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The year Shen Yingque turned ten, the General Who Conquers the North's mansion caught fire.
She lost both her parents and trembled, clutching her little brother amid flashing blades and clashing swords.
Xiao Yiqing shielded her from the bloodshed and cleaved through her troubles.
His pure, noble figure was like a handful of snow descended into a tainted world.
Shen Yingque stared at him, dazed. Though wind and snow filled her sleeves, she didn't feel cold at all.
To hold on to that handful of snow, she put her father's connections, her mother's wealth, and half her life on the line. At last, she helped him ascend the throne.
But when enemy troops captured her and forced her to swallow poison, Xiao Yiqing used her mother's money and her father's city to buy the only antidote that could save her.
He did it just so her cousin could carry the child she had conceived with him.
To Shen Yingque, he had only one thing to say: "What do you have that can compare to her?"
Even the Empress Dowager, who had treated Shen Yingque as her own daughter, urged her to be magnanimous and put the imperial heir first.
Shen Yingque finally saw the truth.
When she opened her eyes again, she looked at the Empress, contentedly enjoying the fruits of Shen Yingque's efforts to please her; her cousin, all smiles to her face and treachery behind her back; and Xiao Yiqing, waiting impatiently for her to serve him. She only sneered. "I want to break off the engagement."
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The Prince of Guangling, Xiao Wang, has always had the flavor of poetry and wine.
Some are dazzled by his brilliant mind: at seven, he could already match wits at chess with the most learned scholar in the court. Others admire his genius for command: in just three years, he expanded the Southern Dynasty's territory by a third.
And some say he is a rare, honorable gentleman.
Even after achieving the unparalleled feat of pacifying the north and reclaiming the Central Plains, he still obeyed his late imperial brother's final command, helping his nephew ascend the throne before retiring from public life, with not the slightest ambition to seize power for himself.
Shen Yingque thought a man like him would always be, to her, Xiao Yiqing's "Ninth Imperial Uncle."
Until the night she broke off her engagement and left the palace.
She was lost about what lay ahead.
The man, however, remained as relaxed as ever. He idly toyed with a firefly perched on his fingertip, looking down at the imperial city below. Its glow made his eyes and brows seem cold and weary.
Without asking whether she dared or wanted to, he simply said, "You don't love him anymore, do you? Then I'll take you back and fight our way in."
His domineering attitude was plain as day, his arrogance utterly unabashed.
As if toppling the throne were as simple as crushing a firefly;
As if killing those who had once bullied her were as inevitable as breathing.
- "The person time can't make you forget is bound to stir your heart when you meet again."
(Blurb version one: July 22, 2023; version two: September 29.)
★ One-on-one romance, ten-year age gap, slow-burn relationship
★ Both leads are reborn / the second male lead rises to become the love interest / everyone else gets their comeuppance
Theme: Don't stop to chase the wind and moon; near the level fields, spring mountains await.
Back to Before My Ex-Husband Died in Battle for Me
After the Ghost Marriage
I'm Just an Ordinary Fox Demon
After the Political Marriage, I Became the Enemy Nation's Beloved
So the Crown Princess Doesn't Love Me
After Breaking the Love Curse with the Regent
The Chu Palace Waist
Fleeing an Arranged Marriage by Imperial Decree
After the Fake Princess Was Exposed
Crossing the Galaxy for Me
Warmth on Your Lips
How Can She Compare to Such a Beauty?
My cousin is still very annoying, maybe not bad, but being around and coveting her makes me uncomfortable. I care more than the heroine 😂
Sorry, after watching it all the way, I really don't think it's worth it for the heroine! Every life was screwed up, and the culprit was pretty much the same person, except for the second life. Let's just arrange for a second male to accompany her on her sightseeing tours in this life.
The male protagonist has the biggest problem, and he can also let people from the Song family enter the palace to serve him at will. Why is the male protagonist becoming more and more unlikable, and the female protagonist is so pitiful
I feel like this cousin looks like a white lotus flower [transformed]
The male protagonist and the Song family are responsible for the tragic fate of the female protagonist in her first life. They try to take good care of the female protagonist but refuse to let go. The novel is very interesting, but from the moment the male protagonist arrives in the Song family, he becomes more and more annoying as he reads [rolls eyes]
Looking at the previous chapters, the male protagonist now has no interest in his cousin, but why did the eunuch who poisoned the female protagonist in the first life say that the male protagonist wants to make his cousin his queen? Could it be that I remembered it wrong. Although the recent articles are good and exciting, I still want to read something a little sweeter 😂
No normal woman can accept such a man, right? I thought it was good before, but now it's not worth it for the heroine.
Suddenly, both the male protagonist and the cousin made me feel sick. I thought I would see a cool story about the two of them helping each other in the same boat, but I ended up staying at the Song family for too long just because of my cousin. Maybe the male protagonist really had a relationship with the imperial concubine's cousin in his previous life. Because after reading the article, I felt that the male protagonist has been alienated from the female protagonist and did not say anything clearly. The female protagonist clearly cared about her cousin before, and the male protagonist also knew it, but did not take it to heart. Moreover, the Song family hopes that the male protagonist will marry his cousin. I really don't believe that the male protagonist does not know, but he still allows the female protagonist to be verbally humiliated here, so the female protagonist should give up and leave to fulfill the male protagonist's unspoken wish.
The male protagonist does not tell the female protagonist something that everyone else knows, which makes the female protagonist very sad and makes her even more insecure when thinking about that dream.
Can't the hero see that everyone wants him to marry his cousin? Strangeness