[Possessive pursuit, an emperor schemes for his wife]
· The night her husband abandoned her, she threw herself into the emperor’s arms without looking back
Her husband, who had sworn undying love, returned to their home with a delicate, frail cousin in tow.
Lu Heng said, "I pitied her because her parents had died, so I brought her back to the residence. Nothing improper has ever passed between us."
Le Yan believed him and never suspected otherwise.
But later, the women of the marquis’s household went out to worship at a temple and were caught in an uprising by rebel troops.
Her husband, covered in blood, broke through to reach them. But instead of going to her, he went around her and picked up his tearful cousin.
2.
That night,
Le Yan stood alone in a drafty, leaking temple, trembling like a frightened bird.
Only when countless thunderous hoofbeats shattered the curtain of rain, and the clash of weapons, blood, and smoke had faded, did a jade carriage bearing the emperor’s crest stop before the temple.
She rushed out into the rain, only to stumble and fall in front of the carriage.
Le Yan stared blankly up at it as the tears she had held back all night poured out. All she could do was call out through her sobs, "Your Majesty..."
The jade curtain stirred.
The Dragon Guards were astonished to see the taciturn, stern emperor, a veteran of countless campaigns, step down from his jade carriage.
At that moment, the emperor still managed to maintain the appearance of an openhearted ruler presiding over an age of peace and prosperity. He stepped over a mountain of corpses and helped her up.
He smiled at her and said, "Madam, your husband cannot protect you."
#Divorced in the morning, empress by the afternoon
Blurb revised with guidance from an expert
(The male lead is not a virgin, while the heroine is. I guarantee that during the heroine’s marriage, she does not have a relationship with the male lead or engage in any intimate acts with him. The story only depicts their feelings.)
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"Marrying My Late Husband’s Elder Brother"
On the eve of their wedding, Ying Shi received the terrible news that her fiancé had died on the battlefield.
She wiped away her tears, took his spirit tablet, and married into the Lu family. In the best years of her life, she wore mourning clothes and willingly became a widow whose husband had died before their wedding.
She never expected that eight years later, her supposedly dead husband would return alive and well.
Behind him was the wife he had married while he was lost and had no memory. They already had children gathered around their knees, making them the envy of everyone.
All her years of devotion became a laughingstock to the world when he said, "I love her."
*
She became ill from years of pent-up sorrow and died at just twenty-six.
Unexpectedly, when she opened her eyes again, she had returned to ten years earlier.
It was the day after she had married Lu Ji’s memorial tablet!
She sat bolt upright.
The Lu family was the foremost clan of the land, with strict rules of propriety. Unless she died, there was no possibility of a divorce.
In this life, after much thought, Ying Shi turned her gaze toward the man who would one day hold power over the entire court.
*
In the dim light of the Buddhist shrine,
a young woman dressed in mourning, her eyes red and swollen, fainted into the arms of the Lu family’s eldest son, her late husband’s elder brother.
"Eldest Brother, he really isn’t coming back, is he? What about me... what am I supposed to do from now on...?"
*
The eldest son of the Lu family was serious and reserved, never smiling, and known to everyone as a gentleman of impeccable character.
The old madam had only asked to test the waters: would he be willing to take on the second branch of the family’s ancestral line and provide an heir for his younger brother?
She never thought her eldest grandson would agree to it.
Who could have known that after a moment’s silence, he would tacitly consent to this absurd arrangement?
Lu Xia originally only wanted to give Ying Shi a peaceful life, even if he had to be a man she could never acknowledge, leaving her a child and a memory. (Not really.)
Who knew that later, he would learn his younger brother wasn’t dead...
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"Little brother, don’t come back. Your sister-in-law and I are expecting our second child."
Theme: Face love with a positive, sunny attitude.