Gu Wanwan was born beautiful and pampered, envied and resented by all the noble young ladies of the capital.
Unfortunately, she married an unfaithful man and ended up dying alone, her reputation and influence gone with her.
After living a second life, Gu Wanwan fixed her sights on her maternal uncle, a man of elegant bearing and immense power, with whom she had once shared a night of passion in her previous life.
Unfortunately, he was brutal, bad-tempered, and believed women were good for nothing.
Gu Wanwan thought it over and decided to forget it. She would find someone else.
But after one failed matchmaking arrangement after another,
Gu Wanwan discovered that the men she had met either fell off their horses and broke their legs, suddenly got into legal trouble and had their entire families exiled, or abruptly married someone else.
Before long, no one dared marry Gu Wanwan, and she was branded a woman whose fate doomed her husbands.
In the end, Gu Wanwan decided to give up on marriage. Rather than look for a man, she would enjoy being a commandery princess and keep a few handsome companions in the future.
But as soon as she let this idea slip, her maternal uncle, who loathed women, came looking for her.
On a dark, windy night, he cornered her with a seductive look in his eyes and said,
"Unless I'm mistaken, you were the one who pushed me down in that secret room in our previous life. What, you don't plan to take responsibility?" He stepped closer.
Gu Wanwan looked at him in alarm. "...Is forcing a man a crime in the Great Ning Dynasty?"
"It's not a crime, but I can have your whole family exiled and beheaded!"
Gu Wanwan: "Then I'll take responsibility! I will!"
"How?"
"Come here!" The man beckoned with a finger.
When Gu Jinjin was six, her father brought home a child and said he was the son he'd had with a concubine years ago.
Gu Jinjin disliked him. She thought his mother had stolen her own mother's affection, and treated him with disdain every day.
But this older brother was always patient and considerate toward her, yielding to her at every turn as though they were full siblings.
Gu Jinjin thought that being nice to her wouldn't change anything. She would never accept him.
Gu Jinjin kept a grudge against her brother until one day, Gu Xiao was taken away by palace attendants and identified as the missing prince who had disappeared from the palace.
Gu Jinjin was stunned.
Gu Xiao asked if she wanted to go to the palace with him.
Gu Jinjin thought, "If I can be a princess, then sure."
But when Gu Jinjin finally entered the palace, things weren't what she had imagined. Her imperial brother gave her the title of princess, but then he reached out to her as well.
Late at night, he grabbed her wrist and said,
"If you're tired of being a princess, you can be empress. A princess has to marry out of the palace, but as empress, you'll always be its mistress.
You'll eat, drink, and have fun, eat good food, wear fine clothes, and your only duties will be to dine with me, sleep with me, and give me sons."
Gu Jinjin thought the rest sounded fine, but sleep with him and have his children?
Gu Jinjin: "I won't..."
Gu Xiao: "Fine. I'll marry you off to the Marquis of Wei's son. He's crippled in both legs and can barely get around."
Gu Jinjin: "Then... fine." (Weeping uncontrollably.)
Please add my new novel, "The Tyrant Insists I Become His Empress," to your reading list.
1. A sweet romance from beginning to end.
2. Everything is fictional, including the settings and titles.
3. Six chapters a day after it goes VIP.
Theme: Cherish what you have and strive to stand on your own.
I wanted to follow the story after reading the introduction, but there were too many typos and I really couldn't get into the story.
Who is the protagonist between the copywriter Gu Wanwan and Gu Jinjin?
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