Imprisoned Youth

[Historical ABO | Alpha/Beta | melodrama | strong Alpha, weak Omega | powerful one bows to love] [Complete] Ninth Prince Qing Ling is not the Emperor's son. That is an open secret throughout the palace. With the tangled relationship between his birth mother and the Emperor's most loyal subject, a middling gender far inferior to the powerful Alpha and Omega, a timid, dull personality, and unremarkable looks, it was only natural that life in the palace was difficult for him before he turned eighteen. Then, after an incident at the imperial hunting grounds, the kind and gentle Crown Prince brought him to the Eastern Palace, where he lavished him with fine clothes and food and protected him with tender care. Outsiders thought Qing Ling had simply gotten lucky enough to win the Crown Prince's favor. After all, even the Crown Prince's own brother had never received such affection. But only Qing Ling knew that those days and nights trapped in the Eastern Palace were the nightmare of his life. The layers of kiss marks beneath his clothes, the bite marks on the back of his neck, the scars from chains around his ankles... So, when the Eastern Palace went up in flames, he ran. – The fire at the Eastern Palace burned through the entire night, yet only two people died. One was the unremarkable and inept Ninth Prince, Shen Qing Ling, who had nonetheless earned the Emperor's favor and was about to move out of the Eastern Palace, marry, and start a family. The other was the beauty A Ling, said to be so breathtaking that she had bewitched Crown Prince Shen Chang Ji into keeping her hidden in the Eastern Palace, even defying the Emperor's decree and refusing to accept a Crown Princess. People were still lamenting that beauties were doomed to die young when, just one year later, the Crown Prince staged a coup overnight, murdered his father, and ascended the throne amid rivers of blood. After that, in stark contrast to the frenzied expansion of his territory across the war map, the Emperor's harem remained empty and desolate for three years. Until he conquered a remote little kingdom. To save his own skin, its ruler schemed to offer up the beautiful wife of a loyal subject who had just died defending the kingdom's borders. Everything changed. - “Once, all I had to do was crook a finger, and the little fool would gladly cut out his whole heart and offer it to me. But later, he wept helplessly in my palm, pleading with me over and over: ‘Spare my husband.’” [Timid beauty × beast in fine clothes] 1. Historical ABO, wall-to-wall melodrama, love and hatred tangled together, powerful Alpha and weak Omega. The Omega is very, very, very weak but irresistible to everyone; the Alpha is very, very, very unhinged but loves only him. This is important. 2. The Omega is not of royal blood and is not related to the Alpha in the slightest. Everyone in the realm knows he is not the Emperor's son, and he is not listed in the imperial genealogy. Please note. 3. After escaping, the Omega marries someone else and lives happily, even carrying that man's child. Please note this too. [The main story is 300,000 Chinese characters. It costs only 7.4 RMB, just a few yuan more than a pirated, typo-riddled bundle. You can read it all day, and the author, who writes on the side and has to type nonstop for two months, can be happy all day too. After the official version is complete, there will also be bonus chapters exclusive to legitimate readers, as well as additional commentary content that pirated copies cannot steal. Little angels, please support the official release!] P.S. The story has been clearly labeled melodramatic, so enter with caution. P.P.S. To ensure the story's quality, I won't switch to paid chapters until I'm nearly at the fake-death escape. P.P.P.S. Comments personally attacking the author or other readers will be deleted. P.P.P.P.S. I never consider prose style when writing. Readers who care about prose should read with caution. P.P.P.P.P.S. Pirated readers who come back just to buy the bonus chapters are not welcome to comment. Those comments will be deleted. >>> Coming soon | Historical ABO | younger brother inherits elder brother's wife | Alpha top, Omega bottom | pregnancy The Crown Princess –After his elder brother dies, the beautiful and frail widow he leaves behind The first thing Xiao Jing Rong did after ascending the throne was order his trusted aide to go to the tomb of Crown Prince Zhao De and bring back his sister-in-law, the former Crown Princess Shen Qing Yin, who had been keeping watch over his elder brother's grave. Years ago, while he was fighting enemies on the border, he received the news with blood still on his hands: his elder brother, who had always been a model of filial piety, had tried to rebel and seize the throne, and their father had sentenced him to death by imperial decree. He could hardly believe it. Later, he fought his way back to the capital and took the throne through a combination of ruthless tactics and the support of his elder brother's former followers. At last, he obtained the letter his brother had left him before dying. The letter contained only two requests: First, become a wise ruler and protect the people. Second, find a good match for the Crown Princess, his sister-in-law, whom he had married less than six months ago. Xiao Jing Rong had always admired his elder brother. In this life, the only time he had disobeyed him was when he secretly fled to the border to fight rather than go through with the marriage arranged for him. Otherwise, he had always done as his brother wished. How much more so when it was his late brother's dying wish? Just as Xiao Jing Rong was about to grant the Empress Dowager's request and find his sister-in-law the finest, most powerful Alpha in the capital, he followed the soft, gauzy sound of weeping and saw a slender, hazy figure trembling beside the Empress Dowager. The woman was the one he had once been promised to, and was now the widow his late brother had left behind. The new Emperor's Adam's apple bobbed discreetly. A thought suddenly came to him: in the capital as it stood now, who could possibly outrank him? – At first: “My brother is gone. I'm only fulfilling his duty on his behalf. Don't read too much into it, Sister-in-law.” In the end: “If my brother could have you, why can't I? Besides... “You were mine from the very beginning!” [Gentle beauty × brooding Emperor] ● Historical ABO, melodrama, Alpha top and Omega bottom, the classic younger brother inheriting his elder brother's wife. If that's not your thing, please don't force yourself to read it TvT ● The younger and elder brothers are twins, identical in appearance and even in their pheromones. At first, the younger brother uses his own pheromones to pretend to be his elder brother and trick his sister-in-law into kissing him. Later, he bitterly resents sharing his brother's pheromones because it makes her treat him like his brother's replacement. ● The Omega was originally engaged to the younger brother, but he hated the arranged marriage and secretly fled to the border to fight. The marriage was then changed to his elder brother's, and the Omega and the elder brother fell in love after marrying. Sadly, the elder brother died too soon. Even after the Omega later gets together with the younger brother, there will always be a place in his heart for the elder brother. You get the idea: the younger brother will often go berserk over it, while loving his wife to pieces and cursing himself for being so stupid back then that he gave his beautiful wife to his brother ^^ Theme: Pursue freedom and pursue love.