I'm Losing It: The Young Master Pursuing Her Is the Future Emperor

[Sweet romance and satisfying revenge + devoted lovers + a long road to winning her back + a doting emperor who watches her grow] [She’s a money-making whiz; he’s a ruthless emperor in the making] A newly graduated art student was ready to make her mark when she transmigrated into the body of a courtesan. She was supposed to sell her art, not her body, but her greedy madam sold her off anyway. On the carriage taking her away, the original owner refused to submit and took her own life with a hairpin. That was how Qiao Chuyan ended up in her place. Before she could even figure out what was going on, a mysterious man hijacked the carriage and took her innocence. The man from that fateful night fixated on her like a wolf stalking its prey, breaking into her lodgings time and again. When he saw her trying to save enough money to buy her freedom, he would ask jealously, “Why not come into my private treasury and take whatever you like?” But once she had saved enough to buy her freedom, he snatched her away to his estate. “You can’t escape. You’re mine.” Through their repeated entanglements, she watched him get pushed aside by his brothers and suppressed by court officials, then gradually eliminate his rivals and ascend the throne. She fled the capital, only to find the Imperial Guards he had sent blocking the city gates. “The whole world is mine. Where do you think you can run? I want you to be the most honored woman in the world.” Later, as he held her and read memorials from court, he placed a brush in her hand. “I want you to leave your mark on my empire, too.” Still angry at how he had manipulated her back then, she smeared rouge all over his court robes. Instead, he smiled dotingly. “Now that’s how my empress should look.”