This novel is also known as I Divorced the Crown Prince and Married His Uncle
In her previous life, Huo Qingluo was an empress.
An empress sentenced to death in the Cold Palace.
She had thought that when she and her husband first met beneath a peach tree, they had fallen in love at first sight, and that they were destined to rule together in harmony.
So her Huo family hid the truth from the world for him and helped him secure a throne he had no rightful claim to.
But she never imagined that, in the end, her husband would bring his radiant, beautiful favorite consort to give her poisoned wine.
He said, "I've grown sick of the way your Huo family looks down on everyone."
It turned out the match she had thought was heaven-sent had been carefully planned by a man all along.
He married her only because she was a Huo.
When the wily hare is dead, the hound is cooked.
He no longer needed the Huo family, or her.
Huo Qingluo drank the poisoned wine, her heart consumed by hatred. But when she opened her eyes again, the red filling her vision stung them.
She had returned to the night she married that man.
* * *
Huo Qingluo has returned from a sea of blood and vengeance. She will right every wrong from her previous life.
She will protect the Huo family.
She will make those who betrayed her pay the price they deserve.
So she saves a vicious, handsome young man, restores his status as a prince, and personally shatters the man's dream of becoming emperor.
Later, she obtains a divorce decree for herself and becomes the abandoned wife the whole world laughs at.
Later still, the Crown Prince is deposed. His failed attempt to seize the palace ends with his death and disgrace.
A new emperor ascends the throne, and the Huo family remains as prosperous and influential as ever. Huo Qingluo lives among the mountains and rivers of Jiangnan, never expecting a splendid phoenix carriage to come for her.
Nor does she expect the man who has become the emperor to be there.
He reaches out to her, his eyes brimming with a tenderness deeper than the misty rain of Jiangnan.
"A Luo, I told you that one day I would make you my empress."
Reading guide:
◆ Both leads have only ever been with each other.
◆ Crown Princess who has never consummated her marriage × male lead who is a eunuch in disguise
◆ Second male lead tries to win her back, but fails
Coming soon: Calamity of Beauty (Possessive Love)
Qiao Chu has skin like snow, a waist like a willow, and cascading black hair. She is breathtakingly beautiful.
But her beauty brings her disaster.
Powerful men covet her, scions of noble families die for her, and finally an incompetent emperor takes her into his harem.
The night she is sent into the palace, the Huailing Prince's rebel army storms the imperial city. Wearing a phoenix crown and wedding robes, she sits on the bridal bed. The one who arrives is not the emperor, now in his twilight years, but a young general.
Armored, he uses his bloodstained sword to tear away her red veil. Then he lifts her chin with the tip of the blade and says coldly, "Such beauty. Truly a calamity."
At that moment, Qiao Chu knows he feels nothing for her but disdain and disgust.
* * *
The old dynasty falls, and a new one is established. The founding ruler of Great Zhou dies after reigning for half a year. His second son, Zhao Chunfang, ascends the throne, backed by his military achievements and the people's support.
The new emperor cares for his people and rewards and punishes fairly. Everyone at court and across the land calls him a wise ruler. The only thing that worries his ministers is that he has not taken a single woman into his harem and spends every night reciting prayers in the Buddhist hall.
But no one knows that in the dead of night, before an ancient Buddha and a solitary green lamp, Qiao Chu, once called a "calamity," wears a nun's robes and kneels before the aloof, noble new emperor, begging him to save her family, trapped in the hands of the former dynasty's rebels.
The new emperor lifts her chin, rubs his thumb over her lips, and asks hoarsely, "Why should I save them? And what can you give me?"
Her life is already in his hands. What else can she give him?
The only thing she can offer...
Is this body.
* * *
Qiao Chu once thought that even though Zhao Chunfang felt nothing but disdain and disgust for her, he was still an upright gentleman. Who could have known it was all an act?
She became a pawn on his path to imperial power.
Now he has claimed the throne, yet he still wants to humiliate her.
So she runs away. Fortunately, the young nobleman who had been betrothed to her years ago does not care that she is no longer a virgin.
Qiao Chu is grateful to escape the imperial city and spend the rest of her life as an ordinary village woman, far from that high-and-mighty man.
But on the day of her wedding, the Imperial Guards pour in and surround the thatched cottage. The dignified, richly dressed man strolls up to her.
Her unwed husband has already been captured. The man tears off her red veil once more, and the eyes that were always so composed turn dark and vicious.
"Do you know how much effort I went to to find you? You truly are a calamity."
But he will never let another man touch a calamity like her.
He is the Son of Heaven. He should possess all under it, including this woman who throws all living beings into chaos.
Theme: Good love inspires people to become better.
With Li Bin's level of emotional intelligence, being an emperor would be useless.
Laughing to death, another Gualga family
Laughing to death, just like another Guarga family
It seems like this is a story about two people chasing their wives at the crematorium (laughs)
Thank you to every little cutie who clicked on this article. I would like to recommend Abai's new article "Disaster (Force and Robbery)" [Click on the column to read]
A story about a last-generation peerless beauty who meets the founding king, a dog-man who openly dislikes her but secretly loves her too much, native dog literature (warning about the elements of robbery, chasing his wife, and the crematorium!)
On the contrary, I prefer Li Xuan and don't like the heroine very much.
This is a bit inconsistent with the character. Since Concubine He has noticed that someone is trying to check on Sun Fang, she will definitely make some arrangements for her hometown. The male and female protagonists were so cautious before, but here they completely trust a strange old woman. They directly say that they are here to find someone, show their true appearance, and still live in this person's home. It is too careless and completely different from the caution in the previous article.
It's good to watch ~ The ending is full of flowers (so should I wait for the extra chapter or not)
The male and female protagonists must only have one room when they go out~
Ah, Xiao Tao is too "simple", what a trap
With Li Bin's level of emotional intelligence, being an emperor would be useless.
Laughing to death, another Gualga family
Laughing to death, just like another Guarga family
It seems like this is a story about two people chasing their wives at the crematorium (laughs)
Thank you to every little cutie who clicked on this article. I would like to recommend Abai's new article "Disaster (Force and Robbery)" [Click on the column to read] A story about a last-generation peerless beauty who meets the founding king, a dog-man who openly dislikes her but secretly loves her too much, native dog literature (warning about the elements of robbery, chasing his wife, and the crematorium!)
On the contrary, I prefer Li Xuan and don't like the heroine very much.
This is a bit inconsistent with the character. Since Concubine He has noticed that someone is trying to check on Sun Fang, she will definitely make some arrangements for her hometown. The male and female protagonists were so cautious before, but here they completely trust a strange old woman. They directly say that they are here to find someone, show their true appearance, and still live in this person's home. It is too careless and completely different from the caution in the previous article.
It's good to watch ~ The ending is full of flowers (so should I wait for the extra chapter or not)
The male and female protagonists must only have one room when they go out~