The Emperor Is Helping the Empress Fight Her Harem Battles Again!

Fallen princess vs. tyrannical new emperor Flower goddess vs. demon lord One-on-one romance, happy ending, entwined across three lifetimes In the thirty-second year of Chenghua, the coming-of-age ceremony for Zhu Shenzhao, the legitimate daughter of the Zhu family, was arranged entirely by Crown Prince Jing Ke. For a time, it became the favorite topic of the people of the capital. That same year, the Zhu family’s daughter married into the Eastern Palace as a secondary consort, but with the rites of a principal wife: the three betrothal letters and six ceremonial rites, an eight-bearer sedan chair, ten miles of bridal gifts, and dragon-and-phoenix candles burning through the night. In the thirty-third year of Chenghua, Emperor Xuanwu died. Crown Prince Jing Ke ascended the throne and changed the era name to Chengzhao. He wished to make Zhu Shenzhao, the Zhu family’s legitimate daughter and his secondary consort as crown prince, empress. The ministers protested to the death, arguing that a woman without a son could not be empress. She was therefore invested as Imperial Noble Consort Yi'an and granted Fengluan Palace, where the empresses of past dynasties had lived. From the perilous Eastern Palace to the palace behind its red-brick walls, from crown prince to emperor, the only woman by his side was the daughter of the Zhu family.