Translated stories I like enough to recommend. I review them so expect some spoilers (I try not to spoil major events.)
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Description:(tbh this is basically the summary so you can skip it if you want)
Chu Ning's father was falsely accused. Suddenly, she became the daughter of a disgraced minister and was almost reduced to s*avery. Fortunately, the Crown Prince pitied her and honored their engagement, making her his main wife.
Chu Ning thought that she was fortunate to have married the Crown Prince.
However, she later found out that her savior was the very person who killed her father.
Soon after, the Emperor was gravely ill. Xiao Kezhi, the Prince of Qin and the Crown Prince's sixth uncle, led an army into the city and took the throne from his nephew.
When Chu Ning saw the silent man with a wolf-like gaze, she gathered her courage and extended a tentative hand.
. . .
Xiao Kezhi had spent the last fourteen years in the dangerous and cold borderlands. He was a decisive and ruthless man.
His wrath was terrifying. As soon as he ascended the throne, he eliminated all of the Crown Prince's allies.
However, the Crown Prince himself was strangely left unharmed.
Rumors spreaded everywhere, but none were close to the truth.
Only Xiao Kezhi himself knew why he had left the Crown Prince alive. He did it for the sake of the beautiful and delicate Crown Princess.
. . .
Later, in order to gain more powers, the Crown Prince forced Chu Ning to step down as his main wife.
Chu Ning calmly relinquished her position and voluntarily entered a Taoist temple.
Everyone thought that she was just putting up a brave front. However, no one knew that on the night the Crown Prince remarried, the Emperor paid a visit to the temple.
The next day, Chu Ning changed out of her Taoist robe, did her hair, and entered Taiji Palace. She smiled calmly at the horrified Crown Prince and his new wife.
Thoughts:
I can't believe I am recommending ntr.
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HEAR ME OUT! I am also against cheating/adultery, but FL did it for a reason I can accept! Her husband literally got her whole clan executed, then married her, pretending to be her savior.
The method FL used to get out of her marriage was realistic, especially since she is a powerless woman in ancient china. So no, she is not independent and is quite submissive, however I don't dislike her.
The novel showed a clear difference between her husband and ML.
I liked ML not because he's the male lead, but because of the way he treated the FL (once he finally trusted her.) Yes, his morals isn't exactly good either for sleeping with a married woman, his nephew's wife at that, but ehh-- the circumstances are different so I guess it's fine? Idk.
Btw ML is a kinky motherfucker lol.
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The story focuses more on the development of the protagonists, so other than romance, there isn't much going on. However despite it not being smut (a missed opportunity), the sexual tension was insane, I liked it!
So yeah, try it!
**WARNING** triggering content such as domestic abuse is explicitly shown. Please read with caution. You have been warned.
