If We Meet Again as We Were, We Should Be Strangers

Name: If We Meet Again as We Were, We Should Be Strangers
Author: Sweet and Quirky Editorial Team

若如初见应不识

by Sweet and Quirky Editorial Team (甜逗编辑部)

Status: Completed
Length: 20k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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I am Zhu Qingzhao, the most honored empress of the Great Yin dynasty, and the most ridiculous laughingstock in all the land.

My childhood sweetheart, the emperor, treated me like dirt. He personally banished me to the Cold Palace and allowed his new empress to carve out my heart and lungs. Yet the chief minister, the man I called “Elder Brother,” had hidden his feelings for me for twenty years. As I lay dying, he murmured, “Qingzhao, let me take you away.”

The world calls me a wicked woman who murdered the imperial heir, but no one knows that on that night in the Cold Palace, when I was covered in blood and bit off a jailer’s ear, all I could think was this:

If I had known the emperor’s heart was as treacherous as a wolf beneath his imperial robes, I would have held Xu Changlin’s hand and walked away without looking back, smashing through these walls that devour women.

Later, the new emperor knelt at the foot of Ziyun Mountain and begged me to return to court. Nestled in Xu Changlin’s arms, I laughed softly. “Your Majesty, my phoenix seal was melted down long ago and turned into a plowshare.”

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