short series

The Beggar Who Vowed to Make Me Empress

share time: 2025-10-22 00:40:16

Shen Zhaozhao, daughter of a general, was ordered to enter the palace for the imperial consort selection. At the gate, she saved Gu Xuan, a down-and-out beggar being chased. As Gu Xuan lay on the brink of death, he clutched her hand and sobbed, "One day, I will make you the Empress." Zhaozhao dismissed it as a dying man’s ramble—until the selection day, when the new emperor on the golden throne turned out to be Gu Xuan, the beggar she’d fed hot porridge to in the snow. But after ascending, Gu Xuan became a stranger: he made her the neglected "Quiet Noble Lady" and quickly married the prime minister’s daughter as Empress. When Zhaozhao overheard Gu Xuan tell his empress, "She was just a tool to use her father’s military power," she finally realized—her whole-hearted belief in that "promise" was nothing but a trivial pawn in his revenge game...

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