The Black-Hearted Lotus Was Forcefully Taken by the Mad Emperor

A similar groveling romance next door is now being serialized: After Personally Killing His Child, Jiang the Top Graduate Begged for Her Back

[The Emperor Steals His Minister's Wife / Forced Love / Groveling Romance / Groveling Romance / Groveling Romance]

Lu Wanchai is gentle and stunningly beautiful. Her only flaw is her family's downfall. Though she is the Princess Consort of Jin, her husband's family torments her until she dies.

Reborn, she can only set her sights on the emperor if she wants to escape the Prince of Jin's household. She plans to use the emperor to help her leave her husband.

The beauty lowers her eyes, a plan forming in her mind. Disguised as a peasant girl, she travels a thousand miles to Qinghe to "happen upon" the amnesiac emperor in distress.

He is so wary of her from their first meeting that he nearly chokes the life out of her. But she meets hardship head-on, resorting to a bitter-suffering act, a beauty trap, and more. After all sorts of trials, she finally wins the emperor's heart. But for the sake of her plans, she has to fake her death and flee, waiting for the day she can return to the capital and meet him again.

[The Male Lead]

Emperor Qin Yuan is the abandoned son of the Cold Palace. Aloof and merciless, he trusts no one and has no interest in women.

Yet no one knows that this cold-blooded emperor is utterly infatuated with a peasant girl.

Once he realizes he's fallen for Lu Wanchai, all he wants is to make her his empress.

But Lu Wanchai supposedly dies in a fire before everyone's eyes, faking her death and fleeing.

The guards around him all insist she's dead, but he refuses to believe them.

He clutches her purse, his eyes filled with obsession and cruel determination.

"A Ying, I don't believe you're dead. No matter what it takes, I'll find you!"

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After searching for many days, Qin Yuan sees her again, but it's when his minister, the Prince of Jin, arrives at court hand in hand with his wife.

The woman clasps the hand of her husband, the Prince of Jin, her voice seeming shocked and trembling as she says, "I, Lu, Princess Consort of Jin, pay my respects to Your Majesty."

He suppresses the storm raging in his heart and tells her to rise.

But after the banquet, he pins her in a corner, grips the back of her head, and stares into her limpid eyes as he says, each word deliberate: "My dearest, I've finally caught you."

[Bonus Scene]

After faking her death and becoming one of Qin Yuan's consorts, the Prince of Jin has just returned victorious from disaster-relief work when he suddenly discovers that his supposedly "dead" princess consort has been brought into the palace by the emperor and made a consort!

The woman gazes at the Prince of Jin with tearful eyes. Qin Yuan's face darkens with jealousy as he looks at the Prince of Jin below. "My dear minister, what was lost must be taken back, and the wrongs you suffered must be avenged. Don't you agree?"

He grabs Lu Wanchai by the wrist, forcing her to look away from the Prince of Jin. "A Ying, if you keep staring at him, you know what I'll do..."

Coming soon, another groveling romance of the same type: After Personally Killing His Child, Jiang the Top Graduate Begged for Her Back

[Groveling Romance / Rebirth / Melodrama]

Zhou Yuanyao is a well-bred, kind, and beautiful young lady of the Zhou family, one of the capital's most prestigious clans. The stupidest thing she ever did was fall for the youngest top graduate in the imperial exams, who happens to be a block of ice.

Zhou Yuanyao loves him, and even though he remains cold after they marry, she indulges him at every turn, doing all she can to please him.

She thought that even the coldest stone would warm up after ten years.

Then, the year she unexpectedly discovered she was pregnant, she was overjoyed and went to tell him, only to learn that the husband she loved had submitted a petition that demoted her father six ranks and exiled him to a barren region on the border.

As for her, all he had to say was: "She is willful by nature, freely abuses her half-sister, and treats human life as worthless. Her character is rotten to the core."

One blow after another made her tremble all over, and her consciousness began to slip away.

When she awoke, she was in her bedroom. "Madam, don't move. You just miscarried, and your body..."

Zhou Yuanyao's eyes redden. "What? My child... Why is my child gone?!"

"I asked the doctor to terminate the pregnancy."

The man standing in the doorway had shared her bed for ten years, but for the first time, he seemed so cold-blooded and unfamiliar.

Zhou Yuanyao trembles all over and finally breaks down.

After days of torment, she stands weakly by the window of the upper floor. She gently reaches out and pushes open the casement...

When she opens her eyes again, she's back at fourteen, before any of it had begun.

But Zhou Yuanyao wants nothing more to do with Jiang Yu'an.

Jiang Yu'an has a dream in which he marries Miss Zhou and they spend ten years together. The dream is so vivid he can't help believing it.

Just when he thinks Zhou Yuanyao will confess her feelings to him after her coming-of-age ceremony, just as she did in the "dream"...

His close friend, the heir to the Prince's estate, strolls into the flower hall with a smile. "Yaoyao, you said you'd try out my new horse today. Why are you still dawdling here?"

For some reason, a sudden taste of blood rises in his throat.

Later, when Jiang Yu'an flings an imperial edict into the main hall of the Zhou residence, Zhou Yuanyao is just about to leave.

"The emperor has ordered you to marry me. Miss Zhou, are you going to defy the decree?" He crushes the begonia by her temple, his eyes blood-red, like the blood from her fall in her previous life. "Did you think that being reborn would let you escape my grasp?"

Theme: Even when trapped in adversity in a powerful family, never give up on finding a way out