I Helped Qingqing Take the Dragon Throne

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Prince Qin is famous for keeping his distance from women, yet, for the first time, he has taken a beautiful young woman into his household.

She has won a favor others can only dream of, yet spends all her time trying to escape this gilded cage.

The first time Xie Qingqing runs, Xiao Shulou catches her.

At the gathering of beauties at Drunken Immortal Tower, she makes His Highness Prince Qin spend a fortune.

In front of the people of all sixteen prefectures of Yunchu, he carries Xie Qingqing back.

Run, run, run. Didn't you end up running right back into his arms?

One phrase about soaring together like phoenixes should have given Xie Qingqing a peaceful life as the Crown Princess. Instead, she fakes her death to escape and survives among refugees fleeing famine.

After finally taking refuge with a distant relative, she is treated like livestock delivered to their door and sold to her former master as a concubine.

This wretched life is truly unbearable for even one more day.

Years later, Xie Qingqing runs away again.

While the Prince Qin's household is in chaos, she flees with a child in her belly, vanishing without a trace.

Practice makes perfect. Xie Qingqing's escape skills improve, but Xiao Shulou is always one step ahead.

When he catches her again, Xiao Shulou advances step by step until Xie Qingqing has nowhere left to retreat.

Xie Qingqing fights back with all her might. "You! You! What are you going to do?!"

Xiao Shulou takes her hand. "Help you take the phoenix throne."

Xie Qingqing looks at the man before her, dressed in imperial robes. "I don't want to."

Xiao Shulou thinks it over. "The dragon throne is an option too, but the people below won't accept you."

"It doesn't matter. They listen to me, and I listen to Qingqing."

Stubborn, lovesick workaholic hero x laid-back, carefree heroine

Both are each other's first. The heroine was deeply hurt by her former lover. They married young and stood by each other through thick and thin.

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After being reborn, Chu Yuzhao would rather marry the frail Fourth Prince than share a husband with her younger sister, Chu Yuyao.

Though the Fourth Prince, Xiao Yuming, is of noble birth, he is ill all year round and doesn't even have the strength to complete the wedding rites.

Everyone in the capital says Chu Yuzhao doesn't know what's good for her. Instead of marrying the Fifth Prince, a candidate for Crown Prince, she has thrown herself at a sickly invalid.

Xiao Yuming assumes that Chu Yuzhao is accustomed to a life of luxury and won't be able to endure hardship for long. He thinks she'll soon ask to leave him.

On their wedding day, Xiao Yuming has already prepared the divorce papers.

But Chu Yuzhao thrives at his side, and even Xiao Yuming can't help asking, "Marrying a useless man like me, Zhaozhao, have you ever regretted it?"

Chu Yuzhao tastes the medicine for him and answers firmly, "If you mean to regret it, why marry at all? If you've married, there's no need for regret."

Xiao Yuming used to avoid all competition and wanted only to spend the rest of his life in his Yun Courtyard. Now, he only wants to spend his days with Chu Yuzhao.

What Xiao Yuming doesn't expect is that someone keeps barging into his territory, trying to steal the sun that belongs to him.

One day, Xiao Jingheng, still refusing to give up, takes Chu Yuzhao's hand. "Elder Brother won't live past thirty. A Zhao, you'd better think about what you'll do next."

Chu Yuzhao pulls her hand free, turns, and throws herself into Xiao Yuming's arms, crying, "Your Highness, you must live to a ripe old age!"

Xiao Yuming gathers her into his arms and comforts her. "Of course. The medicine in Yun Courtyard is too bitter. I have to protect my little jar of honey."

On the day Xiao Jingheng is stripped of his title and reduced to a commoner, Xiao Yuming cuts out his tongue and says, "Fifth Brother is always saying such ill-omened things. I'll keep this tongue for you."

Theme: Even when life is difficult, keep striving forward