Lin Yan, the eldest son of the Prime Minister, is dignified and handsome, with outstanding talent. He is the untouchable flower every noble young lady in the capital longs to pluck.
As the Prime Minister’s legitimate daughter, Lin Ningsu has known since childhood that her older brother is not her parents’ biological son, but the abandoned child of the current emperor.
How could she let such a fine catch go to someone else?
Lin Ningsu falls for Lin Yan and begs her father to call off the marriage that had been arranged for him. Lin Yan makes no complaint.
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By a twist of fate, Lin Yan is found and recognized as the emperor’s son. He becomes crown prince, then ascends the throne.
With a grand wedding procession stretching ten li, he welcomes Lin Ningsu as his empress.
Everything is beautiful as a dream, but she does not know how unpredictable court politics can be. In a single night, the Prime Minister is dismissed, his household confiscated, and his family exiled to the frontier.
Only then does Lin Ningsu realize that Lin Yan has never forgotten his former betrothed.
She loses her family, her brother, and the man she loves.
In the end, she wastes away and dies in the cold imperial palace.
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After being reborn, Lin Ningsu sees things clearly. If she cannot have someone, why chase him so desperately? Isn’t the young heir who grew up with her the perfect match?
She no longer devotes herself to Lin Yan. Instead, she actively brings him and the woman he loves together, warmly calling them “Brother” and “Sister-in-law.”
Lin Yan, too, acts like a gentle, refined older brother. He never reveals the sinister methods he used in their previous life, and she finally feels at ease.
But on the very day Lin Ningsu is to marry the young heir, the bridal sedan is empty.
And in the new emperor’s palace, a scarlet wedding robe lies scattered across the floor…
Notes:
1. Contains plenty of groveling, messy love-triangle drama, and melodramatic Mary Sue elements. Everyone has different tastes, so if this isn’t your thing, don’t force yourself to read it.
2. Warning: the heroine is adored by everyone.
3. While they remain brother and sister, the leads have no romantic feelings for each other.
4. Both leads are each other’s first and only.
[Coming soon: The Moon in the Mirror]
Jiang Jingyue loves Crown Prince Wei Ling, and everyone in the capital knows it.
But her family background is unimpressive, and her talents are merely average. Becoming a secondary consort in the Eastern Palace is already a stroke of tremendous luck.
What’s more, Wei Ling has a beloved white moonlight in his heart. He once swore that he would marry no one else in this life.
A crown prince in love is a grave taboo.
When the emperor learns of it, he flies into a rage and issues an imperial decree sending Wei Ling’s beloved beyond the frontier to marry a foreign ruler.
During that time, Wei Ling is despondent and dispirited. Jiang Jingyue takes advantage of his vulnerability, offering him comfort and gentle affection.
Three years pass before Wei Ling finally falls for her.
After ascending the throne, he makes her his sole Noble Consort, favoring her above all the women in the palace. No one can compare.
Just as Jiang Jingyue thinks she will live out the rest of her life in peace, Wei Ling’s beloved returns.
She also brings a secret: Jiang Jingyue was the one who caused Wei Ling’s beloved to be sent away in marriage all those years ago.
The day the truth comes to light, Wei Ling, usually cool and self-controlled, is consumed by a fury like never before.
Overnight, Jiang Jingyue is stripped of her title as Noble Consort and sent to a Buddhist temple to practice austerities.
In less than half a year, someone else takes the empress’s throne she had long coveted.
On the day of the imperial wedding, an imperial decree arranging Jiang Jingyue’s marriage arrives at the temple.
To humiliate and punish her, they make her marry a low-ranking official from a poor family.
Even so, the emperor and empress still seem unsatisfied.
Every New Year, Jiang Jingyue’s husband is promoted by three ranks, just enough to qualify for a palace banquet.
So they can watch her in disgrace.
Then, once the banquet is over, they demote her husband again.
Jiang Jingyue refuses to accept this. She begins acting vulnerable before Wei Ling, crying and confessing her regret.
After all, they were husband and wife for many years.
It takes a great deal of effort, but she succeeds.
On the day Wei Ling sends people to bring her back to the palace, Jiang Jingyue’s taciturn official husband simply stands behind her in silence, drapes a shawl over her shoulders, and says:
“It’s cold. Remember to drink plenty of pear soup, Your Highness.”
