Admiring the Golden Bough (Reborn)

A younger brother still in school, a little sister; a broken home, and him, determined to be strong.

[1]

Li Lingyi is the Emperor's full-blooded elder sister, born to wealth and nobility, with an exalted status.

One of her few troubles is that the monthly memorials impeaching the Princess's lavish spending pile up into a thick stack, and half of them come from Meng Linxue. Young as he is, he holds a high office and is blessed with striking good looks, yet he goes about unsmiling and is stiff and dull.

As the Grand Princess of the realm, Li Lingyi met her end after being poisoned in a plot against her.

After being reborn, Li Lingyi returns to the year she turned twenty-two, when she was riding high and Meng Linxue was at his lowest ebb.

[2]

Meng Linxue is the son of a disgraced minister. Though immensely talented, he was dragged down by his family, his career in government ruined, and left to rely on his only remaining younger brother and sister.

Unable to accept being buried in obscurity, he gathers his courage and stops the Grand Princess's carriage.

The young lady smiles. "I'll help you enter the civil service. How will you repay me?"

The refined young man trembles as he steps forward, uttering the most outrageous words of his life: "I have feelings for Your Highness. I beg you to take pity on me..."

The young lady smiles and mercilessly rewards him with ten lashes.

[3]

When she sees Meng Linxue again, he is covered in blood and on the verge of death.

Looking at her future sworn enemy in such a wretched state, Li Lingyi suddenly comes up with a brilliant idea.

She puts away her riding crop, bends down, and asks him, "Do you still stand by what you said that day?"

[Warnings]

Male lead C

Alternate dynasty, lots of invented details, logic buried in the ground

2022.2.4

Theme: Cherish the people in front of you