Possessive Devotion

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Years later, Wen Yu and Li Qing'ang reunite. After an accident caused by drinking, they become entangled. Like kindling meeting a blazing fire, one spark is all it takes.

He asks her to date him, and she doesn't refuse.

She once heard that he already had someone in his heart, but his love was unrequited, and he had kept himself pure for that person all this time. By that reckoning, she wasn't losing out either.

As Wen Yu sees it, her relationship with Li Qing'ang is nothing more than a game between consenting adults, each getting what they want.

So when Li Qing'ang says he wants to marry her, she is surprised and confused.

She asks the question on her mind: "Why do you suddenly want to marry me?"

Li Qing'ang asks in return: "Why don't you want to marry me?"

Wen Yu doesn't know how to answer, so she stays silent.

The blurb for My Ex-Husband, Whom I Used to Treat Like Trash, Has Ascended the Throne:

A period-romance version of the melodramatic and thrilling "substitute bride runs away with the baby."

Du Qingyan, the eldest daughter of the Prime Minister's household, was sent to her maternal grandparents' home as a child to recover from poor health. She was not brought back until her coming-of-age ceremony. Dull and uninteresting, and unable to win the elders' favor, she was rejected by her birth father and mistreated by her stepmother. Later, her younger sister stole her engagement, and the sisters exchanged marriages: her sister became the Crown Princess, while she was forced to marry the impoverished Sixth Prince.

Just months after their wedding, Du Qingyan was cast out after being accused of having an affair. To protect the family's reputation, the Prime Minister's household tried to burn her alive, but her "lover" saved her, and she narrowly escaped death.

Later, the Crown Prince fell from power and the Prime Minister's household was confiscated. The Sixth Prince won the Emperor's favor, was named Prince Chen, and led an army to quell a rebellion in the northern borderlands, earning great military honors and command of the troops.

Two years later, the Crown Prince's failed coup ended in his execution. The Emperor died a few days afterward and passed the throne to Prince Chen. Everyone praised the new Emperor as wise and benevolent, a true enlightened ruler.

Only Du Qingyan trembled whenever she heard the words "enlightened ruler."

One day, the ex-husband she had once seduced and abandoned came looking for her. He seized her "lover," then took her son and locked her in the cold palace, humiliating her to vent his rage.

Disheveled, she knelt before the new Emperor. He deigned to crouch down and grip her chin tightly, smiling darkly as he asked, "When you chose to betray me, did you ever imagine this would be your fate?"

"This guilty woman is willing to atone with her death."

At last, she found the courage to push his hand away and, resolved to die, threw herself against a bedpost. Blood streamed from her broken head.

The new Emperor held her as she hovered between life and death, panicked and helpless.

"If you dare to die, your son will be buried with you!"

She raised a hand to catch one of his tears and spoke weakly.

"Even the fiercest tiger won't eat its cubs. I know you won't..."

The young Emperor's eyes instantly reddened. Trembling with anxiety, he held her tightly. Before she lost consciousness, she heard his hoarse plea.

Theme: Treasure what you have, live in the present, and make the most of life.