[Bold, spoiled, outspoken sweetheart vs. cold, ruthless emperor with absolute power]
[Not both virgins + Fake and real heiress + Emperor's favored consort + Possessive love]
Two entertaining stories have been making the rounds in the capital lately. First, the spoiled and beautiful eldest daughter of the Marquis of Yongchang turned out to be a fake heiress who had taken the real girl's place!
Second, at the Double Ninth Banquet, the crown prince and the heir of the Wei family got into a huge fight over a beauty.
Afterward, the emperor reprimanded and punished them both.
As for the beauty, she was summoned into the imperial harem.
As it happened, Ye Baozhi was that unlucky beauty and fake heiress!
She was as beautiful as a fairy, with a face like a flower and a figure like the moon. She should have found herself a perfect husband and spent her life in luxury, but within a few days, her status had plummeted and her reputation was in ruins.
Just as she was about to be driven out of the capital, an imperial decree arrived, and she promptly packed her bags and entered the palace!
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At first, the other consorts paid her no mind.
She was beautiful, certainly, but far too spoiled.
She relied on her looks to act arrogant and domineering, did whatever she pleased, and made a scene or complained whenever things didn't go her way, throwing the entire harem into chaos.
What's more, she was a femme fatale who had set the crown prince and the heir of the Wei family against each other.
Such a menace was bound to be abandoned by the emperor sooner or later.
So they waited and waited, until Ye Baozhi rose through the ranks, until she became the most favored woman in the Six Palaces, and finally until an imperial decree arrived:
Ye Baozhi had been made empress!
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Qi Jun, the emperor of the Great Qi dynasty, wielded immense power and ruled with an iron fist. Women meant little to him.
He was displeased and scornful that the crown prince had nearly lost his mind over a woman.
To put an end to the crown prince's hopes, he simply issued a decree and brought her into the imperial harem himself.
At first, he only thought her a little too beautiful. Later, he found her schemes and skills shallow, and pitied her. Without even realizing it, he began to favor her.
He kept spoiling her, until he accidentally spoiled her all the way into becoming empress.
Looks good, can wait.