[{"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-1695":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},1735472,2218,"Chapter 1691 - 1692: Empress, I Finally Found You","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-1695",1695,"\u003Cp>Xia Weibao suddenly turned over and lay on top of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her hand trembled nervously, \"What did you just call me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang raised his hand, gently stroking her cheek, \"Empress, I have finally found you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tears instantly welled up in Xia Weibao’s eyes, her lips trembling slightly with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Splat, tears fell, splashing into a tiny water flower on his chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The searing heat almost burned the skin there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sob...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He remembered, he finally remembered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had waited so long for this day, waited until her heart almost shattered...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had imagined countless times the scenario of him remembering, and also envisioned what her reaction would be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Excited, happy, sweet, angry, sad, furious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe she’d be so happy she’d jump up, or maybe she’d be so angry she’d give him a good beating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, when this moment truly arrived, she only wanted to cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of him, crying like a child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang felt a pang in his chest, and tenderly wiped away her tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had made her cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How could you just remember, how could you forget me, sob...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang reached out, pulling her into his embrace, holding her tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding this woman, for whom he had given his life and traversed ten lifetimes to find.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This woman, engraved in his bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m sorry.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I missed you so much, how could you forget me, why didn’t you remember me sooner, sob.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang gently stroked her back, his gaze gradually growing cold, why did he forget her, why didn’t he remember her sooner...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This question, he also wished to know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past nine lives, there were memories of her, even when reincarnation hurt the soul, he remembered within a few years, but this time...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was reborn with memories, yet he forgot when he was a teenager.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You don’t know how I thought you were dead back then, thought I’d never see you again, how sad I was...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang cupped her face, \"You were sad?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hadn’t she always wanted to leave him, the palace like a cage, becoming a prison confining her life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before, she always looked at him with a resentful gaze, blamed him for breaking her wings, hated him for forcing her to bear children, forcing her to do things she didn’t want to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hated him, that was the only thing he had felt from her a thousand years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought his death would be a relief for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opening her eyes to find he wasn’t there, she’d be happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet unexpectedly, she actually said she was sad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao’s face reddened slightly, wanting to lower her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lu Hualiang insistently cupped her face, his gaze burning, \"Empress.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this past half year when he hadn’t remembered, she had said she loved him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he didn’t know whether it was said to him, or to the version of Lu Hualiang without memories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though they were both him, the meaning was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao’s face turned even redder, before when he had no memory and was acting out, it was not so hard to say.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, in front of this man she had spent decades with, an old married couple, yet she had to say such mushy words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t say it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Empress, say it for me to hear.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao glared at him, \"You’re asking when you already know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know nothing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then forget it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang pinched her waist, making Xia Weibao wriggle around to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Will you say it or not?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t... don’t pinch... it’s sore... hiss...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In twisting around, she pulled her waist, the pain contorting her face, her gaze full of grievance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Hualiang dared not tease her further, gently pressing on her waist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xia Weibao wrapped her arms around his neck, her face resting on his chest, her lips curling into a sweet smile.\u003C\u002Fp>",642,"2026-06-06T16:22:27.094Z",1,"novelbin.me","a3d083a87e9a942e784990da865415eb4d1268a165c3926e295db65a08ee0da0","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-1696","plagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-chapter-1694",1766,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fplagued-by-bad-reviews-but-the-top-actress-cover.jpg"]