The Tyrant's Drama Queen Consort

* The tyrant has taken a new favorite consort, a breathtaking beauty who is as delicate as can be, panting after every three steps and faint with dizziness after every five.

The tyrant dotes on her as if she were the moon in the sky, letting her run wild at court until the ministers tremble with anger, their lips turning purple.

Everyone cries, "The Liang Dynasty is doomed!"

Then Prince Rui rebels, surrounding the imperial city with five thousand elite soldiers and storming the palace at swordpoint.

The tyrant and his favorite consort both draw their swords and press them to Prince Rui's neck. Their eyes are equally fierce.

The favorite consort is startled, then puts on an affected voice: "Your Majesty, I'm so scared!"

The tyrant wraps an arm around her slender waist and says indulgently, "Are you? If your skills were any worse, I might believe you."

What should you do when your acting skills are exposed?

PS:

1. Inspired by Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Both leads are virgins. They're both faking it, one pretending to be weak and the other pretending to be stupid.

Either one alone is clever, but together they're a pair of idiots.

2. The heroine is from the future. Her limbs were modified when she was young, giving her great strength and immunity to all poisons.

3. Consort ranks from highest to lowest: Empress, Noble Consort, (Consort Shu, Consort De, Consort Xian), Zhaoyi, Jieyu, Beauty, Talented Lady, Baolin, Imperial Maid, Caiyu.

4. The dynasty is fictional, and official ranks are a hodgepodge.

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Coming next: Reborn, She Was Abducted Again

Autumn, Year Four of Jingming. A fine drizzle falls.

The emperor disbands his harem and visits Hanshan Temple to admire the scenery, but is ambushed and takes shelter in a ginkgo grove.

Amid the golden rain, a woman twirls and dances. Her clothes are soaked, yet she smiles like spring.

When she finds him, she doesn't save him. Instead, she lifts his chin and teases him.

Her cheeks are as red as peach blossoms, and her breath carries a faint scent of wine. Boldly, she kisses him on the lips, then dances away.

When his attendants find him, the emperor's gaze is deep and inscrutable. "Find out whose daughter she is."

The attendants are terrified, but even after months of searching, they find nothing.

Not until the New Year's palace banquet, when the heir to the Marquis of Changwu enters with his wife, does an attendant remember. Trembling, he says:

"This servant deserves to die. I failed to recognize her that day. She was... she was the former Noble Consort, Lady Mu, and is now the wife of the Marquis of Changwu's heir."

The emperor's expression changes in an instant.

The attendants around him all turn deathly pale and dare not speak.

Note: A transmigration and rebirth story with an abduction trope. In her previous life, the heroine was not a virgin, while the hero was; in this life, both leads are virgins.

Theme: Don't be fooled by appearances.