Picked Up a Beast, Turns Out He's an Emperor (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 37
From the Emperor’s hand, the golden egg shattered into pieces, and white smoke rose like a mirage before dissipating into the air.
“The Red Chaos Bird’s golden egg has broken! It’s an egg said to be unbreakable even when struck with a stone—what in the world is happening?”
One of the candidates cried out, unable to hide her astonishment, prompting the others to begin murmuring one by one.
“So that means the egg was fake all along… Hic—oops.”
The Princess of Chatel, who voiced the thought swirling in everyone’s minds, hiccupped as her eyes met the Empress Dowager’s venomous glare.
“Oh dear, so the Red Chaos Bird’s golden egg has broken so pointlessly. Lady Arabella, could you explain this for us?”
His crimson eyes, fixed on the powdered fragments of gold and red before him, gleamed with pleasure as he turned to Arabella standing ahead.
“Princess Lilibet’s golden egg wasn’t made from a Red Chaos Bird’s egg at all—it was crafted from a Red-tailed Oriole’s egg.”
Uncomfortable under the collective stares fixed upon her, Arabella answered the Emperor’s question, her cheeks flushed.
The Red-tailed Oriole’s egg was famously used as a counterfeit for the Red Chaos egg—its color and size nearly identical, making it a popular choice for fake gemstone eggs.
Especially recently, with the advancement of gilding techniques using impure gold mixed with copper and other metals, crimes involving fraudulent Red-tailed Oriole eggs had surged dramatically.
These scams typically involved transactions equivalent to the price of an ordinary commoner’s house, yet because there was no reliable way to distinguish genuine from fake, the authorities were struggling to cope.
“How did you know this gem was made from a Red-tailed Oriole’s egg?”
“The Red Chaos Bird, once it lays an egg, abandons the nest without incubating it. Thus, if you look closely, the top of its egg is slightly more pointed than usual—there are no indentations from the mother’s weight pressing down. Also, like ordinary bird eggs, if you place it on a flat surface such as your palm, it won’t stand upright but will tip over sideways.”
Arabella slowly explained, gazing at the shattered egg in the Emperor’s hand.
Male lead fell into her trap — and shattered when she walked away
This is also on my reread list!
This one is a slow burn, but when it burns, it burns hard.
Definitely worth a read, y’all!
The story follows a thousand-year-old seductive spirit who, on a bet, sets out to charm the male lead—a once-promising but unfortunate cultivator.
But just when she succeeds in making him fall for her, she heartlessly leaves, driving him to madness.
Determined to find her at all costs, he captures her, keeping her by his side no matter what, even if she hates him.
I love this kind of trope—I enjoy watching the male lead suffer in agony.
The ending drags a bit with unnecessary filler, but that’s fine.
As long as I enjoy the beginning, I’m good.
Intro
As an enchantress, Su Heng possesses captivating eyes and charming beauty, easily manipulating the joys and sorrows of living beings at her fingertips.
But to enchant a god, making him taste the bitterness of love’s separation, long-lasting resentment, unattainable desires, and inability to let go…
Do you dare?
Su Heng assists a divine lord in his cultivation, aiming to make him experience all the sufferings of love, so that he can attain the Great Dao.
Only after being chased down from the heavens by the divine lord, confined and completely possessed by him, does she realize how successful she has been.
The once gentle and polite youth has transformed into someone she no longer recognizes.
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