After Dumping Three Exes, I Became the Empress Dowager

Zhao Qingyi once had three romantic entanglements:

The promising young General Ye, to whom she had been betrothed since childhood;

The gifted young man Fu, who saved her life when she fell on hard times;

And Prince Rui, the emperor's leading potential heir and her childhood sweetheart.

But when the Ye family was convicted of treason, Zhao Qingyi broke off her engagement.

When guards came to take her to the Fu family, Zhao Qingyi left.

After the emperor's son began to suppress Prince Rui, Zhao Qingyi married the emperor...

Then the emperor died, leaving Zhao Qingyi with a helpless infant.

Zhao Qingyi had planned to rule from behind the curtain, raise her stepson well, and enjoy a peaceful old age.

But she discovered that the young General Ye, whose engagement she had broken, had returned covered in blood and become a marshal commanding a mighty army.

The young man Fu, whose kindness she had repaid with ingratitude, had come first in the imperial exams and risen to become a powerful chief minister.

And Prince Rui, whom she had abandoned, had risen from adversity to become the mighty regent.

Every one of them was someone she and her stepson would have to watch their step around.

Zhao Qingyi: ...I'm doomed, I'm doomed!

P.S. This is a fluffy romance, a fluffy romance, a fluffy romance... I'll say it ten thousand times!

There will be a love rivalry, but the heroine will absolutely be doted on!

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Xu Mingyan, a concubine-born daughter of the Xu family, had always been dutiful, obedient, and cautious.

But her stepmother was unkind, and her legitimate elder sister bullied her.

The one time she dared to step out of line,

she had no choice but to seduce a young master who was staying at a mountain temple to study in peace.

She heard that the young master was a concubine-born son of the Duke of Enguo, the empress's maternal family.

His birth mother was favored, his stepmother was kind, and he was handsome, well-read, and indifferent to women... He was the perfect husband material.

After meeting him, Mingyan was even more pleased.

She played the victim, acted sweet and obedient... Mingyan tried every trick in the book, and finally won her beloved's favor.

But... one day, Mingyan was caught meeting her lover under the moonlight.

She was smugly preparing to reveal his identity and ask her family to approve their relationship,

when she saw her usually stern father recognize her lover's face.

His knees hit the ground with a thud, and he called out in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty!"

Trembling, Mingyan tried to deny everything. "He and I really have nothing to do with each other!"

The ruler of the realm, who had been seduced and then abandoned: "...Woman, you've caught my attention. Do you really think you can escape?"

Much later, the beloved Imperial Noble Consort Mingyan rubbed her aching waist and regretted everything!

Theme: Choosing between emotion and reason