As the most honored Sixth Princess of Dazhao, Jiang Zhi was destined for a life of wealth and comfort. Yet the only person she had eyes for was a hostage prince from a small kingdom.
The first time she saw Cheng Ziqiu, he was being bullied by palace servants. Though he was shivering with cold, he still smiled at her and said, "It's freezing, Your Highness. Please don't let yourself catch a chill."
That seemingly gentle smile became the obsession Jiang Zhi carried for years.
For Cheng Ziqiu, she sacrificed her reputation, fell out with her family, and became a laughingstock in the palace.
Only when the palace gates were breached and enemy troops flooded in as if there were no one to stop them did Jiang Zhi finally understand. Her devoted love had been nothing but a pawn in his game for power.
The once-helpless hostage prince, whom anyone could bully, had become the Crown Prince of Yiguo. All he left her was his cold retreating figure and a cup of poison.
Reborn at fifteen, Jiang Zhi looked down at Cheng Ziqiu in the snow and turned away in disdain.
She thought, Cold? Hah. I hope you freeze to death!
Cheng Ziqiu considered himself a man with a heart of stone. To achieve his goals, anyone could become a pile of bones beneath his feet. Only after he had reached the highest seat and lived out a lonely life did years of guilt and grief finally catch up with him.
So when he returned to Jiang Zhi's side as a hostage prince once more, he hesitated.
Perhaps in this life, he didn't have to drag her into it.
At the time, Cheng Ziqiu did not yet know that one day he would be in the imperial prison, truly experiencing the despair and pain she had once suffered.
Nor did he know he would humble himself to the dust, pleading desperately just for her to look at him one more time.
"Qiqi, hate me all you want. Take your revenge. But please... don't accept the marriage arranged by your father."
Reading Guide:
1. This is not a story about a pathetic, groveling heroine! The hero really was awful in his past life, but the heroine is absolutely not pathetic!
2. Only the first chapter puts the heroine through the wringer. After that, I won't stop until the hero is begging for mercy!!!
3. The heroine was not killed by the hero in her past life, but that doesn't stop her from taking him down after being reborn.
4. Groveling and love-rival drama ahead. After all, your author is a shameless pleb.
5. The hero stays the same (personally, I think switching heroes means it isn't a groveling story anymore... No arguments, please. Dogeza.)
6. All the political scheming is just there to put the hero through the wringer.
7. The setting is an imagined historical era, a completely made-up one... I'm not a humanities major, so please go easy on me.
---- New story, please add it to your favorites: After Forcing a Taoist Priest to Ferry a Spirit, I Ran Away
Before Wen Wan was sent to the dungeon, she spent the whole night getting advice from the fox demon next door, who had already been married three times.
She had heard that the person locked up in the dungeon was an immortal cultivator kidnapped by the Demon Lord.
She had heard that he was the foremost disciple of Tianheng Sect, peerless with a sword, upright and composed, and a leading figure among the immortal sects.
Unfortunately, the sect's prodigy had a backbone of steel and refused to bow even after enduring every torment.
The Demon Lord planned to turn him into a living spiritual medicine for cultivation. It was both an act of exploitation and humiliation, and a brutal slap in the face to the immortal sects.
So Wen Wan, an ordinary mortal, was chosen as the ideal conduit for transferring spiritual power, and sent to the side of that unlucky immortal lord.
Wen Wan took it all in stride. She brought him a bowl of tiger-bone liquor and tricked him into drinking it, hoping to spare them both some suffering.
But that immortal lord in the dungeon was clearly not so calm.
Whether his Daoist heart had shattered or she'd simply tormented him too much, he spat the blood he'd been holding in all over her.
Wen Wan thought he must hate her. Otherwise, he wouldn't look at her with such icy eyes whenever they were together, and he wouldn't have avoided touching her with his hands from beginning to end.
Nor would he have been so eager to erase the one stain in his life after joining forces with the immortal sects to break through the demon realm.
The two years Xie Wuqing spent imprisoned in the demon realm were a nightmare he never wanted to remember.
Imprisoned by the Demon Lord, drained by a mortal woman,
this was a humiliation he ought to hate with every fiber of his being.
And Xie Wuqing did hate her.
He hated her for her baseness, for taking advantage of him, and most of all, he hated himself for being powerless to resist her touch, every inch of his skin crying out in humiliation.
His hatred only grew after countless attempts to summon her spirit came to nothing.
It wasn't until the day he attended a friend's wedding that he discovered she was still alive.
She was dressed in red, a phoenix crown on her head, her smile flawless.
She bowed and said, "Daoist Priest Xie, I've heard so much about you."
Theme: Love yourself before you love another.
Children please collect the next book "After being kidnapped by the crazy princess" - Neptune's crazy princess vs. The disabled and sultry general "The Sick Horse and the Divorced Queen" - The petite wife who always worries about her husband's health vs. The big bad wolf who is always forced to take supplements
The heroine is a bit stupid, she believes everything others say
It's also a little strange here. The heroine's revenge for destroying the country is just because the hero saved her, but she didn't kill him while he was sick. She even covered him with clothes because she was worried that he would catch a cold... Although the author didn't mean it this way, it felt like the heroine was making excuses.
It's another crematorium selling sheep's heads and selling dog meat.
Only Song Heng's injured world has been achieved
Doesn't it mean that the male protagonist's country is not as powerful as the female protagonist at this time? Otherwise, the hostage would not have been sent, and the consequences of killing the male protagonist would not be serious. I feel that it is a bit illogical to not kill the male protagonist directly despite knowing that he is the main reason for the destruction of the country.
Qiu: Who taught you how to use sleeve arrows? Disagree: elder brother
!! Looking forward to a bigger Shura field
Okay, okay, more abuse, I love watching it hahahahaha
Meet the author. Comment +1. But from this point of view, unless the scumbag is in front of the heroine and half-deaths eight or nine times to save her, he will be able to make the heroine change his mind a little bit, and he will be completely unable to catch up with the crematorium.