At that moment, she regrets everything.
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Wei Ling was born to the imperial house and has never given anyone else a second thought.
He knows Jiang Jingyue admires him.
They have been married for years. She has always been gentle and considerate, never making a serious mistake. He never imagined that beneath it all, she was so vicious and cruel.
At several palace banquets, Jiang Jingyue cries and lays bare her remorse, making herself appear pitiful and helpless.
Wei Ling thinks that if she behaves herself from now on, perhaps he can bring her back to the palace and let her continue serving at his side.
But when the imperial carriage arrives to fetch her, the residence is already empty.
Jiang Jingyue has eloped with that low-ranking official.
At that moment, resentment and hatred weigh heavily on his heart, and a violent fury surges within him.
Wei Ling thinks that he will never let Jiang Jingyue go in this lifetime.
Theme: Never give up hope for life
The first long review in my life, I went to the crematorium with the hero chasing his wife, but in the end I felt like I was cheated. I was not pleased at all, on the contrary, I was very disgusted.
Let's talk about the heroine first. The starting point and the time when she committed suicide by taking poison in her previous life are very problematic in my opinion. First of all, the starting point of the heroine's suicide was to atone for her sins by committing suicide (indirectly giving up her position to her true love, the second heroine in the previous life), and in this way, she hoped that the male protagonist would let her family go. If the heroine dies, will the hero still not let their family go? After all, the heroine's father and the hero are political enemies, and they have been poisoning him (it will be said later that the heroine knew that her father was poisoning him in the previous life). Secondly, regarding the issue of the throne, the heroine, the male protagonist is the emperor now, and he has the final say on who will be given the throne. It is not a matter of whether you give in or not. The heroine actually uses this to negotiate terms with the male protagonist. Finally, there is the strangest part of the previous life. After the heroine's family was confiscated and exiled by the hero, the hero and heroine were still able to have physical intimacy, and the heroine did not object.
Looking at the male protagonist again, since he was twinned with the female protagonist, it means that he persecuted the female protagonist's family in his previous life, imprisoned and played with her, and he remembered everything. He also said later that he knew that the female protagonist was also reborn the first time he saw her. In other words, he knew the reasons for the heroine's subsequent avoidance of him. The result? Go on, she's mine, don't try to snatch her away. The little girl is hiding from me. I'll see how she hides. Then I'll directly threaten her and force her to do it. I'll repeat the process of my previous life. The plot of chasing my wife is pitiful. Even if the male protagonist is reborn and doesn't bow his head, he still maintains a high profile and completes the crazy and forced process. So does he really love the female protagonist?
In the final ending, the female protagonist admitted that she fell in love with the second male protagonist, and the remaining relationship after torturing each other was family affection. However, this did not prevent the female protagonist from having children with the male protagonist, and she continued to call him brother. I can only admit that the pseudo-orthopedic method is good!
I didn't believe in evil and stayed up late for a chapter. I watched it from beginning to end, but there was nothing about the crematorium. The story was also very boring. The three male supporting actors, Meng, Xu, and Shen, who only had a small part in the role, were all more attractive than the male protagonist. It's a pity that this gag
I'm really speechless, because I can't see the emotional drama between the male and female protagonists at all... It's not interesting at all... The heroine's transition from fear to love is completely missing... I feel that she sacrificed her own happiness because she was afraid... It's boring... Really, the whole text is only good for the writing... Bye bye
I accidentally saw the introduction to this book a few months ago and was duped into reading it. Yes, I was tricked into it. Halfway through I couldn't read anymore and gave up, but then I looked through the software and saw this book again. I'm thinking of buying the whole book and I have to read it! I bit the bullet and bit into it, and finally found out: the extras are still good to watch.
Overall, the author's writing style is great! I like both the wording and the overall writing style. There is a saying that "art comes from life and is higher than life." I think this book idealizes life in several ways. Although the plot may dissatisfy some readers, I feel that there is a lot of truth in it. A happy ending is good, but incompleteness is the norm, and the author also adds a lot of idealism to the text. Generally speaking, the comment section has this opinion about this book: "Those who like it call it "Ikea", and those who don't like it will abandon it as "Zhushui Piao Ling". I don't like it or hate it, I'm just easily fooled. But I really like the two extras of Luochenni and Guan Nanyue! I also hope that the author can stick to his own will and don't care about the comments. Come on!
