[A stunning, calculating beauty + successive one-on-one romances + father and son/exes' regret and redemption, a feel-good romance!]
The master manipulator Lu Wanning transmigrates into the body of a discarded first wife, despised by her husband and rejected by her son.
Bad reputation? Easy!
A husband who doesn't love her? Even easier!
Lu Wanning knows exactly what she wants: divorce first, then land herself a crown princess title, and finally become empress. But she never expects the powerful regent to pin her into a corner of the bed and demand:
“Choose me!”
“What do you want? I can give you anything!”
*
Xiao Heng has always despised his merchant-born wife, convinced she's crude, calculating, and cares only about romance.
But at some point, his discarded wife suddenly changes!
She shines brilliantly, radiant as the moon.
Little by little, he finds himself drawn to her and wants to get back together.
Then he sees her standing beside the Fourth Prince, smiling like a flower.
The Fourth Prince, whom he considers his closest friend, solemnly pleads with him: “Xiao Heng, don't you despise her? Then divorce her and let me have her!”
*
The Fourth Prince, Song Jingxing, has kept his feelings buried for years, until he falls for his friend's former wife.
After all, she's a divorced woman. Making her a secondary consort is already the result of much negotiation and careful consideration.
She throws a tantrum, he soothes her.
She's only a woman. How hard can it be to win her over?
But when he sees her again, her cheeks are flushed, and Ninth Imperial Uncle is holding her protectively in his arms.
The man, usually cold, contemptuous, and indifferent to women, glares at him with a sinister look. “From now on, she's your Ninth Aunt!”
*
Many years later, the emperor and empress sit together, surrounded by their children and grandchildren.
Xiao Mingrui looks at the woman, whose smile is still as radiant as ever, and can't help thinking of that morning so many years ago, when she crouched in front of him to straighten his hair. It feels like a lifetime ago.
