On Her Bed [Western Fantasy]

A completed Western fantasy novel with a female protagonist and a crematorium-style pursuit of a lost love. Please give it a look, dear readers (kneels). The title is "After Being Angered to Death by a Scumbag Countess."

Blurb:

Rachel is the empire's spoiled princess.

But dynasties rise and fall, and the defeated are left to eat dust. After her coup failed, she drank a deadly glass of absinthe and died in her prime.

Instead, she comes back to life as a golden peacock raised by Jiang Zhishui.

Jiang Zhishui, a supreme envoy from the East, begins grooming Rachel's feathers every day.

Her brilliant tail feathers droop, caught in Jiang Zhishui's hand. Rachel has nowhere to escape.

Jiang Zhishui says, "Little bird, be good and obey."

How could a spoiled princess be content to become someone else's cherished pet?

But her corpse is about to be auctioned. To avoid being humiliated, Rachel clings tightly to Jiang Zhishui's wrist, hoping to ask for help.

But she cannot plead, nor can she keep her body from being sold.

After losing everything, Jiang Zhishui gives her hope.

The woman's voice carries the distinctive rhythm of the East, and the bird becomes entranced. Rachel chooses to forget her troubles and sleep soundly on Jiang Zhishui's bed night after night.

Until one day, she stumbles upon the invitation and discovers that Jiang Zhishui won the auction for the corpse.

Her body is hidden in this very estate.

In the basement,

Rachel sees her corpse inside an ice coffin. Jiang Zhishui bends over to kiss her cold lips, desire and love overflowing.

"Little bird, you brought this on yourself."

Rachel retreats again and again.

Later, Rachel is imprisoned until she dies. Jiang Zhishui, who has always been so calm and composed, goes mad and kneels before Rachel's grave every day in repentance.

"Little bird, little bird, I must have gone about it the wrong way..."

Two years later,

Jiang Zhishui stares at the empty coffin and laughs maniacally.

"Little bird, don't let me find you again."

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1. An ethereal, calculating Taoist priestess versus a spoiled, willful, high-and-mighty little princess.

2. Later, the heroine fakes her death and pursues her wife in a crematorium-style redemption arc. Expect plenty of angst and melodrama.

3. A rule: no men.

A novel currently being serialized in my profile. It already has over a hundred thousand characters, so you can let it build up before reading, or dive right in~

"After Being Angered to Death by a Scumbag Countess," a Western fantasy pursuit-of-a-lost-love story with a female protagonist.

Blurb:

[Mutual first love, with a crematorium-style pursuit.]

Dong Ting mysteriously comes back to life after dying.

She enters an aristocratic academy as a shepherdess and becomes a saint adored by everyone in less than six months. Yet she cannot discover the cause of her death and even begins to lose herself in her dreams.

In her dreams, Dong Ting has someone she loves deeply, but she never learns her name. She remembers only that sweet voice, which makes her heart race.

Dong Ting climbs higher and higher, trying to recover her memories, until she meets the countess.

"I hear Countess Asta has been searching all over the imperial capital for someone?"

"She says she's looking for a servant, but really she's looking for a lover!"

"Good heavens, her lovers look so much like the princess from the Eastern Kingdom!"

From the moment Countess Asta first sees Dong Ting, she clings to her like a burr, insisting that they were once lovers.

Dong Ting hears the sweet voice she has long dreamed of, but only asks softly:

"Then why did I die?"

Hannah bursts into tears.

The Asta family stands at the pinnacle of power.

The merchant wolves weave a golden net, doing whatever it takes to preserve their outward splendor. Hannah is one of them.

She hooks a slave's chin with an ornate feather fan and sneers:

"No matter how fine the merchandise, none of them compares to her."

Thunder and lightning rage outside, and the costly lace curtains flutter in the wind.

Hannah is about to scold the servants when she sees a pale-faced, black-haired woman standing beyond the window.

It is Dong Ting, the supreme princess of the Eastern Kingdom.

Hannah will never forget those eyes. She knows that if she falls into Dong Ting's hands, every night from then on will be restless, until she is consumed completely.

After winning Dong Ting's heart, Hannah steals her wealth and takes her title.

Dong Ting only smiles and says, "It's all right, my Hannah."

The Eastern woman's reserved nature only fuels Hannah's greed. Like a wildfire, she takes and takes until she has burned away everything Dong Ting owns.

Only after the princess dies of sorrow does Hannah finally understand.

She has fallen in love with Dong Ting.

Hannah is consumed by regret.

To bring Dong Ting back to life, Hannah sells her soul and becomes a witch.

But when her beloved remembers everything, what will Hannah do?

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1. A humble, gentle princess who is secretly lustful versus an obsessive witch who is secretly pure-hearted.

2. Female-protagonist story, with mutual first love.

3. A fictional Western European setting. Dong Ting is a princess sent as an envoy from the East.

4. Before the scumbag love interest understands her feelings, she's genuinely awful, so the crematorium-style redemption will be explosively intense.

5. The early chapters focus more on the plot, with a long setup.

Theme: Love above all.