This story will be marked complete on Sunday, August 4, starting from Chapter 24.
The heroine's story
Xiao Yunzhi, eldest daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo, is exceptionally talented and beautiful. She and Crown Prince Qi Hongsheng were betrothed in infancy.
Unfortunately, life is unpredictable. After Duke Xiao takes his own life to atone for his crimes, Xiao Yunzhi, once doted on and pampered, is reduced to a government courtesan.
On the day she is taken to the Bureau of Music, she hides her face behind disheveled hair and lingers at the palace gates, refusing to leave, hoping to see her beloved. Instead, a palace maid sneers at her:
"You think you deserve to see the Crown Prince? You must not know that His Highness was the one who secured your father's conviction. The new Concubine Xiao in his household even put family aside and exposed your father's treason."
When Xiao Yunzhi learns the truth, she is stunned into silence. The tears she had held back for so long stream down her face, and a chill seeps into her bones.
So the affection between childhood sweethearts, cultivated over more than a decade, was nothing but a carefully planned deception!
On the night she gives herself to a client, her faithless lover arrives through the night.
He grips Xiao Yunzhi's face, lovely as a begonia through her tears, his expression full of contempt and disgust.
"You have only yourself to blame for this disgrace. You are shameless and have been sleeping with another man. I'll save you today and let you spend the rest of your life as a concubine-slave."
Xiao Yunzhi trembles with rage and struggles with all her might, but she is no match for him. Thin gauze flutters, her skirts fall loose, and the room fills with a swaying springtime scene.
Her heart turns to ash. She cannot understand why he, the one who betrayed her first, would accuse her of being faithless and invent such an absurd charge as sleeping with another man!
If he insists on forcing her hand, then why shouldn't she become the beauty who brings a kingdom to ruin?
The scum male lead's story:
In his previous life, Crown Prince Qi Hongsheng ascended the throne only to learn that his wife, Xiao Yunzhi, had been secretly seeing Prince Qi and committed adultery.
Qi Hongsheng's eyes nearly burst with fury. He couldn't believe the woman he loved had hurt him so deeply. He didn't kill her, hoping only that she would repent and beg for mercy, but she wanted nothing more than to die.
The deposed empress, Lady Xiao, died. The new emperor neglected state affairs, seeking immortality and refining elixirs to bind her soul, and died in the prime of his life.
The gods took pity on him and gave him another chance at life.
Looking at Xiao Yunzhi's disheveled, lovely face, Qi Hongsheng's eyes churned with boundless hatred.
In his previous life, she had treated him like dirt and never repented. This time, he would bind her hands, seal her lips, chain her soul, and lock her in a cage, never again giving her the chance to bewitch anyone!
But even with the advantage of knowing what was to come, Qi Hongsheng couldn't guard his own heart. Though he knew she had ulterior motives, he couldn't bring himself to act.
When he faced the rebel army in battle, he looked at her resolute eyes among the rebels and was at a loss. He paid no heed to the cold blades. In his imperial robes, he knelt before Xiao Yunzhi, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth:
"If you insist on choosing him, I'll let you go. Just don't leave me."
It turned out that all the countless torments he had inflicted in the name of hatred were only meant to conceal the fact that, even after being betrayed, his heart still belonged to her alone.
But she would not be his puppet.
"Qi Hongsheng, may we never meet again in this life or the next."
Warnings:
The groveling redemption arc will be especially intense. The male lead will pay for everything he does in the early chapters.
The male lead is a jerk, but he's sexually inexperienced. So is the second male lead. They're both completely pure.
Only the Crown Prince is reborn. In their previous life, there was a misunderstanding between him and the heroine, and his distrust of her led to tragedy in both their previous and current lives.
A love triangle showdown between the male lead, the second male lead, and the third male lead.
One-on-one romance.
Theme: Trust and honesty are the foundation of love.
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The damage is real, can it be overcome by a simple misunderstanding? When the male protagonist left the female protagonist in the most humble status. They're done, to put it bluntly
The male protagonist abuses the female protagonist so much, it would be really disgusting if he could do it
This article cannot be described as rubbish, it is simply speechless.
It sucks!!!!! Run!!!!!!
And where is the crematorium? The copywriting scam is not so outrageous.
What kind of ending is this? After waiting for so long, this is what happened, and this disgusting man died so easily even though he had never suffered any crime!
😂😂😂😂 The heroine is so miserable. If she can be with the male protagonist, she will really be a traitor.
Oh shit????? It's really a big mess
I remember saying in the comment section a few weeks ago that I wanted to torture the male protagonist. I couldn't wait any longer. Everything I saw was disgusting.
How about we take the lead as the second male lead. . . . So don't force him to do that. . . .