The Ex I Used and Dumped Has Ascended the Throne

[I tortured the tyrant a thousand times, but he treats me like his first love!]

The fourth prince, once exiled to the northern frontier, staged a stunning comeback. Leading his troops to force their way into the palace under the pretext of purging the emperor's corrupt advisers, he ascended the throne.

He slaughtered all his old enemies. On the day his former fiancee was to be married, he surrounded the entire Lu household with troops and imprisoned the Lu heir, Lu Changqing.

The new emperor held a bloodstained sword and strode toward the woman in a vivid red wedding gown. He lifted her gold-embroidered red veil with the blade and looked at her bright, familiar, exquisite face. His eyes were dark with amusement. "If you want to save him, then come beg me."

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Chu Yuluan knew the new emperor hated her.

Everyone thought Chu Yuluan would fall from the clouds into the dust.

After all, she had been the one who started a romance with the new emperor, then abandoned him.

Who could have guessed that he would seize her and bring her into the palace, giving her the position of a bedchamber attendant so she could serve him day and night...

The following year, the birth of the crown prince silenced the ministers' endless complaints.

In the third year, she bore him another son, and Chu Yuluan was made empress.

Many years later, watching several children playing in the garden, Chu Yuluan sighed softly. They had agreed she could leave after giving him one child. Why was she still trapped in the palace...?

1. Monogamous couple, happy ending.

2. Somewhat melodramatic, somewhat unhinged.

3. The leads have only two children; the rest belong to other people.

Next up: "The Beauty Offered as a Tribute"

[The untouchable beauty brought down from her pedestal, a general's daily face-slapping, marriage before love]

[Synopsis]

Beneath the bright glow of the wedding candles, Wei Ci heard a man's cool, resonant voice through a layer of gold-embroidered gauze.

"I never intended to marry you, but the emperor arranged this match. When the three-year term is over, you may leave of your own accord."

On her wedding night, Wei Ci was married off from the capital to Xizhou, never even seeing her husband's face before being left alone in the bridal chamber.

She didn't care.

In her previous life, she had defied the imperial edict to honor her original engagement, but Fu Heng never wanted her. The woman he loved was someone else. She waited for nearly half her life, only to die with regrets.

This time, she chose a different path.

Fu Heng wanted her sent far away to Xizhou, so she really did marry and go there.

It wasn't that she was obedient or willing to serve as Fu Heng's spy.

Wei Ci knew that in a few years, Xizhou's undefeated Marquis, Xie Nanzhou, would become the true ruler of the land.

If she couldn't have true love, then at least she could protect her life.

In the blazing heat of summer, with lotus leaves stretching as far as the eye could see, Wei Ci passed a lotus pond and happened upon a man emerging from the water, bare-chested. He had a handsome face, but he was so cold and aloof that he seemed like a statue entombed in ice.

The man's tone was hostile. "What a scheme. You really have exhausted every trick just to get close to me."

Wei Ci: "..." What? She had only come to cool off.

The wife neglected by the undefeated Marquis nevertheless became much sought after thanks to her cooking.

Young men from distinguished families often came by to ask, "When will the marquis's wife get divorced?"

In response, Xie Nanzhou stationed more than a thousand guards outside his residence. "Unmarried men are not allowed in!"

As the three-year term drew to a close and Xie Nanzhou had conquered most of the realm, Wei Ci decided she could pack her things and go enjoy her freedom.

But the cold, heartless God of War cut off every escape route.

"Leave? I'm about to conquer the whole realm. Where do you think you can go?"

Wei Ci: "..."

Much later, the new emperor, who was so abstinent he had no interest in beauty, also lived up to the saying, "The emperor no longer attends court at dawn."

[Reading Guide]

1. Monogamous couple, happy ending (the hero has many concubines, all gifts from others).

2. The hero is an untouchable beauty, cold and unreasonable at first, but later he falls hard.

3. The former fiance chases after her and gets burned. He gets dumped, no second chances.

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