A Widowed Alpha Consort Accidentally Marks the Empress Dowager

[Main story complete, bonus chapters updating]

[Historical ABO, female Alpha with no attachments, regret and redemption, a cold-hearted Empress Dowager going mad for love]

On a snowy night, just as Lu Qing is about to freeze to death after transmigrating into the body of a beggar, an elderly nun from a convent saves her.

Inside the convent, the disfigured former Empress Xie Jianwei has gone mad while practicing her cultivation. Poison courses through her body, and only a Qianyuan can cure her.

After a moment’s hesitation, the elderly nun sends Lu Qing into her room.

After their night together, Xie Jianwei lies that she is the only daughter of a wealthy merchant and asks Lu Qing if she will marry into her family.

Grateful for having her life saved, Lu Qing never holds her wife’s ruined looks against her. She is considerate and utterly devoted.

Three months later, all the poison has passed into Lu Qing’s body. Xie Jianwei regains her beauty and prepares to leave.

But assassins strike without warning. Lu Qing instinctively shields her wife from a sword and is left on the brink of death.

“Taking her with you will only give them leverage over you,” her trusted aide advises.

Through gritted teeth, Xie Jianwei abandons her and leaves.

Later, a new emperor ascends the throne, and Xie Jianwei becomes the Empress Dowager, ruling from behind the curtain.

At the Qionglin Banquet, the “deceased wife” who should have been long dead turns up as the newly appointed third-place scholar.

Yet Lu Qing remains distant despite the Empress Dowager’s repeated advances. Before long, the whole court realizes that the usually cold and heartless Empress Dowager has taken a particular interest in the new scholar. Today she summons her to admire paintings, tomorrow she invites her to stroll through the garden, and she even corners her in the duty room herself.

Lu Qing lowers her eyes and replies respectfully, “This subject is already married. Your Majesty should show some restraint.”

Then one night, the Empress Dowager holds a banquet and drugs the wine.

Behind the red gauze curtains, Lu Qing tears open the Empress Dowager’s robe. After a night of passion, the cruel truth comes to light.

“Hahaha... So my dead wife... is still alive! Wonderful, simply wonderful!”

She laughs, but her tears fall onto the Empress Dowager’s heart, each one cutting like a knife.

At court the next morning, Lu Qing submits her resignation.

As the officials erupt in commotion, the Empress Dowager’s unsteady voice rings out from behind the beaded curtain:

“No! Lu Qing, you are not allowed to leave!”

Only then does the whole court realize:

This is no case of an Empress Dowager taking what she wants by force. It is a faithless Kunze chasing her wife in a fiery reckoning!

Historical ABO setting: Qianyuan/Alpha, Zhongyong/Beta, Kunze/Omega

Coming soon: My Wife Cannot Possibly Be a Seductress from the Hehuan Sect

Synopsis: Lu Zhaoxue transmigrates into the body of a famously noble and brilliant senior sister at a cultivation sect. On a snowy night, she finds a tiny white fox on the verge of death.

She raises it as her spirit pet, keeping it by her side, protecting and spoiling it, even letting it sleep beside her pillow.

She has no idea that behind those innocent fox eyes lies the soul of Yun Zhuo, young mistress of the Hehuan Sect, whose true form was restored by a heavenly tribulation. Her sole reason for getting close to this genius sword cultivator is to refine her into the perfect cultivation vessel and drain her powers.

Yun Zhuo goes to great lengths to win her over: she fakes danger so Lu Zhaoxue will risk her life to protect her, stages a tragic ploy to take a fatal blow for her, and, night after night, weaves tender traps with her magic to entice Lu Zhaoxue into passionate embraces.

Lu Zhaoxue gradually falls for her, her feelings taking root until her Daoist heart begins to waver.

In the end, she accepts twelve strikes of heavenly lightning and cripples half her cultivation so she can become the little fox’s Daoist partner.

Until the day the Hehuan Sect attacks from within and without.

The Tianyan Sect, which Lu Zhaoxue has sworn to protect, is brought crashing down. Her master’s cultivation is destroyed, and all her fellow disciples are taken prisoner.

Standing before the collapsed mountain gate, Lu Zhaoxue sees her “beloved pet,” restored to her true form as a bewitching demoness, smiling sweetly among the enemy ranks.

Under the gaze of the crowd, she draws her sword and takes her own life. Her Daoist heart shatters, and she dedicates herself to the merciless path.

A hundred years later, Lu Zhaoxue is the leading figure of the righteous sects, her sword holding the Eight Wastes at bay. Cold and aloof, she allows no one near.

Yun Zhuo, now the head of the Hehuan Sect, seeks her out once more. Disguised as a tea seller in the mortal world, she brews a pot of warming tea and smiles as brightly as ever. “This immortal lady, would you be willing to spend a lifetime as an ordinary married couple with me?”

Lu Zhaoxue lowers her eyes and drinks the tea, living beside her day and night as if she has forgotten everything that came before.

Until their wedding night, when they bow to each other.

Without warning, Lu Zhaoxue’s Frost-Tempered Sword, which has slain countless demons, pierces Yun Zhuo’s dantian.

“This time,” Lu Zhaoxue says, her voice colder than snow, “I will do it myself. I will kill my wife to prove my Dao.”

Another hundred years later, the entire cultivation world witnesses a tiny child with delicate, fairy-like features ascending the peak of Tianyan Sect all alone.

She tugs at the hem of Lu Zhaoxue’s moon-white robe, looks up, and calls out in a clear little voice, “Mother!”

And Lu Zhaoxue, the sect leader whose merciless path has made her feared throughout the Eight Wastes, really does answer her softly.

Theme: No matter where you are, never forget your original aspirations