My Late Husband Has Returned! Only Now Does the General Learn the Twins Are His

[Heroine transmigrates + Powerful man bows his head + Coercive romance + Old-school melodrama + Hero has a wife, but the heroine is his only woman] As the daughter of a disgraced official, Wen Jinglan was taken in by Xiao Qiyuan after her husband died taking a blade meant for him. She brought her two children with her. After an accident, she became Xiao Qiyuan’s prized possession. Once, Wen Jinglan had been the unattainable ideal of many powerful men in the capital. Now, the wife Xiao Qiyuan had formally married resented her for the beauty and charm she had shown in years past. With nowhere else to turn, Wen Jinglan decided to bear Xiao Qiyuan a child in exchange for his protection. But she had no idea that the twins she bore were already Xiao Qiyuan’s own flesh and blood... Years later, Wen Jinglan spent a long time looking back on her past. An ordinary office worker, she transmigrated into a time of chaos, married twice, and had several children. From a modern woman with an unbending spirit, she became a servant who bowed to the ways of the ancient world. From fearless and defiant to meek and submissive. Her dignity crushed, she gave herself to the nobility, rising from mistress to favored concubine, then wife and empress. She learned to submit and accept her fate. Years passed. The man at her side ascended the throne, dealt with her former husband, who had returned from the dead, and finally agreed to give her a lifelong partnership with no other woman. But the children she had watched grow up knew that at last, she could go home. Her home was not here.