Marrying the Emperor Is Better Than Marrying the Crown Prince

!!!! Also known as After Marrying the Old Emperor, I Held All the Power in the Realm

Male lead Jing Yuan. The age gap is twenty years. He and the female lead have a happy ending, so please read with care if that bothers you.

Second male lead Jing Huanyu is reborn alongside the female lead. He goes through a long road to win back his wife, but he and the female lead have a tragic ending, so please read with care if that bothers you.

An important supporting character transmigrates, hence the time-travel tag.

The female lead will eventually take power, so please read with care if that bothers you.

Blurb:

In her previous life, when the throne was up for grabs, the head of the Wen family had favored the Second Prince. But Wen Xueying was in love with the First Prince, her childhood friend, and she cried and made a fuss until her father switched his allegiance to the First Prince's faction.

The head of the Wen family doted on his daughter and had no choice but to change sides and support the First Prince's ascension to the throne. In the end, however, the entire family was executed.

Wen Xueying never got to attend her coronation as empress. Instead, she received a cup of poisoned wine and the devastating news that her whole family had been killed.

As she lay dying, Wen Xueying thought: I'd been blind.

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She had thought she would bear the guilt of causing her family's deaths for all eternity, but Heaven gave her another chance.

She would settle every score from her past life, one by one.

At first, she had arranged to marry the emperor only so she could get rid of all the people who had wronged her in her previous life. She had meant to use the emperor, who was nearly forty. But later, this same man gave her a lifetime of happiness and splendor, and the highest power imaginable.

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As the founding emperor of the Jing Dynasty, Jing Yuan had seen his share of storms. Even so, when he heard that the Duke's youngest daughter was willing to enter the palace and serve him, he spilled the tea in his hand.

Jing Yuan rubbed the reddened skin on the back of his hand and thought, "Doesn't she think I'm too old?"

Though Jing Yuan had no intention of marrying a girl in her teens and bringing her into the palace, circumstances led to her entering the palace anyway.

Now that she was his, he would protect her and give her a peaceful life from then on.

Jing Yuan even wrote his final decree in advance: if he died one day, she was to be allowed to leave the palace.

But he never expected that, as he kept protecting her, he would come to want to grow old by her side.

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In his previous life, Jing Huanyu had always thought that nothing in the world could compare to his father's throne. But once he had sat on it himself, he realized that nothing could compare to Wen Xueying, the woman who had given him her whole heart.

But she was already dead.

Fortunately, he had been reborn. This time, Jing Huanyu swore to protect Wen Xueying.

But she had become his mother...

Theme: Be kindhearted