[Fictional Dynasty Setting | HE | The Heroine Chases Her Husband After He Realizes His Mistake | Half Angst, Half Sweetness]
Character setup: an unfortunate, guileless orphan girl x a scheming, ruthless, cold-hearted prince
Prince Yu Lu Qingshu painstakingly fashioned a perfect masterpiece, summing her up in eight characters: “Her beauty shines like spring dawn, her face blooms like peach blossoms.”
When she was fifteen, he bought Lu Jingrong’s entire life for two taels of silver.
Rebellion, famine, and even a tiger will devour its cubs. Her parents pushed the nameless A Nu toward the immensely powerful Prince Yu, all for a little food.
From then on, she was imprisoned in his manor, trapped in his palm, shaped to suit his whims, carefully cultivated and given a fine name.
Lu Jingrong eventually became exactly what Lu Qingshu wanted: obedient and docile, like a cat with its claws clipped. She was his most useful piece on the chessboard.
Beside the bed, Lu Qingshu toyed with the bonelessly soft A Nu and leaned down to whisper, “You will be the most revered person in the harem of the Great Yan.”
With her soft beauty and a lavish wedding procession, Emperor of Great Yan married Lu Jingrong, a daughter of the Lu family from Prince Yu’s household, and made her his empress.
In May of the following year, the Prince of a Different Surname, Lu Qingshu, forced his way into the palace, beheaded the emperor, deposed the crown prince, and donned the imperial crown to proclaim himself emperor.
But the way Lu Jingrong looked at him was no longer tender. Only disappointment and emptiness remained in her eyes.
He had gained the throne he wanted and killed his enemy, yet it felt as though he had never possessed anything at all.
It's pretty good, but it's too little and not enough to watch.