Synopsis
Bei Huanyan (the male lead) had only just arrived in Qinchun City when he was framed and thrown into prison.
Bei Huanwu (the female lead) continued investigating, only to be forced into a wedding ceremony with someone and sent to the bridal chamber.
During the Ghost Festival in the fifteenth year of Yongyan, strange incidents sprang up everywhere. Bei Huanyan and Bei Huanwu investigated them together, only to find themselves trapped in the middle of it all.
A red-clad female ghost, the sacred path to an imperial mausoleum, the Nanze royal clan, a physician's poison recipe, a pig demon appearing in the world, a sunken grain-transport ship, a corpse hidden in the Liu residence, millions of bones, a plague in the imperial capital, a sacrificial offering at a construction site...
What shocking secret lies behind these baffling cases?
As Bei Huanyan investigates, he discovers to his astonishment that this is connected to a major case from sixteen years ago.
Every witness they question ends up dead, so the Bei twins don't dare interrogate anyone at all.
How can they escape this dead end?
Schemes within schemes, traps within traps.
Who wants them dead? And who is plotting to seize the throne and usurp the country?
The prosperous Yongyan era, foreign nations paying tribute, past-life grudges, and present-day feuds.
Amid turbulent storms, who will break through the window of this mortal world?
As heaven's will turns, I shall secure a prosperous realm for my kingdom!
[Male Lead Excerpt]
Pointing at Bei Huanyan, she laughed loudly. "As long as your father is alive, as long as his influence remains, as long as the generals guarding the borders now are connected to your father, you will never escape the same fate as me! Even if Xu Jingzhi leaves you alone while he's on the throne, his son won't let you keep acting as regent after he takes over! Just look at my brothers and sisters! The fight over the heir has never ended without someone dying!"
Bei Huanyan looked at her calmly. "Are you finished?"
[Female Lead Excerpt]
In Bei Huanwu's eyes, if it was love, then it should be like her parents: fighting side by side on the battlefield, and if one died, the other would never go on living. It should be the kind of love that made you follow someone all the way to the King of Hell's court without regret, even knowing they were leading you down the road to the underworld.
They crawled, drenched in blood, out of the mire of power and ambition, able only to hold each other close. In that desperate situation with nowhere to run, they supported each other until they carved out a path to survival.
That kind of love was unbreakable.
Only someone who had seen the pain carved into the other's very bones could understand why they had gone mad.
Bei Huanwu had thought she could never experience such love in this life. But he gently took her hand and said, "Don't be afraid. Wherever we are, I'll be there with you."
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Reader's Guide
1. A dual-protagonist story. The female lead has a love interest and a romance arc. The male lead is too young for one (doge).
2. The male lead's story follows the open thread, while the female lead's is more hidden. The female lead has a bit of a crazy streak and acts with few restraints.
3. The male lead is the young heir of Prince An's mansion, and the female lead is the princess of Prince An's mansion. They are twins. The male lead is a junior minister at the Court of Judicial Review. The story mainly focuses on political maneuvering and outwitting opponents. There are some murder cases, but not many, and they all serve the main plot.
4. The stories all share the same setting in the Dongling Empire, with the same timeline and characters. This is an alternate history, with no supernatural elements: everything is caused by people.
5. Everyone remains as sharp as ever.
6. I hope to use stories in different styles to depict a dynasty's founding, rise to prosperity, decline, and eventual fall. I hope you'll join me as a spectator and witness it all.
7. Daily updates, with no breaks once the story begins.
8. The main road stretches far and wide, and everyone can go their own way. If our paths align, let's travel together. If not, you can take your bridge and I'll take my road; from now on, we'll be strangers and each live in peace.
9. Love you all, mwah!
The Dongling Series
"Ruling the Mountains and Rivers" - political intrigue (1/1), completed.
"Scheming Marriage" - romance and political intrigue (1/1), completed.
"A Prosperous Realm" - investigations and political intrigue (currently updating).
"Defying Heaven's Mandate (Reborn)" - a spoiler-filled story about defying fate (furiously stockpiling chapters).
"The Realm Is No More" - danmei political intrigue (outline in progress).
-Content Notes-
1. The male lead's story follows the open thread, and the story is split evenly between the male and female leads' perspectives (the male lead may get more scenes). If that bothers you, feel free to leave.
2. The overarching setting comes from "Ruling the Mountains and Rivers," with important later plotlines from "Scheming Marriage." This story can be read on its own without affecting your enjoyment.
3. Ensemble cast.
[Upcoming Story]
The next story will be "Defying Heaven's Mandate (Both Reborn)." Read the blurb and add it to your favorites from my author page.
In the twenty-seventh year of Tianming, the heavens changed.
Princess Xu Mu dragged the powerful chancellor Bai Cangzhou from the palace to the city wall and made him open his eyes and look at the blazing fires in Xudu and the Wuzu cavalry.
That day, they fell from the city wall together and died as the capital fell and their country was destroyed.
When Xu Mu woke again, she realized she had been reborn at the age of fourteen.
