Taking My Minister's Wife Is Heaven's Will

* Strange omens appear, and several transmigrators show up in the Danxi Imperial Palace.

Whenever Emperor Danxi asks their names, they all answer, "Tao Anran."

Furious, Emperor Danxi has nearly a hundred of them beheaded before learning that Tao Anran was the name of his empress in history, and that the transmigrators have all stolen her name for their own use.

They say he will build her pavilions, kneel in the street for her, and even let her participate in court affairs.

Utterly absurd!

How could he ever behave so outrageously for a woman?

Then, while touring Jiangnan, he takes a boat out on the lake.

From a distance, he sees a woman in green drifting alone across the lake on a bamboo pole. One glance is enough to stir his interest.

He asks the boatman, "Do you know who she is?"

Seeing his interest, the boatman says, "That's Wan'er, the county magistrate's daughter. She got engaged to Scholar Song a few days ago. Best not to set your heart on her, young master."

Don't set his heart on her? All under Heaven belongs to the emperor. There is nothing he wants that he cannot have!

He uses every means at his disposal to seize her, only to discover that she is the very "Tao Anran" the transmigrators were talking about.

See? They were meant to be together!

*

Tao Anran, daughter of the Jiangnan county magistrate, goes by the childhood name Wan'er. She is as beautiful as a celestial maiden, with a graceful figure.

When the new emperor selects consorts, her father has no choice but to send her to the palace. But strange omens appear on the eve of the selection, and the new emperor postpones it for a year, so she returns home.

Her father doesn't want her to enter the palace again, so he finds her a match: Scholar Song, renowned throughout the county for his talent. The two are delighted when they meet, and become engaged.

As she embroiders her wedding dress, dreaming of the future, everything is ruined by a tyrant.

He forcibly takes her into the palace, pins her against a desk, and torments her until her eyes are blurred with tears.

His voice low and hoarse, he bites her earlobe and says:

"You were meant to be my destined wife."

Reader's Guide:

1. The male lead is no good: forced possession, melodramatic fluff, and both leads are each other's first and only.

2. Both leads are natives of this world. Some supporting characters are transmigrators.

3. A hodgepodge of fictional official titles, with an amnesia trope.

Theme: A gentleman does not take what someone else loves, or force another person into anything.