Yuan Lushu

[On August 16, 2024, the author decided to substantially revise this story.]

(No updates means the author is revising the plot. Please ignore the gap.)

Helan Min was praised by all as a refined gentleman, as fresh and graceful as willows in the spring moonlight. He was born into a prominent family and had a brilliant future ahead of him.

I was born to humble circumstances and married up to Helan Min. To outsiders, I was blessed beyond measure.

After we married, he was very "devoted" to me.

But no one knew I had never wanted this marriage. I was originally engaged to his younger half-cousin.

As I was about to marry, he schemed to seize me for himself. And that wasn't all: he humiliated my former husband right in front of me.

He controlled me, imprisoned me, and restricted my freedom.

He possessed me while wearing the mask of a gentle, jade-like gentleman.

I refused to accept this, but under the weight of his power, I had no choice but to compromise and remain entangled with Helan Min.

Until one day, the stalemate broke when I accompanied Helan Min to a palace banquet.

At the banquet, the frail, sickly emperor fell for me at first sight and took me for himself.

No one dared object.

For the first time, Helan Min lost control completely, fire burning in his eyes.

When Helan Min and I met again, I had become a high-ranking consort, favored by the emperor, while he was no more than a lowly Hanlin Academy scholar.

I sat in a place of honor and looked down at him coldly.

The emperor saw me gazing at my former lover and burned with jealousy.

He laid his pale hand on my visibly pregnant belly, pressing down with all five fingers as he threatened me in a chilling voice: "If you dare look at him again, I'll chop him up and feed him to the dogs."

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Later, an unexpected turn of events occurred. The emperor fell gravely ill, and I tended to him day and night. Prince Yu came to visit the emperor just then.

Perhaps from exhaustion, I grew dizzy and collapsed, and Prince Yu caught me.

He smiled warmly. "Sister-in-law, take care."

The emperor died, and Prince Yu ascended the throne, naturally taking over his widowed sister-in-law.

At last, he got what he wanted.

In a sentence: [A woman and the three men who take her by force]

Notes:

★ A cool, ethereal heroine. One-on-one relationships in stages: one ends, then the next begins.

The heroine has a slight everyone-loves-her vibe.

★ Third-person narration, fictional setting, one-on-one ending, final pairing is Jiang Qinyu, the primary male lead.

★ A wild mix of tropes!! Mary Sue. A nontraditional take on taking someone by force.

★ Three crazed men, all virgins: obsessive, mad-dog, and sick-in-the-head yandere types.

▲ Note: Only the male supporting characters are gentlemen, and all of them have one-sided feelings for the heroine.

◆ More content warnings after the chapters.

Theme: Go against the current, overcome difficulties, and live positively