Ensnared by Fragrance in the Golden Palace

[Pre-release: The Emperor Takes His Minister's Wife. Please add it to your favorites!]

Blurb for this novel:

Everyone knew the new emperor was decisive and ruthless, and that his only weakness was his foster sister, who had died young.

He had her moved into the imperial mausoleum so they could share a coffin in death. He even had her memorial tablet brought into the Palace of Heavenly Purity, where he slept beside it night after night.

Everyone said the emperor must be obsessed with his foster sister.

But as the person involved, Fengyu knew he probably hated her to the core.

She had been the one to save him, the one to give him warmth. And after making him depend on her completely, she had been the one to abandon him.

Reborn, she became the daughter of a minor official living at the foot of the imperial city.

Fengyu wouldn't dare show herself to him again. She wished she could hide at the ends of the earth and have nothing more to do with him.

Who would have thought that they would meet again by the Golden Fragrance Pool?

Dressed in imperial yellow, he clasped her chin in his broad hand and lifted it gently. His presence was imposing, and the clarity once in his eyes was gone. "You look remarkably like an old acquaintance of mine."

Her father sold her off to gain power, binding her like a chess piece meant to bring glory to the family.

In a warm, dimly lit bedchamber, she curled up trembling in a corner. Someone swept aside the curtain, clasped her slender ankle in his broad hand, and spoke in a dangerously cold voice:

"Sister, you really... made me search everywhere for you."

Fengyu bit her lip, on the verge of tears, unable to move.

This was all punishment for having let him down.

And a trap she had woven with her own hands.

A seemingly sweet but scheming, career-minded heroine × a seemingly scheming but sweet, love-brained hero

During their false kinship, the hero has an unrequited love for her. By the time they become lovers, they are no longer falsely related.

Tips: The hero is completely love-brained. He behaves terribly at first, then the heroine teaches him how to behave.

-----Pre-release novel: The Emperor Takes His Minister's Wife

Song Tan had been the model of a noblewoman in the capital from the day she was born. She did everything flawlessly, leaving no room for anyone to criticize her.

So when she learned that the young man to whom she'd been betrothed as an infant had fallen from favor, she obediently threw herself into the arms of her new husband.

But she never imagined that one day the world would turn upside down, and the boy who had once been all elbows and knees, trailing after her and clumsily swinging a saber, would ascend the throne.

Meanwhile, the husband she thought had a bright future ahead of him would ruin his prospects by backing the wrong side.

The new emperor ascended the throne and held a banquet in the palace, summoning his ministers. She attended quietly and sat at the very end of the room.

Yet she couldn't shake the feeling that someone was watching her.

Only after she had grown tipsy and slipped away did she encounter a familiar figure in a corner of the covered walkway.

"I've ascended the throne. It's time to fulfill our betrothal."

The new emperor braced one long arm against the wall, trapping her.

For the first time in her life, Song Tan lost control completely.

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Zhao Cheng had always known that Song Tan would never stand by him through hard times.

After she resolutely married another man, he didn't make a fuss.

He simply let the letters recording her every move pile up beside his bed, one after another.

He was more eager than ever to know what she was doing at every moment.

Only then could he picture her in his mind and savor every smile and frown.

He had few virtues.

Whatever he wanted, he would take.

By any means necessary.

Theme: Be independent and strong, and hold on to kindness