After I Became the Abandoned Consort in the Cold Palace

[Wolf Cub x Sickly Beauty]

Xue Wujiu, the protagonist of a satisfying revenge novel, is stripped of his position as crown prince and suffers every kind of torture at the hands of the vicious, discarded consort in the Cold Palace. After lying low for eight years, he finally builds an army, declares himself independent, and kills his own father to avenge himself. The discarded consort who abused him is sentenced to death by a thousand cuts, torn apart by five horses, and left exposed in the wilderness.

Xiao Lian had just reached the part where Xue Wujiu builds an army and declares himself independent when he transmigrates into the role of the vicious discarded consort who abused the protagonist.

Only a single green lamp burns in the Cold Palace. A bony teenager lies prostrate at his feet, shivering with cold, but with murderous intent hidden in his eyes.

Xiao Lian wraps his thin robe tightly around himself and shudders.

To stay alive, Xiao Lian shares most of the pitifully meager food in the Cold Palace with Xue Wujiu. He teaches Xue Wujiu the imperial arts of statecraft he learned from the novel, and risks his life to extricate him from the schemes of villains.

In the end, Xue Wujiu has grown powerful and declares himself independent with an army at his command.

Looking at the once-young boy, now with a defiant look in his eyes, Xiao Lian grows uneasy and fakes his death to escape.

But less than three months after he leaves, rumors spread through the streets:

The new emperor, Xue Wujiu, has dismissed his harem and brought home a dead person as his bride.

And that dead person is the consort who once belonged to his father.

In his previous life, Xue Wujiu was framed by villains and died suddenly at a young age. He never expected that when he opened his eyes again, he would be back at the age of thirteen.

That year, the Cold Palace was bitterly cold. The madman beside him would scald him with firewood and stab him with needles, leaving his body covered in wounds.

Xue Wujiu knew that lying low was the only way to survive. He was preparing to endure the madman's abuse when he heard a cool, clear voice:

"There's hot water over there. Wash up, or you'll freeze."

He suddenly looked up and met a pair of beautiful, almond-shaped eyes.

For the first time in two lifetimes, Xue Wujiu experienced "love." Xiao Lian was both teacher and father to him, teaching him everything he had never learned in his previous life. He let down his guard and thought he might be the happiest person in the world...

Until the day of the palace coup.

Xiao Lian took a sword for him. His eyes still glistened like peach blossoms, but the blood at the corner of his lips was painfully vivid.

For the first time in his life, Xue Wujiu knelt and begged him not to die. He wept as if his heart would break, but all he received in return was that man's hand growing cold.

Xiao Lian's final words were soft: "Be good. Live well."

Theme: Take control of your own fate and realize your worth in life.