Charming the Imperial Court

"My lord..."

Qing He once again appeared in spring clothes, leaning beside Bu Heng, the current chancellor, and grinding ink for him.

Yet the cold, rigid chancellor didn't even raise his eyes. "Get out."

Qing He was too humiliated to stay. When her family fell into disgrace years ago, it was the chancellor's wife who saved her.

The chancellor's wife had been childless for years, and with her maternal family in decline, she urgently needed a child to rely on. So she chose Qing He.

But Bu Heng was stern and rigid, impartial to a fault, and utterly cold toward others.

Still, Qing He had no choice. His wife was pressuring her, and her clansmen in prison desperately needed her to use her influence to overturn their wrongful convictions.

She simply swept the memorial from his hands and forced herself into his arms, kissing him again and again as she pleaded, "My lord..."

*

The Bu family of the capital stood at the head of the court officials. From birth, Bu Heng had followed every rule and never tolerated the slightest impropriety.

Even after marriage, though his wife was frail and they had never consummated their marriage, he had never considered taking a bedchamber attendant or a concubine.

Until his wife sent Qing He to him.

A traitor's daughter, dull and timid.

Too good at reading people's expressions, obedient, and never causing trouble.

She was nothing more than a disposable tool. Since she was so well-behaved, he could simply send her away once she had a child.

Then a colleague asked him for Qing He, and that very night he received a cup of poisoned wine from her.

She wanted to kill him!

*

In the third year of Taichu, the Cui clan was cleared of its unjust accusations and regained its former glory.

But the noblewoman Cui Qing He could never return to the way she had been. She agreed to the marriage arranged by her clan, determined to start over.

Who could have imagined that on her wedding day, Bu Heng would appear with a small child? His usually cold expression had nearly descended into madness as he pressed her with every word:

"We even have a child, and you still want to marry someone else?"

The marriage has its own reasons. 1v1, both leads are each other's first and only.

Blurb written on 2023/10/24

Theme: Those who never forget will surely receive an answer