My Husband Is the Male Lead of a Cliche Romance

The day Qin Su carried Fang Kening back to the Prince of Jin's residence, Wang Shan had a dream. She dreamed she was living inside a tragic romance novel full of heart-wrenching love. Fortunately, she wasn't the heroine who suffered endlessly, but the white-lotus side character cursed by countless readers. In the story, the heroine, Fang Kening, humbly admired the hero, Qin Su, and was willing to risk her life for him, accompanying him without complaint or regret. But the hero had someone else in his heart, his unattainable first love. When he learned of the heroine's feelings, he not only ordered her punished, but also overcame everyone's objections to marry his first love. After that, the heroine suffered physically and emotionally, while the hero was cold and unfeeling, never cherishing her. The heroine took a blade for him, all just to earn the position of secondary wife, while the hero took her as a concubine to humiliate her... Until one day, the heroine and his first love were both in danger, and the hero unhesitatingly chose to save his first love. The heroine's heart turned to ashes, and she jumped off a cliff without hesitation. Only then, jolted by the tremendous pain of losing the heroine, did the hero finally come to his senses. He began a long, desperate campaign to win his wife back, launching into a clichéd plot of chasing and fleeing, with her running away while pregnant. Perhaps the dream had been too real. Wang Shan even remembered Qin Su's bloodshot eyes as Fang Kening leapt, stained red as if he were a demon from hell. She caught a faint glimpse of the woman who would eventually die miserably against the palace walls, and abruptly came back to herself, just in time to meet a pair of eyes as deep as night. "Tan Niang, I have agreed to take her as my concubine." The impossibly handsome man spoke thus. "All right." Wang Shan heard herself nod and agree, just as she had in the dream. "I'm sorry, Tan Niang. I swear this will be the only time." The man's lips pressed together, and for once he spoke humbly. At his words, Wang Shan slowly raised a hand and brushed her slender fingers over his chiseled features. As he gazed at her, nearly entranced, she shook her head with regret and said softly, like a lover whispering: "My lord, let's divorce." * Later, when the new emperor ascended the throne, his first act was to execute the Li family. More than two hundred members of the Duke's household were all thrown into prison, and overnight, the great house came crashing down. At the time, Wang Shan was heavily pregnant. Amid the wails of all the women in the household, she saw a tall, austere figure. He casually wiped the blood from his fingertips and, as the surrounding Imperial Guards knelt respectfully, walked toward her step by step... * After all, they had been husband and wife for a lifetime, and Wang Shan thought she understood Qin Su somewhat. She knew he was an ambitious, deeply calculating emperor, but she had never imagined he was also a mad dog who would force a minister's wife into marriage and disregard all moral bonds.