The Wife I Picked Up Ascended the Throne

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One day, Jing Congxi transmigrates and becomes a hunter in the Great Wei dynasty.

Her parents are dead, she owns no land, and she likes to drink and gamble. Her family is so poor that the cupboards are bare. One day, a matchmaker comes to propose a marriage.

A maid from Master Meng’s household is to be sold to a brothel for stealing from her master.

But Jing Congxi can have her for just fifty coins and gain a pretty wife.

Jing Congxi grits her teeth and agrees.

But she never expected that this so-called “pretty” wife,

though beautiful, would have had her leg broken.

But she’s already married her... She can’t exactly send her back.

With no other choice, on their wedding night she tells the woman, “Let’s just make the best of it. Neither of us should complain about the other.”

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As the legitimate daughter of the Crown Prince of the Great Wei dynasty, Zhao Huarong was born into power and glory.

She lived in the most magnificent palace, attended by servants and maids, but even the rarest delicacies and finest treasures could not stir her interest.

Then her father rebelled and was defeated. The emperor flew into a rage, and the entire Eastern Palace was slaughtered.

Her little brother vanished, and she was poisoned, her life hanging by a thread.

In this desperate situation, a young man entered her life.

To be precise, the other person wasn’t a young man.

She was a woman.

She was afraid of dying, yet she treated Zhao Huarong’s leg and wounds and looked after her every need with the utmost care.

It seemed she really did think of Zhao Huarong as her wife.

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To support her wife, Jing Congxi has no choice but to enlist.

With the realm in chaos, she quickly rises through the military ranks.

After defeating the Northern Barbarians, she accompanies the commander to the palace to receive a reward.

Word has it that Zhao Huarong, the regent princess, is peerlessly beautiful and dazzling.

Some say she is wildly ambitious and that the emperor is merely her puppet. Others call her cold and ruthless, and say she’ll kill the emperor and take the throne for herself sooner or later.

Jing Congxi narrows her eyes and gazes at the woman from afar.

On the palace hall, the woman wears a luxurious purple robe embroidered with phoenixes.

One glance is enough to command awe. She carries the majesty of the imperial house as naturally as breathing.

But that face looks strangely familiar

Wait!

Why does she look so much like my wife?

P.S. Many thanks to O Pao Juice for the adorable cover~

Theme: True love never dies