A cool, aloof princess of a fallen kingdom x a deranged, devoted emperor
"Forceful possession, an ultra-angsty melodrama, both leads are virgins, the emperor dotes exclusively on her from beginning to end, pregnancy and childbirth"
Shen Qingyin, princess of Xizhao, had only recently become engaged when Emperor Yuwen Yong of Beiliang forcibly took her as his wife.
In the Cold Palace, she heard that her homeland had fallen. Despairing, she swallowed poison.
All she wanted was to die.
The poison didn’t kill her. Instead, it brought that dog of an emperor to her, day after day, night after night.
He doted on her alone, made her Imperial Noble Consort, and showered her with treasures and power. All under heaven knew she was the apple of the emperor’s eye.
Shen Qingyin’s heart was dead. She treated him with cold indifference.
Living was pointless, but she was too weak to die.
Later, she ran away with the man she had once loved, escaping Yuwen Yong’s grasp and hoping to live an ordinary life in the mountains and forests…
One day, she was sitting in the courtyard, soothing the baby in her arms, who was still nursing.
A familiar voice sounded beside her.
“My beloved consort, I’ve been looking for you for eight months.”
“How could you… be carrying someone else’s child?”
That day, in the Dragon Hall, Shen Qingyin wept and choked out her words,
“Yuwen Yong… please let me go.”
He nuzzled against her, speaking one word at a time,
“I won’t. Not even in death.”
[The thing Shen Qingyin regretted most in her life was saving Yuwen Yong from the imperial prison when they were young…
Only for that scoundrel to fixate on her for half his life.]
Content warnings: (Already listed, best to read first)
1. This is not a story about a strong, independent heroine. The female lead is a delicate, breathtaking beauty.
2. An ultra-angsty melodrama. The deranged male lead forcefully claims and obsessively spoils her, while the frail female lead is sensitive and pessimistic.
3. The male lead loves her from beginning to end and is practically insane.
4. This is a forceful-possession romance with plenty of steamy scenes. Don’t read if that’s not your thing.
