[Possessive pursuit + groveling chase + devoted to each other + foresight + shared dreams] A cool, captivating concubine and a dark, mad tyrant.
The Jing Prince’s household is full of heroes, every one of them exceptional.
The eldest son is a great general who has never lost a battle.
The second son is a divine physician who can bring the dead back to life and regrow flesh on bones.
The fourth daughter can compose a poem in seven steps and is the capital’s foremost talented woman.
The heir is the capital’s richest merchant, gentle as jade.
Only the little country girl most cherished by the heir, his low-born, timid, useless concubine, seems to have nothing going for her.
She even dares to refuse the heir’s demand that she become his concubine and leave the prince’s residence on her own.
Everyone waits and waits.
But what comes first is the gradual decline of the Jing Prince’s household.
Without a strategist, the great general gives orders at random, is captured by the enemy, and has his legs broken.
Without his master, the divine physician can’t even cure a simple cold.
Without someone to write for her, the top talent is exposed as a fraud and becomes the target of public outrage.
All the businesses owned by the heir change hands overnight, leaving him utterly penniless.
Only then do people realize that the Jingyang Prince’s household is nothing but a name. All its glory had been propped up by one lowly concubine!
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Fu Lingxiao keeps dreaming of a woman: soft and alluring, lying in his arms and letting him do whatever he pleases.
Whenever he loses himself in her tenderness, she shoots an arrow through his heart. Then the woman dares to run away.
He gathers portraits of every unmarried woman in the empire, vowing to find her and imprison her by his side.
Until he discovers that the woman he’s searching for is his nephew’s concubine.
She belongs to someone else? So what?
What an emperor wants, he will seize, even if she’s unwilling!
She is destined never to escape his grasp.
