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Scheming beauty x Mad minister, coercive love, stealing someone else’s beloved, and a long road to winning back his wife. Please support it and add it to your favorites, heart~
Su Xiangrong was betrothed as a child to the eldest legitimate son of the Xiao family, who had made his fortune through cinnabar. She married him one day, but before she could even meet her husband, disaster struck, and the bride became a widow.
Before her husband’s bones had even turned cold, the second and third branches of the Xiao family took advantage of the main branch’s lack of support and began a brazen power struggle.
Unexpectedly, the youngest illegitimate son of the main branch, who had narrowly escaped death, returned.
The Xiao family’s fifth son, Xiao Hemian, was peerlessly handsome. He could read at three, recite poetry at five, and compose poetry and prose at eight. He was a famous child prodigy far and wide, but had a cool and aloof temperament.
When they first met, his new sister-in-law was being tormented by her uncles and aunts. He turned the tide and promised her,
“If sister-in-law is willing to stay with the Xiao family and help me manage the household, I will protect you.”
Later, seeing that she had a head for business, he watched as she improved the mining and smelting of cinnabar and expanded the Xiao family’s business. He schemed to entice her.
“Why not show me a little more affection, sister-in-law?”
Su Xiangrong fell for him step by step, tormented by feelings she shouldn’t have, only to discover that Xiao Hemian was not a member of the Xiao family by blood at all.
He was the crown prince who had been lost among the common people. His birth name was Xie Qi, and Hemian was his courtesy name.
The moment she learned the truth, Su Xiangrong cut off her feelings and broke off contact with him, devoting herself entirely to the cinnabar trade. Before long, her business had spread across the country, and she became the richest woman in history.
Later, after the new emperor ascended the throne, that cold and aloof young emperor, so noble and unfeeling, shamelessly showed up at the Xiao family’s door every day.
He tenderly stroked Su Xiangrong’s slightly rounded belly.
“Rongrong, for the child’s sake, shouldn’t you give me a title by now?”
This novel is also known as: Vermilion Sand in My Palm
Theme: Live for yourself
Misfortune, disbelief, catching bugs