A delicate, timid pampered beauty × a scheming, arrogant peasant
Born into a prestigious family, with a father who was the most powerful chancellor in the land and a mother from the imperial clan.
Shen Luoyao enjoyed unparalleled glory and wealth from birth. When she was ten, the Imperial Preceptor read her fortune: "The phoenix cries across the nine heavens; her nobility is beyond words." After the prediction, she was betrothed to the Crown Prince and became the future Crown Princess, the center of attention. Wherever she went among the capital's elite, she was the brightest presence.
Yet this peerless beauty, praised and envied by all, was kidnapped by bandits one day and left stranded on an unknown island.
After much hardship, Shen Luoyao escaped the island, only to discover that the Shen family had disowned her. To preserve the family's reputation, the relatives who had once cherished her above all else were willing to send her to her death with their own hands.
She had never imagined she would flee the imperial capital she had longed to return to in such a wretched state. Even less had she imagined that one day she would stand beside the new emperor under an entirely new identity, once again becoming the focus of the whole capital.
Her former fiancé, the emperor of the previous dynasty, offered up the real culprit behind the plot against her to the new emperor in exchange for a chance at survival. Watching her usurping elder sister kneel at her feet, sobbing uncontrollably, Shen Luoyao smiled.
They had gone to such lengths, only to end up with nothing. What could be more laughable?
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Lu Xuan was the posthumous son of a disgraced official whose entire clan had been executed. Since his birth mother was only a concubine, he escaped the massacre. Before he turned ten, he knew only that he was an orphan. Afterward, his adoptive father told him his true identity and burdened him with the task of clearing his biological father's name.
Lu Xuan was rebellious to the bone. He bluntly said he had no intention of worrying about a dead man who had supposedly committed a crime. His adoptive father was so angry he could only glare and puff out his beard, but there was nothing he could do about it.
Unexpectedly, he later met a beauty who made him see red.
When the beauty cried, Lu Xuan's fists clenched.
What did clearing a name matter? I'll beat the emperor's damn head in!
Theme: Your fate belongs in your own hands.
"The bird occupies the dove's nest" in the copy should be "the dove occupies the magpie's nest", right?