My new book, The Emperor Uncle's Old Flame Rekindles, is currently updating. Please add it to your collection. Blurb at the end.
Blurb:
"What do you take me for? A stand-in?"
The young emperor steps over the jade bowl he smashed and glares furiously at Hong Yu. The thirteenth day of the third month is not his birthday, yet she has brought him a bowl of longevity noodles again. Whose birthday is she celebrating?
An emperor's wrath is terrifying, of course, but Hong Yu can't say a word in her defense. She is mute, with no one to rely on. The emperor never liked her. He loves Madam Zhou, who has been widowed for years. If the ministers hadn't pressured him, he would never have settled for Hong Yu and taken her into his harem.
The emperor storms off in anger. Soon, Hong Yu is stripped of her title and banished to the Cold Palace. On the same day, the emperor chooses Madam Zhou as his empress.
At the empress's enthronement ceremony, the emperor wants to please the woman he loves. In front of all the civil and military officials, he orders someone to wrap a three-foot strip of white silk around Hong Yu's neck.
Afterward, a palace servant finds a broken bamboo flute in Hong Yu's palm. The words "Qingxi" are carved into it. The servants know that was the name of the man she loved before entering the palace.
And his birthday was the thirteenth day of the third month.
This deposed, mute consort had been far too bold. She dared to openly treat the emperor as a stand-in, so no wonder she met such a fate.
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Many years later, people still speak with fascination of the strange events on the day the emperor married in the fourth year of Chongming.
The emperor kills the empress and several powerful ministers who conspired with her. The palace runs with blood. After reclaiming his authority, his first act is not to purge the conspirators, but to go mad searching the land for sorcerers who might resurrect the deposed consort who died that day.
On their wedding night, when her husband tells her all this, Hong Yu, a little sleepy, simply nestles into his arms and loosens his sash.
Their wedding night should not be spent talking about someone irrelevant.
What she doesn't know is that the emperor, who has been searching for her for ages, is standing outside the room, hearing every sound they make.
His hands tremble uncontrollably, and he suddenly coughs up blood.
He suddenly remembers the last time he saw Hong Yu many years ago, when he was still that man. They depended on each other for everything. That day, he went down the mountain to buy her some candy. Just before he left, she suddenly said, "Qingxi, if you ever betray me, I'll marry someone else."
He laughed at her for being silly, patted her head, and went down the mountain. He never made it back.
He wasn't a stand-in. He was her beloved, but he had forgotten.
Qingxi, Qingxi. It was the name he had given himself, a name he chose to suit her.
* The male lead has no sexual experience. The heroine later truly marries her husband. There are reasons behind her faked death. For the full story, please read the book, which begins with the two of them meeting. Image source: Bishui, 2022/6/20
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He Hui is the granddaughter of the Empress Dowager's dear childhood friend. She is specially brought into the palace to meet Prince Ning.
She thinks becoming his princess is a sure thing, until one banquet when Prince Ning publicly refuses the Empress Dowager's proposal that he marry He Hui, humiliating her.
Afterward, He Hui, eyes red, stops Prince Ning and asks him why he held her the other night if he had no intention of marrying her. But Prince Ning looks at her as though she's crazy and denies it outright. "You've got lovesickness from wanting to be princess so badly, haven't you?"
He refuses to admit it, and she thinks he's lying. But when she makes inquiries, she discovers Prince Ning really hadn't left his chamber that night.
He Hui is baffled.
If that's the case, who is the man who meets her every night each month and held her just a few days ago?
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One night, the emperor meets a young woman. She's dull, worldly, and boring, completely out of place in the palace, yet for some reason he finds her agreeable, until the Empress Dowager tells him:
That's the woman she has chosen for his son.
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Prince Ning doesn't like He Hui, but the Empress Dowager and the emperor treat her well, as if they've already decided she's to be the future Princess of Ning.
The emperor in particular breaks the rules for her several times. Prince Ning assumes it's because the emperor is trying to please the Empress Dowager.
To please the emperor, Prince Ning considers one candidate after another and finally settles on Shen Hehui. He goes to her room and tells her from the other side of a screen:
"I've already spoken to Grandmother. Once our engagement is made official, the matter between us will be settled for good. After we marry, you'll have to drop those country ways of yours. Don't embarrass me, understood?"
There is a rustling sound from inside, but no reply.
Prince Ning walks around the screen and goes in. "Have you gone mute?"
Before he can finish speaking, he freezes.
He Hui is wearing only her underclothes, her collar loose and a red plum blossom showing at her collarbone. She hurriedly tries to cover herself with a quilt, while the bright yellow sash hanging from her waist, embroidered with a coiled dragon, is impossible to miss.
It is an item only his father, the Emperor of Great Zhou, is allowed to wear.
#The emperor is thirty-four, an old flame rekindled, a man in power humbly begging for love
#The heroine and Prince Ning are not in a relationship and have no feelings for each other. 2024/7/15
Theme: Cherish the person before you.
