“A Chuan, this is your birthday present. Do you like it?”
“I do. But meeting you is the best birthday gift heaven could ever give me.”
The Fourth Prince, Sheng Luanchuan, clasped You Xuezhu’s hand as it held the tiger tally. With that, the struggle for the throne came to an end.
You Xuezhu happily married Sheng Luanchuan and became empress, but he never treated him well. Sheng Luanchuan used his dignity to curry favor with powerful ministers, his chastity to secure the throne, and his pride to win people over.
You Xuezhu willingly imprisoned himself in a gilded cage and became Sheng Luanchuan’s dependent, yet he was still betrayed without mercy.
A deliberately set fire destroyed the Wutong Palace, and You Xuezhu was trapped inside for a long time. Through the flames, it seemed that Sheng Luanchuan had come to save him.
Perhaps everything should be left behind in that fire. Let’s give each other one last chance, You Xuezhu thought.
But the overlapping shadows on the window and the heavy breathing pierced You Xuezhu to the heart. He couldn’t bring himself to knock on the door and ultimately fled in tears.
Later, the gates of Wutong Palace remained firmly shut. You Xuezhu gave up hope and thought he would spend the rest of his life in prayer, but he unexpectedly learned that Sheng Luanchuan was behind the fall of the You family, his father’s death in battle, and his elder brother’s disappearance.
It was the First Prince, Sheng Luan’an, who had rescued him from danger time and time again.
Humbled by love and awakened by pain, You Xuezhu decided to take back everything he had lost.
The heart that had withered because of Sheng Luanchuan slowly came back to life as he plotted with the First Prince, Sheng Luan’an…
Sheng Luanchuan regretted what he had done and tried every way to please him, but You Xuezhu paid him no attention.
In the fifty-third year of Tianyou, You Xuezhu joined the deposed crown prince, Sheng Luan’an, in forcing his way into the palace.
“Xuezhu, if you want the empire, take it. I only beg you to give me one more chance…” Sheng Luanchuan knelt in defeat before his own empress.
You Xuezhu slowly pried Sheng Luanchuan’s fingers from his robe and replied calmly, “Your Majesty, it’s too late. My heart belongs to someone else now.”
A bold, passionate, black-lotus beauty bottom x a devoted, restrained, scheming top
Please note: This is a one-on-one romance with a three-person love triangle, angst and sweetness, a pursuit-and-regret arc, face-slapping, and a light substitute trope. It has all the classic melodramatic elements, and the ending is relatively happy.
A secondary couple also appears: a flamboyant, runaway Seventh Prince bottom, Sheng Luanjin, x a deeply calculating prince from beyond the frontier, Tuoba Qiwу. They’re a bickering couple and incredibly sweet~
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Very interesting, no skipping chapters, good ending
Very pretty, a bit cruel