The Deposed Empress Is Reborn and Gets Busy Farming

Li Yue was an empress in her previous life. Sadly, her family was massacred, and she was deposed, spending the rest of her days in the Cold Palace. She died peacefully, feeling there was nothing in her life she truly regretted. But when she opened her eyes again, she had become Yao Xiaoyue, a village girl from Yaojia Village. After crying her heart out, she fell asleep in the arms of her father in this life and accepted her new circumstances with equanimity. The first time she went up the mountain to gather wild cotton, she only wanted to spin it into cloth and earn a little money. Digging up wild cotton roots was an unexpected bonus. As for the person she later rescued, he made Yao Xiaoyue realize she had been reborn in a familiar era. The difference was that back then, she had been the honored legitimate daughter of the Left Chancellor. Now she was a poor farm girl with neither proper clothes nor enough to eat. And she could hardly believe that one little tiled-roof house could bring so many awful relatives out of the woodwork. She’d heard of parents who didn’t love their children, but there weren’t many who would drive their own sons and grandchildren to the brink of death. Yao Xiaoyue couldn’t help wondering if these people were really family. They didn’t look alike at all! Her contemporaries described her as fiery, overbearing, and unreasonable. Yet this fiery woman led a life so smooth it left everyone dumbfounded: she had a beloved big brother, a dazzling family background, and a husband who adored her to the point of obsession. Although her beloved Big Brother, Fifth Master Dong, married a princess from the imperial clan when Yao Xiaoyue was not yet fifteen and he was twenty-five, leaving her full of wistful sighs. In the end, Yao Xiaoyue married Shangguan Jinrong, the fiancé she had been fated to miss in her previous life. On her wedding day, in the golden autumn of October, she and Shangguan Jinrong exchanged bows beneath the brilliant sunset. “Yue’er, this time I’ll make you the happiest woman in the world. I’ll protect our children,” Shangguan Jinrong said tenderly after Yao Xiaoyue fell asleep in his arms, utterly exhausted.