I Just Had to Walk the Wrong Path All Over Again

[Possessive Pursuit + Clear-Headed Heroine + Two Male Leads + Bad Ending]

In the first half, Emperor Taihe forcibly takes Qin Mo's mother, Qin Yan, as his wife.

In the second half, Emperor Taihe's son, Si Ying, forcibly takes Qin Mo's wife, Jiang Xian.

In between, Qin Mo's blood-related cousin forcibly takes his second uncle, Su Shao, as her lover, then casts him aside like trash. In the end, she becomes the male favorite of an empress nearly twenty years older than herself.

Qin Yan never loved Emperor Taihe, Jiang Xian never loved Emperor Tianshun, and Su Shao never loved his cousin. Every story ends in a spectacularly bad ending.

A bandit grandfather kidnaps Jiang Xin's young aunt to make her a slave, and turns his young uncle into a male prostitute.

You meet again after being separated as children, only to find that you've become your boss's woman (Bi Luo, Li Yue).