The Imperial Consort Is the Powerful Chancellor's Cherished Darling

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Feng Lingling, the illegitimate daughter of a marquis, is engaged to her childhood friend Ming Ziyang, a powerful court official. But her legitimate elder sister, imperial consort Feng Yuwan, has an affair with the crown prince, and the wedding never takes place. Feng Lingling dies with resentment in her heart.

Reborn, Feng Lingling resolves to marry early, hoping to gain Ming Ziyang's protection, keep herself and her mother safe, and escape her elder sister's murderous designs.

"Brother Ming, will you marry me?"

Ming Ziyang narrows his eyes. "Is that what you want, Lingling, or what the marquis wants?"

But fate has other plans. On the eve of her wedding, she is ambushed. When she wakes from unconsciousness, she discovers that she has become a consort to the aging emperor, while her elder sister, Feng Yuwan, has taken her place as Ming Ziyang's bride!

And on the matching love token she prayed over at Baiyin Temple are engraved the words, "My heart belongs to... Wan"!

Have all her efforts been in vain, only to benefit someone else?

She carefully pieces the clues together and is shocked to discover that her elder sister has also been reborn. This was all a trap she had laid long ago!

Feng Lingling sneers. She was careless in her last life. This time, her elder sister will pay for every drop of blood she shed!

Deep in the palace, Feng Lingling lightly strokes Ming Ziyang's lapel and leans close suggestively. "Brother Ming, His Majesty is right there on the bed in my Fengxiao Palace. Are you... afraid?"

Ming Ziyang fixes her with his deep gaze and replies quietly, "If Your Highness isn't afraid, what have I to fear?"

She sneers. "Then let us fall together."

Feng Lingling advances step by step, maneuvering between the empress, the crown prince, and the empress dowager. The forbidden love between the powerful minister and the imperial consort grows harder and harder to conceal.

"Minister Ming, I want a child."

"It would be my honor." Ming Ziyang's gaze is deep, his restrained emotions on the verge of spilling over.

But the love between a powerful minister and an imperial consort is fated to bring disaster!

Her elder sister sneers. "Feng Lingling, I never thought you'd end up with my fate after all."

Feng Lingling's gaze turns icy. "Elder Sister, isn't this the ending you hoped for?"

The inner palace is filled with treacherous schemes, and the court is rife with murderous plots. Only they remain close, lips and teeth together.

"Lingling, do you trust me?"

"We're in this together. Either they perish, or we do!"

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Feng Lingling doesn't know that in her previous life, when Ming Ziyang learned the marquis's estate was in danger, he had already raced back to the capital. But he was ambushed and wounded, and by the time he arrived, it was too late to save her.

She also doesn't know that from the moment she saved him when he was on the brink of death, he had carved her into his heart. Back then, he was merely a servant of the Feng family. He didn't dare speak of love, and could only watch helplessly as she struggled in the marquis's household.

After establishing himself at court, his only wish was to marry her and protect her for the rest of her life.

When she returned reborn and took the initiative to ask, "Would you marry me?", his heart stirred violently. They had not seen each other for years, and she had grown into a beauty, even more enchanting than he remembered.

Marrying her had always been his deepest desire.

He thought everything would finally be settled, but someone schemed against them, and a twist of fate drove them apart.

He knew Lingling could never have wanted to enter the palace, but the news still made him lose his reason. In a fit of rage, he believed Feng Yuwan's lies.

He blamed her for craving power and abandoning him.

When he saw her again, she was already an imperial consort, and her eyes held more distance and coldness. He couldn't touch her. As a loyal minister and general, how could he covet an imperial consort?

She stood high above him, and all he could do was watch coldly, forcing reason to suppress the feelings long buried in his heart.

But every time he saw her, he still couldn't let her go.

When she came to him again and whispered, "Minister Ming, I need a child."

He should have refused and remained true to his position.

But he couldn't stand by and watch her be swallowed by the palace's whirlpool.

As they faced danger side by side again and again, her resilience and intelligence broke down all his defenses. In Fengxiao Palace, amid an intoxicating night of passion, their reason finally crumbled.

From then on, there was no turning back.

She was the one weakness of his life. For her, he would betray every oath he had ever made.

The palace was full of treacherous schemes, and the court rife with murderous plots. Only they remained close, lips and teeth together, facing life and death as one.

"Lingling, in the end, I lost to you."

[Sweet, delicate little white rabbit with a dark side and a flirtatious beauty X cold, abstinent powerful minister with overwhelming possessiveness] Both reborn, both strong, palace intrigue, happy ending for both!

Theme: Stay true to yourself and fear no adversity.