You Wouldn't Protect Me as Your Beloved Concubine, and Now You Regret It When I Rule the World?

[Traditional historical romance + no transmigration or rebirth + a husband’s long road to redemption + personal growth and revenge + competing for favor + competing for power + fictional history]

Important: neither lead is sexually inexperienced!

Ye Huanzhi was picked up off the street by the Fifth Prince, Song Jiuzhou.

No one knows who she really is.

From the moment she entered his residence, Song Jiuzhou told her to endure and yield.

She agreed, enduring the bullying, torment, insults, and beatings again and again.

But in the end, her tormentors went too far and forced her to drink a miscarriage-inducing decoction.

She lost her child, and her three-month-old puppy, beaten to death for protecting her, was skinned and stewed by the vicious servants.

At last, she could endure no more and had nowhere left to retreat.

Only then did she understand: in this prince’s residence, where people devour one another,

without power, she could never protect the people or things she cared about.

She would fight!

She would seize what she wanted!

Step by step, she would climb from a lowly concubine anyone could trample underfoot to a position so lofty that everyone looked up to her.

If the wicked escape justice, she will punish them herself!

When she needed protection most, all he cared about was the greater good, and he made her suffer for it at every turn.

By the time she had clawed her way, battered and bruised, to the very top and no longer needed anyone, he was begging for her love.

Sorry, I only ever used you. I never had an ounce of genuine affection for you.

And now, you’re useless. You can get lost!

Because... I’ve regained my memories!