The Commoner's Little Empress

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The Yu family had a daughter named A Li. She was the most beautiful girl in the region, but also had the lowest and most taboo of occupations: collecting the dead.

She was already past sixteen, yet no respectable family had come to ask for her hand. Her aging grandfather, the only family she had, was worried sick.

One day, in a torrential rain, the grandfather and granddaughter found a "corpse" dressed in fine clothes.

They struggled to carry it back to the funeral home, but in the middle of the night, the corpse came back to life.

He called himself Zhao Yuanwai and said bandits had robbed him while he was traveling for business.

To repay them for saving his life, Zhao Yuanwai promised to grant them one wish.

Old Yu could not refuse. "This old man hasn't long to live, and has no other wish. Could you help my granddaughter find a good husband? Not as a concubine, but as a wife."

Moved by the deep affection between grandfather and granddaughter, Zhao Yuanwai took out a piece of white jade. "I have five grandsons who are still unmarried. If Miss A Li finds one she likes, I'll arrange the betrothal gifts and ceremonies, and have her brought to his home in a grand bridal sedan as my grandson's wife."

Old Yu was tempted and looked at A Li.

A Li had no intention of marrying, but to put her grandfather's mind at ease, she accepted the piece of white jade. "I'll go with you, sir."

**

Zhao Yuanyu, eldest legitimate son of Prince Qi and the fourth grandson of the founding emperor.

Handsome and graceful, bright from a young age, upright and composed, he stood out among the imperial grandsons.

One day, he received an urgent summons to the palace.

He and four of his cousins stood in a row in the main hall.

A young woman in a green silk dress emerged from behind a screen, her hair piled high, her face as lovely as apricot blossoms and peach petals, her cheeks fresh as lychees, and her waist slender as a willow.

The imperial grandfather said to her, "Come closer, A Li. Take a good look and choose carefully."

She kept her face stern and lips pursed as she slowly descended the steps.

Before she could reach them, she slipped, and a piece of white jade flew straight at Zhao Yuanyu's head.

[Reader's Guide]

* Gentle, resilient wildflower x dignified, reserved Crown Prince's eldest grandson

* Married first, love later / everyday life / sweet romance / one-on-one, both leads' first relationship

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