After the Plan to Raise a Wise Ruler Failed

I’m sorry, readers. I will finish this. I’m already filling in the gaps, and once it’s done, I’ll post the whole thing at once. Her grandfather controls the princes in the emperor’s name, and her father’s ambition is plain for all the world to see. When Feng Lingyu was born, she was predicted to become empress, destined to make a grand commotion in this tumultuous world. Miss Feng: Thanks for the offer, but I’m not becoming empress. I’m on the battlefield, and I just took... a city! She loves nothing more than galloping down the main street, hunting across the countryside, and drinking and carousing, doing everything a dashing man might do. With beautiful companions by her side, life is simply delightful. The beauty Xiao Xun is the scandalous child of the King of Xihuai and a songstress. He is so breathtakingly handsome that it leaves people speechless, yet seems so delicate and easy to bully. Deep in a courtyard strewn with wreckage, she reaches out to him. "Your father and brothers have surrendered and sworn allegiance to me. You can keep living in luxury, just as before." She cradles the barely surviving kitten in her arms and says, "I don’t want your life. I want you to become emperor." He wants to live, and she needs a puppet emperor who will obey her completely, so she can stand against her father and brothers. Until the Feng family is arrested and exterminated. He grows from a beautiful youth whose gender is hard to discern into a decisive, ruthless young emperor. The suppressed cruelty of his past now shows clearly in his eyes. Holding her half-sister close, he drinks wine from a glass goblet. "Feng Lingyu, I don’t want any of the things you deigned to give me anymore." "Don’t worry. I’ll be a wise ruler, and I’ll do even better than you expected." Lingyu frowns. He is a work of art she has carefully sculpted over the years, growing him bit by bit according to her tastes. But the human heart is hard to control. The taunting look in her half-sister’s eyes, nestled in his arms, is like a flaw in a flawless crystal goblet. To Lingyu, he is no longer worth anything. She is sad for all of fifteen minutes, then sets fire to the palace and flees while the flames roar. From then on, she roams the martial world, relying on her martial arts. Naturally, she is accompanied by her childhood sweetheart, the former crown prince, who faked his death. "I helped you secure the throne, and you helped me escape my family’s control so I could be free. We both got what we wanted. We owe each other nothing." A game player raising the Heaven’s Chosen x a lovesick puppet emperor Reader’s guide: 1. An unconventional pursuit-of-the-wife story, happy ending, no changing the male lead. 2. One-on-one romance. The male lead is Xiao Xun, body and heart devoted only to the female lead. There are misunderstandings, but no toxic scumbag romance (in bold, capital letters!!). 3. Strong female lead, younger male lead. Theme: Women should be self-reliant, and hold their own destinies in their hands.