I Won the Empress with My Own Skills, So Why Should I Give Her Back?

(The rating is low because it just came out, but it will rise) Both are virgins. The dog emperor wants to have it both ways, and fights tooth and nail to claim her.

After the Cui family fell overnight, Cui Ruyin thought she had married a good man she could rely on for life. Little did she know that his deep affection was nothing but a facade. The new emperor applied pressure, her mother-in-law egged him on, and her cousin threw herself into his arms. Their vows from the past were as thin as a cicada's wing, torn to pieces in an instant.

She neither cried nor made a scene. She simply took back her dowry piece by piece, then walked out of Duke Wei's residence without a trace of regret.

Everyone in the capital said the Cui family's legitimate daughter would surely spend the rest of her life in a temple, praying by the green lamp.

At the palace banquet, everyone waited to see her make a fool of herself. Who didn't know that the new emperor was cold and taciturn, and hated the entire Cui clan most of all?

Yet no one saw him pin her against a wall in a shadowed corridor, his scorching breath brushing her ear as he asked in a husky voice, "Yinyin, when do you plan to repay what you owe me?"