Princess Susa Commands the Realm

[Jun Wuxiyan fanfiction]

The year he died in her arms, snow fell on Fengsha for three days.

Five years later, Feng Xiyang had become the regent princess of Susha, a woman whose word was law. In court, she crushed all dissent with an iron fist; deep in the palace, she drank alone, surrounded by memories of someone long gone.

No one knew that, a thousand miles away, a man who should have been buried forever opened his eyes in the hands of a divine physician. He had forgotten his name and his past, remembering only the image of a fierce, resolute figure in red from his dreams.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, at the Waterside Pavilion, he wore a dark mask and picked her out of the countless faces in the crowd at a glance.

She climbed the steps; he watched from the railing.

What she thought was their first meeting was, for him, the second time he'd fallen for her, after crossing the boundaries of death and oblivion.

He entered the palace to search for his memories and became the only man favored by the Phoenix Lord. She even let him join the grand court debates.

“You old fools! What kind of achievement is bullying a woman?”

“Don't like it? Then put up with it! She's the emperor, after all.”

Xia Jingyan caused havoc in Susha's court, much to the despair of its officials.

“Did you bring that whole ‘ruin the kingdom’ routine over from Jinxiu?”

Xia Jingyan, dressed in a deep-V court robe, lay in her arms. “They all bully you. If I were still the emperor of Jinxiu, I'd have every one of them put to death!”

But her goal was to unite the world.

When Xia Jingyan found out, he reacted exactly as she'd expected: he went mad.

“So you've been using me all along? Feng Xiyang, you're quite something!”

He kissed her fiercely, his heart aching even as he was besotted with her. In this life, he was destined to fall into the hands of this madwoman.

“If you want to unite the world, then I, your emperor, will give it to you.”