Long Night in the Palace

[Announcement] This novel will join the VIP section on July 14, 2020, starting from Chapter 25. If you've already read those chapters, please be careful when purchasing to avoid paying twice! The ending is open-ended. It doesn't show the heroine becoming crown prince and ascending the throne, because I personally think that's the best place to stop. The extras tell what happens afterward.

For all these years, Gong Yi Ye dutifully played the part of an idle princess, repeatedly yielding and putting up with things out of consideration for her relationship with her third brother and her father's favor.

Along the way, she met many exceptionally talented men: gentle, virtuous young noblemen and cool, roguish princes with two sides to them. Their romantic encounters brought endless secrets and danger along with them. Whenever danger came, she would lie low if she could. After all, she always believed that if you kept your head down to the end, you'd have everything.

Until someone took her place and she was exiled to another country as a hostage. At last, she couldn't take it anymore.

Gong Yi Ye: To hell with being an idle princess! When I get back, I'll kill every last one of you!

After enduring the Devil's training under the Jin Emperor, Gong Yi Ye fought her way back to Ying and threw the country into chaos with her deft maneuvers.

Everyone trembled: Why are you back?

Gong Yi Ye smiled coldly: Of course, I'm here to kill you.

(The tone switches wildly between serious and comedic. First-person narration warning.)

[Plugging my new novel] [Coming Soon] The Female General: A leveling-up story about an unlucky heroine, with witty humor and comedy.

Gu Jiao never imagined that one morning she'd wake up in her husband's body, Qin Hua!

She didn't have anything particularly shameful, really. Women make mistakes, after all. You just have to keep them hidden. But if Qin Hua became her and discovered her little secret, then the suona would play, the white cloth would be laid out, and the whole village would feast. They'd send her off in style.

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Qin Hua had always thought he'd married a good wife. Gu Jiao was virtuous, a model for all the matrons of the capital. It wasn't until an accident put him in his wife's body that he realized just how wrong he was.

His wife kept actors, played pai gow, eavesdropped, and couldn't let go of an old lover. She even plotted with her close friends about how to bring the pretty young man she liked into the household after he died.

All Gu Jiao needed to do was take opium, and she'd have all five vices.

Knowing her secrets were out, Gu Jiao asked to be divorced. They parted ways, each to their own, and five years passed. Everything had changed.

They met again in the vast ocean. As the great ship rose and fell, Gu Jiao glimpsed him through the dense curtain of rain.

She suddenly regretted it. If she had met Qin Hua earlier, would she have avoided making those mistakes?

Gu Jiao was about to turn away when Qin Hua walked toward her, holding an umbrella over her head.

"The road ahead is long," he said coolly, tilting the umbrella toward her. "It's raining hard. Don't catch a chill."

(A little character growth, enough melodrama to flood the heavens. The heroine isn't chaste, but the hero is. If you can't handle that, don't read! If it's your thing, come on in!)

(Cold on the outside, warm on the inside, loyal-dog hero x straight-shooting heroine who doesn't realize it; chaste hero, non-chaste heroine, a little melodrama, she pursues him after the breakup, but if she can't win him back, so be it.)

[The Female General: Blurb]

Bai Xingci was an unlucky person.

So unlucky that even after she transmigrated into a book, she was still a nobody.

And the plot had already reached the end of the novel.

What a joke. She'd read all that for nothing.

Huh? Drawing qi into the body? What's that? To become our disciple, all you have to do is carry two logs up and down the mountain thirty times.

One day, her master sent her down the mountain to deliver a congratulatory gift to the leader of the Tianqian Alliance. It was Bai Xingci's first time entering the bustling world beyond her mountain.

Her master gave her some patient advice: "Don't worry, sweetie. If you see injustice, just beat them up."

Bai Xingci: "Huh? But I'm just a weakling!"

Before the fight:

Buddha's Teachings' Holy Maiden: "You country bumpkin, stay away from me!"

The Tang family's legitimate son: "Here's a spirit crystal. Go pick that immortal herb for me."

The little Golden Dragon Crown Prince: "Foolish mortal! It's your good fortune to sacrifice yourself for me!"

The White Lotus Saintess's senior disciple: "Fellow Daoist, aren't you being too heartless? He's so pitiful. Why not take a step back and let everyone live in peace?"

After the fight:

Buddha's Teachings' Holy Maiden: "Waaah! Big sister! Please don't kick me out! I'm great at laundry and cooking! What are you having for dinner tonight?"

The Tang family's legitimate son: "Sister Bai, just say the word, and I'll brave any danger for you! I spent a fortune on this mermaid gauze. Didn't you need a cloth to wipe your blade? Please use this!"

The little Golden Dragon Crown Prince: "Take my reverse scale. It'll keep you safe for life. If anyone tries to hurt you, I'll protect you even if my soul is scattered!"

The White Lotus Saintess's senior disciple: "Xingci, little sister, you did the right thing. These people deserved a beating. Are your hands tired? Shall I blow on them for you?"

Bai Xingci shook her blade and waved her hand. "All right, I won't kick you out. I'm having braised ribs tonight. Mermaid gauze isn't as good as soft gauze. Thanks for the reverse scale. I can protect myself. My hands aren't tired, but you can blow on them."

She always thought she was a nobody. Later, she discovered that she was the main character all along.

Forgive my bluntness, but everyone here is trash.

Theme: If you can't be a princess, then become emperor