She Is the Villainess in the Story of the Top Scholar Who Takes Her by Force

[Comments] [Female Lead Has Experience, Male Lead Is Chaste] [Reunion After Years Apart] [Fictional Dynasty] [The Father Rises in Status Through His Child] [Ex-Husband Chases His Wife to the Crematorium]

Princess Yan Ning takes the newly crowned top scholar as her male favorite, and the whole capital knows it.

Everyone says a self-respecting man like Jiang Xubai won't last more than a few days before appealing to the emperor.

Shen Lihua doesn't think much of it. She's her father's only daughter and has always done as she pleases. What's so remarkable about taking a newly crowned top scholar?

That is, until the comments only she can see appear. They say she's a vicious supporting female character who forcibly took the top scholar, the male lead, as her male favorite. He acts obedient and docile, but in reality, he hates her to the bone.

Later, her father dies and the court falls into turmoil. The male lead, Jiang Xubai, helps her brother's sworn enemy, the Third Prince, ascend the throne and becomes a powerful minister, second to none. She and her brother meet terrible ends, dying without their bodies intact.

At first, Shen Lihua doesn't believe it, even scoffing at the idea. Her father's always been in good health, so how could anything happen to him? The Third Prince is the son of a lowborn palace maid, so how could he ever amount to anything? And Jiang Xubai was only just named top scholar when she took him back to the princess's residence as her male favorite. How could he possibly support a prince with no foundation?

It isn't until her father is found to have been poisoned slowly, and Jiang Xubai's hidden forces are exposed, that she finally realizes the comments were all true!

To save her life, she leaves Jiang Xubai a letter and flees to her own fiefdom, pregnant.

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Three years later, the new emperor ascends the throne, and she is forced to return to the capital.

By then, Jiang Xubai has become the all-powerful chancellor, and a single word from him can decide whether she lives or dies.

On the day she returns, her child is snatched away in the street.

When Jiang Xubai learns the new emperor has granted her a marriage to this year's top scholar, he goes mad.

"Princess, I am the child's father."