The Emperor Takes His Consort by Force: Run, Run, Run!

Not a pure couple, read with caution

[Palace Intrigue] + [Mad Tyrant] + [Possessive Romance] + [Delicate Beauty]

She is the Grand Tutor’s daughter, and he is the emperor who reigns above all.

Emperor Xiao Jingyuan seized the throne by murdering his father at eighteen. To the world, he is a tyrant: cold-blooded and ruthless, yet he alone shows her mercy.

The night his troops stormed the palace, she risked her life to shield Empress Yang. Seeing how delicate she was, he stared in surprise and even mocked himself inwardly. Once he had regained his composure, he ordered his guards, “Take her away. Such innocent eyes shouldn’t have to witness a scene of bloodshed. Wouldn’t that sully them?”

But once he learned who she was, the pity vanished from his eyes. He simply ordered that she be sent home.

Later, after successfully ascending the throne, he had the entire Yang clan executed.

Grand Tutor Li swiftly broke off the engagement with the Yang family and arranged a marriage between Li Wanyu and the heir apparent of the Yan family.

But Xiao Jingyuan suddenly issued an imperial decree summoning her to the palace. In recognition of the Li family’s generations of loyal service, he kept her by his side as a palace maid.

Afterward, he forced her to become his consort, but she never gave up trying to escape the palace. Then his true identity was exposed: he was not of legitimate royal blood. With the Grand Empress Dowager’s help, the heir apparent, Xiao Jingzhou, launched a coup and seized the throne. Li Wanyu took the opportunity to flee the palace with her first love, Yang Minghan. After Xiao Jingzhou ascended the throne, he ordered a citywide manhunt. She was captured and brought back to the palace, given a new identity, and installed as empress…