I Used and Abandoned the Enemy Emperor

[The male substitute wants to win her over, with men competing for her]

Princess Xu Fuyu leaves everyone waiting at her suitor selection banquet and gets drunk in a tavern.

It's because she has someone in her heart who could never be hers, someone already separated from her by life and death.

One day, while riding her horse, she hears a young man playing the zither in a tavern. The notes ring like pearls.

His features are seven-tenths like those of the man in her heart.

In her drunkenness, she holds him at swordpoint and forces Qi Huanhan to move into her private residence as her kept man.

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Xu Fuyu knows it's only an act and never reveals her identity. But because of his face, she indulges him a little.

Qi Huanhan is initially forced to rely on her because he is being hunted. Since she is the daughter of a powerful family, he uses her influence to shake off his pursuers, fawning on her insincerely.

But as time passes, he develops genuine feelings and wants to take her home and marry her.

Xu Fuyu finds this laughable and goes elsewhere to spend her nights in revelry.

Until her private residence is burned down. When she arrives, no one has survived.

Gazing at the flames rising into the sky, she thinks their brief affair has come to an end.

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It is a time of chaos. The collapse of imperial rule is inevitable, and dynasties can change in the blink of an eye.

The ruler of an enemy kingdom marches into the capital. Everyone knows they are doomed.

With the enemy at the gates, Xu Fuyu picks up a battered battle flag from the ground, drapes it over herself, and prepares to die for her country.

Just then, the new emperor of a neighboring kingdom, eager to annex the enemy kingdom, arrives. They had been enemies, but now the enemy of her enemy is her ally, and he has come to help.

From behind his ceremonial headdress, the emperor's sharp gaze bears down on her.

Suddenly, she realizes that his face is exactly like her dead kept man's!

The new emperor steps down from his carriage and approaches her.

The ministers of the fallen dynasty don't know he has come to help. They all kneel and cry, "The princess is so loyal and brave! I would gladly give my life for hers!"

But the new emperor walks past them and crouches in front of Xu Fuyu.

He brushes the mud and blood from the battle flag draped over her and says in a hoarse voice:

"Now... can you take me back to your residence?"

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Qi Huanhan rushes over. For a moment, he doesn't even notice:

Beneath the walls, Xu Fuyu refuses to surrender and is willing to sacrifice her life to protect the newly returned court officials, a man whose features are seven-tenths like hers.

#It was just a fling, so why does my substitute want a real relationship?!#

1. Both leads are each other's only partner.

2. The heroine has a fiancé from the start. Neither of them loves the other, and they both want to break off the engagement. He doesn't have much screen time.

3. The male lead is from an enemy kingdom because it was an enemy kingdom before. Now the enemy of your enemy is your friend, so he is an ally. (There is no plot where everything under heaven is part of some elaborate game.)

Theme: Love isn't a competition. Be brave, and embrace each other