Synopsis
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Blurb:
The Princess Consort abandoned her lover after taking his heart. The seemingly gentle male lead is actually ruthless and will stop at nothing to claim her.
Claiming her by force | A rivalry between men | Over-the-top melodrama | Amnesia | Reunited after a breakup
Su Ying was the illegitimate daughter the Grand Tutor abandoned at his country estate. One day, she was brought back and transformed into a noble lady, then betrothed to the Crown Prince!
The Crown Prince was dignified and handsome. How could a country girl like her ever dream of winning his favor?
The noble ladies all waited to laugh at her, but to their surprise, the Crown Prince really did approve of the match. The sparrow had truly become a phoenix!
At a palace banquet, she and the Crown Prince were tender and affectionate. Their old acquaintance, Prince Jing, Shi Wenjing, watched them, unrecognized. The glass cup in his palm shattered into pieces, blood spilling everywhere.
It turned out that Shi Wenjing had once lost his memory and wandered in the countryside, where he married a woman. They spent several years in tender companionship, living in perfect harmony, until the Tongguan Pass fell. The woman saw his practiced, sinister way of killing and fled in terror.
He was left on the brink of death. After years of searching for his wife in vain, he eventually returned to the capital, only to find his former bedmate pretending not to know him and calling him “Uncle Emperor,” hoping to sever all ties. Shi Wenjing went completely mad...
Later, Shi Wenjing took control of the court and entered the Crown Princess's chambers night after night. As the rumors grew, Su Ying had no choice but to go to him for help. But Shi Wenjing closed in and demanded, “Princess Consort, does the Crown Prince know you abandoned your lover after taking his heart?”
On the eve of her wedding, Prince Jing Shi Wenjing, who had been reported killed in battle, suddenly returned. The moment Su Ying saw him, she felt as if the sky had fallen!
Her husband, supposedly killed in battle, was still alive! And he was her new husband's uncle!
Years ago, she had discovered that in public he seemed as clear and gentle as the moon, but in private he was cruel and brutal, and his identity was a mystery.
Su Ying was timid, living in constant fear and thinking only of how to escape. It was only when Tongguan Pass fell and Shi Wenjing died on the battlefield that she was finally able to get away.
She had had more than enough of those fearful days filled with lies. After a period of dejection, Su Ying finally came to terms with it and thought, “It's just as well that he died in battle!”
Who could have guessed that her husband, supposedly killed in battle, would suddenly return...
Reading guide:
1. The leads are each other's only partners. The male lead has a secret identity, which the female lead does not know about, and she goes through a period of personal growth.
2. The story is set in an imaginary world. He claims her by force.
Special note: The female lead has only ever married the male lead, and their marriage was never consummated. She does not know his true identity.
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Ming Xuan, the Prime Minister's fourth daughter, was willful and uninhibited. Before her wedding, she spent a night with Wu Mo, a hostage prince from the State of Wu. The scandal became common knowledge, and the two were forced to marry.
Wu Mo despised her methods. But the Ming family had once helped him, and she had not looked down on him when he was down and out, so he thought he should treat her as an equal and live in harmony with her. During their three years of marriage, every sweet word Ming Xuan spoke touched Wu Mo's heart, making him more and more infatuated with her.
Then the State of Jing underwent a change of power. The Fifth Prince ascended the throne, and Ming Xuan threw herself into the new emperor's arms without hesitation... Only then did Wu Mo realize she was calculating and two-faced. Her scheme from the very beginning had been aimed at the Fifth Prince!
It turned out that he had never been the one she wanted!
Wu Mo went mad. After escaping death, he led a million troops to seize city after city. Only when his former lover became a prisoner and the Great Jing Empire fell did he learn that the person who had once helped him was someone else entirely.
As the Great Jing Empire fell, the concubines and palace attendants followed one another in sacrificing their lives for the country. Only Empress Ming Xuan, tears in her eyes, rushed to the city wall and gazed into the distance.
When they met again, he had gone from a hostage prince who was bullied at every turn to an emperor. Ming Xuan thought her suffering was finally over, but the soldiers of Wu took her prisoner and sent her to serve as a camp prostitute.
In desperation, Ming Xuan revealed her identity and saw the man she had longed for day and night. But standing beside him was a woman who looked remarkably like her, his half-sister.
Seeing the tenderness between them, Ming Xuan's deep yearning turned into a joke in an instant.
Wu Mo lowered his eyes and sneered, then looked at her half-sister with deep affection. “For three years in Sheng, Zhilan stood by me through thick and thin. We relied on each other through life and death. I once promised that if I ever became emperor, Zhilan would be empress.”
He took the woman's hand and gently stroked it in his palm, then turned to Ming Xuan and said viciously, “Zhilan has never left my side. How dare you, the empress of a fallen state, pretend to be my wife and covet the empress's throne in Wu?”
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No one knew what Wu Mo had endured during his years as a hostage. He bore humiliation and struggled to survive. Even a dog could trample him at will. Only one person helped him time and again, encouraging him: “Great undertakings begin with hardship!”
All he knew was that she was a daughter of the Ming family.
When he heard that this woman was not Ming Xuan, Wu Mo breathed a sigh of relief. At least the white moonlight in his heart had not been defiled!
But the past could not be erased. Wu Mo sent her to serve as a camp prostitute as punishment, waiting for her to repent and beg for mercy. Instead, Ming Xuan angrily agreed to it. In front of everyone, she chose an unknown nobody who was less than five feet tall and hideously ugly, and said, “My lord, would you like to try the Emperor of Wu's woman? You can be the first.”
She would rather debase herself than humiliate him!
It felt as if countless tiny holes had been stabbed into Wu Mo's heart. His tangled emotions surged, leaving him restless and irritable. He admitted it: she had made him furious...
Reading notes:
1. The leads are each other's only partners. The male lead has loved only the female lead from beginning to end. The stand-in is merely one part of their romantic play.
2. The empire falls from the start, followed by the male lead's desperate pursuit of his wife.
The original blurb was revised on 2024.3.16, and a screenshot has been saved.
Theme: People should trust one another more.
