After I Used and Abandoned My Ex, He Became Emperor

[Main story complete]

Next up: After I Got Together with My Fiancé's Brother. Blurb at the end.

* Childhood sweethearts + forced pursuit + rekindled romance

One-on-one romance SC Happy ending

Chu Yunning was born into a powerful family. Her father and brothers commanded mighty armies, and she was cherished from childhood. She was an incomparable jewel of wealth and beauty in the capital. Before she was even fifteen, she was betrothed to her childhood sweetheart, the Seventh Prince Pei Heng.

The political landscape shifted. The favored consort fell from grace, and her entire clan was exiled. The emperor issued one decree banishing Pei Heng to the remote northwestern frontier, then another betrothing Chu Yunning to the crown prince.

Pei Heng, fallen from the heights, knelt outside the general's residence all night. All he got was her saying, "I love the crown prince."

Faced with the pleas of the man she loved, Chu Yunning was cold and unfeeling, showing none of her usual affection and dependence. It seemed that the bond they had shared was wiped away the moment his fortunes changed.

Three years later, the crown prince was implicated in a treason case. On the night of his attempted coup, Pei Heng caught the two of them meeting in secret.

With blood still dripping from the spear in his hand, Pei Heng looked coolly at the person the crown prince was protecting and mocked him casually. "Elder Brother has always doted on his younger brother. Why not give the Chu girl to me?"

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The new emperor ascended the throne and casually decreed that the Chu girl marry the deposed crown prince.

Everyone at court knew the new emperor was vindictive. The Chu family, who had fawned on the powerful and turned their backs on the fallen, became a joke in the capital.

On the day Chu Yunning and the deposed crown prince were married, only a scattering of guests showed up. Their home was practically deserted.

As the capital's residents sighed over the situation, a bridal sedan chair quietly bypassed the Eastern Palace and was carried into the most exalted palace of all.

The next day, the deposed crown prince stood outside the new emperor's bedchamber, proud as a pine tree, and demanded that the emperor return his bride.

Pei Heng's eyes were dark. He casually stroked the tender skin beneath his hand and curled his lips. "If even Elder Brother's throne is mine, how much less is his fiancée?"

In the eyes of outsiders, the Princess Consort of Liang is taken to the emperor's bedchamber every night.

The heroine is a sweet, scheming beauty. The hero is hopelessly in love, though he acts like a jerk.

The heroine and the crown prince are only betrothed, with nothing physical between them.

It wasn't the heroine's fault that she left the hero. She was a pawn sacrificed in the power struggles at court.

The setting is an alternate world with a chaotic mix of influences and some original elements.

"Upcoming story: After I Got Together with My Fiancé's Brother"

Cen Wan is less than a month away from marrying her fiancé when he suddenly dies in a car accident.

When she hears the news, Cen Wan is overcome with grief and faints on the spot.

Everyone around her believes she is madly in love with Shang Yan. Her future in-laws are also afraid she'll do something rash when she wakes up, so they urge Shang Yao, who has just returned from overseas, to help.

"You and your younger brother are twins. She won't notice the switch. Just tell her the hospital got it wrong."

The cold, aloof head of the Shang family, whose life revolves around work, looks at the pale face on the hospital bed.

"All right."

When Cen Wan wakes up, she finds her fiancé a little strange.

He used to love racing and motorcycles, but now he always has a chauffeur drive him around in a Rolls-Royce.

He used to love extreme sports and chasing thrills, but now he keeps a regular schedule and spends his free time at home with her.

They used to be no more intimate than putting an arm around each other's shoulders for photos, but now he insists on holding her every night as they sleep, even wrapping his legs around her.

Cen Wan can't begin to list all the other differences.

She asks with concern, "Could this be a side effect of the car accident? Can it change someone's personality?"

Shang Yao: "Yes."

After several months of being inseparable, they naturally begin preparing for their wedding.

On the wedding day, Shang Yan, who was supposed to be dead, suddenly returns.

Shang Yan, back from the dead, goes completely berserk, accusing Shang Yao of taking advantage of the situation to steal his girl.

Shang Yao holds Cen Wan protectively in his arms and looks up coolly. "Whoever wins her gets her."

#Why are you making a fuss? Didn't I already get off your sister-in-law?#

#Sister-in-law, open up. It's me, your brother-in-law.#

#I'd crawl through a doghole if I had to. Not only would I crawl through faster, I'd bite all the other dogs to death.#

Theme: Be a resilient, delicate flower.