After Toying with the Hostage, He Ascended the Throne

Yuan Shuhua, Princess of Yongning in the Northern Dynasty, was spoiled rotten from childhood, willful and unruly. To her, Xie Jinghe, a hostage prince from the fallen Southern Dynasty, was nothing more than a plaything for her amusement.

The young princess was of noble birth and stunning beauty, and she always got her way in matters of love.

Xie Jinghe's heart was just another ordinary trophy to her. Once she had it, all that remained was contempt.

One day, one of the young ladies she usually played around with took a liking to him. She casually agreed to hand him over, and, afraid he might refuse to serve someone else, even secretly planned to drug him.

She thought Xie Jinghe was nothing but a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. She didn't know he was a wolf cub hiding his fangs.

Xie Jinghe switched the drug right under her nose. The powerful aphrodisiac Shuhua had prepared ended up in her own system.

The young princess he'd longed for day and night wept helplessly in front of him, and Xie Jinghe did the wanton things he'd dreamed of countless times.

At the time, he only wanted to punish this heartless young lady, to make her taste the consequences of playing with someone's feelings and then callously abandoning them.

But later, Xie Jinghe crawled through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, rising from a slave of a fallen dynasty to become the new emperor of the Southern Dynasty. He exhausted himself plotting and scheming, all just to keep that heartless young princess by his side.

[Blurb captured on April 9, 2023]

Theme: I know you're foolish and wicked, with nothing in your head, and yet I love you