Married Again to Become Queen

Next story I'm planning to write: "The Seventeenth Year of Widowhood." The blurb is below.

[Honest, resentful widow heroine x devoted, dark young emperor]

In the eyes of the world, Ying Si was blessed beyond measure. She was born into humble circumstances, yet won the heart of the young emperor. When he ascended the throne, he defied all opposition to make her empress, leaving the six palaces empty for her sake.

When she was gravely ill and on the brink of death, he even used his supreme imperial authority to bargain with Heaven for her life, offering his own heart's blood as medicine just to keep her alive.

But she was ungrateful.

Three years of marriage without a child might have been forgivable, but she was also mediocre and useless, always making trouble.

She neglected the palace affairs and filled the harem, openly embarrassing the young emperor.

In the face of criticism, the young emperor said calmly, "If my empress is happy, that's all that matters!"

The world praised his devotion, but forgot that the original Ying Si was not the new empress. She was a young fisherwoman by the Lu River, with family of her own and a gentle, scholarly husband as beautiful as jade.

They had loved each other deeply and once promised to meet again in the next life...

Huan Jin first saw Ying Si when he was thirteen.

In the sweltering summer, with humid air hanging thick around them,

he glimpsed skin as white as jade through a woven bamboo door.

For a moment, he couldn't breathe. When he came to himself, his heart was still pounding.

That night, he couldn't sleep.

Huan Jin saw Ying Si again when he was seventeen.

She was married.

It was summer again.

The heat was oppressive, and the cicadas chattered without pause.

The twenty-year-old woman had rosy cheeks and a lovely face. Clinging to her man's neck, she let out sweet, melodious cries.

Her voice reached his ears through the half-open door.

That flash of white from one night invaded his mind, beyond his control.

After a brief struggle between reason and desire, he made his decision.

Possess her!

Make her his!

Blurb dated: 2026.7.13

Content warnings:

1. The heroine is not a virgin, while the hero is. The heroine is not completely chaste in body or heart. She loved her former husband and has also explicitly fallen for other people.

2. The setting is fictional, so no need to check it for accuracy. The hero has only ever had the heroine, from beginning to end. They are exclusive in body and heart. Don't say it's unrealistic for an emperor to have only one woman, haha. The hero is devoted to love and will never sleep with men for money!

3. Neither lead is a purely good person. Please don't judge the leads' morals too harshly. If that's not for you, proceed with caution!

Upcoming story: "The Seventeenth Year of Widowhood."

Blurb:

In her seventeenth year of widowhood, Song Yushu officially handed the family business over to her daughter.

With the burden lifted from her shoulders, Song Yushu, who had always known what she wanted, sat in the Jade Tower and gazed at its lavish splendor. Suddenly, she felt a little lost.

Over the years, she had gained everything she could want, except for someone at her side who would care for her. She thought of her short-lived husband, whom she'd married into a wealthy family, and of her first love, poor but sincere and kind, whom she'd loved as an innocent girl. But there was one person she couldn't bring to mind at all...

Her husband's younger brother, who had enlisted in the army and never returned.

She wasn't particularly willing to think about him, either.

Song Yushu felt that perhaps it was time for a new beginning in her life. After all, she was still young, and her beauty had not faded.

And so, at the age of thirty-five,

Song Yushu, after seventeen years as a widow, did something else that defied convention: she made a grand, public show of taking a husband into her home.

That same year,

her poor but sincere first love arrived before her, having amassed a considerable fortune.

Her husband's brother, who had been away in the army for years, returned and moved in next door...

Theme: Love is written in the stars