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Cui Ying was betrothed to the Crown Prince's study companion.
He was surnamed Gu, came from a prominent family like Cui Ying, and was a talented young man.
Unfortunately, he was a womanizer, already carrying on with women before marriage. After the wedding, he'd surely take concubines or keep a mistress.
Cui Ying began to regret it.
But this marriage was the focus of everyone's attention. Their birth charts had been exchanged and matched, and the wedding was imminent. Breaking off the engagement was no longer possible.
Everyone thought Cui Ying had accepted her fate.
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During the spring hunt at the imperial retreat, she was summoned in public to take shelter from the rain.
Cui Ying was held in the Crown Prince's arms, their bodies entwined like mandarin ducks. She stopped his hand from touching the sash of her skirt. "Your Highness, this is wrong."
The man led her to the window. In the distance, through wind and rain, a man and woman were behaving intimately. One of them was her fiance.
Helan Ting: "Don't you want him to know what it feels like to be betrayed, too?"
Cui Ying was tempted, and slowly let go of his hand.
The man gave a victorious chuckle, a smug, playful smile appearing on his lips.
~
But as time passed, at night, when everyone thought she was asleep and couldn't hear, someone would ask, "Your Highness, do you have feelings for Miss Cui?"
After a long silence, the man's steady voice answered without mercy: "How could I? Her future husband doesn't even like her. I only pity her."
Cui Ying breathed a sigh of relief. That was a good thing.
But for the rest of the night, she never turned over. She kept her back to the man, and the pillow beneath her cheek stayed wet until dawn.
~
Helan Ting was destined to become emperor.
He believed that an emperor should be fickle and never love deeply.
He thought his relationship with Cui Ying was no more than a fleeting, illusory affair, with each of them getting what they needed. So he never interfered with either of their marriages.
As the wedding date drew near, Cui Ying said she would enter the Gu family in peace, become a Gu wife, and cut off their private relationship cleanly. He was disappointed, amused, and unconcerned. Only in his anger did he discover a trace of panic.
"Cui Ying, you already have a place in my heart."
"Your Highness, my heart is empty now."
From then on, he no longer dared to call himself fickle. Cui Ying was even more heartless than he was.
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The colloquial form of address "gege" existed before the Tang dynasty. This story is set in a fictional world, so if you can't accept that form of address, please don't read.
Premise finalized on July 16, 2021 / screenshot filed
Outline and blurb revised on November 22-23, 2021
Please read before starting:
Fictional historical setting, a very long story, melodramatic and slow-paced, with plenty of scumbag men. The heroine is not a Mary Sue or a strong woman. She's of noble birth, but also conservative, old-fashioned, sentimental, long-suffering, and stubborn. She lacks love, is insecure, and has a weak personality. Please don't read if that's not for you. One-on-one romance / both leads are virgins.
None of the characters are perfect, and the social setting is harsh. Their views do not represent the author's own.
This is only a love story. It does not promote feudal culture of any kind. Moral crusaders, please don't impose modern social standards on the characters. Read with care.
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Next story: [The Mandarin Duck Bed]
Blurb:
In storybooks, an unhappy woman from a previous life is always grateful for the chance to start over. In her second life, she finds a new husband and lives happily ever after.
But that isn't the case for Yue Yang. She's deeply regretful now, and even wishes she hadn't been reborn.
Because after she was reborn in this life, the world fell into chaos not long after she divorced her ex-husband.
Princes, nobles, generals, and ministers each served their own masters. Yue Yang's ex-husband gathered twelve cities under his command, took control of the region, and became a great general defending the country.
Meanwhile, as she fled with her family, she was accidentally separated from them and captured by human traffickers, who planned to sell her to a brothel because of her beauty.
A once-noble lady became the lowliest of slaves in an instant.
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One day, Yue Yang escaped. To avoid being caught, she called for help from a passing army.
When the commanding officer appeared, Yue Yang froze. She recognized the mocking glint in his eyes.
