The second son of a wealthy family, Feng Jingrui, is famous in his social circle as the perfect child everyone else's parents wish they had. Handsome and talented, he skipped grades and graduated from the history department of a top university. Still young, he is already a nationally renowned historian and antiques expert.
No one knows that all of this comes from the royal education he received in his previous life. He was the puppet emperor at the end of the Yu Dynasty. He watched helplessly as his great kingdom was thrown into chaos by his power-hungry stepmother, the empress dowager, and her family, with rebellions breaking out one after another. In the end, he took his own life before the rebel army could storm the palace. He never imagined he would be reborn in the modern age with his memories intact.
But wait...
Why has the vase-like beauty I had my eye on been possessed by the empress from my previous life?
You jealous shrew, stay away from me!
...Wait, I told you to get lost, but you actually left? Since we were husband and wife once, if you beg me, I might deign to let you stay by my side.
...Why haven't you come back yet? Fine, I was wrong, all right?
[Second Blurb]
In her previous life, An Qingxia was the beloved only daughter of a great general. If the empress dowager hadn't insisted on making her empress to win the military over and stabilize the court, she could have chosen a talented young man for a husband under her father's protection, and made sure he wouldn't dare take another wife. But circumstances were beyond her control. She had to marry the emperor and live confined in the inner palace. She felt she had gotten the raw end of the deal, and surely it was only natural to expect the emperor's undivided devotion? Yet even when the rebels stormed the capital and she took poison to end her life, everyone at court and across the land still called her a jealous shrew.
Fortunately, after dying, she transmigrated into the future and got a whole new life for free. An unknown actress with only a pretty face? Just watch. This palace lady will show you what a classical beauty fit to rule the realm looks like!
Everything is wonderful. As for the emperor she has happened to run into again, sorry, there are so many handsome, gentle young men around. Take a number and wait your turn for love.
No angst!
Tips:
1. Both transmigrate, one-on-one romance. The male lead was reborn as a baby, while the female lead transmigrates into the body of an unknown actress who died suddenly.
2. The male lead is a bit of a jerk early on, but he had already fallen for the female lead in his previous life. His prejudice toward her came from resisting an arranged marriage and the limitations of the era's attitudes. He loves her without realizing it.
3. The male lead appears first and the story begins from his perspective, but most of the novel is told from the female lead's perspective.
4. The entertainment industry in the story is entirely fictional and unrelated to reality.
5. The characters' beliefs do not represent the author's own.