I've Been Dead for a Thousand Years

Li Pinglan was reborn once again. In her previous life, she had transmigrated from an ordinary college girl into an ancient era of chaos. She raised an uprising and went from a peasant girl to an empress. At the ceremony where she ascended the throne and made offerings to Heaven, an immortal really did descend from the sky. Only then did she learn that cultivators existed in this world.

The cultivators told her that her husband was a genius sword cultivator who had descended to this small world to undergo trials. These days, they said, people no longer practiced killing their wives to prove their Dao, so she didn't have to die and could go with him to the cultivation world to live like an immortal.

But immortals and mortals were different. An ordinary person's life was far too short for a cultivator.

Li Pinglan visited the cultivation world and saw the sights, but in the end, she returned to the mortal realm.

She had no spiritual root after all. Even after taking every kind of spiritual medicine, she lived only to the age of two hundred, spending a glorious life as an empress.

Still, the spiritual medicines had helped a little. At least in this life, after being reborn, she had a talent for cultivation.

Li Pinglan joined a cultivation sect and went with her senior sect members to a conference to broaden her horizons, where she heard some gossip about the Sword Sovereign.

According to the rumors, the Sword Sovereign had descended to the mortal world for trials in his youth and fallen in love with a mortal woman. She died young, and he had shut his heart to love ever since.

Li Pinglan listened to the gossip and thought it sounded familiar.

It wasn't until the Sword Sovereign cornered her against a wall that she remembered: wasn't this her ex-husband from her previous life?

The Sword Sovereign grabbed Li Pinglan, on the verge of tears. "How could you forget me?"

Seriously, who could remember the ex-husband they had at twenty after living for two hundred years?

Probably a novella.

The male lead has only ever had the female lead. The female lead is a virgin at the start of this life, but in her previous life she was already an empress...

Neither lead is a perfect character.

Trying my hand at a romance-focused story.

Theme: Love can cross time