Spring in the Forbidden Court

This story will be published tomorrow, Wednesday, April 16. A 10,000-word update will be released then. Thank you for your support, dear readers~

Female lead is not a virgin, male lead is / villainess and loyal dog / second male lead takes the crown

In the third year after becoming empress, Yun Yaoguang discovered that the man who had once promised her a lifetime of exclusive love had slept with someone else.

They had been childhood sweethearts and had weathered countless hardships together to finally reach this point.

But people's hearts change easily. In just three years, all the sweet words he'd once whispered had become a joke.

Yun Yaoguang lay sobbing against the couch. Looking at Zhou Xia kneeling before it, she said, "A-Yu, I want him dead."

Zhou Xia said, "All right."

"Sister-in-law, don't cry."

Who was Zhou Xia? The son born to a concubine, rejected by the late Prince Ning; a white-haired, odd-eyed demon; and now the powerful Prince Ning.

Yun Yaoguang had first met him when he was thirteen. He was small and skinny, and had nearly strangled a eunuch who bullied him.

She took pity on him, brought him out of the Cold Palace, and took meticulous care of him. She had looked after him ever since.

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The day the palace discovered that a servant was pregnant, Zhou Jin rushed back to Fengyi Palace from the Imperial Study. His clothes were disheveled. He gently comforted Yun Yaoguang, swearing that the servant was nothing but a plaything and that he would never let anyone threaten her honor.

"Yaoguang, once the child is born, we'll put it under your name. That will make your position as empress more secure." He coaxed her carefully, earnestly.

Watching the man act so deeply devoted, as if he had her best interests at heart, Yun Yaoguang smiled. They had been married seven years, and she had indeed never conceived. But the reason had nothing to do with her.

She smiled faintly and said yes.

Later, it was discovered that the pregnant palace maid had been sleeping with someone else, and the child was a bastard. Zhou Jin was incapable of getting a woman pregnant.

He vomited blood on the spot, fell into a coma, and was soon near death.

Yun Yaoguang stood by his sickbed, smiling brightly. "Your Majesty, I'm pregnant. Are you happy?"

-

No one knew what he was imagining as he called her "sister-in-law" again and again.

After a reminder that the male lead's original identity was inappropriate, it has been changed to a prince of a different surname. He happens to share the imperial surname, but is not related by blood.

Coming soon: After the Lover Who Abandoned Me Becomes Emperor

PS: Real heiress and fake young master / both leads are virgins

Everyone loves seeing a flower on a high peak fall from grace, and Cui Xianchun was no exception.

She adored the infatuation and rapture that appeared on the lofty, elegant face of Cui Shizhang when he looked at her.

Then she happily turned around and entered the palace, where she was doted on by the emperor and the harem was neglected. She became a demon empress, cursed by everyone in court and throughout the realm.

She lived that way for five years.

Cui Shizhang led an armed rebellion, stormed the palace, and took the throne.

No, he should be called Shi Yuzhang. He wasn't the fake young master mistakenly switched at birth with the real heir of the Pingwei Marquis household. He was the son of Prince Qin, whose entire family had been slaughtered by the late emperor.

With the throne in new hands, Shi Yuzhang rejected every petition demanding Cui Xianchun's execution and confined her in H an Liang Hall.

Yet no one knew that the handsome, elegant emperor visited the desolate palace every night to see the former demon empress.

"Xianchun, where else would you go besides your older brother's side?" Shi Yuzhang lifted the red silk wrapped around Cui Xianchun's wrist. He was as gentle and composed as ever.

"Shi Yuzhang, you're insane." Cui Xianchun's voice was hoarse, yet she smiled sweetly.

Shi Yuzhang pressed a finger to her lips.

He was insane. He had gone mad the moment Cui Xianchun entered the palace without looking back, refusing to spare him even a glance.

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The first time Cui Xianchun met Shi Yuzhang was when she was fifteen. She had just been found by her maternal family and brought back to the Pingwei Marquis household, where it was revealed that he was the fake young master.

At the time, he was every inch a gentleman. Even when he suddenly heard the news, he only froze for a moment, then looked at her with apologetic eyes.

The Marquis of Pingwei couldn't bear to part with him, so he adopted him and kept him in the household, where he and Xianchun continued to call each other brother and sister.

Cui Xianchun did like him a little, but she hated him more. She hated him for taking away the life she should have had, leaving her to fall into the mud and struggle to survive.

So she wanted to see if she could make him fall from his high perch and sink with her.

That would only be fair, wouldn't it?

Theme: Don't change yourself to suit other people's likes and dislikes