I Possessed the Wicked Empress (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 22
“Haa….”
Henri let out a deep sigh and looked up at the ceiling.
‘So I’m just this insignificant after all?’
His father, the former emperor, had failed to produce an heir with his legitimate empress.
Using that fact as an excuse, the naturally flirtatious emperor took countless concubines.
He himself was one of the results.
According to imperial law, bastards could never inherit the throne.
Thus, until he was formally adopted by the empress and recognized as the late emperor’s legitimate son, Henri walked alone along a narrow and perilous cliffside path.
During those days, Henri’s mother, who should have cared for her son, always worried only about her own future, never his safety.
To her, her son was merely a means to become empress—nothing more, nothing less.
Even that tenuous connection was severed after Henri became the empress’s adopted son.
Growing up alone, young Henri experienced life-and-death situations a total of five times.
Three of those were orchestrated by his half-brothers, and two of them were his own doing.
He still remembered Valière’s face hovering before him when he awoke, drenched in despair after his final suicide attempt.
Her eyes were so swollen from crying they could barely open, and her nose was crusted white beneath from dried mucus she hadn’t bothered to wipe away.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
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After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
Wait what the hell. I lowkey hate henri but i feel bad for her to have to suffer with a loser like him omgn