Su Liangyi and Xie Heng married young and loved each other for years.
She stood by him as he rose from obscurity to the throne, he a noblewoman of a distinguished family, and he a spirited young emperor.
Almost everyone assumed she would naturally become empress.
But after his coronation, Xie Heng turned around and made a general’s daughter his empress instead.
Red-eyed, Su Liangyi clutched the imperial edict proclaiming the new empress and confronted Xie Heng. He stroked her head and gently soothed her.
He said the court was unstable, and the general’s daughter was the best choice for empress.
Remembering all the love they had shared, she believed he must have his reasons.
She could only wipe away her tears and choose to endure.
In the fourth year of the Dajin era, Su Liangyi risked her life to give birth to a son.
But Xie Heng coldly took the child away and handed him over to the empress to raise.
He said that to keep the harem balanced, any child she bore had to be registered as the empress’s.
Su Liangyi had wept and pleaded, had made a scene, but all she got in return was the man’s curt reply: “The greater good comes first.”
After that, she became meek and accommodating, yielding at every turn, hoping the empress would care for her child well if she behaved herself.
But the baby in his swaddling could never open his eyes again. Holding his tiny, lifeless body, she was overcome with cold despair.
At the funeral hall, the empress leaned against Xie Zhao, her face full of innocence, and claimed she had nothing to do with the child’s death.
Xie Heng believed her without a second thought. In a calm, reassuring voice, he said, “The empress is gentle and virtuous. She would never do such a thing. Besides, it’s not unusual for an infant to die. We’ll have more children in the future.”
At that moment, Su Liangyi finally understood:
The love they had shared had always been one-sided.
The Third Prince, Xie Heng, had spent years lying low in the imperial palace. All his life, he had wanted only the throne.
Marrying Su Liangyi, a daughter of a noble family, had been a brilliant move. In his eyes, she was gentle and devoted, a flawless wife.
Later, he got his wish and ascended the throne. To steady the turbulent court, he made a general’s daughter his empress.
Xie Heng was certain Su Liangyi loved him deeply. Whatever choices he made, she would understand that he had to consider the greater good and the bigger picture.
He could always make up for everything he had denied her once the court was stable.
But before he could put his plans into action, a sudden fire swept through the palace halls and took Su Liangyi’s life.
Everyone watched as the emperor knelt amid the ruins, clutching the charred body and refusing to let go, two streams of hot tears silently rolling down his face.
The vast realm would soon be his for the taking.
But the woman he had taken for granted, certain she would never leave him, would never come back.
Next book: The Garden of Betrayed Spring. Blurb below
A Yuan is a rare medicinal being, one of a kind in the world.
Her blood can cure every strange ailment under heaven.
After her husband bought her freedom, she stayed in his household, quiet and obedient.
Then her identity as a medicinal being was exposed, and she was forced into the imperial palace to cure the emperor’s chronic illness. By day, her blood had to be mixed into medicine; at night, she had to serve as the medicine herself, warming the emperor’s bed.
Everyone envies her for being the only woman close to the emperor. But only A Yuan knows that he has always despised her as lowborn and filthy.
She bears the pain of having her blood drawn and the humiliation of being made to pleasure him, enduring every indignity in the palace as she hopes that once the emperor recovers, he will let her leave and reunite with her husband.
When the day finally comes for her to leave the palace, she thinks her ordeal is over. But in the blink of an eye, the emperor drags her back into her cage.
He used to hate her for being dirty. Now he can’t get enough of her, day and night.
Ever since ascending the throne, Emperor Xiao Ce has kept his harem empty. He has suffered from a chronic illness for years, and over time it has made him volatile and left him with no interest in romance.
Then one day, a courtier presented him with a medicinal being. He was told that her blood, taken as medicine, and regular intercourse with her were the only way to cure his illness.
Xiao Ce brought her into the palace at once. The medicinal being had skin like ice and jade, and was strikingly beautiful. He assumed she would be like every other woman, doing everything she could to please him.
