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The youngest legitimate daughter of the prominent Zhong family of Luoyang, Yao Yao, was born under an ill-starred fate. Barely fifteen, she was diagnosed with an incurable illness.
Poor thing. After spending all these years meekly following the rules, all she wanted now was to indulge herself and be with the handsome monk at the temple.
Who could have known he would be a high monk, cold in both appearance and heart, having seen through the ways of the world and devoted to the Dao?
No matter how far Yao Yao was willing to go, she couldn't move him.
Everyone who knew the story said Yao Yao had gone mad, that she loved the monk with all her heart and made herself as lowly as dust.
Even the monk believed it, looking down on her with contempt.
So when Yao Yao, heartbroken, said goodbye to him, he only recited his Buddhist scriptures without so much as a flicker of emotion.
He didn't even raise his eyes.
She was shameless and worthless. It made no difference if she left.
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Three days passed without a glimpse of her familiar figure, and at last the monk could no longer contain his unease. He went down the mountain.
For the first time in his life, he secretly watched someone in a less than honorable way. He saw Yao Yao speaking intimately with the man beside her, who looked somewhat like him.
He followed them all the way to the Zhong residence, where he heard, "The legitimate young lady has loved that young master since childhood. Now that she's recovered, they can finally be together."
The monk's eyes turned bloodshot, and he ground his back teeth to dust...
*
The land fell into turmoil, and a new emperor ascended the throne. Yao Yao never saw the monk from the temple again.
Until the night before her wedding, when that man, his face dark with anger, tore apart the bridal robe she had worn for her fiance.
He forcibly imprisoned her in the palace and made her empress...
He would make that heartless woman pay, bit by bit, for how she had treated him back then.
1. One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins
2. No stand-in, and she never loved her fiance
3. This may not be a very successful groveling romance
4. The title may change
Theme: Live in the moment and cherish the people before you
