Qian Lu stayed up late reading a novel and transmigrated into a male-lead-centered, no-romance imperial-examination progression fantasy, becoming the personal maid of the male lead's legal wife.
The male lead, Cui Ang, was a renowned minister of his generation.
He passed the highest imperial examinations at a young age, achieving the top rank in all three stages. Since childhood, he had been betrothed to the legitimate granddaughter of the chief councilor. His official career went smoothly all his life, and in the end he rose to the highest position in the court, becoming prime minister.
Qian Lu worked diligently as a maid, hoping that one day she could buy her freedom and live as she pleased.
The legal wife, Madam Lu, had never conceived after marrying.
One day, Madam Lu summoned Qian Lu to her room and dismissed all the servants.
She asked, "I have decided to grant you an opportunity to improve your standing. From now on, you will attend to the young master's daily needs. If you become pregnant, I will raise you to the status of a concubine. Are you willing?"
Qian Lu was shocked. She hurriedly fell to her knees and said loudly, "This servant was born into humble circumstances, lowly as mud. How could I ever be worthy of the young master? Young Madam, please don't make things difficult for me. I beg you to take back your order!"
Madam Lu was astonished for a long time. After confirming her answer again and again, she finally let her go. "You may leave."
After Qian Lu left, someone stepped out from behind the screen. It was Cui Ang.
The young man wore an unreadable expression as he looked toward the doorway.
Madam Lu said, "My lord, I think Zhiyue and Tong'er are both clever and well-behaved, with pleasant appearances and gentle, considerate temperaments. In my opinion, why not send them to your study to attend to you for now?"
The young man replied in a clear voice, his starry eyes cool and detached. "We can discuss this another time."
With a sweep of his sleeve, he turned and left.
[Both leads are non-virgins]
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I should be starting this one next:
The Gentle Male Lead Turns Dark
[Male Lead's POV]
Chen Jianning was the youngest son of a farming family, and from childhood he had been known as a prodigy for miles around.
He was also the gentlest, kindest man imaginable. He had been childhood sweethearts with the daughter of the tofu shop in town, and they married young.
At eighteen, he went to the capital to take the imperial examinations and passed with the highest honor. A family sought to recruit him as a son-in-law right after the results were announced, and the chancellor's daughter took a liking to him. But he refused outright, declaring that he already had a wife back home who had shared his humble beginnings, and he could not betray her.
Everyone praised the top scholar for his deep devotion.
A year later, Chen Jianning was sent away to take up an official post. His wife was pregnant, but her pregnancy was unstable, so he had no choice but to leave for his post alone.
Unexpectedly, he soon received the terrible news that his wife had died of illness.
Overcome with grief, he returned to the capital and submitted a request to resign, then personally escorted his deceased wife's coffin back to their hometown.
Moved by the depth of his devotion, the emperor granted him a year of mourning for his wife.
When the mourning period ended, he returned to court, declined every offer of matchmaking, and devoted himself entirely to government affairs.
Until one day, at a palace banquet, he happened to catch sight of the favored imperial consort.
The young top scholar was so startled that he dropped his wine cup, wetting his official robes, and stood frozen on the spot.
From then on, Chen Jianning seemed like a different person.
He bided his time in the treacherous world of officialdom, maneuvering at every turn. Before he was thirty, he had already entered the Grand Secretariat and gained power over the entire court.
On the day of the palace coup, the imperial city descended into chaos.
Step by step, he entered the golden chamber the emperor had built for her.
Looking at his wife's still-beautiful face, now tinged with fear, he was about to speak when a little head peeked out from behind her. The child was clearly trembling with fear, yet bravely spread both arms to shield his wife and shouted at him, "Don't hurt my mother!"
Chen Jianning did not look at the child even once. He only curved his lips into a smile, softening his voice, though the darkness in his eyes remained unfathomably deep.
He reached out to her and said,
"My lady."
"I'll take you home."
[Female Lead's POV]
At seventeen, Shi Meng finally awakened memories of her past life. As it turned out, she had transmigrated into a male-lead-centered political intrigue novel where the wife was sacrificed to heaven. She had become the beautiful legal wife who was forcibly taken by the crown prince and ultimately died after keeping herself chaste for her husband and throwing herself against a pillar!
The male lead turned dark as a result, embarking on the path of defying the throne. He endured humiliation and bided his time, eventually joining forces with the Thirteenth Prince to rebel and force his way into the palace, rising to the highest position in the court.
Shi Meng looked at the handsome, sinister crown prince before her. Keep herself chaste for what? What mattered more, chastity or her life?
Besides, he wasn't even that much better-looking than her ex-husband...
Theme: Live well.
