Pitying You, My Love

"I cherish you as if you were a priceless treasure."

Optimistic country-born empress VS gentle, controlling emperor

Ongoing novel: After the Son of Heaven Fell for Me at First Sight

Forced possession | Older woman/younger man | Female lead is not a virgin, male lead is | He chases his wife after marriage in the later half

The Son of Heaven, Pei Chengjue, was young and knew nothing of love.

One day, he met Qiao Tang outside the palace. Her beauty was like a flowering hibiscus, and her smile was radiant. He was entranced for a moment, then summoned her into the palace. "I only want to talk with you, Sister."

Qiao Tang: "..."

What a smooth talker, making abduction sound so innocent.

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Qiao Tang had no feelings for the emperor, but he forcibly kept her in the palace.

When the empress dowager learned that she had been married before, she disapproved, but promised to let Qiao Tang leave the palace once Pei Chengjue had grown up and tired of her.

To leave as soon as possible, Qiao Tang tutored Pei Chengjue every night in the ways of love. He tasted every kind of passion, his heart full of ardent, sincere devotion. "I love you, Sister. Do you love me?"

Qiao Tang coaxed him. "I do."

Two years passed, and Pei Chengjue was still passionately demanding her attention. She panicked. Wasn't he supposed to get tired of her?

Then one day, Pei Chengjue heard Qiao Tang's voice outside the window. "Once His Majesty chooses a consort, I'll leave the palace. Perhaps then I can reconsider you, my former husband."

A man's voice answered tenderly, "It seems Tangtang really doesn't care for His Majesty."

"If His Majesty hadn't forced me into the palace..."

Pei Chengjue's eyes turned blood red. For the first time in his life, he felt the heart-shattering agony of being deceived, along with hatred.

For several days afterward, Qiao Tang was confined to her quarters.

The eyes that had once burned with passion were now cold and terrifying. "Since you've already used up everything your former husband taught you, it's my turn to teach you."

The fiercely possessive man was no longer an easily coaxed boy. Qiao Tang swallowed the bitter fruit she had planted with her own hands and bit down on her lip, making no sound.

When the palace once again discussed selecting consorts, Qiao Tang asked to leave.

Pei Chengjue's thin lips curled in mockery. "Do you think I'll beg a woman who's grown tired of me to stay?"

On the day of the consort selection, the palace waited from morning until night, but Pei Chengjue never appeared. Instead, in a carriage that had escaped the palace, he held Qiao Tang, dressed in an empress's robes, tightly against his chest and gently wiped away the tears at the corner of her eyes. "Don't cry, Sister. From now on, I'll let you keep deceiving me. The more cruelly you deceive me, the more I'll love you."

Content warning: Angsty, sweet, and melodramatic. An initially sincere and passionate emperor who turns dark and obsessive VS a gentle, clear-eyed beauty. At the start, the heroine is 20 and the hero is 18. The heroine is not a virgin, the hero is. The hero calls the heroine "Sister" in private. The heroine still has feelings for her former husband at first, and only falls for the hero in the middle!

Completed novels: The Entire Capital Is Begging Her to Return to the Palace and The Entire Capital Is Putting on a Show for Her

Theme: Cherish the person in front of you.