[Unhinged Emperor, Power Couple, Political Intrigue, Love Triangle, Secret Crush]
After Nanxiao’s defeat in battle, Princess Xiao Changning becomes a pawn in a marriage alliance with Beiyuan. The moment she enters the Beiyuan palace, she is conferred the title of Noble Consort, and the entire court denounces her as a “seductress consort.”
In response, she sits right in the emperor’s lap. “Your Majesty~ They’re calling me a seductress consort.”
“To be so blind is utterly foolish. Your Majesty, why don’t you have them all executed?”
Murong Yao happens to be an unhinged ruler who scoffs at convention. “I’ll do whatever my beloved consort says. If anyone dares to touch you, I will slaughter them!”
She endures and schemes, hiding her sharp edges beneath a veneer of gentleness; he is possessive and controlling, locking her every move within his gaze. Even the astute Empress Jiang protects her, both openly and in secret.
Xiao Changning’s heart is moved, but her world shatters when she sees a secret edict for him to dispatch troops to Nanxiao. Empress Jiang wants to help her escape, but a sword wound revealed beneath a wide sleeve exposes the secret that the Empress is a man—his protection of her was born from an improper affection.
She orchestrates her escape to Luochuan to find her mother. He leads a hundred-thousand-strong army to the city gates and, looking up at her on the ramparts, smiles with unmistakable madness. “I’ve caught you.”
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