After Being Forced to Marry the New Emperor

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[Coercive Possession + Rekindled Love]

Shen Xi was born to a distinguished family. Graceful, beautiful, and reserved, she was a model for the noblewomen of the capital.

On the eve of her wedding, she accompanied her older female cousin to a temple to pray for blessings, where she unexpectedly met the new emperor, Xiao Duxuan.

When Shen Xi was young, she had spent several years living in the palace and had received much of his care.

The new emperor was gentle and restrained, easygoing and tolerant.

As they passed each other, the man seemed as ethereal as an immortal. He asked softly, "You’re getting married?"

Shen Xi pressed her lips together and lowered her head. "Yes."

With a smile, he said lightly, "Good."

Everyone envied her closeness to the new emperor.

But no one knew what she had done back when Xiao Duxuan was still Crown Prince.

No one knew how despicably she had seduced him, or how mercilessly she had abandoned him after he lost power.

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Every palace servant who had attended the new emperor knew that although he seemed gentle and easygoing, he could not bear to be defied and was autocratic by nature.

Only Shen Xi dared to take advantage of his affection and do whatever she pleased, using the strategies he had taught her to scheme against him in every way.

That was why Xiao Duxuan hated her.

He would take revenge in the way Shen Xi feared most, making her understand the consequences of betraying him.

Her slender waist bent; her skirts slipped, revealing pale skin.

At the palace banquet, Shen Xi was graceful and poised, still appearing to be the dignified wife of Prince Ping’s heir.

But in a place where no one could see, the new emperor had already gripped her waist until it was bruised purple, and her eyes were filled with tears.

Her confused, tender pleas for mercy made her seem even more lowly than a concubine.

Xiao Duxuan lifted her chin and said nonchalantly, "The heir is coming to look for you."

Reading guide:

1. Obsessive new emperor x noble beauty, one-on-one, both leads' first time.

2. Daily updates, guaranteed completion. Updates are usually around midnight. (*/ω\*)

3. Age gap and size difference, failed upbringing, coercive possession. No immoral behavior during the period in which their relationship is in effect. For more reading guidance, see the author’s note in Chapter One.

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---- Upcoming novel: Meeting Spring ----

[Fake Death and Amnesia + Angsty Regret]

Yuan Mu had black hair, snow-white skin, and a lovely appearance, yet her father and brothers disliked her.

Though born to a distinguished family, she was treated as a bringer of bad luck and kept on an estate for years.

It was not until she was fifteen and saved a young man that she first began to look forward to the future.

Helan Zhen was handsome and gentle, a man of refined elegance unlike anyone Yuan Mu had ever met.

Though he was not born into as high a station, the sincerity and constancy of his love for her nearly made her drown in happiness.

On the eve of the night her father intended to force her to marry another man, she wept and said, "You have to come and marry me..."

The bed curtains swayed as Helan Zhen answered in a husky voice, "I will."

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After waiting anxiously for days, Yuan Mu finally saw Helan Zhen return before her wedding.

Imperial robes. A crown with twelve hanging strands of jade.

Only then did she learn that he was not the military household’s Helan Zhen, but Li Congliu, the deposed crown prince: the former rightful ruler of the realm and the most honored man in the world.

Yuan Mu should have been overjoyed. But after Li Congliu ascended the throne, he married her older sister.

Her sister was frail and unable to conceive, so he wanted Yuan Mu to enter the palace and bear a child in her place.

Li Congliu had forgotten Yuan Mu and the love they once shared.

The emperor was cold-hearted. He only saw Yuan Mu as physically damaged and resented that she was no longer a virgin.

Yuan Mu was imprisoned in the depths of the palace for three years, enduring endless torment and struggling to survive.

When someone took away her newborn son, she finally fell into despair and set fire to the lonely, freezing palace pavilion.

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The fire that night was so fierce that Li Congliu never forgot it, even until his death.

When he saw the charred corpse, the usually composed and cold emperor lost control. He fell to his knees and frantically gripped her hand.

Yuan Mu disliked hairpins and dangling ornaments, but she always wore a crudely made jade bracelet on her wrist.

It was an old gift from Helan Zhen. Li Congliu had hated it and tried to force her to take it off, but Yuan Mu had refused.

At that moment, Li Congliu finally remembered that he was the Helan Zhen Yuan Mu had loved and longed for, and that he himself had carefully placed the bracelet on her wrist.

The girl he had crushed with his own hands was the very one he had once cherished above all else, afraid she might break.

Li Congliu’s mind reeled, his eyes bloodshot. At last, he understood what it meant to have one’s heart and liver torn apart.

Reading guide:

1. Cold-hearted emperor x world-weary noblewoman, one-on-one, both leads' first time.

2. Daily updates. (*/ω\*)

3. The male lead is genuinely unhinged. Angsty misunderstandings, amnesia, fake death, coercive possession, and a groveling chase to win back his wife. The male lead has romantic and intimate relationships only with the heroine.

Theme: Blend in with the world without losing oneself.