The One in His Heart

[Sweet, Delicate Beauty X Mad Emperor] [Size Difference]

The Son of Heaven who unified the Six Kingdoms opened his harem to women from across the realm. The various feudal states presented their royal daughters in the hope of winning a smile from the emperor.

Unfortunately, the beauties were not long for this world. Before long, some were dead and others injured.

An imperial edict declared that the emperor wanted the most beautiful daughter of the King of Zhao.

Everyone knew that the King's third daughter, Jiang Yue, was stunning. To keep his precious daughter from being sent to her death, the King of Zhao found a scapegoat: his eleventh daughter, Jiang Si.

As the eleventh daughter of the King of Zhao, Jiang Si was born to a low-ranking mother and was constantly bullied in the palace. In the end, she was made to enter the palace in her elder sister's place.

She lived in constant fear, daring not to reveal her identity and hoping only to survive until she could reunite with her birth mother.

Jiang Si never received an audience with the emperor, but she did meet a handsome eunuch.

The eunuch treated her very well. He gave her storybooks, made her pastries, and even had people bring her all kinds of novel trinkets from outside the palace.

Until one day, she saw with her own eyes the eunuch casually sentence an official to be torn apart by chariots, all while chatting and laughing.

That night, the eunuch came to her palace again. Seeing her ashen face, he laid his long-fingered hand on her red lips. “Sisi knows now?”

The emperor spent every night in her palace. Jiang Si thought he must like her at least a little, but when she and Jiang Yue were both in danger, he abandoned her.

Only then did she realize the emperor had known all along that she was an impostor.

He had kept her by his side only because she resembled Jiang Yue.

Jiang Yue was the one in his heart, his unattainable white moonlight.

She was only a substitute.

After escaping death, Jiang Si decided to flee with her birth mother, only to find herself surrounded by soldiers.

At their head was the emperor, whom she had not seen for many days.

His eyes were dark as spilled ink, and he wore a faint smile. “Sisi, where are you going?”

No one knew how much Shang Que had sacrificed to see Jiang Si again.

#To hell with the white moonlight#

#You're not a substitute!#

Warnings:

1. 1v1, both leads are each other's first and only partners. The male lead is reborn, and they have a seven-year age gap.

2. Fictional dynasty with no historical model. Please don't associate the characters with real people.

3. The male lead is a bit of a jerk. There is no white moonlight; the blurb is misleading. (This is important, so I'm saying it three times.)

4. The male lead will not be replaced. (The story involves coercive love and a long, painful pursuit of his wife; it's the author's preference.) The male lead has loved the female lead from beginning to end.

5. No personal attacks!

[Blurb captured on 2023.6.25]

Theme: Live even in the face of death.