The Widowed Woman Was Seized by the Regent

After the mourning period ended, Lin Yi returned to her family home in Jianjing with her son and daughter, planning to stay for a few months.

The times were turbulent, and her family was plotting to save her elder brother's position and keep the clan safe through a marriage alliance.

As a daughter of the Lin family, Lin Yi was deeply worried about her loved ones' safety and the family's future. Little did she know that she herself would become the most important piece in their scheme.

The old emperor died suddenly, and foreign powers watched hungrily from the sidelines. Yin Cangbei, the hot-tempered brute with a fearsome reputation among the court officials, became regent, wielding immense power and commanding everyone's obedience.

To curry favor with the young regent, Jianjing's great families went to extraordinary lengths, sending him rare treasures, gold, silver, fine jade, fertile fields, and land in one lavish wave after another.

Of them all, the Lin family was the most eager to please. Smiling, the family patriarch offered his daughter to the regent, claiming that no woman in the world could match her beauty.

Yin Cangbei merely raised an eyebrow and scoffed.

But one day, while hunting at Xishan, he happened upon the Lin family's womenfolk out enjoying the spring scenery. One of them had a face like peach blossoms. One glance and one smile were enough to stop Yin Cangbei in his tracks, where he remained for a long time.

Turning to his subordinate, he ordered, "That old Lin's words weren't false. Since the Lin girl has been offered to me, take her back to the residence."

Then he pointed from afar. Lin Yi, who had been chatting warmly with her nieces, was "invited" into the regent's residence.

Blurb subject to change. A beautiful, resilient heroine and a domineering, forceful hero.

The heroine is older than the hero. She has no romantic past, while he does.

Note from 2026.6.26.

Theme: Believe in yourself. You can prevail even in adversity!