After My Ex-Husband Ordered My Execution

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Hua Qiling lost both her parents when she was young and was raised by her elderly grandparents. As they grew older, they worried she would be left alone with no one to rely on, so they wanted to find her a husband as soon as possible.

They chose Zhu Yanfu, an orphan from a neighboring village, and entrusted their granddaughter to him.

Hua Qiling treasured Zhu Yanfu. She never made him do any housework and took care of everything herself, looking after him exceptionally well.

She told him that he wasn't an abandoned child of Heaven and Earth, or an orphan no one wanted. He was the person she loved, and she would pamper him for the rest of his life.

While inspecting the region, Crown Prince Zhou Kuiyan killed an orphan in the village to escape his enemies, stole his identity, and took over his house. He had planned to live in obscurity, but then someone suddenly came to propose a marriage. To avoid further complications, he had no choice but to marry her.

Afterward, he planned to enjoy a loving life with the woman while looking for a chance to return to the palace.

One day, Hua Qiling came home after washing clothes by the river and found a divorce letter on the table.

He gave her some money and left the house to her.

Not long afterward, Zhu Yanfu's body was discovered, and the constables came to the door.

Hua Qiling couldn't explain herself. She was thrown into prison and, after several hearings, hastily sentenced to beheading.

But not long before her execution, she suddenly discovered that she was pregnant.

The news that a pregnant woman was about to be beheaded spread from one person to ten, then from ten to a hundred, until it reached the ears of the new emperor, Zhou Kuiyan, who had only recently ascended the throne.

To demonstrate the emperor's benevolence, the new emperor ordered that the murderer be beheaded in public only after giving birth.

Before the execution, Zhou Kuiyan happened to see a portrait of the woman who was to be beheaded. His eyes trembled, and his heart ached unbearably. Still, he did not withdraw his order. He hardened his heart and had her beheaded.

Afterward, he ordered someone to take the baby, who had only recently been born, back to the palace and casually hand the child over to one of his consorts.

He never went to see the child again.

Three years later, while the emperor was holding a Heaven-worshipping ceremony on a high platform, several female Daoists suddenly knelt down to lodge a complaint. They said that the nephew of the current prime minister had taken a female Daoist from her temple and brought her home, intending to force her to become his concubine. He had threatened and bribed them to keep them quiet.

Zhou Kuiyan was instantly enraged. How could anyone disturb a Daoist's spiritual practice and force her to return to secular life? What kind of lawless injustice was this?

Before the ceremony was even over, he personally led a group of court officials to rescue the woman from the prime minister's nephew. Along the way, the prime minister was so frightened that his legs gave out, and he had to be helped along.

When he saw the woman in her wedding clothes, the emperor, who had always hidden his emotions, was momentarily dazed.

She had not changed at all since several years ago. Her bearing was otherworldly and her appearance lovely, but her eyes had become clear and still. There was no sign of the affection she had once felt for him.

But he had not forgotten that she was his wife.

That night, the emperor used the excuse of comforting her to barge into the quiet quarters of the Daoist.

In the midst of their entanglement, they crossed a forbidden line.

Her black hair lay in disarray across the bed, and at last, a trace of hatred seeped into her clear, still eyes.

Zhou Kuiyan went mad over that tiny trace of hatred...

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