She Imprisoned the Ferocious Minister Instead

After the Lu family was condemned, Yun Sheng was sent to the government brothel. At a night banquet, a drunken wastrel harassed her. The man who came to her aid planted one leg across the table, gripping his embroidered spring saber, his eyes cold and stern.

"Why waste good aged wine on a woman?"

After Yun Sheng was rescued, she sent herself to her benefactor's residence. That night, the man's grip was so strong it made her ribs ache.

Yun Sheng: Just endure it. I'll be out of this pit soon.

But afterward, the man stared at the red flush on the back of her neck, his face dark as frost.

"So the daughter of the Lu family is nothing special after all."

Yun Sheng: "Fine, fine! So once you've gotten what you want, you stop acting like a decent person?"

Later, she escaped the capital with the help of a band of river pirates. She fought others for territory and influence, and successfully put herself on the throne. The man from before regretted it, found her, and looked at her with such deep affection it seemed he could wring water from his eyes. "Sixth Lady, give me another chance."

1. Includes a forced-possession plotline, and the male lead will suffer a long road to redemption.

2. The story takes place in a fictional world.

3. Plot-focused, not romance-focused.

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21:14 2023/9/3

Ke Muqing died on the very day news arrived that Cui Wenzhou had been appointed to the cabinet. She couldn't accept it! She thought of how she'd married him at sixteen, watched him earn the title of top scorer in the imperial examinations and enter the cabinet, rising step by step. The peach had finally ripened, but before she could pick it, she lost her life.

It all began when she miscarried after falling into the water while saving her sister-in-law. The doctor said she'd suffered lasting damage and might never recover. Her mother-in-law was already making plans to bring her own niece into the household as a replacement wife.

At her sickbed, her mother-in-law held her hand, tears in her eyes. "You are the daughter-in-law I like best. Of course I hope you and Zhijie can stay together for the rest of your lives. But as the saying goes, one tree can't make a forest, and one hand can't clap. It takes many rivers to form the sea. You've been married into this family for years, yet Xian is your only child. It's rather lonely. If anything should happen to you later, I..."

Her mother-in-law wept too hard to continue. "I thought I'd settle on someone first, with a year as the limit. If you recover, you can consider that I never brought it up."

Even her sister-in-law, whom she'd risked her life to save, tried to persuade her. "A woman's hopes in life are her children doing well. Xian is only ten this year, and he has a long life ahead. He'll need someone to support him. You can't leave him to live all alone in this world. If he had a brother, that would give him someone else to rely on, wouldn't it?"

Her life hung by a thread, and she couldn't bear any more. She sent her mother-in-law and sister-in-law away, then dragged her ailing body to the main quarters. There, she heard a conversation through the door.

"Your cousin is no longer young, and she's admired you since childhood. You know that. I was thinking, since Muqing is unlikely to recover and managing all this is so difficult, perhaps..."

"Mother, you can decide all the household affairs yourself."

Her head rang. She vomited blood on the spot.

Back in her little courtyard, she silently wrote a letter of separation and waited for her husband to come home.

She waited and waited. Her husband never came, but a panicked doctor did. She closed her eyes and lost consciousness.

When she opened them again, she found herself back at nineteen.

That was the year Cui Wenzhou had just been transferred to the Ministry of Justice...

Theme: Keep fighting to live, even in adversity.