The Concubine Who Shook the Realm

On her wedding day, the groom never arrives. Instead, she receives a divorce letter. Feng Hongluan, the most beautiful woman in the Dongli Kingdom, becomes the first abandoned bride in its history to be divorced before she even marries. She becomes the greatest laughingstock in the entire kingdom. Unable to bear the humiliation, she jumps into a lotus pond. When she opens her eyes again, the timid look is gone. Her eyes and brows glow with cold, dazzling beauty. She is no longer the same person. At the wedding feast, the groom never arrives. Instead, a carefully planned ambush awaits her. Bai Qianqian, a pampered genius of the 21st century, has made a fatal mistake and dies at the hands of her new husband. When she opens her eyes again, her soul has entered the body of Feng Hongluan, the Dongli Kingdom's most beautiful and useless fool, a woman with nothing but looks. What's more, the body's owner is a concubine-born daughter with a father who doesn't care for her, a mother who died young, and a life spent being bullied by her father's concubines and her sisters. So what if she's a concubine-born daughter? Does that mean she's not human? Does it mean anyone can trample on her? How could anyone bear to abandon such a beautiful woman as if she were worthless and crush a flower in its prime? Was that man blind? And not only is he blind, he wants to marry her younger sister right after divorcing her? Damn it! Bai Qianqian swears that she will settle both her past and present life's scores at once, and make sure that scumbag doesn't even know how he died. A concubine-born daughter? But it turns out that wasn't how things were meant to be. She was originally the legitimate daughter. Her father demoted her mother's status from first wife to concubine, turning her from a legitimate daughter into a concubine-born one. The Dongli Kingdom's most beautiful woman was never a useless fool. She was a woman of learning and inner grace. Being a fool was merely a facade. As layer after layer of deception is peeled away, the woman reveals her astonishing brilliance, dazzling the entire capital. Then heaven and earth are turned upside down, a fish's eye becomes a pearl, and everyone who once looked down on her and mocked her is left dumbfounded. [Preview] "By the Mandate of Heaven, the Emperor decrees: Feng Hongluan is gentle and dignified, learned and sensible. Prince Li is mild-mannered and courteous. They are truly a match made in heaven. I hereby betroth Feng Hongluan as Prince Li's principal consort. Prince Li may never divorce her. So decreed!" Feng Hongluan holds the imperial decree and stands before the gates of Prince Li's residence. Looking down at the handsome man in embroidered robes and a jade belt kneeling on the ground, she reads the decree expressionlessly. Then she says, "Prince Li, receive the decree!" "Your subject receives the decree!" The handsome man stares fixedly at Feng Hongluan, his face dark with anger, and takes the decree. "I thank Your Majesty for your grace!" "Prince, don't be in such a hurry to give thanks. The Emperor has a second decree!" Feng Hongluan gives the handsome man a faintly amused look, then slowly takes out the second decree and reads it, still without expression. "By the Mandate of Heaven, the Emperor decrees: Feng Hongluan has rendered meritorious service in saving the Emperor, to Our great delight. We hereby bestow upon her the title of Imperial Sister. Since Our Imperial Sister dislikes Prince Li and has someone else in her heart, We cannot bear to separate a happy couple. We therefore permit her to divorce her husband and choose a new one. So decreed!" After both decrees have been read, the man glares at the woman, his face dark with fury. The woman smiles brightly at him. "Prince, congratulations! The pleasure is mutual!" This novel is a one-on-one romance.