After Our Divorce, My Ex-Husband the Emperor Tried to Take Me by Force

[A king takes his minister's wife, female lead, non-virgin male lead]

Shen Youning was a concubine-born daughter of a humble family. Thanks to her celestial beauty and a stroke of luck, she married into the Fan Yang Lu family.

Her husband held a high-ranking post and had a bright future ahead of him. Her mother-in-law was of noble birth and backed by a powerful clan, able to advance her husband's career.

In the eyes of the world, this was an advantageous match. Only Shen Youning knew how bitter it really was.

At night, her husband Lu Sheng took advantage of Shen Youning's good nature to hide the fact that he kept a mistress.

By day, Shen Youning endured the cold shoulder from her sisters-in-law. Her mother-in-law insulted her, calling her a hen that couldn't lay eggs, occupying a nest without bearing children, and said her son must have been blind to marry her.

Married life was an uphill struggle for Shen Youning.

Then the dynasty changed, and some upstart warlord from nowhere took over the imperial court and became ruler of the realm.

To secure his position at court, Lu Sheng entertained wicked thoughts. He wanted to demote his wife to concubine and marry a daughter of a powerful noble family to restore his household's standing.

Shen Youning refused to step aside for someone else, and finally asked her husband for a divorce.

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The new emperor, Xie Rongshi, came from a humble family and had the whole realm in his heart.

He had been poor since childhood, and even after becoming emperor, he never abandoned his frugal and upright ways.

Strangest of all, this man was peerlessly handsome, yet had never taken a wife or concubine, and his harem remained empty even as he approached thirty.

The officials secretly suspected that although the emperor seemed decisive and ruthless, he was actually impotent in bed...

Until one day.

Xie Rongshi's heart finally stirred, and he welcomed Shen Youning, the woman cast out by the Lu family, into his harem and made her empress.

The entire palace took its cues from Shen Youning. The humble-born daughter became empress, enjoying the emperor's boundless favor.

Shen Youning was overwhelmed with trepidation, unsure how to take a windfall like this... She also couldn't understand why the emperor had remained unmarried until nearly thirty, or why he looked nothing like the demon-faced monster of the rumors.

The emperor in bed was fair-skinned and beautiful. He was plainly very handsome...

Only Xie Rongshi knew that he had plotted carefully for years, longing to have her by his side.

Because Shen Youning was his wife in his previous life.

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Several years later.

The guilty officials at court resented Xie Rongshi's ruthless methods and his merciless purge of the noble clans.

They sent spies to Kunning Palace to tell the empress the whole truth: every one of Xie Rongshi's schemes had been meant to seize her by force.

The spy tried to sow discord: “Don't you hate His Majesty for interfering and separating you from Lu Lang?”

Shen Youning lowered her head and looked at her round pregnant belly, then thought of her handsome emperor husband at home.

She sighed. “The baby is nearly due. How could I leave now? When you're married, you have to turn a blind eye now and then. I'll just make the best of it.”

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