Sad Frog was deceived by the copywriter?? The result is that he can't stand it anymore
Yansu III finally came to perfection.
[Rolling eyes] I spent more than ten yuan and didn't know what I was looking at. It was so ugly.
Actually, it's good to have a queen.
How should I put it? I was a little speechless until the end. Maybe it's because I can't get enough of this one...
Uh... I really want to see the heroine and Xu Rong together,
The first long review in my life, I went to the crematorium with the hero chasing his wife, but in the end I felt like I was cheated. I was not pleased at all, on the contrary, I was very disgusted. Let's talk about the heroine first. The starting point and the time when she committed suicide by taking poison in her previous life are very problematic in my opinion. First of all, the starting point of the heroine's suicide was to atone for her sins by committing suicide (indirectly giving up her position to her true love, the second heroine in the previous life), and in this way, she hoped that the male protagonist would let her family go. If the heroine dies, will the hero still not let their family go? After all, the heroine's father and the hero are political enemies, and they have been poisoning him (it will be said later that the heroine knew that her father was poisoning him in the previous life). Secondly, regarding the issue of the throne, the heroine, the male protagonist is the emperor now, and he has the final say on who will be given the throne. It is not a matter of whether you give in or not. The heroine actually uses this to negotiate terms with the male protagonist. Finally, there is the strangest part of the previous life. After the heroine's family was confiscated and exiled by the hero, the hero and heroine were still able to have physical intimacy, and the heroine did not object. Looking at the male protagonist again, since he was twinned with the female protagonist, it means that he persecuted the female protagonist's family in his previous life, imprisoned and played with her, and he remembered everything. He also said later that he knew that the female protagonist was also reborn the first time he saw her. In other words, he knew the reasons for the heroine's subsequent avoidance of him. The result? Go on, she's mine, don't try to snatch her away. The little girl is hiding from me. I'll see how she hides. Then I'll directly threaten her and force her to do it. I'll repeat the process of my previous life. The plot of chasing my wife is pitiful. Even if the male protagonist is reborn and doesn't bow his head, he still maintains a high profile and completes the crazy and forced process. So does he really love the female protagonist? In the final ending, the female protagonist admitted that she fell in love with the second male protagonist, and the remaining relationship after torturing each other was family affection. However, this did not prevent the female protagonist from having children with the male protagonist, and she continued to call him brother. I can only admit that the pseudo-orthopedic method is good!
I didn't believe in evil and stayed up late for a chapter. I watched it from beginning to end, but there was nothing about the crematorium. The story was also very boring. The three male supporting actors, Meng, Xu, and Shen, who only had a small part in the role, were all more attractive than the male protagonist. It's a pity that this gag
I'm really speechless, because I can't see the emotional drama between the male and female protagonists at all... It's not interesting at all... The heroine's transition from fear to love is completely missing... I feel that she sacrificed her own happiness because she was afraid... It's boring... Really, the whole text is only good for the writing... Bye bye
I accidentally saw the introduction to this book a few months ago and was duped into reading it. Yes, I was tricked into it. Halfway through I couldn't read anymore and gave up, but then I looked through the software and saw this book again. I'm thinking of buying the whole book and I have to read it! I bit the bullet and bit into it, and finally found out: the extras are still good to watch. Overall, the author's writing style is great! I like both the wording and the overall writing style. There is a saying that "art comes from life and is higher than life." I think this book idealizes life in several ways. Although the plot may dissatisfy some readers, I feel that there is a lot of truth in it. A happy ending is good, but incompleteness is the norm, and the author also adds a lot of idealism to the text. Generally speaking, the comment section has this opinion about this book: "Those who like it call it "Ikea", and those who don't like it will abandon it as "Zhushui Piao Ling". I don't like it or hate it, I'm just easily fooled. But I really like the two extras of Luochenni and Guan Nanyue! I also hope that the author can stick to his own will and don't care about the comments. Come on!
Sad Frog was deceived by the copywriter?? The result is that he can't stand it anymore
Yansu III finally came to perfection.
[Rolling eyes] I spent more than ten yuan and didn't know what I was looking at. It was so ugly.
Actually, it's good to have a queen.
How should I put it? I was a little speechless until the end. Maybe it's because I can't get enough of this one...
Uh... I really want to see the heroine and Xu Rong together,