The Golden Phoenix's Farewell

Yan Zhao, courtesy name Kaizhi. Huayi, courtesy name Qinzhi. Before I married him, everyone said we were made for each other. On our wedding night, Yan Kaizhi told me that he and I had never been a match made in heaven. He cursed me to die. Later, when I did die, I watched him panic and wish I were alive again. I came back to life, no longer Huayi or a princess, but merely an ordinary-looking woman. Coming soon: *Seeking Shu*, a third-person historical romance. Please add it to your library. XOXO~ When Jincheng fell, rebel forces swept through Qingzhou, and the daughters of noble families were ground to dust. In her previous life, Yun Shu was fleeing when she pulled Li Junji out of a pile of corpses and fed him a bowl of hot tea and rice. At the time, he wore a traveler's cold-weather cloak, and a lone boat drifted on the river. "I, Li, will repay you for this kindness someday, miss." The following winter, the wind and snow cut like knives. Yun Shu ran everywhere trying to save her father and brothers. Li Junji appeared at the Dingzhou Guildhall where she was staying and handed her a marriage contract. It wasn't as if he had no other choices. Li Junji's expression darkened, and he lifted his exquisitely handsome brows with a faintly contemptuous air. "If you don't want to marry me as my wife, becoming my concubine would be simpler." Yun Shu acted as if she were already dead, signing the marriage contract. The next day, a sedan chair carried her into the Dingzhou Governor's residence. After marrying Li Junji, she was nothing more than a corpse that could breathe. When a beautiful mistress came to call, she bowed before the Buddha and prayed for mercy, hoping the lovely woman would soon bear her beloved Li a firstborn son. When one charming woman after another came to the residence, begging Yun Shu for shelter, she played at coming back from the dead and asked Li Junji to help them. He pinned her to the bed and repaid her each time. The last time Yun Shu risked her life to save Li Junji, she was near death when she asked him for a divorce letter. Outsiders all said they were a devoted couple, unaware that they had become bitter enemies. She had accompanied the lord on his path for ten years, and could not bear to look back. Even in death, she did not want to carry into the afterlife a title he had forced upon her. - On the nineteenth day, in the depths of winter. When Li Junji jolted awake, he could still feel the pain piercing his heart. Then he looked toward the little boat moored by the riverbank. If he boarded, could he see Yun Shu one more time? [The startled bird taking flight from its branch x The somber lord] One-on-one romance, a bitter couple from a previous life. In this life, she runs and he pursues. Both are reborn, and he must grovel to win her back. In her previous life, the heroine married before turning sixteen. She was timid and weak, and cried whenever trouble arose. The hero is ruthless and disloyal. After being reborn, he uses everyone and everything he can to advance his ambitions, ultimately usurping the throne and becoming emperor. Theme: