At sixteen, the Marchioness said, “Wanqing, dress yourself up and go serve His Highness the Regent.”
Rumor had it that the Regent was vicious, cruel, and utterly ruthless.
Jiang Wanqing had grown up away from home and was not brought into the Marquis’s residence until she was thirteen. For more than three years, she and her mother had been kept under the Marchioness’s thumb.
The Crown Prince was frail, and her elder half-sister, the Crown Princess, thought Wanqing was nothing but a pretty face. She wanted to use her to get things done and gain control over the greatest threat to the Crown Prince: the Regent.
Resistance was futile. Wanqing steeled herself and agreed. That very night, she was carried into the Regent’s residence in a small pink sedan chair to become his concubine.
What she never expected was that the man she had saved from pursuers when she was ten was none other than the Regent himself. He recognized her at a glance...
Once she entered the prince’s residence, one incident after another only fueled her ambition.
She refused to let others control her fate.
So she pretended to be weak and obedient to win the prince’s sympathy, while secretly dealing with her elder half-sister first and the Marchioness next. In the end, she broke free of everyone’s control.
In the thirteenth year of Xuansheng, Xuan Qi raised an army and ascended the throne.
She used every means at her disposal to protect herself as she followed the man, step by step, to the heights of power...
[Household and palace intrigue, fictional setting, not a chaste couple. All ranks and social systems are invented. Please do not read if this bothers you.]
The heroine is very weak in the early stage. No one can protect her and she doesn't have many eyesight. She is being plotted against every time. I can't stand it. The heroine should be very strong later on.
Yes, why no one commented?