Age gap + System + sweet romance + the powerful one lowers his head
Sweet, demure young lady with a hidden dark side × aloof, powerful man fallen from his pedestal
After a lifetime of scheming, Song Zhi finally becomes empress, only for the dynasty to be overthrown on the day of her coronation.
When she wakes again, she has transmigrated to the modern world and is bound to a System that orders her to win over the Xie family and marry into it.
There are seven eligible men in the Xie family, and they all have one thing in common: none of them likes her.
Song Zhi’s gaze sweeps over her targets, but then settles on the aloof, haughty man seated high in the distance: the adoptive father of all seven.
Who says her target has to be a prince?
If Song Zhi is going to do this, she’s going to become the Empress Dowager.
Forever above everyone else.
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Xie Zhixing has long heard that Song Zhi was raised as a sweet, obedient young lady to suit the Xie family’s tastes, so she could marry into the family without a hitch.
The Song family wants to use a favor owed by the previous generation to secure an alliance and consolidate its power.
Xie Zhixing knows all this, but it doesn’t move him. It makes no difference to him. He has adopted seven sons, and any one of them will do.
Later, at a gathering, he happens to see the supposedly sweet and gentle young woman corner his youngest son against a wall. “I hear you’re good at kissing. Teach me.”
His unruly youngest son’s Adam’s apple bobs twice before he lowers his head...
But he doesn’t get to kiss her.
The young woman presses a hand against his lips, smiling sweetly and seductively. “Never read a book? Then explain it to me.”
At the far end of the wall, Xie Zhixing watches from the shadows, biting down on his cigarette as he scoffs. What a well-behaved young lady from the Song family.
Later, Xie Zhixing gets his wish and pins her against the wall, kissing her as she trembles and begs in a broken voice, “Uncle...”
It’s even sweeter than he imagined.
Never mind, he thinks.
He only needs someone to marry for an alliance.
And he can certainly repay the favor owed from the past.
