Everything Jun Xiao has was seized by him: the throne, the cavalry, the people's hearts,
including the pretty little beauty who looks so delicate.
She hates him with all her heart. He calls her Rou Rou, but she is not gentle in the slightest. She's the only person under heaven who dares to slap him.
Even though Jun Xiao is an emperor who holds power in his hands and controls who lives and dies,
the only thing he wants in all the world is for the girl with snowy cheeks and flowerlike beauty to smile at him.
Xiao Yingrou should have become the Crown Princess of Liang.
Her Crown Prince brother, Li Changjing, was solemn and gentle, like a spring-night rain, his feelings hidden in his deep, shifting eyes.
She wanted to be worthy of him, so she was always soft-spoken, refined, and reserved.
But after a defeat, her brother, the commander-in-chief, lay unconscious and rigid, while the General's residence was accused of treason. Her father was overcome with anger and died suddenly from an asthma attack.
The emperor of the enemy state, who had coveted her for a long time, sent her a secret letter through a covert agent.
"Come back with me, and I'll find someone to treat your brother."
Xiao Yingrou clenched the letter. Her brother had been injured in a sneak attack by an enemy general! How dare he say that?
She did not reply, but in the blink of an eye, the Sheng army was once more at the city gates. This time, the enemy emperor, famed for his courage and skill in battle, led the army himself. No one in Liang could stand against him.
Jun Xiao declared from the front lines, "Give me your former Crown Princess, and I'll withdraw my troops."
With hundreds of thousands of soldiers at the gates, it turned out he had come only to seize the daughter of a disgraced official. Faced with the strange looks of the people of Liang, Xiao Yingrou finally wiped away her tears and chose to go with that wanton man to his country.
Once her brother woke up, she would make him pay.
Everyone in Tiansheng knew that the handsome, fierce emperor had abducted a peerlessly beautiful noblewoman from defeated Liang.
In the red-draped chambers of the golden palace, songs filled the night as they reveled in each other's embrace.
But later on...
Jun Xiao, who had always held himself above everyone else, had the marks of a slap on his face. He simply smiled, calm and indulgent.
"The Empress and I were just playing around."
"A beating means affection, and scolding means love. You wouldn't understand."
The ministers: They really didn't understand, and didn't dare try.
#A jealous, unruly enemy emperor X a delicate, proud beauty who is not gentle at all#
[Reading Guide]:
1. One-on-one romance / sweet and devoted / mild forced pursuit / fundamentally a sweet story / no physical or emotional abuse of the heroine, though the hero may suffer emotionally
2. The hero may seem like a jerk, but he loves the heroine to the bone and is faithful to her. Over time, he gradually teaches himself to become the perfect boyfriend.
Cover artist: Paigu Xiaobao
Theme: Love is wanting to touch, then pulling your hand back.
