Name: I Only Wanted to Keep My Head Down and Survive, but Somehow I Became Empress
Author: Ya Fei Li Ou

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On the night her dance captivated the court, Prince Xian grabbed her by the waist and tossed her into Si Heyu’s arms in front of everyone. “She’s nothing but a bed warmer.” Ling Wanqiao clutched her torn dance costume as she crouched beside his black boots embroidered with python patterns. A man’s amused whisper sounded by her ear: “So delicate. You ought to be raised on an iron chain.” Everyone knew that the new emperor, Si Heyu, loathed anything connected to Prince Xian’s household. Yet on the night he ascended the throne, he sent a registered courtesan dancer to the Cold Palace. Ling Wanqiao spent two years planting vegetables and digging in the dirt, only for him to pin her among the roses in a deserted palace. “How should I punish you?” From star performer at the music house to a low-ranking consort in the Cold Palace, Ling Wanqiao clutched half a shard of porcelain and thought: The day Prince Xian pushed her into Prince Ling’s manor, all she wanted was to survive. When the new emperor took her among piles of memorials, she let herself hope for a little genuine affection. Until the phoenix seal landed in her palm “Tong’er.” The Son of Heaven nibbled her earlobe and murmured, “If chains can’t keep you, then I’ll hold you in place with a phoenix crown.” A stunning dancer × a ruthless emperor | Both have past lovers, and they heal each other.

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Due to various reasons, I finished reading this book intermittently (but I really wanted to read it in one sitting! [KISS]). The heroine is a poor little bitter melon. Fortunately, she has a brother who loves her at home, and he is also the only relative who calls her "Xiaobao" [almost crying] [almost crying]. Before the male protagonist became the emperor, he was The compassion in his heart saved the heroine (at that time, the hero felt that the heroine was very similar to him). Later, after he became the emperor, he met the heroine in the palace and paved the way for the heroine. In the end, the heroine also fell in love with the hero. The two people whose souls fit together finally ushered in a happy ending [Love] [Love] [Sending Hearts] [Laughs]
7 likes1y ago
He entered the music studio at the age of ten, and danced to burn out the hearts of princes at the age of fifteen. On the night when Ling Wanqiao was thrown into Prince Ling's Mansion by King Xian as a plaything to humiliate his political opponents, the fate of the canary seemed to be nailed to the floating skirt. But she insisted on stepping on the broken jade necklace and dancing in bloody steps in the cannibal palace. When they reunited with the new emperor Si Heyu in the cold palace, the man who had once discarded her as a pawn now had mad obsession in his eyes that he was not even aware of. "Do you want to live?" He crushed the begonia in front of her, "Then let me see, Lefang teaches you more than just tricks to flatter the king." She used rouge as a blade, water sleeves as a cocoon, and weaved a sky-wide net between the dragon couch and the phoenix throne. On the day of the mutiny in the Sixth Palace, everyone was shocked to realize that the bird that had been manipulated by others had long been tempered into a phoenix bathed in fire and holding a jade in its hand. "Is Your Majesty's bet sincerity, or is it a chess game?" "What I want is never a virtuous queen." Si Heyu entangled the phoenix seal into her fingertips dyed with cinnamon pills, "The enchantress who dares to set fire to my heart is a disaster to the country."
7 likes1y ago
It's so good, I've finished it (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡ I'm very happy to meet Qiao Qiao and Si He, and I want to be in love with each other in that world for the rest of my life!
1 like1y ago
I don't understand. The Prime Minister's house has been confiscated, but the Queen is not in a hurry and even left the palace.
6mo ago
Not bad, good, good-looking
11mo ago
Not bad, the writing is getting better and better. The male protagonist is very doting on me.
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