[Complete. Please add the upcoming book The Crown Prince and the Imperial Consort to your reading list. Blurb at the end.]
Ambitious Empress Dowager x wolfish, devoted loyalist. Strong leads.
What's it like to become an empress dowager at a young age?
Zheng Jiahe: Thanks for asking. Naturally, I get to recline in the arms of beauties, rule the realm when I wake, and inherit my late husband's younger brother and throne while I'm at it.
-- The serious blurb follows --
The Crown Prince is getting married, and Prince Qin Yang Bian stands in for his elder brother at the wedding procession, personally escorting the woman he's long cherished to the Eastern Palace.
Later, the throne changes hands and a new emperor is crowned. Yang Bian watches her ascend to the empress's throne, resplendent and dignified, then turns to the new emperor to request leave to depart the capital. He heads to the border and does not return for three years.
Yang Bian thinks he'll spend the rest of his life making do among the yellow earth and blowing sands. But he never expected his imperial brother to die so young.
Bearing the late emperor's secret edict, Yang Bian is ordered back to the capital. Seeing the young empress dowager, composed and graceful, seated above, he kneels, sweeping his robe aside.
Imperial brother, I'm afraid I have no choice but to betray you.
[Little scene]
Zheng Jiahe is reminiscing with her maid.
"What about Prince Qin?" the maid asks.
"Him?" Zheng Jiahe lazily raises her eyes. "With his background and experience, does he seem easy to control? I never intended to keep him around for long. He was just something new."
The door creaks open. Zheng Jiahe looks up and sees Yang Bian standing there, staring at her coldly.
1. The heroine has had no other partners; the young emperor is not her biological child.
2. The heroine is a bit of a scoundrel, and the hero isn't an innocent flower either. The heroine takes the path to becoming an empress in her own right.
3. Yang Bian (pronounced like "bian").
4. The leads are the same age and childhood friends.
Written 2019.11.26
Revised 2020.5.4
Upcoming: The Crown Prince and the Imperial Consort
Eunuchs hold power, and the old emperor is incompetent, lecherous, and amorous.
Sixteen-year-old Yan Zhi is selected for the imperial harem. Graceful and alluring, she captivates the old emperor and becomes the recipient of his boundless favor.
But Yan Zhi knows that once the old emperor dies, she will be buried alive alongside the other consorts without children.
Yan Zhi doesn't want to be buried alive. To escape her fate, she sets her sights on the adopted son of the most powerful eunuch in the empire, a young eunuch.
"When the time comes, give me a cup of poisoned wine so I can die without suffering, all right?"
She tugs at the young eunuch's sleeve, her beautiful eyes brimming with tears, looking as fragile as a pear blossom in the rain.
He won't be able to bear letting her die. He has the power to save her.
On the day the old emperor dies, the eunuch keeps his promise and hands her a cup of cloudy wine.
Yan Zhi makes sure it isn't poisoned, then drinks it without concern.
When she wakes again, she discovers that she really has been saved.
The young eunuch has changed into imperial robes and sits beside her bed. His phoenix eyes sweep over her.
"Did you enjoy scheming against me, Grandmother?"
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Theme: Hold the power to pursue happiness in your own hands.
A very, very good novel! I don't understand why it's so cold QAQ
How could the story of the heroine killing her husband, becoming the Queen Mother, taking charge of the government affairs, and finally becoming the Empress to directly change the dynasty, and having sex with her brother-in-law so cold? Don't understand! The design of the heroine is very good, and the step-by-step transformation is traceable! My family won't lose money if they invest in shares, come and take a look
I feel like it would be great if this article could be filmed. The intention is to have the courage to break the old system.
Help, I want to see a sweet marriage, oh oh oh oh
Wei Zhen is really a proper house-husband type male protagonist
Handsome! Say the harshest words in a gentle tone
Very nice! ! ! Female emperor, female general, female prince, female prime minister! Awesome! Don't think about Tiantiantian! ! Just write! ! Ball you~
Wow, so where are the emperor's grandson and the concubine that the author wrote in big letters? Can't find it in the column
Wei Zhen deserves to be sweet!
Although I chose him after weighing the pros and cons, I still chose him!
Alas, in fact, the male protagonist cares too much about the country. Doesn't it matter whether the world belongs to the Wei Dynasty? The clans are fighting over each other, but it is the common people who suffer. The male protagonist has fought so many wars and seen so many wives and children. Don't you understand?
Dressed as the Founding Empress, Her Mother
After Robbing a Husband
Madam Is so Charming
The Assassin and Her Tyrant
The Crown Prince Goes Mad Every Night
The Late Emperor Wants to Reconcile with Me
The Cannon Fodder Little Wolf I Raised Turned the Tables
Big Sister GL
Reborn Alongside the Enemy Crown Prince
My Betrothed Is a Tyrant
The Bandit Queen
A very, very good novel! I don't understand why it's so cold QAQ How could the story of the heroine killing her husband, becoming the Queen Mother, taking charge of the government affairs, and finally becoming the Empress to directly change the dynasty, and having sex with her brother-in-law so cold? Don't understand! The design of the heroine is very good, and the step-by-step transformation is traceable! My family won't lose money if they invest in shares, come and take a look
I feel like it would be great if this article could be filmed. The intention is to have the courage to break the old system.
Help, I want to see a sweet marriage, oh oh oh oh
Wei Zhen is really a proper house-husband type male protagonist
Handsome! Say the harshest words in a gentle tone
Very nice! ! ! Female emperor, female general, female prince, female prime minister! Awesome! Don't think about Tiantiantian! ! Just write! ! Ball you~
Wow, so where are the emperor's grandson and the concubine that the author wrote in big letters? Can't find it in the column
Wei Zhen deserves to be sweet!
Although I chose him after weighing the pros and cons, I still chose him!
Alas, in fact, the male protagonist cares too much about the country. Doesn't it matter whether the world belongs to the Wei Dynasty? The clans are fighting over each other, but it is the common people who suffer. The male protagonist has fought so many wars and seen so many wives and children. Don't you understand?