fierce, I'm scared", is the clearest early answer because it turns Song Xue's situation into a concrete plot event.
Chapter 629, "The Family is Going to be Gone", is the clearest early answer because it turns Jiang Yan's situation into a concrete plot event. It opens with Even after training under Jiang Li for so long, they couldn't...
Chapter 725, "Illegitimate Children Can Also Inherit Property!", is the clearest early answer because it turns Jiang Mingchuan's situation into a concrete plot event.
Chapter 634, "All Villains", is the clearest early answer because it turns Yu Li's situation into a concrete plot event.
Chapter 552, "Branches, 20 Points Each, No More", is the clearest early answer because it turns Branches's situation into a concrete plot event. A useful checkpoint is the way the scene starts with Jiang Cheng smelled the scent and crawled out of the shed, but before...
Chapter 392, "Connected to Shang Shaobai", is the clearest early answer because it turns Shang Shaojing's situation into a concrete plot event. Early on, Bai Lu's hopeful heart had sunk once again.. By the end, Why not give it one more try?.
Chapter 727, "Can't Keep Up with the Twists Anymore", is the clearest early answer because it turns Jiang Li's situation into a concrete plot event. It opens with Jiang Li only posted one picture, but it shut up those haters.
Chapter 385, "We Are Just Friends", is the clearest early answer because it turns Su Yinwan's situation into a concrete plot event. A useful checkpoint is the way the scene starts with Miss Su was somewhat surprised to learn that Jiang Li was going to...