After reading it, I feel very motivated to write the second half, but I would like to use one word to describe my feelings about this article, which is "sorrow". In Fortune, I am full of appreciation and love for the love between childhood sweethearts and boys. The author writes very well, and describes the pure, passionate and beautiful feelings of the male and female protagonists when they were young so well. This leads to Fortune, the palace plot makes people angry and full of powerlessness. I know that the male protagonist did not mean it. He tried very hard to resist, but still failed, and the female protagonist was completely hurt because of it. I saw that I was reviewing my own psychological activities very much later. Who should be blamed? Blame the late emperor, but it cannot be denied that it is the male protagonist who directly hurts the female protagonist: blame the male protagonist, I know he is also a victim and a victim, so I felt so uncomfortable during the torture in the palace. As for why it is called "sad"? The heroine and Xiao Yan are also made up of people, starting with redemption. A good life is the hope of the heroine. Xiao Yan is a very good person, and his character is still very stable until the end. But it is precisely because of his kindness that he cannot selfishly hide the facts, so he chooses to let the red fish leave. Their home was a haven for redfish, but now it ended like this. The sorrow of Hongyu and Qingxi is even more obvious. It was so sweet in the front and so cruel in the back. Time passed by, and more than ten years passed by in a hurry. Things have changed, they have missed each other for so many years, and the harm they have done to each other is not what they want, but they are both scarred. At the end, the dust settled and I breathed a sigh of relief. Let's cherish our time together, let time heal the scars, and stay together for the rest of our lives. Thank you to the author for this work. I was sad to read it but I really liked it. Looking forward to the extra episode.
Xiao Zi feels like he's going crazy. Will he have a mental breakdown? [Spread flowers][Spread flowers]
Ah, I really prefer the image of Guan Qingxi, a high-spirited young man in red clothes. On the contrary, I am not very interested in Xiao Jisheng's deep nobility or Yan Yu's integrity and old-fashionedness. I just feel that after so much, the male protagonist cannot return to the original state.
As of now writing this article, I think the separation between them is the best ending. The heroine has suffered too much, and now she has finally stabilized. Why does the hero break up the couple because of his own unwillingness? Don't you think he is a clown?
Yan Yu is a bit miserable, but he also wants the male and female protagonists to be together
It's nice~I like your writing~but there are so few people. You can go to Xiaodugu or WB to find someone to help you push the article.
That is to say, if Xiao Zi is really pregnant with Yan Zi's child, will Xiao Zi go crazy? Thinking about it makes me happy [Let me be healthy] [Let me be Kangkang]
This book is so sad. Personally, I prefer the Emperor's book. I look forward to more new works.
After all the stumbling and stumbling, it's not easy to finally be together.
After reading it, I feel very motivated to write the second half, but I would like to use one word to describe my feelings about this article, which is "sorrow". In Fortune, I am full of appreciation and love for the love between childhood sweethearts and boys. The author writes very well, and describes the pure, passionate and beautiful feelings of the male and female protagonists when they were young so well. This leads to Fortune, the palace plot makes people angry and full of powerlessness. I know that the male protagonist did not mean it. He tried very hard to resist, but still failed, and the female protagonist was completely hurt because of it. I saw that I was reviewing my own psychological activities very much later. Who should be blamed? Blame the late emperor, but it cannot be denied that it is the male protagonist who directly hurts the female protagonist: blame the male protagonist, I know he is also a victim and a victim, so I felt so uncomfortable during the torture in the palace. As for why it is called "sad"? The heroine and Xiao Yan are also made up of people, starting with redemption. A good life is the hope of the heroine. Xiao Yan is a very good person, and his character is still very stable until the end. But it is precisely because of his kindness that he cannot selfishly hide the facts, so he chooses to let the red fish leave. Their home was a haven for redfish, but now it ended like this. The sorrow of Hongyu and Qingxi is even more obvious. It was so sweet in the front and so cruel in the back. Time passed by, and more than ten years passed by in a hurry. Things have changed, they have missed each other for so many years, and the harm they have done to each other is not what they want, but they are both scarred. At the end, the dust settled and I breathed a sigh of relief. Let's cherish our time together, let time heal the scars, and stay together for the rest of our lives. Thank you to the author for this work. I was sad to read it but I really liked it. Looking forward to the extra episode.
Xiao Zi feels like he's going crazy. Will he have a mental breakdown? [Spread flowers][Spread flowers]
Ah, I really prefer the image of Guan Qingxi, a high-spirited young man in red clothes. On the contrary, I am not very interested in Xiao Jisheng's deep nobility or Yan Yu's integrity and old-fashionedness. I just feel that after so much, the male protagonist cannot return to the original state.
As of now writing this article, I think the separation between them is the best ending. The heroine has suffered too much, and now she has finally stabilized. Why does the hero break up the couple because of his own unwillingness? Don't you think he is a clown?
Yan Yu is a bit miserable, but he also wants the male and female protagonists to be together
It's nice~I like your writing~but there are so few people. You can go to Xiaodugu or WB to find someone to help you push the article.
That is to say, if Xiao Zi is really pregnant with Yan Zi's child, will Xiao Zi go crazy? Thinking about it makes me happy [Let me be healthy] [Let me be Kangkang]
This book is so sad. Personally, I prefer the Emperor's book. I look forward to more new works.
After all the stumbling and stumbling, it's not easy to finally be together.
Oh my gosh, that's wonderful.