Great Tang: I Bind Wu Meiniang and Win Her Favor

Li Zhen transmigrates as Li Shimin's eighth son, the Prince of Yue, with only twenty-four hours left to live. He lifts the veil on his wedding night and discovers that his bride is none other than Wu Meiniang. She wants to stay, so she tries all three: banging her head against the wall, hanging herself, and throwing a tantrum. The System gives him a task: raise Wu Meiniang's affection to eighty. Gritting his teeth, he keeps her, forcing himself on her and showering her with compliments. In the end, Wu Meiniang is the one who pins him down of her own accord.

Reaching eighty only gets him fifteen extra days to live. He turns around and buys Nina, a Western Turkic female war god. He uses reverse psychology and sets her free, but ends up enticing her into staying as his bodyguard, earning himself another ten days. Wu Meiniang gets into trouble while taming a horse. The black horse's hooves are about to crush her skull when Li Zhen desperately yanks the reins and swings himself onto its back, forcing even the wildest horse of the northern desert to submit. Her affection immediately shoots up to one hundred.

Wu Meiniang throws herself into his arms, crying so hard her face is streaked with tears. Li Zhen puts an arm around her shoulders and thinks: In history, Wu Zetian was driven to become who she was by Li Zhi. With a decent man, she might have become a virtuous empress instead. While Li Zhi is still a little kid, Li Zhen has already made the future empress live with him as his wife in the prince's residence. He's already torn up and rewritten the script of the Tang Dynasty.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.