I Am the Empress Dowager, Yet the Emperor Keeps Overstepping His Bounds

【1vN, coercive love, everyone's favorite, contrast, romantic battlefield】 ❀A heroine who grows over time. The first 50 chapters mainly focus on the coercive romance between her and the emperor. The heroine meekly accepts her lot, and the emperor's morals are a little questionable. Gentle, yielding empress dowager × scheming, bloodthirsty emperor (not a virgin); cold-hearted, innocent secret guard; ruthless, wolfish prince; suspicious, worldly chief councilor Wen Nian was orphaned at fourteen. To reward a loyal military general, the old emperor summoned her to the palace as a consort and also adopted an unfavored prince, Qi Jianghuai, into her household. Wen Nian followed all the rules and cared for Qi Jianghuai devotedly. She thought that after the old emperor died, she would end up like the other imperial consorts, retiring to a Taoist temple as a nun. But Qi Jianghuai surprised her. He worked hard to advance himself, and was ruthless about it. After eliminating his six half-brothers, he became emperor, and Wen Nian became empress dowager. Not only did she avoid a poor life in a Taoist temple, she could also live in luxury within the palace. At twenty-four, she spent her days listening to the imperial consorts complain that the emperor never visited their quarters. After a while, Wen Nian began to think it was a problem too. She even worried that Qi Jianghuai might not be attracted to women. So she gave him a pot of Passion Wine. In the ten years they had spent together, this was the first time she had forced him to do something. That night, Qi Jianghuai arrived seething with murderous intent. He carried the entire pot of Passion Wine, kicked open the gates of Shou'an Palace, then locked the doors from the inside. Wen Nian was so nervous she didn't know how to explain herself, feeling even more like a child caught doing something wrong than Qi Jianghuai. But he only sneered, tipped back the whole pot of wine, and, eyes bloodshot, closed in on her step by step… From then on, Wen Nian pretended to give in to Qi Jianghuai and began her fight for survival… ❀Leave 10 comments to request an update