On the second day after Rong Ying’s wedding, her husband left for the frontier. He died on the way.
Her mother-in-law blamed her for bringing about her husband’s death, drugged her tea, and tried to ruin her reputation.
After one night of passion, her belly began to grow day by day. She had no choice but to claim the child was her dead husband’s.
But, unexpectedly, the husband she was supposedly married to not only survived, but returned to the capital with his cousin, his secret lover.
He kept calling it true love and said he would give her a proper place.
Li Qiansi’s miserable former life had all come from marrying the wrong man: her husband was useless, and his family was poor. Her cousin-in-law, Rong Ying, had a life utterly unlike hers. Rong Ying’s husband was a high-ranking official in the new emperor’s court, and her cousin was made Duke Who Protects the Nation. Rong Ying herself became a first-rank noblewoman.
Even her two children rose to great heights with her.
The new emperor had no sons, and those two children were repeatedly granted titles and countless rewards, living lives of boundless splendor.
Was this what it meant to marry the right man?
Li Qiansi looked up at the cousin lying beside her. What a wonderful life. Soon, it would be hers.
General Ji had once served in the Eastern Palace. During a palace revolt, the crown prince was deposed, and the pregnant former crown princess lost her life along with her unborn child in the chaos.
At the same time, the Ji family gained a new son born to a concubine.
With the Eastern Palace vacant, the princes schemed and struggled against one another. As the emperor grew old, he increasingly missed the child and wife he had mistakenly killed.
Then, at a palace banquet, he saw a minister’s child who looked so much like… his crown prince?!
The subject matter is good, except that the heroine didn't accomplish anything she wanted to do, nor did she drug her (I knew she might want to slap her in the face, etc.), Nor did she say she was going to kill the female partner. I don't know why, but the heroine kept getting frustrated, and there were also the heroine's stepmother and step-sister. The heroine herself had no means of defense. Did you wait until later to rely on the male protagonist? Either write it as a spoiled wife, or write it as a great heroine. It feels uncomfortable to be neither good nor bad. The highlight is given to the heroine. Now it is the male protagonist who solves everything. Everything else is pretty good 😏 😏
The beginning is similar to another novel.
Read it in one sitting, great book