The Emperor Is Too Old to Know Better

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Jiang Chenxi, daughter of the Vice Minister of Rites, was refined, sensible, and exceptionally talented. She was selected to enter the Eastern Palace, but after three years without an heir, the Crown Prince divorced her, turning her into a laughingstock across the capital.

Unwilling to bring trouble to her family, Jiang Chenxi asked to have her head shaved and become a nun, spending her days beside the Buddha.

Three years later, the most beautiful woman in the capital came to the convent to make a donation. Jiang Chenxi was falsely accused of offending a noble and showing great disrespect, then forcibly disfigured.

Only then did Jiang Chenxi realize that she resembled the new secondary consort.

The beauty smiled coquettishly behind her fan, her pregnant belly prominent and her figure as delicate as a willow. Her words were venomous: "Thank you for serving Chengyi in my place for three years, Sister. Now that I'm pregnant, I hope you'll understand."

Jiang Chenxi's eyes reddened at once. So she had been treated as a substitute for three whole years.

With no medicine to cure her face, her wounds worsened, and as she lay dying, she regretted that her devotion had been wasted on those wretched people. If she could start over, she would gouge out the eyes of that vile couple!

Heaven took pity on her, and Jiang Chenxi was reborn six months before her divorce. She gritted her teeth, went to a hot spring villa outside the capital to cozy up to the Empress Dowager, and volunteered to help her bathe, deliberately revealing the cinnabar mole on her arm.

But before she could meet the Empress Dowager, she managed to attract the attention of the current emperor.

She: ...That was unexpected.

Xiao Xun was sick of his consorts constantly competing for his favor. He had not visited the harem in six months, and one day, without his attendants, he lingered at the hot spring villa to relax.

His gaze accidentally fell on the graceful silhouette behind a screen. When he saw the bright red cinnabar mole on the woman's right arm, his expression darkened unconsciously. Then his eyes happened to catch her fair, delicate legs, and he suddenly became interested.

When he heard her call herself "your son's wife," Xiao Xun's expression remained calm, though in his heart he cursed his own mother several times.

So shameless, trying to trick him by using his daughter-in-law.

[Things to know before reading]

1. The author doesn't know whether cinnabar moles actually mean anything. They're just here to serve the plot.

2. The heroine is reborn, but the hero and other male characters are not. The heroine will divorce the secondary male lead before getting together with the hero. No more spoilers.

3. The Empress Dowager is the heroine's last-minute lifeline, and a gold-plated one at that.

4. The author's writing is limited. No personal attacks, please. If you don't like it, just close the page. Don't insult me in the comments, or the curse will bounce back!

5. No malicious negative reviews, or the curse will bounce back!

Synopsis uploaded on November 12, 2020, and submitted to the editor.

Theme: Women should be strong and self-reliant.