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On the day of the empress's enthronement ceremony, rebel troops attacked the capital. Blood ran through the streets, smoke rose on all sides, and the dynasty changed hands.
The new emperor was cruel by nature and spared none of the old court's people. The sole exception was the empress, whom he doted on, a delicate beauty with a slender waist and the grace of a willow.
They say the new emperor was born a hostage, and hated three kinds of women most of all:
The gentle kind, the scheming kind, and those who were scheming but pretended to be gentle.
Ming Yao fit nearly every category.
Yet when it came to the former empress, Shen Duo silenced the ministers who opposed him and declared without a doubt, "I want only her."
Despite those words, the emperor never left his bedchamber on their wedding night, though the bridal candles burned until dawn.
After that, Ming Yao was framed, and eventually met her end in a sea of flames.
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Given another chance at life, Ming Yao is once again the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Wuan, a beauty as radiant as the moon among clouds, someone beyond everyone's reach.
Then, on a rainy night, she meets again the future tyrant who is all but certain to ascend the throne. He is merely a frail boy with black hair and dark eyes, beaten until his skin is torn and his life hangs by a thread.
Ming Yao grits her teeth, holds an umbrella over him, and shields him from the wind and rain.
In the eight years Shen Duo spent as a hostage, that was the only warmth he ever knew.
*Scheming beauty x sickly tyrant
*Fictional dynasty
*1v1, both each other's first love, both virgins
Theme: Love and you
