Emperor Jiayao was obsessed with Daoist arts and doted on charlatans.
To curry favor with him, the powerful minister Li Yuanjie set an elaborate scheme in motion.
His legitimate daughter was born clutching a phoenix jade, stunning everyone on the day of her birth.
The emperor believed the tale and proclaimed her destined to be empress, calling her the Little Empress.
Years later, Li Zhiyi, with her snow-white skin and breathtaking beauty, naturally became the most sought-after choice of bride among all the princes.
Five dragons vied for the throne, and no one expected Prince Qi Yuan, born to a concubine, to win in the end.
Afterward, Qi Yuan, who had spent years biding his time, finally ascended the throne in accordance with the late emperor's will.
Only then did everyone realize that, despite his outward reverence for Daoism and its practitioners, he actually detested such sorcery and elixirs more than anyone.
The first thing he did as emperor was imprison Li Yuanjie.
He also stripped Li Zhiyi of her title as empress without a moment's hesitation,
turning her into a laughingstock throughout the land.
After years of restraint, Qi Yuan felt triumphant.
But the next day, as he ran a hand over the empty imperial bed, he felt strangely lonely.
A month later, Qi Yuan threw open the palace gates and held a grand consort-selection ceremony.
But no matter whom he looked at,
all he could see before him were Li Zhiyi's glistening eyes.
A year later, red-eyed Qi Yuan dismissed the women of the six palaces. Then he grabbed a Hanlin Academy compiler by the collar and demanded, “As emperor, under what circumstances can I take back an imperial decree?”
Li Zhiyi had been doted on all her life, raised to be pure and lovely.
She had never imagined that someone could have two faces.
He had once been refined and gracious, caring for her in every way and cherishing her above all else.
After he was named crown prince, he became cold and cruel, taking out his anger on her without restraint.
She endured until the day he ascended the throne.
When she watched him appoint his former bedchamber maid as a favored consort,
she finally understood that he had always hated her.
That even the story about her holding the jade had been invented by her father.
That she had never been destined to be empress.
So Li Zhiyi, driven from the palace, returned in utter disgrace to the desolate and dilapidated Li residence.
The next day, she wiped away her tears and suddenly felt that such a free life was a kind of liberation.
A month later, though the palace was clearly holding a consort selection, Qi Yuan came crashing through the Li residence's gates.
A year later, Qi Yuan seized her hands just as he had before and kissed away her tears.
His eyes wild, he said, “Li Zhiyi, I was wrong. You are destined to be empress.”
------ New regret-and-redemption story, My Husband Has Found New Love, coming soon --------
Gu Jianying was the daughter-in-law the Fu family had begged and struggled to bring into their family.
So she had always thought herself lucky.
Until one spring day, with the peach blossoms in full bloom,
she caught her husband, Fu Lingchen, with a young woman.
Their fingers intertwined, their gazes entwined, and everything about them was tender and intimate.
Gu Jianying panicked and instinctively went to her mother-in-law for help.
But through the carved window patterned with clouds,
she heard the mother-in-law who had always treasured her sneer and curse:
“Gu Jianying can't be allowed to stay. She'd better die soon.”
Only then did fear make her realize that her marriage had been a heartless scheme all along.
The Fu family had married her only to escape the harsh, impoverished land they came from
and become members of the high and mighty imperial capital, Yujing.
By now, the Fu family had already squeezed every last bit of usefulness out of her.
The Fu family's smugness and cruelty pressed down on her like a mountain.
At that moment, no one could have imagined
that Gu Jianying, reduced to her last breath, would plot her way forward step by step,
until she held the entire Fu family in the palm of her hand.
Afterward, Fu Lingchen would regret it to the depths of his soul, and Lady Fu Zhao would beg her again and again.
Meanwhile, this little Gu woman from the mountains would enter the court, overturn Yujing,
and become the salvation of countless people.
Theme: Treasure the people you love
Phoenix in a Cage
Tell Me You Love Me Before Takeoff
The Heir Apparent's Wife After the Divorce
The Honored Return of the Legitimate Daughter
The Young Master Made Me Cry Again
The Spoiled Playboy Claims the Slender Waist
An Ancient Guide to Spotting Women
The Grand Tutor Will Never Chase His Wife
Reborn: The Spoiled Girl’s Everyday Face-Slapping
Returning to Ancient Times to Deliver Packages
The Nanny Is Reborn as Everyone's Darling
The Little Princess Who Can Read Fortunes
I am still shocked by the character of the male protagonist, and I am too lazy to repeat it. But the reason why I kept reading is that I think your writing is not bad and the plot is not bad, so I am very curious about the reason why the male protagonist is portrayed to be so sexually powerful. After reading these two chapters, I understand that you are trying too hard. For example, at any time and for anything (even if the male protagonist chases his wife and apologizes fiercely at the crematorium), you have to describe the male protagonist as the most handsome and powerful, and the female protagonist as the most delicate and beautiful, which is very dramatic and embarrassing. Secondly, the plot is okay, but the plot does not give the male protagonist any advantage. The male protagonist can be a scumbag to the female protagonist, and he can hurt the female protagonist (I am not saying that it is right, but for the wife-chasing crematorium), but it cannot have no advantages at all... When Seizing the Progeny, the male protagonist was completely described as a person who relies entirely on his strategist, has no brains, and can't even pretend to show off his face to the female protagonist (it's also thanks to the heroine's naivety that she can't tell). In fact, the advantages of these plots can be given to the male protagonist. For example, the male protagonist is resourceful, has ideas, and is very calm (the male protagonist is really too irritable and irritable. It seems that he has no intention of the emperor at all, but is petty and petty...), Or it has a more basic meaning, such as hating the female protagonist but admitting that he relied on the female protagonist to show his face in front of the late emperor. The third is that seizing the heir apparent is a bit of a drama, and it progresses a bit too fast. I feel that everyone except the male protagonist is weak... Especially all the other princes are obsessed with the female protagonist and crazily want to make the female protagonist look like a husky. Isn't it a bit too outrageous? I feel that I have completely ignored the male protagonist and other princes. The nobility, connotation and etiquette of Tianjia come out... Finally, the description of many words and sentences feels a bit... (It is not bad, and there is culture, but it is inexplicably a bit exaggerated and vain of Western opera...) It is a bit like writing a painful sign in junior high school... I hope the author can write better and create better works.
It is said that everything should be done in a safe way so that we can meet again in the future. The heroine is now in the public eye, and the hero regrets that she has no use for it. Shit
The words "rose drunk" are very realistic. Sure enough, a woman thinks she is communicating with a man's soul, but in fact, a man just wants to sleep with you. A mind full of yellow waste
He drank a glass of rose and got drunk, inexplicably embarrassed
Even if the female protagonist is informed, even if the female protagonist is not so perfect and not so kind, she is still better than the male protagonist who is willful, unsympathetic and irritable. The male protagonist now seems to have no charm at all, he is just an ordinary man. In modern times, he would be an emotionally unstable domestic violence man.
So how did this idiot become the emperor? He is the stupidest male protagonist I have ever seen.
I feel that the transformation of the male protagonist here is so sudden, including the first few chapters, which are a bit intellectually depressing.
This male protagonist looks like a foolish king who has subjugated his country and exterminated his species.
Why should we give up our country...
Does he only love the heroine's love? Ah?