As soon as she woke, someone tried to kill her.
A young man in plain clothes saved her. When Xu Mu looked at him, she was shocked to realize he was Bai Cangzhou as a boy.
That rescue showed Xu Mu the hidden secrets of court intrigue from her youth, and made her realize she had harbored feelings for him in her previous life that she could never conceal.
But seventeen-year-old Bai Cangzhou already had a fiancée.
As Xu Mu mocked herself for repeating the same mistakes, she met the man who had made her live like a widow for five years in her previous life.
She fled in a panic, and as she looked at the dark river, she found herself thinking of death.
Bai Cangzhou rushed over and grabbed her, scolding, "What could possibly be so terrible that Your Highness couldn't get past it in either life?"
Xu Mu froze for a moment, then shoved him to the ground. "So you were reborn too. Was it amusing to watch me act like a fool?"
After a long conversation, they agreed on one thing: they had to go back.
She would seize the throne, defy heaven's mandate, and extend Dongling's fortunes by three hundred years!
But everyone in the former court and the imperial harem was a master schemer. How could she learn to plan and control events?
During the three years she lay low, she watched them fight for power and learned their tricks and schemes.
When she met Bai Cangzhou again three years later, she put what she'd learned to use and laid a trap. They shared a night of tender passion beneath the spring-warmed curtains, and afterward she refused to admit anything had happened.
Bai Cangzhou regretted it. Three years earlier, he shouldn't have used her in his scheme and let her hate him for so long.
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After being reborn:
Xu Mu, 14; Bai Cangzhou, 17.
Xu Mu: Bai Cangzhou, you won't lose anything by saving me.
Bai Cangzhou: ??
Xu Mu: Aren't you from a poor family and unable to afford the imperial examinations? I'm a princess. I'm loaded.
Bai Cangzhou: ...
That same year, Bai Cangzhou passed all three levels of the imperial examinations and became the top scholar.
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Three years later
Xu Mu, 17; Bai Cangzhou, 20.
Bai Cangzhou: Your Highness has a new love and forgotten the old one?
Xu Mu: ??
Bai Cangzhou: Your Highness is so heartless. You were so passionate that night, but now you pretend nothing happened.
Xu Mu: ...It was an accident.
That same year, they married and joined hands to turn Dongling's fortunes around.
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[The useless princess rises to become a ruthless regent X The widowed chancellor is reborn and dotes on his wife like no other]
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Theme: Strong young people make a strong country.
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Stable daily updates, updated at 0:05. The next book is "Jie Tianming (Double Life)", which is still the kind of plotting and changing fate against the will of heaven.
Hahahaha I like their CP
It's so beautiful. I can't get enough of it. I want to see reconciliation.
No, no, Xiao Guo can be very smart, but Xiao Yan must be smarter than him
In fact, I quite like Guo's character design, he is this kind of Machiavellian who takes everything into consideration...
The two of them are progressing quite quickly, although it is a matter of interests.
Ah ah ah ah when can I enter v?
I like this book. It's the first time I've read a complete detective story. I didn't feel bored after reading it carefully. Overall, it's just breathtaking. The first thing I felt after reading it over and over again is that the emperor in this book is too outstanding, the characters are too three-dimensional and full, and a wise king in the prosperous age should look like this, with such a kind heart and skills. I was really happy when I read that he said that to live a long life is to protect the younger generations when they grow up. After reading this major case that runs through the whole book, I can't help but sigh that this emperor is so cute. In fact, I may have already had a psychological presumption that in the end the powerful ministers and the king, especially the thoughtful king, would definitely break up, so it was really sad when the protagonist group was under house arrest, and because I was used to seeing the plot going like this, I was only slightly disappointed. When everything was reversed and the dust settled, the surprise was magnified several times. At that moment, I felt that if An Gui hadn't given up his position back then, Xu Jingzhi probably wouldn't have doubted them. This is the confidence that characterization gave me. It can be seen that the author put a lot of thought into this character. When the male protagonist exclaims that the emperor is the best student of the Imperial Tutor, Xu Jingzhi's character arc makes others and the whole world eclipse him. I also like Jingque very much. Their perfect emotional lines made my aunt unable to stop laughing. I rarely watch Danmei, but I think they are the highlight of this article. They make people feel that they are flesh and blood people. I have said a lot but not mentioned the male and female protagonists. Maybe it is because I have seen too many talented and beautiful male and female protagonists, but I have seen too few such emperors, or in other words, almost never seen them. Although this is indeed idealistic, I think this may be the touch and feeling that the novel brings us. Finally, I expressed my love for Bei Huanluo, which was regarded as the ultimate respect. I feel that this one will be my favorite among the several books. It is so to my liking. I may read the first one in the future... There are too few authors who write good plotting. Please write more. No matter what type of plotting it is, I will read it...
I really like Xiaozhi, please give me more love stories between Xiaozhi and Yan [Rose]
I purposely looked for this chapter and read it first. Fortunately, the CP I knocked was not lost [Spread flowers][Spread flowers][Spread flowers]