The Crown Prince Regrets It Too Late

Xu Mingyue was the most inconspicuous concubine-born daughter in the Grand Tutor's household, until two distinguished guests arrived:

One was the noble Crown Prince, the other the blind Ninth Prince.

Her sisters all scrambled to curry favor with the Crown Prince. Xu Mingyue alone felt compassion for the Ninth Prince, seeing in him a kindred spirit.

The sound of her zither drifted through the air, keeping him company through countless nights.

But one day, the Ninth Prince suddenly disappeared. Everyone told her she had imagined the whole thing.

Just as she began to believe them, the Crown Prince's wedding took place. She saw the blind young man, now seated high in the grand hall, about to marry her elder half-sister.

Xu Mingyue lowered her eyes, hiding their dampness. So the Ninth Prince had been the real Crown Prince all along. The original Crown Prince had only been his stand-in.

And she had been nothing more than a diversion for him.

Much later, Xu Mingyue found true love: Mu Qingyang, heir to the Duke's estate. He was sincere and straightforward, and never deceived or lied to her.

When Rong Xiu learned that Xu Mingyue had married another man, he sat outside the palace hall that very night, crushing the cup in his hand.

Shards pierced his palm, and blood spread across the cold stone steps all night long.

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Rong Xiu finally claimed supreme power, and no one dared question him. He went to the Duke's estate to visit the young widow.

At the time, Xu Mingyue was carrying Mu Qingyang's child. "It's too late. You can never, ever measure up to him again."

Rong Xiu's eyes were dark as he gripped her chin. His voice was frighteningly hoarse. "Xu Mingyue, didn't you want revenge for his whole family? I'll make you Empress. You can kill anyone you want."

A zither with broken strings always stood in Rong Xiu's bedchamber.

One snowy night, the palace servants heard the emperor sitting alone before it, murmuring, "Mingyue, I've gone blind again..."

But the Empress was in the palace, soothing their child. She never came to stay by his side again.

-He only went mad much later.

▲ A groveling ex arc + possessive love

▲ The male lead has a cool, detached appearance, but is skilled at scheming and weighing advantages. A born emperor.

▲ The female lead married the second male lead and had his child. He is the white moonlight and cinnabar mole she can never erase.

▲ Both male leads are virgins

Please add my new novel to your reading list: "The Lady and the Enemy General Share a Harmonious Marriage"

Du Lingjuan's greatest regret in life was that, when she was young and naive, she agreed to her father's choice of Wang Ling as her husband simply because she admired his bravery.

Wang Ling was considerate enough, but utterly foolish and vainglorious. His years of warfare gradually drained the prosperous city of Wangcheng.

Their defeat came like a landslide. To secure his own "heroic" reputation, the fool even planned to burn the entire city, taking 50,000 civilians down with him!

On the eve of the city's burning, Wang Ling suddenly died of poison.

The whole city said General Ling Wang, their enemy, had done it.

And Du Lingjuan, the supposedly "spineless" city lord's wife, opened the city gates that very night and welcomed Ling Wang inside to negotiate.

Ling Wang, the formidable general who struck terror into the Northern Frontier.

When he first heard of Du Lingjuan, she was only a beautiful, ignorant, obedient city lord's wife in the rumors. Marrying her would mean gaining both a beauty and Wangcheng: two gains for the price of one.

Beautiful? Certainly.

Obedient?

Ling Wang looked at the pale figure seated in the main hall, the corner of his lips curling in amusement.

The world rarely offered such a good deal.

Wang Ling's orphaned son, young Wang Xie, rushed at him with a dagger, crying, "Give me back my father's life!"

Ling Wang easily restrained the child, but his gaze remained fixed like a hawk's on Du Lingjuan, seated calmly in the place of honor. His words carried a deeper meaning: "It may not be true that your father was killed by..."

Du Lingjuan looked up, her expression gentle and kind, and beckoned Wang Xie. "Xie'er, from now on, he will be your father."

-Two players with blood on their hands

-They test and countertest each other, until one day they accidentally grow old together. Somehow, outsiders even come to believe they were devoted to each other for life.

-They share the rest of their lives with a little sincerity, but not much

*In the same series as "Butterfly Lost" and "Looking at the Moon": "Entrusting the Cuckoo"

Theme: Everyone must seek the happiness that belongs to them