Taking a Minister’s Wife: The Female Emperor Is Unhinged and Obsessive

[Ancient-style GL · HE · Power Struggle · A Match Made in Heaven]

Crazed and ruthless Qianyuan Empress Cileng versus a cool and refined top-tier Kunze prodigy.

This story is set in an imaginary dynasty.

Wen Lingyun, the legitimate daughter of the Wen family, is also a once-in-a-century top-tier Kunze.

She was originally destined to be the crown prince’s principal consort, but after a palace coup and the crown prince’s death, she lowered her head and married into the Jing'an Marquis residence as the marquis’s heir’s wife in order to protect her family.

The bridal candles had only just been lit, and before the red veil could even be lifted, an imperial edict came crashing down. She was directly snatched from the wedding hall into the deep palace by the new ruler, Leng Ji.

In twenty-three years of proper, rule-bound living, Wen Lingyun had never seen a monarch like this.

She rose to the throne through bloodshed, overturning all order and decorum, showing no regard for ritual, taking whatever she wanted from Wen Lingyun, domineering and hateful.

And yet, it was precisely such a person who completely changed her life.

Early on:

Leng Ji: “What, does Miss Wen not want to take responsibility for me?”

Wen Lingyun, eyes red: “Your Majesty…”

“Call me by my name!”

“Leng Ji, how do you want me to take responsibility for you?”

She leaned forward, her lips brushing Wen Lingyun’s ear as she spoke in a voice like silk, winding around her until she could barely breathe.

“It’s very simple.”

“From now on, year after year, you will stay with me forever.”

“My throne, my life, I’ll give them all to you.”

“And you can only be mine.”

What Wen Lingyun did not know was that many years later, whenever she recalled Leng Ji at that moment, recalled the stubborn seriousness in her eyes, recalled every word she had breathed against her ear, recalled how she had so casually offered up both throne and life, it would make her suffer unbearably.

It begins with force and possession, and ends with lasting companionship year after year.