[Traditional historical household drama + plenty of foreshadowing + realistic tone + age gap between the leads]
She is the daughter of a convicted official.
Branded a “harbinger of disaster,” she spent ten lonely years in exile with no one to rely on.
He is a cold-faced powerbroker.
His household is full of beautiful concubines, and danger lurks beneath their gentle smiles.
By imperial decree, she enters his household as a secondary consort.
A graceful beauty smiles as she pours tea; a huntress, bold and proud, points an arrow at her heart.
His ailing principal wife asks softly from her sickbed, “What do you have to fight with?”
She dares to fight!
At a tea banquet, she needs only a few words to expose the beauty's false face.
At night, she knocks on the door like a ghost and overturns the lovely woman's secret plans in one move.
When he drinks poison for her, and their daughter cries at her full-month celebration,
an enemy nation's carriage waits outside. He personally escorts her through the palace gates.
“If you return safely, the mission will be complete.”
“And if I don't return?”
He turns away in silence, leaving her alone in the dragon's lair.
So the poisoned wine was not an act of love, and sending her into the palace was not an act of abandonment...
It can be seen that the author has great writing skills, and it has a bit of the eloquent feeling of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" 💕. I feel that like Lan Xiangyuan, it will take the route of word-of-mouth fermentation.