After My Dad Became Emperor

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Reader advisory: Don't overthink it! Don't overthink it! There's no logic, there may be plot holes, and it's melodramatic and silly.

Blurb:

Tong Xiaohua is the youngest daughter in the Tong family of Dajing Village. When her mother was pregnant with her, the realm fell into chaos and the people were left destitute. After Tong Xiaohua was born, her parents set out to find work in a neighboring county. They never came back, and no word of them was heard again.

With her grandmother, eldest sister, and second older brother struggling to raise her, Tong Xiaohua finally makes it safely to the age of four or five.

Then someone arrives with news: Xiaohua, your father became the emperor! Your mother became the empress! And you became a princess!

Tong Xiaohua: What??? Didn't they say my father died on the battlefield?

New novel: Long Live the Empress

Blurb: Everyone says the Xie family daughter is so lucky: she's been empress twice and was once a princess of the reigning dynasty.

But as far as Xie Changqing is concerned, neither of those two times as "empress" was her choice.

One man saw her as a substitute for his mother, and another was someone she helped place on the throne.

But so what if she became empress? So what if she became a princess? Only real power in her own hands can secure her future! Xie Changqing will speak up for the women of the realm, not stand by as a man's dependent.

Song Jingyuan always thought that he and Changqing must simply have been fated to miss each other.

While his mother was alive, she intended to arrange his marriage to Xie Changqing, but his father never agreed.

Later, his mother passed away. After the year of mourning ended, his father sent him to the Xie family with an imperial decree.

He thought the decree would announce his marriage to Xie Changqing. Instead, it ordered Changqing to enter the palace as empress!

Afterward, his father died of illness, and the Xie family seized power. He was no longer the Crown Prince of Great Qin, and Changqing was no longer his father's empress.

Later, he reclaimed the throne and, as promised, gave Changqing half the realm. But staying by her side for the rest of their lives proved far too difficult.

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