Luring Her into Marriage

Next up: The First Year as a Consort, a “chasing your wife to the crematorium” story.

Jiang Yuan is the legitimate daughter of the Minister of Personnel. Her beauty is said to outshine all others, and her family dotes on her. Unfortunately, after a serious illness in childhood, she became slow-witted and naive.

Perhaps Heaven took pity on her and arranged a good marriage: the Crown Prince had been fond of her since they were children, and the two families had agreed to a betrothal long ago.

But then the capital was thrown into chaos. Prince Jin raised an army in rebellion and seized the throne, bringing down the former Crown Prince. The Minister of Personnel’s family was implicated, and they had no choice but to leave their daughter, Jiang Yuan, in the palace as a hostage.

Prince Jin was said to be cruel and ruthless. Everyone thought Jiang Yuan would not last long in the palace, where people devoured one another alive. After all, she knew nothing of the world. No matter how beautiful she was, she could never withstand the schemes of the inner palace or the whims of an unpredictable ruler.

Yet no one expected her not only to find her footing, but also to be the one person who brought that cold, ruthless Prince Jin to his knees.

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Xiao Jin had spent half his life weathering one upheaval after another. Raised amid plots and schemes, he had become perverse and coldhearted, and never believed in love.

He had always looked down on the foolish Jiang Yuan.

To him, she was lowborn and stupid, and, worse, the woman of his incompetent imperial elder brother.

At first, he kept her in the palace by force only to control the Minister of Personnel’s family and the former Crown Prince’s faction. To him, she was nothing but a pawn to be used.

Later, Xiao Jin realized that everyone else avoided him like the plague, while Jiang Yuan alone was sweet and obedient. She would sidle up to him in a soft, gentle voice, take his cold hand of her own accord, and smile at him without reserve.

At first, he found it ridiculous. He assumed she was simply naive and ignorant.

But as time went on, he found himself addicted to her, and his obsession grew unchecked.

In the end, all he wanted was to lock the innocent, guileless girl firmly at his side and cut off every path of escape.

To possess her alone for life, and never let go until death.

A mad, ruthless usurping emperor vs. a pure-hearted, foolish beauty

#Almost-sisters-in-law #Captive-indulgence #Pawn-to-beloved #Ruthless-possession

Coming soon: The First Year as a Consort

Synopsis

Shen Zhiyi and Xie Zhao were childhood sweethearts who loved each other for more than three thousand days.

She stayed by his side as he rose from obscurity to claim the throne. She was a refined noblewoman, and he was an ambitious, spirited emperor.

Almost everyone thought she would naturally become empress.

But after the coronation ceremony, Xie Zhao turned around and made a general’s daughter empress instead.

Eyes red, Shen Zhiyi clutched the imperial decree appointing the empress and stood before Xie Zhao to demand an explanation. He stroked her head and gently reassured her.

He said the court was unstable, and the general’s daughter was the best choice for empress.

Remembering their loving moments together, she believed he must have his reasons.

She could only wipe away her tears and endure it.

In the fourth year of the Great Jin dynasty, Shen Zhiyi risked her life to give birth to a prince.

Xie Zhao coldly took the child away and handed him over to the empress to raise.

He said that to keep the harem balanced, the child she bore had to be registered as the empress’s son.

Shen Zhiyi cried and begged, she even made a scene, but all she got in return was the man’s reply: “The greater good must come first.”

After that, she became meek and accommodating, yielding at every turn. All she hoped was that the empress would take good care of the child because she had been obedient.

But the baby in the swaddling clothes never opened his eyes again. Holding his tiny, lifeless body, Shen Zhiyi was cold with despair.

At the memorial, the empress leaned against Xie Zhao and claimed innocently that she had nothing to do with the child’s death.

Xie Zhao believed her without hesitation, calmly comforting Shen Zhiyi. “The empress is virtuous and gentle. She would never do such a thing. Besides, infant deaths are not uncommon. We’ll have other children in the future.”

In that moment, Shen Zhiyi finally saw the truth:

Their love had always been one-sided.

The Third Prince, Xie Zhao, had spent years lying low in the palace. The throne was all he had ever wanted.

When he married Shen Zhiyi, a noblewoman, it was a brilliant move on the board. In his eyes, she was gentle and devoted, a wife beyond reproach.

Later, he finally became emperor as he had always wished. To steady the turbulent court, he made a general’s daughter empress.

Xie Zhao was certain Shen Zhiyi loved him deeply. No matter what choices he made, she would understand his actions because she knew how to put the bigger picture first.

He could always make it up to her once the court was stable.

But before he could put his plans into action, a sudden fire swept through the palace halls and took Shen Zhiyi’s life.

Everyone watched the emperor kneel amid the ruins, clutching the charred body and refusing to let go as two streams of hot tears silently rolled down his face.

From then on, the vast empire was his for the taking.

But the woman he had taken for granted, believing she would never leave, would never come back.

Reader information

1. The synopsis was written on July 1 and has been screenshotted and archived.

2. Both leads are sexually inexperienced.

3. The heroine is not truly stupid. She is simply very innocent, slow to think things through, and easily fooled: a foolish beauty.

Theme: Lovers are destined to end up together