The Emperor Chases His Wife to the Crematorium After She Is Reborn

In her previous life, when Hu Shanxiang was fifteen, in the fifteenth year of Yongle, she married Zhu Zhanji, the imperial heir apparent. Though theirs was a political marriage, Hu Shanxiang still had some hopes for him.

But she never imagined that her husband had a childhood sweetheart he loved.

By then, however, Emperor Zhu Di had already appointed her Crown Princess. There was no changing who would become the principal wife of the Crown Prince, and she felt deeply guilty about it.

So after she became empress, even when Sun Shi urged Zhu Zhanji to ask his mother, Empress Dowager Zhang, for the gold investiture edict and seal, and even when Sun Shi stole the spotlight from her at banquets, she let it go.

But she never expected everything to change after Sun Shi bore Zhu Zhanji a son in the second year of Xuande. When she was gravely ill, her husband came to Kunning Palace and stood before her, demanding that she surrender her position as empress to Sun Shi.

She did not know how to please her husband, and unlike Sun Shi, she could not make him happy.

In his eyes, she was a dull woman too, and the two of them drifted farther and farther apart.

It went so far that she was deposed.

With no other choice, Hu Shanxiang agreed and submitted a memorial resigning as empress.

In the years that followed, thanks to the protection of her mother-in-law, Empress Dowager Zhang, her life was peaceful and secure.

But in the seventh year of Zhengtong, her mother-in-law fell ill, and her nightmare began.

In the eighth year of Zhengtong, her beloved eldest daughter also died. Heartbroken, Hu Shanxiang soon passed away as well.

At the moment of her death, she held close the dried sophora blossoms she had brought with her when she first entered the palace.

In her heart, she silently swore that if she were reborn, she would never again step into the quagmire of a political marriage...