[The little maid wearing a book with a grassroots escort × The Young Master of the Flower of the High Mountain Wenquxing] [Under the Altar of Flowers of the High Mountains + Ancient Proverbs Daily + Robbery and Robbery + HE] 🔆Sisters who like the altar under the flower of the high mountain, don't miss it! 🐶 The design of the hero's flower on the mountain is really amazing! The writing style of this article is delicate, the narrative main line is clear, and the daily description is quite ancient. Among them, the male protagonist is a real flower of the high mountains. The slow process of emotional decline of an elegant and noble superior described in the work is one of the few genre novels in recent years that can withstand disassembly and analysis and is worthy of study. On the other hand, the heroine created in this article, as a modern female time traveler, also adheres to her own three views of freedom, equality and self-esteem from beginning to end, and there is no common dogmatic ideological slippage in both wanting and wanting. Overall, this is a great genre novel. I love the character design of the noble and powerful minister Kaolinzhihua in the early stage and the reasonable narrative rhythm design of his fall. It is worth reading. The author of this article has obviously done a lot of homework. The background of the story is roughly modeled after the Song Dynasty. From the three-level imperial examination system, the government system, the Zhizhou Tongsan system, the Dingyou system, and even the Song system features of the separation of "officials, positions, and dispatches" are accurately used, showing the author's research on background details. Here, as a powerful minister, the male protagonist is not greedy for money, does not love power, does not focus on sex, and does not indulge in sexual desires. His "Yingshui Room" is the epitome of his spiritual life. He cooks snow and tea, expresses his feelings with paintings, grinds and composes poems, collects inscriptions, and plum wives and cranes. These are all real slices of the daily life of the scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty. At the same time, the scholar-bureaucrat's demands for order and morality mean that the male protagonist's attention and love for the female protagonist is never based on her appearance or the so-called physical liking. His feelings are based on his slowly developing, self-restraint and propriety. The "sense of boundaries between moral restraint and indulgence" has the same aesthetic connotation of the times. This article uses nearly fifty chapters to meticulously describe the whole process of the male protagonist walking down from the clouds step by step and seeing the female protagonist being impressed by her: He is a literary star carefully shaped by ethics and education. He won the first prize and married a noble daughter. He is the future head of the family and the best choice for "the male protagonist of the imperial examination". He is a true flower of the high mountains. For him, love is destined to be a superfluous product. His first impression of the heroine was "unruly and unpleasant", and he almost asked his wife to send her away. The turning point occurred in Cui Liuye's incident. He saw the heroine's cunning and bold freedom to challenge the rules for inner justice. He realized that he existed in the ethical class society. He saw the chilblains on her hands and the short cuffs, and saw her flamboyant soul wrapped in the shell of class and gender. He acquiesced in her taking naps, drawing, and shaking her legs in the study that he regarded as a spiritual projection. She became the most vivid scenery in his "study". He is different from the common routine settings. He is different from being attracted to the grassroots heroine's "beauty" and "specialness", and being crazy and wet about love... He is in those life experience observations, layer by layer, he sheds the armor of etiquette and discipline, and after changing himself, he sees her, becomes better, and walks towards her. Every transformation and growth of his has traces to follow, and he is one of the few ancient proverbs in recent years that has a refreshing taste for "the flower of the high mountain descends from the altar". The author boldly uses a complete system of imagery to externalize his fall: in her painting, "grass" is a plant that grows wantonly from the cracks in the bricks. It emerges from the land in his dream, making him uncomfortable, brushing against him and making him itchy. Finally, the grass becomes oily and covers the entire wilderness. His "Crane" is an elegant immortal king and a lover who died on hunger strike. He is loyal and determined to pursue the only sincerity... The male protagonist's feelings are not expressed in words but can be felt. The treatment of the emotions of the two people in the article is very restrained, never abusing inner monologues, and relying more on actions and scenes to convey emotions. His skill is far beyond the average of similar works. It is a pity that the flower of the high mountain has stepped down from the altar, but our grassroots heroine is not waiting to be resettled. As a modern female soul pursuing equality, freedom and self-respect, the driving force of her behavior from beginning to end in the story is not love, but freedom. She works, saves money, redeems her life, deregisters, leaves the house, opens a shop, supports herself, and speaks out for women. Every step she takes is towards her goal. Cai is not towards love. It's not that she doesn't like the male protagonist, she just can't accept the narrative of "being possessed as a gaze object". The male protagonist fights against the family divorce for her, gives up inheriting the family business, and waits for the position of the head wife. However, she is willing to choose to marry her adopted brother-in-law to ensure her own subjective freedom. The male protagonist doesn't know how to talk sweet words. Every time he has a small impulse that cannot be restrained, he is sincere and sincere. Unfortunately, the only thing she wants is to leave him. She just wants to regain her freedom. She only wishes him an open future [Joker] Of course, they couldn't forget each other. When the male protagonist turned around and found out that the female protagonist was married, he started to rob her from her. [][][] What's wonderful is that at the end of the story, the author designed a "case" as a narrative mirror device. When the male protagonist realized that "even if it is for the other's good love, he cannot take it by force" and chose to let go of the female protagonist. The female protagonist saw the jade pendant, went round and round, and finally realized that the beginning of her time travel was destined to be with the male protagonist, and she accepted this destined love 🧋 ✍️ In addition, the portrayal of the supporting cast in this article is wonderful, I like it very much! [Joker] The kind and lovely friend has a fairy tale life of a traditional beautiful maid and a domineering prince. The old enemy who loves money and is stingy also has a complete transformation and a happy life. The picked-up wild child has a simple teenage love for the heroine. There is also the first wife and the hero's mother who choose to divorce. Each supporting character is not a dull face, they are growing, they make this world real. 🌟Excellent work in all aspects, a masterpiece among genre articles, don't miss 🧋🧋🧋
When are you going to publish a new article? [Xingxingyan] Goddess, if you don't update, I won't have anything to eat.
The first one is very good, the first one is so well written, and it is so tense that when the robbery begins, the style of painting suddenly changes. The author is probably not suitable to write this kind of robbery plot 😂 😂
Although it feels like it was forcibly consummated in the end, it's okay. You can watch the male protagonist's fall, which is very delicious.
Let's start the next article. The character creation in the previous article is really contrived. I really wanted to create a noble heroine image, but I used too much force and it made me feel uncomfortable. I think the latter part is okay because although I subscribed in the past just to see the later updates, I didn't see much in the past.
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Finished reading Xiao Man and Cui Ang, who have been together for a long time, want to be happy together [continued] [Three Flower Cat Head]
Finished reading Xiao Man and Cui Ang, who have been together for a long time, want to be happy together [continued] [Three Flower Cat Head]
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