Bend the Knee

After Fu Qingting returned home, his father forced him to marry his stepmother’s niece. He was deeply unwilling, but for the sake of the greater good, he had no choice but to obey his father’s wishes.

He got engaged to Yingzhou, planning to buy his freedom and make a name for himself in the turbulent times, then break off the engagement once he had secured his position. But things gradually slipped out of his control, and he thought: Maybe I don’t have to break off this engagement after all...***

Western-educated Fu Qingting had always looked down on the tales of rulers lighting beacon fires to amuse a beauty, or a man flying into a rage for the sake of one. He never imagined that one day he would follow in the footsteps of those absurd kings, bending to a beauty and doing, one by one, all the things he had once found unthinkable.

A quirky, progressive young lady * A cool, scheming commander who looks like a pretty-faced scholar but is actually highly skilled in martial arts

This story only borrows the trappings of the Republic of China era. It is otherwise fictional, very fictional, extremely fictional...

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Xianhe could no longer endure the insults and humiliation heaped on her by her father’s concubine and half-sister, so she followed her older brother to the battlefield. But just before the realm was unified, her brother was murdered, and she became the new emperor Jiang Rui’s prisoner, confined to his palace and made to wait for him to come each night and use her for pleasure.

She tried to poison Jiang Rui to escape her prison, but he saw through her plan, subjecting her to every kind of humiliation and torment.

Reborn, she resolves to leave the past behind and stop running away. She will restore her mother’s family, protect her brother, and carve out a new world for herself.

She battles her stepmother, her half-sister, and everyone who ever plotted against her, enjoying every moment of it, until she discovers that Jiang Rui, the tyrant who loved and hated her in her previous life, has also been reborn...

He still won’t give up, always trying to drag Xianhe into bed. All she can do is keep her head down and tread carefully...