At the Green Waist Banquet, sleeves fluttered gracefully in dance.
The beautiful woman bent low in humiliation, taking delicate steps. Her dark eyes were tender, her cheeks glistened with tears, and her fragrant shoulders trembled softly.
On her left sat the powerful court official of the day, his gaze as ravenous as a wolf's, applauding and calling out in approval;
on her right sat the man she loved, all false affection, hoping to use her to rise to success.
After tonight, she would go to the man on the left.
After the banquet, Luo Xise dressed as a bride and waited in the side chamber.
Pei Yuanjin was going to give her to that treacherous minister, a man old enough to be her father. Then they could go to hell together, Xise thought, tightening her grip on the dagger in her arms.
The red veil was lifted. The beauty's bright eyes and rosy cheeks, raven hair and snowy skin came into view. But the first face she saw was not the imagined old face, its body supposedly worn hollow...
A long finger gently lifted her chin. At the other end was an impossibly handsome stranger. He held a cup delicately between the fingers of his right hand, looking thoughtful. When he saw her, his thin lips curved slightly.
“Who... are you?”
*
Xise always obeyed Pei Yuanjin, and he was very pleased with her. He thought that by offering her to the Chief Eunuch, he would rise to great heights.
But after losing her, he went mad.
Later, unable to bear the torment of longing, he peered through a window in the grandest residence in Chang'an and caught sight of the beauty he had once heartlessly abandoned.
A crystal screen shifted, and red candles glowed beneath the phoenix canopy. Her delicate feet rested in another man's arms as she called to him with alluring eyes:
“Your Majesty. What took you so long?”
*
To the young emperor,
she was broken jade held close, a precious pearl radiating fragrance.
Knowing full well that someone was outside the window, he clasped the slender, pale fingers of the beauty in his arms and kissed each one, his thin lips stained red.
“You said you would take me into your bed?”
“You said it the day you brought me back from the Green Waist Banquet. You said I was your mistress. Don't deny it. When you're under someone else's roof, you have to bow your head.”
The proud and untamed emperor would spend the rest of his life bowing his head before her.
She was the mark between his brows, the treasure in his heart.
He was the bone in her blood, the man in her dreams.
Reading Guide:
1. Both leads are each other's only partners. The male lead is a young emperor, and the female lead is a stunning beauty from Wu. This story is also known as The Emperor Insists on Being My Secret Lover.
2. Happy ending. The female lead will eventually become empress.
3. The male lead loves only the female lead and has no harem. She is the only woman in his life, from beginning to end.
4. The second male lead spends the whole story regretting his actions, but he never wins her back.
Coming next: The Egret Hidden in Spring Mountain
The princess of the Weiyun Kingdom was sixteen, with exquisite beauty, as lovely as peach blossoms in mid-spring and peerless in all the world.
The princess traveled thousands of miles to the capital to marry for political alliance. Her husband was Lu Xiangxing, the powerful general who guarded the nation.
It was said that General Lu Xiangxing once had a beloved confidante, his moonlight, who had died beneath the blades of Weiyun soldiers.
Manman trembled at the thought of marrying him, afraid he would hack her to pieces and turn her skin into a lantern.
After their marriage, Lu Xiangxing was not as terrifying as Manman had imagined, but he was cold and hostile toward her at every turn.
She tried to be a devoted wife, but he impatiently smashed a cup;
she served him with utmost care, but he insinuated that she had ulterior motives;
she dreamed of a house full of children and grandchildren, and his embrace was as hot as fire, but Manman discovered that he was secretly taking contraceptive medicine.
Enough was enough. Once that brute went off to war, she would fake her death and escape.
*
Lu Xiangxing caught up with the carriage carrying Manman as she fled. When he lifted his pregnant wife out of it, her cherry lips parted, her misty almond eyes shimmered with tears, and she was naturally alluring, yet terribly delicate.
Lu Xiangxing's voice turned hoarse, his heart burning. “Where are you going?”
Manman pushed away the coldhearted, stubborn rock. “Home.”
“But you're carrying my child.”
“I'm the one giving birth, not you. It has nothing to do with you.”
“But you flirted with me before and said you liked me.”
“That was only to get pregnant.”
Lu Xiangxing thought he could never feel heartbreak again. But in the year he loved her most, she stopped loving him. It turned out heartbreak could still tear him apart and pierce him to the core.
Reading Guide:
1. A sweet, bright, carefree little princess x a blunt, boorish general with overwhelming strength
2. The male lead loves only the female lead. She is his moonlight. Both leads are each other's only partners.
3. Pregnancy escape, with some regret and heartbreak.
Theme: Many begin well, but few see things through to the end
Click a 6. This is the first time I see the male protagonist who was struck by lightning, even if he did it on purpose.
As long as it is born by a female goose, grandma is fine with it.
Lao Li even looks down on you!
Mom and dad are suffering from heavenly calamity, and I'm the only one sleeping soundly
Super beautiful, I will always be impressed by the sincere and passionate love of young people.
Yo yo yo, who is jealous?
Fighting for food rations with my son (pointing)
I was struck by lightning, hahaha, wasn't it struck by lightning?
A one-month-old baby can no longer dance and is basically still sleeping.
Doudou hahaha, I didn't call it Honghong.