Reborn, the One Who Was My First Love Gives Up

【This story is complete, including the extras】 Zhong Yanyu was the legitimate second son of the Marshal Who Protects the Nation. He married Emperor Jing for love and stood by him for more than ten years. Together with the Zhong family, he had served as the royal family's executioner's blade for half his life. To protect his standing in Emperor Jing's heart, Zhong Yanyu refused to yield to the officials and Empress Dowager, who wanted to fill the imperial harem. But when Emperor Jing returned from the winter hunt, he brought back a woman from Jiangnan... Jing Guhan broke his promise. The Zhong family was convicted of treason and exiled a thousand miles away, while Jiang Xinyue framed Zhong Yanyu for murdering an imperial heir and plotting against the imperial consorts. He was stripped of his title as empress, reduced to a commoner, and given poisoned wine by the Empress Dowager. It turned out Emperor Jing had married him for his military power. Everything had been a scheme! After returning to the twenty-sixth year of Xizheng, his fifth year as empress, Jiang Xinyue had just been brought back to the palace by Emperor Jing and made a Talented Lady. The Empress Dowager claimed he was narrow-minded and could not tolerate the imperial consorts. She clashed with him over his empty harem, the officials had long been displeased with him, and the people of the realm called him a calamity in the form of a beautiful woman... An empty harem? Zhong Yanyu laughed and held a selection ceremony, then watched the women scheme against one another. Displeased with him? He held the officials' secrets in his hands, and they all knelt before him to beg for mercy. A calamity in the form of a beautiful woman? Though no warrior, he went to the battlefield and devised strategies that won victories from a thousand miles away. # Zhong Yanyu grew more and more dazzling. Watching the swarm of ardent admirers around him that he couldn't keep away, Jing Guhan's eyes darkened into a storm.