Huo Yan, the Director of Ceremonial in the Directorate of Ceremonial, is sinister and ruthless, wielding immense power.
His sole aim is to destroy the imperial authority.
Everyone believes the Director is heartless,
yet he alone has drawn the delicate, elegant peony in the Empress's chambers into his wide sleeves,
treasuring her like a jewel.
For her, he is willing to put away his fangs and claws
and brand himself with her mark.
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Bai Wan accidentally discovers that she is the vicious supporting female character in an old tragic romance, while Huo Yan is the villain who loves the story's heroine.
Once the hero and heroine reconcile, both she and Huo Yan are doomed to die horribly.
Since she and Huo Yan are both villains, she can only find common ground with him.
She has to cling to this lifeline to hold on to her place in the Empress's chambers
and avoid the tragic ending written for her.
But the plot keeps veering further off course,
and people keep inexplicably coming after her.
The refined scholar in white, the young general, the enemy kingdom's crown prince...
Even the blind emperor tries to summon her to his bedchamber.
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Later, Huo Yan storms into Bai Wan's bedroom, his sword dripping with blood.
"I raised Your Highness so well, not so someone else could take advantage of her."
"When Your Highness gave me your hand, you tamed me. But I'm possessive. Your Highness can have no one but me."
"If anyone dares lay a hand on you, I'll kill him. Your Highness, doesn't that sound good?"
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#The ultimate showdown between two dangerously alluring beauties
#A harem of admirers. False eunuch. 1v1. Happy ending
#The model student of the husbandly virtue class tears into trash men
#The untold side of an old-fashioned melodramatic romance
#The cover is non-exclusive. Crowdfunding permission has been obtained.
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Princess He Yuzhu of Yongle
is the brightest pearl in Jinling.
Yet beside this precious jewel lurks Jiang Zhuo, her vicious dog.
She is cold toward everyone else,
but gentle only with Jiang Zhuo, whom she took in.
She smiles sweetly at him, brushes the snow from his shoulder, and kisses his face.
To Jiang Zhuo, from the moment He Yuzhu pulled him from a pile of corpses, she gave him a new life.
She is the moon in the sky, and he is the mud on the ground. Jiang Zhuo never dreamed she would take pity on him.
He loses himself in the tenderness she gives him, offering her his whole heart. He even gives up his identity as a prince of the Liao Kingdom, willingly becoming the dog who guards her door.
But then he hears her whispering to the other noble ladies:
"He's nothing but a servant. Why would this princess give him her heart?"
Her casual, contemptuous tone cuts deep into Jiang Zhuo's heart.
So all that tenderness, all that favoritism and protection, all those sweet words
were lies, no more than an illusion reflected in a flower or the moon in water.
Heartbroken, Jiang Zhuo lets the cold river swallow him.
Years later, they meet again. He Yuzhu is a princess sent to marry for peace after the Qi Kingdom's defeat, and he is the crown prince and regent, holding supreme power.
Jiang Zhuo watches the frail figure kneeling before him with an expressionless face, ignoring her desperate gaze as he vows to make her suffer as he did.
But He Yuzhu flits like a butterfly among flowers, moving freely between the princes of Liao and the sons of noble families.
Unable to bear it any longer, Jiang Zhuo corners her in the shadows and grips her face. "What exactly do you want in Liao?"
He Yuzhu smiles radiantly, her dazzling beauty on full display.
She raises a hand, her jade-smooth fingertips gliding over his face. "I want you to help me take back what was mine."
She cups his face and kisses him with trembling lips, tears glistening in her silken eyes. "A Zhuo, please help me."
Jiang Zhuo roughly wipes away the sparkling tear at the corner of He Yuzhu's eye, his gaze icy as he demands, "Do you think I'm still the dog you raised, at your beck and call whenever you please?"
But later, the fallen princess of the Chen Kingdom enters the Eastern Palace and becomes the most exalted empress in the world.
What does it matter that he's the ruler of the realm? He's still her dog.
#1v1. Happy ending
#A beauty who trains her dog vs. a foolish crown prince who's a simp at heart
Theme: Unbreakable through countless trials
I finally finished reading it. To be honest, what impressed me the most in the whole article is that in the obviously very serious plot, I would be inexplicably upset when I saw the two maids being called "two Yangs" by the author, hahaha.
I finally finished watching it, but the extra chapter is a bit short~ It's so sweet, so if you're interested, feel free to jump in!!
Thanks for the limited exemption. The writing is so good that I can't get enough of it. I really want you to write more about their follow-up. Woohoo, I can't describe my feelings in words. Can I publish a book? Really want to buy
Good looking! It would be nice if it could be longer, I haven't seen enough!
It's good to watch, can there be more extras (crying)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I finished reading this during the limited time period. Now I see the female goose. I am so happy. She is the best Huo Yan!! He is the best
Thanks to the limited exemption for allowing me to discover good articles, although I still finished them all. But worth it
The extra is too short orz
Please, what about the back? Want to see the follow-up!!!
... How can I put it this way, the emotional line is barely readable, the plotting and war are poorly written, and the villain will not be written in a smart and resourceful way, but only in a stupid and cheap way. The character design seems to be very interesting at first, but I really feel that the heroine is no different from the kind of cruel female supporting character who relies on men to gain power. It is just deliberately written to be smarter. The male protagonist writes about a bloody feud at the beginning, but in the ending, how he deals with the Jiang family and how he lets go of his hatred is too vague and leaves nothing to be desired. He can only use a little emotion to explain it away. It can only be said that the background of the whole text exists for the emotional line, but this emotional line does not look very satisfactory. The female protagonist realizes that she has decided to use love as a cage for her emotions and to feed the dog with her body. However, she can only be forced to follow the rhythm of the male protagonist from the beginning to the end. She seems to be voluntary. She has no other way to choose. The heroine's scheming is not of much value. In fact, there are too few things she can do. It seems to be a matter of course based on the plot, but the author's obvious desire to write out the conflict and tension between the two without writing it out is very uncomfortable.