Her ex-husband, Lu Yuanji, now the great general defending the country, spoke coldly to her. "Who was it who said, 'If my lord is heartless, then I shall leave, and from this day forth we shall never meet again'? Go on, keep running, Yue Yang. Let's see how you'll find a place to hide in these troubled times without me."
"Want me to save you? Then agree to become my twenty-first concubine."
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When Lu Yuanji saw Yue Yang again, she was no longer Madam Lu. She was a slave fleeing in desperation.
So he did nothing but mock and humiliate her, or tease her with contempt.
He blamed her for refusing to be his proper wife. If that was what she wanted, then she could become a concubine everyone was free to trample on.
He would never fall for her again.
The Yue Yang who had abandoned him didn't deserve to tame him. A faithless woman deserved revenge.
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Yue Yang regretted it terribly. Who could have a harder time surviving in a chaotic age than she did? First, she had to survive the wars. Second, she had to find her family. Third, she had to reclaim her identity. And fourth, she had to deal with her harsh ex-husband, Lu Yuanji.
To reunite with her family as soon as possible, Yue Yang had no choice but to swallow her pride and do everything she could to please her ex-husband.
Lu Yuanji: "Don't you want to be Madam Lu again?"
Yue Yang, feeling nauseated rather than experiencing morning sickness, spat, "After a divorce, whoever falls in love first is a dog."
Lu Yuanji: "..."
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Feel free to add it to your reading list if you're interested.
Theme: The road to love is full of thorns. You may be weak, but you must hold on to who you are and respect yourself.
After enduring the first to fifty chapters, it really became inexplicably super good, but why did the last few chapters end so sloppily? A fly in the ointment. In short, the advantage of the author is that he is really good at writing such crazy and morbid characters, bloody push-pull plots and the passion between the male and female protagonists. He is also very good at writing about love. I also really like this kind of full-length description of love instead of focusing on it. There is an old saying about the so-called Machiavellian career plot that I am not good at, because what I want to read is romance rather than Machiavellian plot. I don't know if the author's last few chapters were written in order to write these Machiavellian plots at the expense of one thing, so he ended the last few chapters hastily, giving people the feeling of a hasty ending. I hope the author will use his strengths to continue creating good works
Why did you change your name? The previous name was very nice.
Chizuru Ueno wrote in "Beginning at the Limit": "Love is a kind of self-struggle. If a woman wants to become a woman, she needs a man as a rival in love." I have read this book three times. Although the heroine is not like the heroines in other books, she does not meet the current mainstream heroines, which still surprises me. Because in this struggle for love, the female protagonist has achieved self-growth and sublimation, and the male protagonist is not so important in the end~ But in the novel, I still like to read the ending of Jiang Jiang Niang Niang and HE. I'm really surprised. After watching it again, I still like the heroine's process of growing up with love~ The divers couldn't help but come out to have fun~ Thank you, madam, for your work~
Ah this. . . Although this baby is very pitiful, his parents are really hard to tell, and they are close relatives, but since the little princess looks like her father, there is probably nothing that can be done about it.
Looking at it this way, it is worse for the prince. If his little sister is seduced by another boy, he will not be able to enjoy the brother-sister relationship that Yingying has for Cui Xun.
I stayed up late to read it. In my eyes, Ah Ying has really grown a lot, from the sensitive and sad lame girl at the beginning to the bright and cheerful girl at the end of the story. A lot of people say that the heroine is too humble and a spoiled wife to abuse her, which is weird. I think under the author's setting, all of Aying's words and deeds are actually very consistent with her background and growth environment. The most rare thing about a novel with a strong man and a weak woman is that the character is weak, and the author really grasps this very well. I also want to see more extras o(≧v≦)oThe author in the comment area was affected when updating, which may also be an important reason for the weak ending. I really hope that everyone can respect each other and allow authors to write works of a stable level (●°u°●)?