To his surprise, she behaved herself after entering the palace and even begged to leave once he recovered so she could reunite with her husband. Xiao Ce found her amusing and promised to grant her freedom, fulfilling the wish of her utterly insignificant husband.
But once she was gone, she haunted him like a demon. Night after night, he dreamed of her slender waist and snow-white skin… every inch of her an irresistible torment.
Seeing her intimacy with her husband firsthand made him so jealous he nearly went mad, and he could no longer suppress his desire.
He decided to go back on his word and keep her by his side forever.
But Xiao Ce never imagined that a medicinal being would rather die than submit.
And after she died, he, who had always been able to obtain anything he wanted with ease, finally learned what it meant to long for something he could never have.
Reader’s Guide
1. A melodramatic “chasing his wife to the crematorium” romance. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one, happy ending. The male lead has a nominal empress, but has never slept with her. If that bothers you, feel free to skip this.
2. The child does not die; it’s a misunderstanding. The male lead is heartless at first and cares only about power. Later, he chases his wife to the crematorium. The heroine will fake her death and make him suffer.
3. The writing isn’t great, and there’s barely a plot. Everything serves the romance. It’s a two-person story with the melodramatic style of an ancient-setting romance.
4. If this premise isn’t for you, don’t read it. The blurb makes it clear this is a melodramatic wife-chasing story. There’s no need to make a big deal out of it and accuse me of promoting crime or violence. If you don’t like it, don’t read it and make yourself angry. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. If you don’t like it, don’t read it.
5. Comments that interfere with reading will be deleted.
Theme: Everyone is equal
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Spring Colors Between the Clouds
My Grudge-Bearing Master and Me
Waiting for You Until We Grow Old
The Ode of Changning (Reborn)
The Garden of Spring's End
Feng Yuzhao
Essays
A Hodgepodge of Wild Ideas
A Sigh for the Rest of My Life
Claiming You for My Own
Mistaken for the Crown Prince's Concubine
This male protagonist seems to be schizophrenic, and when he is alone with the queen, he pretends to be cold and cunning, as if he has the power. Then you are so capable, but you dare not offend her and her family [cover your face and cry with laughter], forcing the heroine to return the child, and even directly have the heroine taken back to the palace to restrict her personal freedom. The son-in-law is a tough guy who wants to eat soft food, but he only dares to show off to the heroine anyway. For the sake of the so-called double cleansing, he showed the readers that he was very indifferent to the queen. However, in fact, he did not dare to show a little tolerance to the heroine where the queen would be unhappy [covering his face and laughing], so cold-heartedly washing away his words. In the evening, I brought some goods from a street stall and gave them to people as if they were alms. I am not telling you, the gifts given by the fourth uncle were Shu brocade shoes and pearls in batches. What have you found after searching for them? You still take out a bracelet as if it is a treasure. You are really in Luojia Village, right? [Cover your face and laugh]
Uh, this plot is really a bit disgusting. [The Queen is transformed into a villain with a facial makeup. She targets the heroine as soon as she appears. She has nothing else to do. The heroine is humiliated every day by these two parents-in-law. She has to kneel down to greet the queen, and she has to kneel down in order to take a look at the child [covering her face, laughing and crying] After the heroine was hurt, she can only maintain a wronged, weak and helpless image and fainting from crying in the palace [dissolved] According to the text, the heroine can't bear it anymore, goes crazy, and even fakes her death by setting fire to her [covering her face, laughing and crying] Why can't she take revenge on the queen and the emperor after it has come to this? The damage to the male protagonist actually has to be done by hurting herself first. If the male is a white-eyed wolf, the female protagonist's behavior can cause 0 damage to the two of them [translated] The funniest thing is the male protagonist. After the female protagonist exposed the fact that he was a surrogate son-in-law, he got so angry that he grounded her and made her gag [covering her face and crying]
This episode is so amazing [covering face, laughing and crying] It doesn't matter that he is the adopted son-in-law, but he has to pretend that no one knows that he is the adopted son-in-law. You still want to hide this from the heroine. Can you hide this kind of thing? Brother, how can she not be suspicious if the heroine wakes up and doesn't show her the child? Can this man think with the head between his two pig ears? There is a big difference between the heroine knowing immediately after giving birth that the child was sent away and knowing the blow to her a few days after giving birth [covering face, laughing and crying] She was actually hurting others and pretending to be like "I don't want to do this either. In fact, I also tried hard to hide it from you and not want to make you sad." Jiancheng's behavior is useless [covering face, laughing and crying]
Is this emperor such a waste? The heroine's family is also an aristocratic family, and the emperor insisted on destroying the family. Also, when something happened to the heroine's family, the emperor specifically told her not to tell the heroine, and then the queen told her so blatantly that there was no follow-up? There is no one else who can be such a loser as an emperor, so he caught the heroine and bullied her
It doesn't matter. The heroine didn't forgive me because she hadn't slept yet. She would forgive her after she slept a few more times. She didn't forgive her because she didn't sleep enough. She slept beautifully a few more times. It's nothing to be exiled as a family. It's nothing to suffer.
