She was the daughter of an imperial concubine cast aside by the emperor of the Lanyue Kingdom. Raised among common folk, she was clever and mischievous, as well as arrogant and overbearing.
He was the most beloved prince of the Tianqi Kingdom, brilliant and strategic, a master of troop formations whose military maneuvers seemed almost supernatural.
When she shattered his record of never having lost a battle:
“How did you use ten thousand soldiers to rout my fifty thousand?”
She blinked innocently, then smiled. “Oh, that. When I saw how many soldiers you had, I was terrified and turned to run. Of course, my troops ran after me. But as we ran, we somehow got lost, so I had to send out soldiers to find the way. Your troops just happened to walk right into our encirclement. What a coincidence!”
During peace talks between the two kingdoms, he asked, “Tell me, what do you want?”
“I hear you have a younger sister who's breathtakingly beautiful and gentle and virtuous. She just turned sixteen, so she can get married now, right?”
Seeing her excited expression, he suddenly felt deeply unsettled and found himself in a foul mood. “You want to form a marriage alliance with the Tianqi Kingdom? You want to marry my imperial sister?”
“Huh? I just wanted to find a beautiful consort for my imperial brother. Hee hee!”
“…”
He had been her childhood playmate, but he had “died” in an accident. When they met again, he was the Dark Night King, who controlled the underground organizations of six kingdoms.
“Waaah! Haohao, you're not dead!”
He smacked her on the head without holding back and yelled, “Do I look like someone who'd die that easily? Do you even know who I am?”
“Wah, but I really thought you were dead!”
“…”
He grabbed her by the collar, trying to drag her away as she lay on the roof of someone's house, spying on them. “You're a prince now. How can a prince do something like this?”
She just shook her head, smacked her lips, and gazed down in yearning. “Ahhh, she's so beautiful…”
A sudden heaviness gripped his heart, and he instinctively wanted to kill the woman she had just called beautiful.
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He held an alluring woman in his arms and raised his wine cup, glancing at Chu Qing beside him. A cruel smile curled his lips as he said to the man across from him, “In return for sending such a beauty to me, I'll send my empress to your bedchamber tonight.”
Chu Qing's expression was indifferent. She didn't even look up at him, as if the empress he was talking about had nothing to do with her.
She said, “I'll train an iron army for you and help you conquer the world. In exchange, you will give me my freedom.”
“Fine.” He agreed without hesitation. He gently lifted her chin, his smile wicked. “But tonight, you will attend me.”
Her expression was as cold as ice, and she didn't hesitate either. “All right.”
But she hadn't expected that an emperor, of all people, would break his word, even though a ruler's word should be his bond. And he wasn't the only emperor to break his promise…
Chu Qing, commander of the first special forces regiment stationed in Vietnam, was forced by the enemy into a swamp full of hidden dangers. She fell into the mire while saving her team. When she came to, everything around her was completely unfamiliar, and she was even mistaken for Empress Ning Xueqian and taken to the imperial palace.
In this strange world, she took one careful step after another but remained calm, seeking only her freedom. Yet in the end, she could not get what she wanted. Faced with what seemed like an endless cage, should she lower her head and accept her fate, or fight back against all odds, even if it left her covered in wounds?