The Regent Regrets It

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Everyone knows that Regent Feng Jianqing always keeps his promises and is utterly impartial.

The year the late emperor entrusted his orphaned heir to him, he made a solemn vow before the imperial carriage that he would never marry.

However, after being seriously injured and losing his memory as a young man, the country girl who saved him and forced him into an engagement has now come looking for him.

A gentleman must keep his word, but sometimes he must choose. Between a promise made to a woman as insignificant as dust and the long-term peace and stability of the realm, he hesitated only briefly before firmly choosing the latter.

Fortunately, the girl knew her place and understood propriety. She was very surprised to learn his true identity, but quickly composed herself and knew better than to reach above her station.

The regent felt guilty and wanted to offer her some other form of compensation. Since she had grown up in a nunnery, he arranged for her to stay at the nunnery in his manor. He also selected capable servants and promoted them, making them candidates to become her husband.

As long as she stayed under his care, where he could keep an eye on her, that would be fine.

But the girl clearly had other ideas.

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Later, this well-behaved girl, beautiful enough to bewitch anyone, often pushed him to the brink of losing control.

At a palace banquet, she broke the rules for once.

She appeared at the feast without his knowledge, dazzling and radiant, and coyly took the new emperor's arm. Then she turned to him and smiled flawlessly.

A suffocating pain gripped his heart. The butterfly jade hairpin hidden in his sleeve, meant to accompany his proposal, was crushed to pieces in his hand.

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That night, the palace gates stood wide open and flames filled the sky. The new emperor was stabbed before the dragon bed. Blood ran from the tip of the sword. On the bed, a woman in disheveled clothes clutched a brocade quilt, her eyes wide with terror as she stared at him.

Who could have imagined that the regent, saintly in bearing and so strict in his own conduct, would one day rebel for a woman?

P.S. The new emperor's line usurped the throne. The male lead is simply reclaiming what belongs to him.

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Blurb: The greatest mistake Xiao Rou ever made was being too ostentatious when she was in a position of power.

Knowing full well that Cui Yanheng loved Princess He Zhigong, an unfavored daughter of the emperor, she still insisted on breaking them up. In the end, the princess was sent away to marry a foreign ruler and died in the bed of a barbarian.

Though she was merely a merchant's daughter, she arrogantly had her uncle obtain an imperial marriage decree binding her to Cui Yanheng.

At last, the Xiao family was brought down along with her uncle in a corruption case. Cui Yanheng was the one who investigated it.

The engagement was canceled, their property confiscated, and she was branded with a lowly status and sent to a government brothel to work as a prostitute.

Xiao Rou sincerely repented and was ready to accept her fate and make a life for herself at the brothel. But just as she was about to receive her first client,

Cui Yanheng kicked the door open and dragged her back to his manor as a maid. He said, "She's dead, but I won't let you get off easy."

Whenever his dark eyes, black as a frozen pool, met hers, she was reminded of Princess Wei'an. Her guilty conscience left her with no choice but to give in.

Every time he tormented her until she was covered in bruises, she told herself to endure a little longer. Once she had paid for her sins, she would leave.

Later, after finally getting some news about Princess Wei'an, she overcame countless hardships to bring the princess back to Cui Yanheng.

For the first time in three years, she smiled brilliantly, but Cui Yanheng grew increasingly uneasy.

Sure enough, at the Mid-Autumn reunion banquet held at the Cui manor that year, she vanished without a trace, like a stone sinking into a dark pool without a ripple.

Only later did Cui Yanheng realize that all these years, it had never been that she couldn't escape. She simply hadn't wanted to. Once she believed herself free of guilt, even he, with all his power and connections, could never find a single blade of grass in the vast wilderness.

Theme: Even in the depths of hardship, one can find joy