The Lord Steals His Minister's Wife

[The Emperor Steals His Minister's Wife / The Emperor's Long Road to Winning Her Back]

[Well-Bred, Obedient Young Lady x Dark, Brooding Emperor]

Ji Wu was a well-bred young lady raised by an aristocratic family: gentle, virtuous, soft-spoken, and obedient. She was about to marry the Idle Prince as his principal consort.

At a palace banquet, she accidentally wandered into a tent pavilion and came upon the new emperor, his face flushed and his robes hanging open.

Everyone said the current emperor had no interest in women. Only Ji Wu knew that every night a sedan chair came to take her into the palace. As they pressed close together, the emperor's long fingers stroked her pale, delicate neck, his eyes cold and gloomy. "Why are you crying? When I'm tired of you, I'll let you go."

Ji Wu knew he was taking revenge on her. All she asked was that he not involve her family. She silently endured it, thinking that once she was married, she would be able to escape.

Later, the new emperor finally tired of her.

She thought they would have nothing more to do with each other in this life, but on the night of her wedding, her bridal chamber caught fire.

From then on, a beautiful, voluptuous young palace maid began serving at Yangju Hall, and the emperor could not bear to be without her for even a moment.

~~

Ji Wu once did something outrageous.

When she was fifteen, in Yongzhou, she fell for a beautiful young man and drew him to her side. But that love was ultimately no more than a dream, and she steeled herself to abandon him.

She thought they would never meet again in this life, but who could have guessed...

The young man who had lost his memory back then had become the current emperor.

~~

The new emperor, Zhao Yan, was ruthless, cold, and merciless. But no one knew that he had once suffered a blank spot in his past. After that, he developed a hidden affliction: he was unable to perform as a man.

Then, between layers of curtains, he saw Ji Wu. In that instant, the part of him that had died suddenly came alive again.

Even if she was his younger brother's wife, he would take her for himself.

~~

Later, after recovering those memories, Zhao Yan gritted his teeth. He was an emperor, for heaven's sake, yet he had fallen for the same woman twice.

Even worse, he had eagerly presented her with a phoenix crown.

But all she wanted was to run away.

--Reader's Guide--

1. The leads are each other's first and only partners. The male lead has a harem, but none of those relationships are consummated because of his affliction.

2. The male lead will gradually recover the memories he lost earlier.

3. The female lead doesn't know the male lead had amnesia, and thinks he is deliberately taking revenge on her.

Theme: If you love someone, you have to claim them