After Being Reborn, I Became His Majesty's Beloved General

In his previous life, Xie Jinglan drank poisoned wine and died, full of resentment in the deep palace. He watched helplessly as Shen Jinghan, who had served him loyally all his life, bore a false name and stained the imperial mausoleum with blood, before finally taking his own life before the tomb. Regrets from two lifetimes became an empty dream. Reborn on the eve of a dramatic shift in power, the emperor, supreme ruler of the realm, has just one obsession: to protect the Defender General who gave everything for him.

At the Golden Throne Hall, he overrules all objections and abolishes the ancient rules of the imperial harem, announcing to the realm that he will wed Shen Jinghan and make him his husband. He offers the empire as a bride price, granting him the title he was denied in their previous life. Amid the snow and wind of the northern frontier, they fight side by side, storm enemy camps, and personally settle old scores with their sworn foe. The suspicion and regrets of their previous life give way to a trust in this one that would survive death itself.

Treachery surrounds them at court, and hidden attacks are impossible to guard against. On the battlefield, war fires rage, while poison wounds plague them. From the undercurrents swirling around the examiners at the imperial examination to relying on each other for survival in a snowbound mountain cave, from tender flirtations on a boat ride to gentle companionship as they climb the mountain on the Double Ninth Festival, they stand together as emperor and general, guarding their vast realm while defying convention with a love that has endured two lifetimes.

In the end, they rule the realm together for forty-three years, growing old without ever parting. Their names are recorded together in the history books, and they are buried side by side. Their tale of emperor and subject united becomes the one and only legend of an emperor and a general sharing a tomb.