Pampered noblewoman x obsessive emperor // A beginner's writing exercise, one-on-one romance, happy ending
"Female lead's perspective"
Dong Fujiao was born into privilege. When she first became crown princess, her cousin the crown prince was still so short that she even had to kick him off the bed.
Later, when her cousin ascended the throne and she entered the palace as empress, she remained spoiled and jealous, yet still enjoyed the emperor's undivided affection.
Though she often lost her temper with the emperor, it was just a bit of fun between husband and wife. Dong Fujiao had only one real worry: she couldn't conceive.
She summoned countless doctors over this.
Fortunately, the emperor never treated her any worse because of it. He often comforted her, saying, "Jiaojiao, we'll have a child someday."
Then he would gently coax her into drinking her medicine.
It was a long time before Dong Fujiao realized that what he had been giving her was birth control soup.
His true love turned false, and her sweet lover became a stranger.
Dong Fujiao presented the decree deposing her as empress, left Chang'an, and severed once and for all her six-year marriage to Xuan Che.
Even when she unexpectedly conceived on their final night, she still had to leave.
"Male lead's perspective"
Xuan Che ascended the throne as a young man, surrounded by danger, with his hold on the throne hanging by a thread.
He was terrified that the woman he loved would think him incapable, so he had no choice but to keep many things from her.
But this deception drove a woman who had loved him with all her heart to leave and never look back.
After three years alone in an empty palace, Xuan Che finally understood that his pride meant nothing in front of the woman he loved.
From then on, the emperor who had always been a master strategist did everything he could to humble himself and coax his beloved cousin.
//PS
1. There are misunderstandings. The male lead is completely chaste.
2. For the first fifty chapters, she runs and he chases. Their relationship improves after she loses her memory.
3. There will be a love curse, but it will never torment the female lead. It transfers the pain to the male lead instead.
(If these points aren't for you, feel free not to click in.)
Upcoming story: The Tyrant at My Feet
This story embraces all the melodrama.
The female lead is a little fairy who loves painting. The male lead is more complicated: an insecure boy early on, a heartbroken bad boy in the middle, and a devoted, loyal sweetheart later, who learns from his mistakes.
Tu Ruyi is a beauty in every sense: she is adorable and lively, and the daughter of a princess and a marquis, so naturally she is expected to marry a noble young man.
But the engagement came too quickly, and they even set the wedding for the year she turned fifteen, as if they were worried she would never find a husband! Ruyi refused to accept it and huffily ran off to Luling.
Ruyi loves painting more than getting married.
To improve her portraits, she picked out a handsome, broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted country man with a martial air.
He stood straight as a model while Ruyi studied him and drew. They got along fairly well.
But when she tried to look further down, he fell silent for a long moment, then guarded his chastity.
"...Only my wife can see that."
Ruyi's face turned as red as an embarrassed peach. "I didn't say I wanted to see that!"
That wasn't what she meant, but she did have that thought.
So when Ruyi learned that her fiance had gotten her half-sister pregnant, she cheerfully arranged a marriage swap.
With her feelings clear and her worries gone, Ruyi devoted herself to painting, waiting for her sweetheart to earn military honors and marry her.
Then a mournful Qiang flute sounded, and she forgot everything.
*
At first, Qi Xiu had no money to bury his mother, so he was bought by the Chen family's cousin Miss in Luling.
But she didn't make him a servant. Instead, she told him to take off his coarse clothes.
She wanted to paint his body.
Qi Xiu tried to stay calm, but her focused, peach-blossom eyes captured his heart. From that moment on, she became the embodiment of kindness, gentleness, and beauty.
He longed for her and worked desperately to rise in the world.
But she broke her promise and married into the Song Duke's household.
That day, he stormed into the wedding ceremony in a frenzy. Her casual words, "I don't know you," nearly broke him in half.
So all those romantic promises under the flowers and moon had been lies.
How could a country bumpkin like him ever be worthy of a noble young lady?
They met again three years later.
He had been acknowledged by Prince Pingnan and become the new emperor of Yan.
The ghost of jealousy never stopped haunting him, goading him into becoming a jealous husband whose words dripped with venom.
He drafted an imperial decree to force her into the palace, only to discover that his cousin Miss was the legitimate daughter of Marquis Wei, still awaiting marriage, and that she wasn't the Duke's wife.
Qi Xiu's pupils narrowed: Zhuzhu hadn't lied to him. He had misunderstood.
He had misunderstood for so long?
Remembering how he had treated her so carelessly, the usually cold and composed man panicked for once.
[The couple talks it over after making up]
Ruyi pinched Qi Xiu's earlobe. "I told you I'd break off the engagement. Did you really trust me so little? If you'd just looked at the bride, you'd have known it was a huge misunderstanding."
Qi Xiu apologized meekly. "It was my fault."
Theme: Young love is soft as silk
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