Zhao Caifeng transmigrates into a female-dominance novel as an imperial daughter with the same name.
Knowing what happens later, she refuses the villainous mother-in-law, Chancellor Chu, and at the scene of the broken engagement, takes in a handsome young man whose clothes are in disarray and who is pitiable in the original story. She keeps him by her side every day.
Before long, rumors run wild throughout the capital. Everyone says that the virtuous prince Zhao Caifeng has defied convention, fallen out with Chancellor Chu, and flown into a rage over a beauty.
Everyone assumes she is so caught up in handsome men that her future is ruined, and waits to see her make a fool of herself.
But as they wait... they discover that she has cleaned up officialdom, strengthened the river embankments, and replenished the treasury.
In just a few years, Zhao Caifeng ascends the throne, puts an end to the previous dynasty’s extravagance, and devotes her entire life to one imperial husband.
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Chu Yisheng, raised quietly in Chancellor Chu’s household, was born breathtakingly beautiful, with the backbone of jade bamboo and skin like cool porcelain. Sadly, as a child, he thought his name was simply “poor little thing,” as everyone called him.
In his previous life, he couldn’t escape the fate of being abused and toyed with by the Chu family’s mother and daughters, which led to his tragic death.
In this life, just before the tragedy can happen, he throws himself into the arms of the rakish and virtuous prince Zhao Caifeng, staking everything on a slim chance of survival.
From trembling and not daring to raise his head as he calls her “Your Highness,” to standing at the front of her ministers and looking up at his sovereign, to accepting her invitation to ascend the steps and receive the phoenix crown, becoming the principal imperial husband who stands at her side... Chu Yi is filled with gratitude and love for her.
But Chu Yi knows that an emperor’s harem must not be empty.
One day, swallowing his heart-piercing jealousy, he welcomes the men who were her three husbands and four consorts in her previous life into the harem.
To his surprise, his wife-empress is furious.
...Chu Yi is baffled, then finally understands, embarrassed and confused.
Could it be that his wife-empress really wants no one else in her harem but him?
A doggerel blurb:
Female lead Zhao Caifeng: She’s all about her career and makes a little progress, then transmigrates into a female-dominance novel and becomes a doomed prince. She decisively changes course: I’m going to become empress. She flies into a rage for the sake of a beauty, and establishes her new image.
Male lead Chu Yi: I’m a burden, everyone calls me a poor little thing. My past life was tragic, but in this life I’m determined. Before the tragedy can happen again, I find myself a wife. She says she’ll stand up for me. Should I believe her?
Caifeng and Yisheng fly together, their hearts in perfect harmony. Add it to your collection and watch this unconventional love story.
1. A fictional setting, very, very fictional, with women giving birth.
2. One-on-one romance. The male lead was forced by others in his previous life, but in this life both leads are sexually inexperienced.
3. A career-focused female lead who slowly awakens to love in the later part of the story, and a male lead who first falls into romance, then broadens his horizons.
Theme: Only wholehearted dedication leads to success