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In popular street tales, whenever a “Prime Minister’s Daughter” and a “Number One Scholar” finally get their happy ending, there’s always a matchmaker maid who gets paired with the Number One Scholar’s servant boy.
Whenever she saw the part where the maid tearfully expressed her gratitude, Xi Hongrui would scoff. What was so good about marrying a servant boy? A female slave marrying a male slave would only give birth to a brood of little slaves, serving the master’s family for generations. It would be better to become the Number One Scholar’s concubine; at least she’d be half a master.
Since she thought this way, when her young master said he wanted to take her as a concubine, she immediately agreed with delight.
However, she never expected that she was truly a character in one of those tales.
Her young mistress was the “Female Lead” who had “transmigrated” from the future, and her young master was the future emperor. They were a perfectly matched Emperor and Empress. As for her, she wasn’t even the matchmaker who brought them together, but merely a restless little maid who deluded herself into thinking she could come between the male and female leads.
Just like in all such tales, the male lead was devoted only to the female lead. Once he became emperor, he had this little maid, who had betrayed her mistress for personal gain, disfigured and sold to a brothel.
Xi Hongrui died just like that, only to be reborn on the day the Female Lead offered to marry her off to the male lead’s servant boy.
In her past life, she had looked down on the servant boy for being a slave and had rejected the proposal without hesitation.
However, when the male lead became emperor, even the servant by his side became a “Lord” to others. If she hadn’t been so obsessed with wealth and status, she could have become the legally wedded, primary wife of a high official.
Reborn and knowing everything, Xi Hongrui knelt on the ground, looked up at the Female Lead who was asking if she was willing to marry the male lead’s servant boy, and said cheerfully—
“This servant is not willing!”
As expected, she was still just as obsessed with wealth and status. Even with a second chance at life, she only wanted to marry into power and nobility!
The Female Lead withdrew her gaze with pity. She was curious to see what fate awaited such a restless maid in a feudal society.
However, in the end, all she saw was Xi Hongrui rise from a maid to an Imperial Concubine, and then to the Empress Dowager who ruled from behind the curtain.
The male lead emperor didn’t even get a touch of power before he was trampled into the dirt.
Xi Hongrui, as she had wished, outlived the old emperor, controlled the Infant Emperor’s ascension, and became the Regent.
Gazing at the dynasty prostrated at her feet, she realized that even marrying the male lead couldn’t compare to marrying power itself.
Power was so marvelous. How could anyone be content to stay in their place?
Disclaimers:
The female lead is a native of the ancient world who has nothing but her beauty. She marries the old emperor for power.
She is an amoral female lead, an absolute egoist with a very low bottom line.
The young emperor is not the female lead’s biological son.
The old emperor is genuinely old, genuinely fatuous, and genuinely useless. He only became emperor through the good fortune of his birth.
This story is unrealistic, unreasonable, and not worth deep thought. It’s just for fun.
From a Born Lowly Slave to an Empress Dowager, the main theme is rising up by marrying an emperor.
Next Book Preview: “After the Divorce, I Got My Mother-in-Law”
Xin Yi was the vicious female side character in a “secret pregnancy” novel. The plot had now reached the point where the female lead, along with her genius son, had reconciled with the male lead. The male lead was determined to divorce Xin Yi, the vicious side character.
For a matter as significant as a divorce, her stern and old-fashioned mother-in-law also came to the scene.
Song Meijuan, a renowned entrepreneur, calmly drank a cup of tea. “If you divorce, you will have to leave with nothing.”
Hearing this, the male and female leads, along with their son, all looked at Xin Yi with schadenfreude, waiting for the vicious side character to be thrown out with nothing to her name.
But Song Meijuan put down her teacup, looked up, and said to her own son with a placid expression, “I was talking about you. You will leave with nothing.”
Male Lead: …
Female Lead: …
The Son: …
Huh???
After the divorce, the mother-in-law kicked her son and his mistress out of the house and started a new life with her daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
The divorce is real, and neither the mother-in-law nor the daughter will push for a reconciliation.
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