[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress":3,"chapter-plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-1498":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Plagued by bad reviews, but the top actress!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1735425,2218,"Chapter 1497: 1947: Love Begins Unknowingly, Yet Grows Deep","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-1498",1498,"\u003Cp>Capítulo 1497: Chapter 1947: Love Begins Unknowingly, Yet Grows Deep\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is also the reason why Lu Hualiang didn’t come this morning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao sat by watching Han Luoqi perform this scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, she didn’t know these things; she heard about them from others later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Xia Liang endured a lot of pressure to marry her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Empress, as the mother of the world, must be virtuous and kind to win people’s hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, before appointing an Empress, it is required to consult with the ministers and inform them in advance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Emperor Xia Liang did not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his view, whom he marries is his own affair, not to be dictated by others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it wasn’t until the wedding day that the ministers knew the Empress of the Great Xia Kingdom was a woman of the Jianghu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, these high officials and nobles disagreed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the Imperial Astronomer performed a divination that day, saying her birth characters clashed with Emperor Xia Liang’s, which would erode the imperial aura and doom the emperor to an early death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any case, there were many issues, and the final result was the opposition from the ministers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The officials even threatened to resign and return home, opposing her elevation as Empress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, Emperor Xia Liang persisted stubbornly, even dismissing several high-ranking officials as a warning to others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is also one of the reasons why her relationship with officials of the previous dynasty was never harmonious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing about these things later, she thought about changing herself, lessening her Jianghu aura, and learning to be a virtuous empress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emperor Xia Liang said there was no need; she should just be herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was his only Empress, merely his wife, and didn’t need to manage The Six Palaces or set an example for the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just being his wife was enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, there was no need to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao watched Han Luoqi, playing Emperor Xia Liang, erupt in anger, scolding the ministers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching the ministers below repeatedly bowing, some even risking their lives to offer counsel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, he remained unwavering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao was somewhat dazed; this scene was not something she witnessed personally back then, only heard about later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She told Xu Jiayang, who then used his professional knowledge to reconstruct it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she watched, her nose started to tingle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tear of impulse to fall welled up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It turns out he bore so much just to marry her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ridiculously, she couldn’t see it, never realizing her own feelings, only blaming him for clipping her wings, hating him for not leaving her even in death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the four walls of the palace, confined for a lifetime.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One cup of poisoned wine, life and death in the same grave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In her past life, she truly hated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even at the moment of death, she didn’t see her own feelings clearly, dying with hatred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, as the story plays out again, she realizes how foolish she was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She isn’t sure when she fell in love with Emperor Xia Liang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, roaming the Jianghu, free and unrestrained, she didn’t understand what affection or love was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Entering the palace with Emperor Xia Liang, she didn’t even know if she liked him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She merely thought he was good-looking and enjoyed the feeling of being with him, so she followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether she liked him, she truly wasn’t sure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even now, she cannot determine if it was because she liked this man that she followed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She only knew that after entering the palace, even though she couldn’t stand the confined life within its four corners, she still didn’t leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time Emperor Xia Liang went to court, she would sit alone on the stone steps in front of the bedchamber, gazing up at the blue sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eagles soared across the sky, free and unhindered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She longed for the carefree life outside the palace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky is the quilt, the earth is the bed, I wander the Five Lakes and Four Seas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind comes to block, the rain to hinder, I conquer the three mountains and five peaks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, she didn’t leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how much she yearned for the free life outside, she didn’t leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because, outside, he was not there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she thought and thought, a tear silently fell.\u003C\u002Fp>",713,"2026-06-06T16:22:23.467Z",1,"novelbin.me","d910f49a45060e3762ce84b781f2c6003c7ed4705f99fab1f32135c2d19c4e19","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-1499","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-1497",1766,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fplagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-cover.jpg"]