Help, why do I feel like I am the one with an empty heart after watching this? The first part is too exciting, but the second part has less love story between the male and female protagonists. Cry. I feel like I need to read 100 chapters of the battle between the male and female protagonists who have reconciled to be satisfied. Rather than watching the daily life of the male and female protagonists' families and children, I want to see the description of their crazy DOIs.
The heroine's transformation after returning from the mountain halfway through was well written!
Do you have any recommendations similar to Rose Waist?
I originally thought that the love of spring was the peak of the author's writing skills, but I never thought of it! ! ! Rose Waist is really the kind of person whose every sentence is worth recalling, especially the ending chapter, the tension of a madman's love! ! ! ! As expected of you Liuqi! !
It's over, I feel like the author can start another story about the heroine's daughter and the Gu family's son hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha"
I really like the copywriting of Yuanyang Bed. When will the author update this article?
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After enduring the first to fifty chapters, it really became inexplicably super good, but why did the last few chapters end so sloppily? A fly in the ointment. In short, the advantage of the author is that he is really good at writing such crazy and morbid characters, bloody push-pull plots and the passion between the male and female protagonists. He is also very good at writing about love. I also really like this kind of full-length description of love instead of focusing on it. There is an old saying about the so-called Machiavellian career plot that I am not good at, because what I want to read is romance rather than Machiavellian plot. I don't know if the author's last few chapters were written in order to write these Machiavellian plots at the expense of one thing, so he ended the last few chapters hastily, giving people the feeling of a hasty ending. I hope the author will use his strengths to continue creating good works
Why did you change your name? The previous name was very nice.
Chizuru Ueno wrote in "Beginning at the Limit": "Love is a kind of self-struggle. If a woman wants to become a woman, she needs a man as a rival in love." I have read this book three times. Although the heroine is not like the heroines in other books, she does not meet the current mainstream heroines, which still surprises me. Because in this struggle for love, the female protagonist has achieved self-growth and sublimation, and the male protagonist is not so important in the end~ But in the novel, I still like to read the ending of Jiang Jiang Niang Niang and HE. I'm really surprised. After watching it again, I still like the heroine's process of growing up with love~ The divers couldn't help but come out to have fun~ Thank you, madam, for your work~
Ah this. . . Although this baby is very pitiful, his parents are really hard to tell, and they are close relatives, but since the little princess looks like her father, there is probably nothing that can be done about it. Looking at it this way, it is worse for the prince. If his little sister is seduced by another boy, he will not be able to enjoy the brother-sister relationship that Yingying has for Cui Xun.
I stayed up late to read it. In my eyes, Ah Ying has really grown a lot, from the sensitive and sad lame girl at the beginning to the bright and cheerful girl at the end of the story. A lot of people say that the heroine is too humble and a spoiled wife to abuse her, which is weird. I think under the author's setting, all of Aying's words and deeds are actually very consistent with her background and growth environment. The most rare thing about a novel with a strong man and a weak woman is that the character is weak, and the author really grasps this very well. I also want to see more extras o(≧v≦)oThe author in the comment area was affected when updating, which may also be an important reason for the weak ending. I really hope that everyone can respect each other and allow authors to write works of a stable level (●°u°●)?
Help, why do I feel like I am the one with an empty heart after watching this? The first part is too exciting, but the second part has less love story between the male and female protagonists. Cry. I feel like I need to read 100 chapters of the battle between the male and female protagonists who have reconciled to be satisfied. Rather than watching the daily life of the male and female protagonists' families and children, I want to see the description of their crazy DOIs.
The heroine's transformation after returning from the mountain halfway through was well written!
Do you have any recommendations similar to Rose Waist? I originally thought that the love of spring was the peak of the author's writing skills, but I never thought of it! ! ! Rose Waist is really the kind of person whose every sentence is worth recalling, especially the ending chapter, the tension of a madman's love! ! ! ! As expected of you Liuqi! !
It's over, I feel like the author can start another story about the heroine's daughter and the Gu family's son hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha"
I really like the copywriting of Yuanyang Bed. When will the author update this article?