The Concubine's Consort Rose to Power

◎ Blurb for The Concubine He Raised Takes the Throne:

Chang Rao is the daughter of Pingjiang's richest family. She is fabulously wealthy and stunningly beautiful, with countless young men pining for her. Yet she married the useless, good-for-nothing heir of the Marquis of Wu'an.

Everyone laughed at her for having terrible taste.

Chang Rao clapped her hands and cast a pitying glance at the ignorant onlookers.

Once her father-in-law is dead and her useless husband is worn down, she'll have both wealth and power, and can live in peace and comfort. Why would she need a man?

Not long afterward, while she was burning incense at a temple, a handsome young man with bright eyes and white teeth peeked out from the guest quarters and asked with a smile, “Madam, would you take me as your kept man?”

Under the blazing sun, she gazed at his gleaming little tiger teeth and, as if bewitched, lost her head.

On the way back, the young man smiled shyly. “If I become yours, then I'm yours. Please be kind to me from now on, Madam.”

Chang Rao felt her head spin even more.

She never expected that her kept man was a liar.

She treated him to good food and drink for half a year, but after she neglected him for a while, he couldn't stand the loneliness and ran off with her money.

Chang Rao shook her head, thinking she'd simply lost an ungrateful little wolf she couldn't tame.

Later, the Tiger Might Battalion was stationed in Pingjiang.

The newly arrived General Zhenyuan turned out to be the very kept man who had run away from her!

At a banquet, Xiao, her former kept man, cornered her in a nook behind the wall, his gaze burning.

He bit her earlobe and demanded, “Since you were too stingy to show me affection, I suppose I'll have to be the one to show you some.”

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Xiao Junhao had a “goddess” in his heart. She donated money and supplies, helping his Tiger Might Battalion serve the country.

He was worrying over how to repay her when he happened to hear his “goddess” praying for a child before the Buddha.

She was willing to take another man and become his kept woman.

Who could have guessed that his “goddess” would be fickle? After taking his body, she treated him like yesterday's trash.

Xiao Junhao gritted his teeth. In a fit of anger, he left the faithless woman behind and headed for the capital.

When he returned to Pingjiang, she sat at the banquet, looking everywhere but at him, as though they were strangers.

Fury rose in his heart. She had promised to cherish him for the rest of his life. What gave her the right to take it back?

A simultaneously serialized story next door, Where's My Daughter? #Old Zheng's Journey South #A Lonely Father Searches for His Daughter Across a Thousand Miles

Old Zheng's daughter had gone missing. Someone saw her leave for the south, soaring through the clouds with an old Daoist.

Old Zheng's wife was gone too. His father-in-law disapproved of him and had threatened to die unless his daughter divorced him.

Old Zheng himself was about to be gone as well. His name was on the conscription notice. Enlisting meant joining the rebels and fighting the emperor, a path with almost no chance of survival and no honor.

Luckily, monsters had appeared in Old Zheng's home, two of them at once: a broken bowl and a short nail.

The nail was stubborn, the bowl was noisy. In a hoarse voice, it croaked, “Old Zheng, where's your daughter? Where's your daughter?”

A man and two monsters left the village, beginning a long journey in search of his daughter.

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Theme: When love is true, even stone can be moved.