Spring Blossoms Fill the Tangtang, Bonus Chapters

[Faithful to Each Other, Noble Prince vs. Frail Orphan Girl]

The first time Xiao Chi saw Jiang Xintang, she was fifteen, crouching by a flower bed and crying.

Perhaps because he had killed too many people and his hands were stained with blood, the sight struck his soul. He thought her pure and lovely.

But when he learned who she was, he returned to the northern frontier.

Still, in the quiet of the night, he would always think of the innocent girl by the flower bed...

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The first time Jiang Xintang saw Xiao Chi was at the banquet welcoming him.

Her stepfather wanted to secure an official post and sent her to the old minister's bed. She escaped and hid in the guest room where Xiao Chi was changing, begging him to save her.

The man remained unmoved, so she changed her plea: "Take me."

He granted her wish.

Afterward, Jiang Xintang's mother brought her before him and instructed her, "Call him big brother."

With the marks he'd just left still on her neck, Jiang Xintang didn't dare raise her head. She timidly called him big brother.

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She lost her father young and followed her mother into the Duke's residence, where she became the third branch's stepdaughter, of low status.

He, meanwhile, was the powerful Prince of Beiding, a noble, scheming man with ruthless methods.

Jiang Xintang didn't dare provoke him again.

Yet in the dark of night, he would forcibly pull her into his arms again and again, his embrace burning and fierce.

He even said, "Bear me a son, Tangtang."

Later, she bore him a son and a daughter, but he sent her to the throne as empress. Their children were registered as the new emperor's, while he controlled both the emperor and the entire court.

One day, after enduring endless torment, she held her son and grabbed his hand.

"Xiao Chi, I want my son to be emperor!"

If she couldn't marry him,

then she would have him put their son on the throne.

She would become the empress dowager.

She would be the most exalted woman in the land.

Then no one would dare bully her again!