What a beautiful super strong alkali rice [covering face, laughing and crying] It's not intentional, you are so anxious to support the queen, why are you so quibbling? The heroine buried something cursed. She will be accused of cursing the queen. She will have to shed her skin even if she doesn't die. Besides, will the hero protect her in this way? If something is really found, even the slanderous male protagonist will only let her endure it and let her be humiliated [covering her face and laughing and crying] The queen has no evidence at all. If she just opens her mouth casually, the emperor will have to rush forward to charge her like the great eunuch Li Lianying. Where are the ears and arms, right? At this time, if the emperor wanted to investigate, he would waste time and arrange for a few palace officials to testify for the heroine. 💔 I don't know what he wants to find out. If he finds out, the heroine is the main agent, but if he can't find out, the heroine will be unjustly accused. I think the man I want the heroine to be with the most is this man. Why do I hate him so much?
Keywords for the year for the male protagonist: Sensible [covering face, laughing and crying] Sensible and understanding, why should the female protagonist understand your affairs? You don't give others sweetness and benefits [covering face, laughing and crying] Maybe he thinks that the heroine's suffering will be over if she endures it, but he dare not say who caused the heroine's suffering, and it's hard to say whether the suffering will be over. [Covering face, laughing and crying] The queen is even more illogical and brainless. There must be causes and consequences for everything. Even if she dislikes the heroine, the child raised in her name is her child. She also knows that when the child is well-raised, he may not recognize the heroine, and she still uses this to humiliate the heroine. She is physically incapable of giving birth to a child, and the male protagonist won't sleep with her. If she wants to be the queen mother in the future, she will have to rely on this child [covering face, laughing and crying] She still dares to treat the emperor's eldest son so casually, it is obvious that she is not worried about her husband-in-law.
The male protagonist's uselessness has surpassed that of the male protagonist's scumbag. The male protagonist in the female video can be a scumbag but not a scumbag, but this man can only be a son-in-law. He is really low.
Does the male protagonist have a performing personality? He seems to be showing to the readers that he loves the female protagonist. He doesn't even perform in front of the female protagonist. In fact, from God's perspective, it is not obvious that he likes the female protagonist at all. He insists on making the male and female protagonists fall in love. His behavior makes people want to laugh. He really looks like a fake. The female protagonist also has a strong sense of self-pity. She spends her days looking at herself and feeling sorry for herself. She has no subjective initiative at all. The author is unwilling to give her anything and sets up a lot of dilemmas. The female protagonist has no soul, so she just performs some love and hate with the male protagonist. However, people can't feel any love between them at all. Both of them seem to be putting on a poor performance.
I originally wanted to see how crazy the story could be. No matter how much the heroine hates her, as long as she is kissed by the hero, she will fall in love immediately. It makes me laugh to death. She washes her underwear with a cold face. She loves kissing her husband the most. It's a divine article written by a god. 🐶