I Will Never Be Empress Again

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Liu Qingyun is the eldest legitimate daughter of her family, stuck managing the whole mess at home.

Her father, an official, spends money like water for the sake of his career and has no idea what things cost.

Her useless mother can't even balance a simple set of accounts and complains every day about how hard it is to run the household.

Her young siblings are clueless, but somehow excel at every vice.

At first, Liu Qingyun took on the burden of running the household just so she could live more comfortably.

But when she realized her wholehearted efforts were seen by her family as cold and heartless, she finally understood.

Whoever wants to manage this wreck of a household can do it themselves.

Her home is in the System world, where countless abandoned, wandering souls just like her are bound to a System and travel through different worlds.

But the System world has completely collapsed, and she is about to disappear.

Since that's the case, Liu Qingyun decides to find a man she likes and enjoy what little life she has left.

After looking around, she sets her sights on the young marquis, a classmate of her younger brother.

Xie Zhuo first saw the legitimate daughter of the Liu family outside the school.

That day, he was leaving class with his classmates, discussing sneaking out of town on horseback the next day without their teacher knowing.

Just then, a sharp voice rang out behind them: "Get on your knees."

He stopped in his tracks. Everyone around him dropped to their knees with a clatter.

Xie Zhuo turned to look and saw a woman in plain clothes standing expressionlessly behind them, holding a ruler and fixing a solemn gaze on one of his classmates.

The classmate weakly called out, "Sister."

The woman came forward, tapping the ruler in her hand. Without a word, she struck her classmate three times with it, then turned and left.

After that day, Xie Zhuo learned about the eldest daughter of the Liu family.

They said she was a fussy busybody, rigid in everything she did, and terribly dull.

The next time he officially met her was when she came to see him herself and said she wanted to marry him.

Xie Zhuo thought that since the young lady had confessed first, rejecting her would hurt her pride.

So he agreed at once. After all, he didn't mind marrying her.

But as the wedding date drew near, the young lady from the Liu family came to him to break off the engagement.

Xie Zhuo thought, "It's over. I've been dumped."

Blurb for this novel:

Su Man died ten times, then was reborn ten times.

She summed up what she'd learned: stay away from the emperor, stay away from the imperial palace, and do everything possible to get deposed.

She makes trouble, acts spoiled and arrogant, and exploits every opening, all for one thing: to be deposed as empress, now, this instant, immediately!

Recommended story by a fellow author: The Little Beggar I Picked Up Became Emperor

On the first day of the New Year, Nian Chuyi picked up a little beggar and brought him home as a hired hand.

The little beggar could read and write, knew a few martial arts moves, and obeyed Nian Chuyi in everything.

Recently, Nian Chuyi had been fretting over one thing: the little beggar's marriage prospects.

She'd run around trying to find him a match again and again, but every attempt ended in failure.

Then one day, she caught the way the little beggar was looking at her.

There was something just a tiny bit off about it...

Theme: Life goes in cycles, but a sincere heart never changes.