A Battleground Beneath the Noble Consort's Skirts

[Scheming and taking by force, the ruler steals his subject's wife, the son steals his father's wife. Each one is crazier than the last]

The most beautiful woman in the dynasty, Shen Shuyao, was taken from one of his ministers by Emperor Li Shu of Yuanlong.

No one in all of Dali dared mention the matter. Just hearing about it was enough to make people pale.

For years after entering the palace, Shen Shuyao kept her head down for her family's sake, enduring humiliation and maintaining an appearance of obedience.

Li Shu trusted her completely, even placing the Sixth Prince, Li Linqi, whose birth mother had died, in her care.

His father was guilty, but the child was innocent.

Taking pity on the boy, who had lost both parents so young, Shen Shuyao personally taught him to read and write, and instructed him in benevolence and righteousness. She stayed by his side as he slowly grew up.

*

For all these years, Li Shu had been deceiving himself, believing that his Noble Consort loved him.

But whenever he saw Shen Shuyao look at his minister Liu Yun with those tearful, almond-shaped eyes,

he felt as though a hundred claws were scratching at his heart, and he could barely control himself.

*

Later, the princes fought for the throne, the Imperial Guards surrounded the city, and the land was drenched in blood.

In the end, the Sixth Prince ascended the throne.

The foster son who had called her Mother Consort.

Shen Shuyao thought her chance to regain her freedom had finally come. So, in the dead of night, she went to the Zichen Hall to beg the new emperor for an imperial decree allowing her to leave the palace and spend her remaining years at Fushan Villa.

The hall glowed with countless flickering lights. Shen Shuyao stood in its center, her black hair smooth as satin, her lips red as rouge, her waist slender as silk, her beauty clear and unmatched.

She looked at the young emperor on the throne and parted her vermilion lips.

"Your Majesty, please allow your Mother Consort to leave the palace and retire to Fushan Villa for the rest of her life."

After a long silence, Li Linqi raised his eyes. His dark gaze was as deep as an unfathomable abyss.

He rose and walked down the steps, one by one, until he stood before her.

The child who had once been so small was now tall enough to intimidate her.

Backlit, Li Linqi's maple-red lips curled slightly, and his gaze was as wicked as a starving wolf's.

He seized her slender wrist, binding her like an iron chain, and spoke in a low, ominous voice that made her scalp tingle.

"Mother Consort, from now on, your son is your husband. Where do you think you can go?"

*

From then on, obsession became a sea of desire, and the imperial palace became a cage. There would be no peace until one of them was dead.

Blurb screenshotted on 2022/2/27

Theme: Even in adversity, strive to live a remarkable life