[Alternate world / Not pure wish fulfillment / Over-the-top melodrama / A touch of ensemble cast / One heroine, multiple male leads / Everyone is a little unhinged]
Jiang Enjing, the apple of the Jiang family’s eye and a jewel of the empire.
At seventeen, she discovered that her fiancé was cheating on her.
His lover was a commoner girl. He transferred her to an elite school and stood up for her. He even missed his engagement banquet with Jiang Enjing because the girl had come down with a high fever.
He said, “Enjing, you’re too cold. She needs me. But when I’m with you, I can’t feel that kind of emotion.”
And at the engagement banquet he skipped, something no one could have expected unfolded: the designated heirs of several other noble families in the empire started vying and fighting for a chance to take his place.
Even her younger brother, whom Jiang Enjing had always looked down on and who seemed to have no blood relation to her, gazed at her from the shadows with helpless longing, like an abandoned puppy. “Big sister…”
They waited for their chance to act, all hoping to become the one she chose. Even being only one of several would be enough for them.
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Then an unexpected turn of events revealed Jiang Enjing’s true identity. She was not only the jewel of the Jiang family, but also the jewel of the entire empire.
She would ascend step by step, ultimately becoming queen and standing at the pinnacle of power.
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Jiang Enjing never wanted love. What she wanted was absolute power. And when she became the empire’s true ruler, the rules would be made for her and by her.
*The male lead lineup is tentatively five.
*An unconventional, melodramatic story about a woman adored by everyone. (-ω-)zzz
