Yu Xingzhou transmigrated into the body of an emperor who shared his name.
Then he fell in love at first sight with Shen Yuyao, the original emperor's empress.
But winning Shen Yuyao's heart wouldn't be easy.
The original emperor had indulged the Empress Dowager and Consort in bullying her.
Yu Xingzhou: "The original owner must have had a screw loose."
Shen Yuyao was the empress of Sheng. The Shen family had fallen on hard times, but the Imperial Astrologer had declared that she was destined to be a phoenix, so she became empress.
But Emperor Yu Xingzhou had no affection for her.
As empress, she was not only tormented by the Empress Dowager, but also provoked by the emperor's pregnant favorite. Shen Yuyao didn't care about any of it. She wouldn't grieve over a man she didn't love.
Then, one day, Yu Xingzhou suddenly changed.
When the Empress Dowager tried to make her follow court rules, he dared to send her to a temple and refuse her food until she had recited the scriptures a thousand times in a day. He even divorced his favorite consort, and in the end, dismissed his entire harem.
Shen Yuyao tilted her head. "Has a ghost possessed him or something?"
No one could dislike a man who catered to her every whim, and Shen Yuyao was no exception.
After that, life went quite smoothly.
On the second day of the third month, Yu Xingzhou said he would tell Shen Yuyao everything he felt in the Imperial Study.
But on that very day, she accidentally overheard Yu Xingzhou telling a minister that he treated her well because he had been possessed by another soul.
Shen Yuyao silently went back and promptly set Fengyi Palace on fire. Even if she had to fake her death to leave the palace, she would at least destroy some of Yu Xingzhou's property and make him pay to rebuild it.
The next day, word spread that the emperor's wicked conduct had provoked heavenly fire, which burned down the palace.
Shen Yuyao stood on a high hill outside the capital and gazed quietly at the city before turning away.
On the second day of the third month, Yu Xingzhou, a modern soul, was forced out of the Great Sheng Emperor's body. He then possessed the corpse of someone who had just died.
Yu Xingzhou: "I was so close to becoming Yuyao's husband, and now Yuyao's been buried in the ground!"
The body belonged to the only son of a family of renowned physicians, and he looked exactly like the emperor.
With the border under threat, Yu Xingzhou headed there with the physicians from his family. When he arrived, he discovered that the general leading the troops was none other than Shen Yuyao!
Last time, Yu Xingzhou had insisted on waiting until the second day of the third month to confess his feelings to Yuyao, all because he wanted the moment to be just right. It hadn't worked out, and now he knew better: when you have feelings for someone, tell them right away!
The first thing he said when he saw Shen Yuyao was, "Yuyao! You're alive!"
Shen Yuyao pretended not to know him. "Oh."
That night, someone put a sack over Yu Xingzhou's head and beat him up.
Yu Xingzhou: "But I'm Yuyao's husband!"
The hired thug sneered. "That's right. Our general ordered us to beat you up!"
Yu Xingzhou: "Aaaah! I'm more wronged than Dou E!"
Core message: Resist.
