After the Scheming Beauty Is Widowed

Yu Ling had been calculating and ambitious from a young age.

He would stop at nothing to climb the ladder.

He began his studies at three, entered the local school at six, and at ten stepped on the commandery governor's son's head to make his way into the capital's academy.

At twelve, he charmed everyone around him, mingling with students and befriending the children of powerful families as he searched for a patron.

At sixteen, he overheard that the powerful saw him as nothing more than a little plaything, and promptly pulled back from the brink.

At eighteen, he buried himself in his studies, passed the imperial examinations, and was appointed a low-ranking official, copying documents under the Imperial Attendant.

But climbing this way was still too slow.

So at twenty, Yu Ling trampled his pride and official robes as he climbed onto the imperial bed, using every trick at his disposal.

The emperor was thirty-six and in his prime, vigorous and full of vitality. Yet injuries from his early campaigns had left him unable to have children. His harem lay empty, and he was devoted to Yu Ling alone.

Climbing into the emperor's bed really did work.

In the first year, Yu Ling amassed twenty chests of gold ingots.

In the second, he got a sprawling mansion with three courtyards.

In the third, he was promoted straight to sixth rank as an Imperial Attendant.

The fourth year...

He didn't make it to the fourth year. The emperor died.

With the true dragon dead, wolves rose from every side.

The eighteen-year-old crown prince grabbed him by the throat in front of everyone and threatened to send him to the imperial mausoleum to be buried with his father.

The top scholar from his examination class suspected him of murdering the late emperor and wanted him dragged to the Court of Judicial Review for harsh interrogation.

The great general, who had never liked him, drew his blade in court and cut off his sleeve and hair.

Even the chief eunuch, who had once treated him with the utmost respect, could come over and kick him.

Yu Ling gritted his teeth and struggled to make his way among them.

Row upon row of red candles wept night after night.

Just then, a wisp of green smoke quietly appeared, bringing him...

the late emperor's soul.

- Lots of melodrama, lots and lots of melodrama!

- One-on-one pairings in each arc. The main love interest is the late emperor.

- The top is completely chaste. Don't tell me there's no way a top this old and powerful could be chaste. I say he's chaste, so he's chaste! Chaste from head to toe!

Theme: A good life is created with your own hardworking hands.