Reborn, I Won't Enter the Eastern Palace

Volume One: Regrets of This Life, Never to Grow Old Together (Complete) Volume Two: Times Change, and the Emperor Bows His Head (Ongoing) In her previous life, Wang Lingyi first became crown princess, then empress. In this life, she decided to skip a step and go straight to being empress. Unfortunately, the emperor who had once loved her to the depths of his soul no longer remembered her. So be it. This time, she would deign to seduce him herself. Xiao Dingyuan could not understand why the proud, aloof daughter of the Wang family kept going out of her way to get close to him. She was young and radiant, while he was much older and, as the uncle of the man she was promised to, hardly a suitable match for her. That was, until he had a vivid dream. In the dream, he issued an imperial marriage decree, sending her into the Eastern Palace and condemning her to a lifetime of suffering. After waking, Xiao Dingyuan first crossed Wang Lingyi's name off the list of candidates for crown princess. As for the crown prince, the nephew in whom he had once placed such high hopes, he would see whether the boy still followed the same path without his protection. Wang Lingyi noticed that the emperor, who had once been cold and indifferent toward her, seemed lately to be flirting with her in subtle ways. At last, she could take no more. “Your Majesty, please behave with dignity.” Xiao Dingyuan leaned over to look at her. “How much longer are you going to stay angry with me, Empress?” [The two leads are reborn at different times. The heroine is reborn from the start; the hero regains his memories of his previous life midway through the story.] [Previous life: former crown princess x emperor; the heroine is not a virgin, the hero is.] [This life: proud, resilient noblewoman x cold, self-restrained emperor; one-on-one romance, both virgins.] Forthcoming: Crooked Jasmine [An authoritarian old patriarch and his little jasmine] The year floods ravaged Chongzhou, Mo Niang was thirteen. Separated from her parents, she fled alone. In a moment of compassion, Pei Xuanyu rescued her from a pile of corpses. But the Pei family patriarch was always swamped with affairs and had no desire to raise a child, so he promptly handed her over to the shadow guard Seventeen. Mo Niang was raised by Seventeen. He taught her to read and write, taught her to wield a blade, and brought her novel trinkets from beyond the mountains after each mission. Until one day, Seventeen failed a mission and knelt in the courtyard to be punished. Mo Niang could no longer hold back. She rushed over, clung to him, and wept uncontrollably. At the end of the corridor, the Pei family patriarch, who had intended to bring Seventeen medicine, stopped in his tracks. Watching the girl who had grown up before he knew it, sobbing in a man's arms, he felt for the first time that she was... Quite an eyesore. [Setting: A chaotic age when rival warlords vie for supremacy] [Affectionate, resilient little jasmine x cold, authoritarian noble family patriarch] [The romance begins after the heroine comes of age] [Seventeen is her true first love. The hero behaves like a monster early on, then has to suffer through a long quest to win her back.] [Age gap, coercive romance, one-on-one, both virgins] Blurb dated: August 19, 2026 Theme: Choosing to live in the face of death