Black-Hearted, Paranoid Heroine vs. Loyal, Unhinged Hero Raised by Her
Keywords: Stealing Another's Wife
Back then, Lin Chen was a pampered and dignified princess, renowned throughout the land.
Pavilions and towers shone brilliantly in the darkness, while the distant Mirror Lake shimmered faintly.
Xiao Lin fell for her at first sight, and it lasted a lifetime.
Later, Xiao Lin helped the new emperor ascend the throne, leading three thousand troops in a direct assault on the enemy camp and earning renown across the realm.
Lin Chen, meanwhile, was about to enter the central palace as the new empress.
There she stood atop a three-foot dais, with delicate features and skin as fair as ice, her beauty as exquisite as carved jade.
Xiao Lin froze for a moment. The feelings that had stirred in him all those years ago came rushing back, vivid as ever. Riding on his drunkenness, he asked the emperor for Lin Chen right in front of the envoys.
A silver vase shattered, and the entire hall was stunned.
In the end, the emperor could not refuse the regent, whose power had grown strong enough to overshadow the throne.
People said the regent had seized the woman he loved to flaunt his might, and that he and his princess consort had long since become a couple in name only.
Yet in the sixth year of Zhaoxi, rumors spread far from the capital: "The Central Plains will ultimately belong to Xiao Lin. The true Son of Heaven is in decline."
The young emperor drew up a list of seventeen charges against Xiao Lin, including colluding with the Tartars and defying the throne, and planned to confiscate his estate. But then the new empress, once so proud and reserved, so taciturn, spoke out in his defense.
"My husband pacified Baekje and brought the wastelands to heel. He swept east through Goguryeo and pressed west to the Turkic royal court.
When someone is determined to pin a crime on you, what excuse can't they find?"
"I'll be with you as snow blankets the red plum blossoms, and your jade-white hands pluck the flowers."
"We'll watch the peach blossoms blaze in spring, and make a home together."
[One-on-one romance, mutual devotion, both leads' first love]
Blurb dated 2022.1.7
Theme: Be brave and pursue love
