The Powerful Minister’s Beloved Concubine

I'm terrible at writing blurbs.

Qu Weiqi and Pei Can met when they were both at their lowest. Back then, Pei Can was merely a poor scholar sitting the imperial exams.

The Qu family looked past his humble origins, betrothed Weiqi to him, and even sponsored his journey to Bianliang to sit the exams.

Pei Can was exceptionally talented. After placing first, he came to Weiqi in his red top scholar's robe, composed and unhurried.

She thought theirs would be a beautiful love story.

But then he took Weiqi's hand and said,

“The chief minister's daughter has agreed to marry me. Would you be willing to become my concubine?”

Weiqi was stunned as though waking from a nightmare. From then on, illness consumed her, and half a year later, she died.

Yet fate took pity on her, and Weiqi was reborn on the day she first met Pei Can.

Beside Lin'an's Jiulong Bridge, rain poured from the sky.

Pei Can stood alone, with no umbrella. In the distance, he saw a beauty like an immortal approaching gracefully.

“Sir, would you mind moving aside?”

Weiqi's expression was indifferent, her departing figure resolute.

Pei Can pressed a hand to his chest in despair. In this life, he would never again betray the love of his life.

What Qu Weiqi didn't know was that after she died,

the powerful minister Pei Can's hair turned white overnight. Holding her memorial tablet, he completed the wedding rites before the powerful nobles of Bianliang.

“Weiqi, one day I, Pei Can, will welcome you as my wife with all the proper betrothal gifts and a wedding procession ten li long.”

Content warnings:

The male lead was a complete scumbag in his previous life, and spends his next life desperately trying to win his wife back.

The male lead was not a virgin in his previous life.

The second male lead wins the girl, while the male lead's ashes are scattered. The ending is set.

(Feel free to curse the male lead, just don't curse me. If you're really too angry, you can curse me too, just go easy on me.)

Check out my upcoming story, The Eunuch's Empress Dowager.

Jiang Qi was an orphan.

When she knelt outside the Directorate of Ceremonial in mourning clothes, pleading for her fiancé, she had already resolved to die alongside him.

But...

Pei Jin, standing behind a secret door in a crimson python robe,

told her to get up and stand behind him.

To enter the lightless, loveless depths of the imperial palace.

“I can save him.”

Pei Jin pulled open her mourning clothes.

“Trade yourself for him.”

Content warnings:

1. A true eunuch, with serious personality flaws. Childhood sweetheart meets someone who enters her life later, but he sends the heroine to become a consort.

2. The Directorate of Ceremonial is modeled on the Ming dynasty. It wields enormous power, directly determining state affairs.

3. The male lead is an absolute scumbag early on. Consider this a big, bold warning! If you can't handle it, run when I count to three! He gets his comeuppance later.

(There's no accounting for taste. If you don't like it, please don't be cruel.)

Theme: Learn to cherish the person you love while they're still by your side.