Complete
Blurb ↓
Before her death, the empress dowager who had ruled the harem told Rong Qing that if she wanted to be the one who laughed last among the emperor's three thousand beauties, she had to stay true to herself and never fall in love with the emperor, while also making sure he never found out she did not love him.
In the end, Rong Qing managed only the first half.
Emperor Heng was determined to be a conscientious ruler who governed diligently. Every day, he reminded himself never to lose himself in beauty.
The empress, meanwhile, was stunningly beautiful, alluring and bewitching, a calamity in human form. Emperor Heng kept his distance from her.
Later:
Emperor Heng, resting his chin on his hand: Why hasn't the empress come to tempt me yet?
They once had a love as vivid as a blazing flame. Gradually, its color faded.
[Highlight: The male lead is a bastard, an absolute bastard]
[Content warnings]
1. They are not emperor and empress from the start. The heroine has to go through some things before she understands what it truly means to be a worthy empress.
2. A self-important emperor x a proud empress.
A story about two people who refuse to yield to each other.
3. The male lead is a real emperor with a full harem. Naturally, he later devotes himself exclusively to one woman. The leads are each other's first, but that does not change the fact that he is no paragon of virtue. If that bothers you, do not read.
4. The heroine becomes very levelheaded after she is made empress.
Read the content warnings first to help create a pleasant environment for everyone. If you're happy, I'm happy, and everyone's happy.
[Reader's note]
Most of this novel's setting draws on the Tang and Song dynasties, but the story takes place in a fictional world, with plenty of invented details and major differences from history. Reasonable historical research is welcome, and we can all learn together, but please don't attack the author or other readers~
--
My other novel, My Brother's Wife, is currently updating! Please add it to your library!
[Younger brother steals elder brother's wife + second male lead takes the lead + a battlefield of competing men + fighting, grabbing, and taking it all]
Jiang Yanhe had been sensible and sweet-tempered since childhood. She never fought for anything, yet her father and brothers showed their affection to others, leaving her the one who was always forgotten.
At the lantern festival poetry gathering, someone framed her, leaving her soaked through with cold water. At her most wretched moment, Pei Rong, the eldest son of the Prince of Liang's household, covered her with a heavy cloak and came to her rescue.
So when the prince's household sent a marriage contract and asked for her hand, Jiang Yanhe happily accepted.
Only after marrying into the family did she learn that Pei Rong already loved someone else. He had married her only because he wanted his new bride to move in quickly, so he could take his beloved as a concubine and give the child she was carrying a legitimate status.
Jiang Yanhe thought this was simply how she would spend the rest of her life, until, six months after the wedding, the second young master, who had been away from home for a long time, returned to the residence...
·
The eldest son and daughter-in-law of the Prince of Liang's household lived in perfect harmony and treated each other with mutual respect. They were held up in the capital as a model married couple.
Pei Rong had always believed that too.
His wife was beautiful, virtuous, and gentle, and always held him foremost in her heart.
So he thought that even if he did not love her, he could still give her the greatest honor and affection.
Even when his wife asked for a divorce, he assumed she simply could not bear his favoritism.
Until one day, he saw Jiang Yanhe run out of his younger brother's bamboo hut, eyes red and clothes disheveled.
Deep in the bamboo grove, Pei Rong clenched his fist and snapped the green bamboo in his palm.
·
Pei Jian had only ever fallen in love with one woman in his life.
That woman was his sister-in-law.
He had never competed with his elder brother before, but for the first time in his life, he was consumed by a reckless thought.
--He would take her from him and make her his wife.
--Even if he had to hide her away.
1. A melodramatic love triangle, female lead is not a virgin, male lead is a virgin.
2. By the time the romance between the leads begins, the heroine and the second male lead are already divorced.
3. Both the male lead and the second male lead have varying degrees of obsessive, gloomy, and twisted tendencies.
4. All the characters have flaws. If you don't like them, please don't come after me.
Theme: Knowing what to do, and what not to do.
I read it all night long. Very excellent realistic text written by Xiang Di and Hou. The author's emotional shaping is really good, and he portrays the hearts of the male and female protagonists very deeply. The crematorium part is quite good. Then the comment section was debunked by false claims. It was obvious that the male protagonist married two women from two ally families during the five years they were separated. After becoming the emperor, the male protagonist did not go to the harem. How come the male and female protagonists become emperors and the male protagonist opens up a wide harem? There are only 4 people in the harem including the heroine...
Good guy, the male protagonist wanted the position of emperor for the female protagonist, then turned around and married someone else, and even slept with the two of them. This kind of love is really cheap. To be honest, the motivation that kept me reading was the author's writing style and the fact that the heroine didn't forgive me until the end (but in this chapter, the heroine's attitude seemed to loosen up, which made me a little emmm). I seemed to dislike the hero in every chapter...
I can't knock it, and I don't feel any pleasure. The male protagonist can even tolerate ministers and concubines who harm the female protagonist. The article said that in reality, there are no bright spots.
Alas, the heroine is so miserable, the evil feudal society.
The ending is a bit disappointing
The prince should be the princess in the end www
It's so funny to say it. Jinkoukou, Mingkoukou, Tiankoukou. What on earth is this blocking?
Let your daughter be the emperor in the end
I've finished reading it, and now I've come across this beautiful novel. To be honest, there are too many hydrology in Jinjiang nowadays, which is eye-catching, the writing is online, and there are fewer and fewer novels without OOC characters. The author writes great!! I regret that I only saw qaq now
According to this version, the second half of the text is Li Ji's dream... When he came back, he found that she was still dead.