After Forcibly Taking the Enemy Emperor as My Lover

According to the histories, Emperor Yuanlie of Southern Chu and Empress Changping of Western Liang were known as the Two Sages. The imperial couple doted on each other, and their two dynasties, locked in confrontation for decades, united peacefully without a single soldier being sent to war. Later generations could never understand how their ancestors had found such a miraculous love amid bloodshed. When they finally met the couple themselves, the two looked at each other, and the empress explained that they had both fallen for each other's looks at the same time. She had simply acted faster and snatched him up first.

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Li Ye had been cherished by his parents since childhood and tutored by statesmen and generals. He was the beloved darling of all Southern Chu. After ascending the throne, he cultivated farmland, trained his troops, and purged the court, determined to drive back the northern invaders and restore the realm. No one doubted his ambition or ability, but no one could have imagined that an inspection of the border would lead to an unexpected romantic encounter.

His romantic interest was eighteen, breathtakingly beautiful, and passionate enough to make even the young emperor, whose standards were impossibly high, lose control. He wanted to whisk the beauty away and keep him hidden in a golden house. The beauty played along, coyly accepting and refusing him in turn, teasing and resisting until Li Ye finally got his wish and took him home. The next day, however, he discovered that he was already a thousand miles away. The beauty stroked his head with slender fingers and said tenderly, "Though I cannot give you a title, I certainly won't treat you badly."

!!!!! You lunatic, let me off this carriage right now 🤯😱😭

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Jialan came to the border to clear her head during a low point in her life, where she happened upon a young man from the Southern court. He was as graceful as a jade tree, with a face lovely as a flower. He was interested in her, and she in him. She'd planned to find herself a long-term companion while she was away, but then her family was suddenly struck by misfortune. After a brief hesitation, she decided to bundle up the Southern beauty and take him along, too.

The beauty was suddenly abducted, and pined for home day and night. She was happy to indulge him a little. In her eyes, his refusal to vie for her favor was virtuous and gracious, his lack of interest in makeup was proof of his simple tastes, and his aloofness was a sign of noble character... She fell deeper and deeper in love, even wanting to defy all opposition and give him a title. But even with a hundred brains, she could never have guessed that the lover she'd hidden away in her golden house was the Southern emperor she had always feared and regarded as her greatest enemy.

All her tenderness vanished at once. She stared at Li Ye, ready to sharpen her knife. "Should I kill you right now, or extort a fortune from you first and then kill you?"

Theme: Peace is what the people want most.