I’m Surviving a Heavenly Tribulation, Your Majesty, Don’t Flirt with Me

Who gets it, everyone? I was just slacking off at work and grumbling to a coworker that “love between an immortal and a mortal is inhumane,” and I got punished by being sent down to the mortal realm to undergo a love trial. Reincarnated as a pitiful eight-year-old, I was thrown straight into hell mode: I entered the palace and became a maid to the emperor's favorite consort, watching the “Masterclass in Surviving the Harem” every day. Then Crown Prince Murong Chen took me back to the Eastern Palace. He held my face and swore, “Yingluo, you're the only one I'll ever love.” I believed him. I planned strategies for him, helped him manage the powerful nobles, and took all the blame for being a “femme fatale,” until I personally helped him ascend the throne. And what happened? On the very first day after securing his throne, he took three ministers' daughters as concubines. I endured it, telling myself, “The political situation demands it.” Until I heard him with my own ears, laughing softly in the new empress's bed: “Su Yingluo? That fool really believed in forever.” Fine, fine. So that's how you want to play? I'm done with this. With a packet of fake-death medicine, I made myself disappear without a trace. The palace? The rank of consort? You can fight over them yourselves. When I appeared again... I was Su Li, the most radiant merchant woman on the northern desert grasslands. The Northern Desert King Helian Xiao, traveling incognito, fell in love with me at first sight and chased me across half the grasslands. “Miss, you look just like the queen consort I lost years ago.” I said, “Your Highness, is this some new scam?” But he truly placed his heart in my hands, took arrows for me, and gave up taking concubines. Before all his people, he declared, “For the rest of my life, she alone will fill my harem.” Meanwhile, the Jing Dynasty emperor Murong Chen, who had finally discovered that my “corpse” was a fake and was searching for me like a madman, now had his army at the border and begged me with bloodshot eyes to come back. I turned and took Helian Xiao's hand.