The Fallen Emperor Is My One True Love

[Scandal-Ridden Career Woman x Cold-Blooded, Insecure Hopeless Romantic, Killer Empress x Dark Ghost King]

One-line Summary: The Ghost King works hard to protect the realm and save up a dowry so he can marry the emperor.

In her previous life, Zhou Zhao could never understand how she had gone from a divine maiden revered by all to a disgraced ruler of a fallen kingdom, meeting a death unlike any other. On the day the people of Shengdu hauled her onto the sacrificial altar and cut out her heart, Zhou Zhao decided that if she ever became a ghost, she would stay away from the imperial mausoleum.

She'd be too ashamed to face her ancestors, who would beat her to death.

Thirteen hundred years later, Zhou Zhao discovered that her ominous prediction had come true. Not only had she become a ghost, she had also become mute.

And an amnesiac idiot...

But what shocked Zhou Zhao even more was yet to come.

Xiao Shiliu, the orphan who had tricked her into losing her kingdom and family in her previous life, was actually Duzhou, the ruler of the Ghost Realm?!

She, a sovereign of the realm, had fallen so low that she was now looking after Duzhou's cat, dancing with swords for him, and guarding his house?!

When Zhou Zhao awoke, she met his eyes, full of concern, as he gently asked if she remembered anything.

Zhou Zhao suspected Duzhou's mind might be broken too. Why else would the ruler of the Ghost Realm give up his throne to play at court intrigue in the human world? And as the most infamous treacherous minister, no less?

She seethed with hatred, but lowered her eyes and shook her head obediently. "My lord, I don't remember anything."

He quietly let out a sigh of relief, took her hand, and tucked it beneath the quilt. "Don't be afraid. I'll stay with you."

The past was nothing but ink stains on bamboo slips. Zhou Zhao wanted to die all over again, but then thought that fate could not be so cruel.

At the very least, she had to find a place of peace for the two hundred thousand soldiers who had died unjustly.

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[Little Scene]

Zhou Zhao ran Duzhou through with a sword. One stab wasn't enough, so she stabbed him seven or eight times in a row.

Wiping the blood from his lips, the man smiled and asked her:

"Your Highness, do you want the realm or not?"

Everyone: "..."

Zhou Zhao: "?"

Note:

1. The story mainly follows the heroine's plotline.

2. The heroine genuinely has amnesia early on (in the first volume), then pretends to have amnesia later. Pursuing the wife, both leads are sexually inexperienced, mutual salvation, both identities exposed, and they guide one another as lovers at different stages of their lives.

Theme: What happens is up to us, not the will of heaven.