Picked Up a Beast, Turns Out He's an Emperor (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 48
The evening the Emperor returned after ending his incognito visit.
Eight nobles seated in the Emperor’s second office exchanged glances with grim faces.
Once they found themselves alone in the office, the nobles hastily began speaking.
These senior nobles, renowned even in the capital for their influence, forgot all decorum and cast furtive glances in every direction, whispering in voices so low they were quieter than an ant’s, fearing someone might overhear from outside.
“We must absolutely deny it.”
“Of course. We had no knowledge of this matter. Did you?”
“Now more than ever, we must stand united to overcome this crisis. Not a single one of us can afford to betray the others.”
“There will be no betrayal. If even one of us confesses, not only we but our entire noble houses will be reduced to dust.”
Despite already wielding immense wealth and power as elders of noble houses, their greed knew no bounds.
The nobles who benefited from the capital development plan sold their lands to the imperial household at exorbitant prices and no longer needed to farm or harvest timber.
The tenants who had lived off those lands received no compensation and overnight lost their homes and livelihoods—callously cast out without the slightest sense of responsibility from their lords.
With the enormous sums received as compensation, the elder nobles turned to nefarious enterprises, partnering with a criminal organization infamous across the continent to run loan-sharking and brothels.
They lent money to the countless former tenants who had lost their livelihoods, imposed outrageous interest rates to inflate their debts, and then ensured they could never repay.
To those drowning in debt, they presented employment contracts tantamount to slavery, exploiting their labor—or dragged them into brothels or sold them to foreign lands where slavery still existed.
The vast profits from these illegal ventures went untaxed, and the illiterate, innumerate lower commoners served as an inexhaustible wellspring of profit. Their enterprises now thrived not only in the capital and the empire but across the entire continent.
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The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
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