Reborn: I Don't Want to Be Empress

Su Jinmo, daughter of Su He, a censorial official, was beautiful and graceful, the most outstanding young noblewoman in the capital. When she came of age, suitors crowded her doorstep. Her own wishes were simple enough: find a young gentleman from a family of modest but respectable standing, and carry on with her comfortable, peaceful life. But when she smiled at Young Master Zhang, his cousin immediately appeared, threatening to kill herself. When she gave Young Master Li a flirtatious glance, a courtesan showed up with an illegitimate child, claiming he was the father... It seemed an invisible hand was constantly ruining her chances at happiness. At last, she met Young Master Ye, a man of both virtue and talent. There wasn't a single fault she could find in him! But who could have guessed that an imperial decree would bestow a princess upon him as his bride? At last, the good-natured Su Jinmo could no longer swallow her anger. She petitioned to enter the palace and spoke the heartfelt words that had haunted her for two lifetimes: "You rotten emperor, when are you going to stop?!" ※ A quick plug for my upcoming novel, Master of the Eastern Depot. Please visit my author page and add it to your collection! "Eunuch!" "Sissy!" "Not a man!" Cen Jingchen, the Chief Eunuch of the Eastern Depot, accepted every insult the world hurled at her and was not the least bit ashamed. After all, she really wasn't a man. She was a woman. How ridiculous that the supposedly sharp-eyed officials of the previous dynasty spent their entire lives searching for evidence to bring her down, yet never caught her by the biggest secret of all. She lived freely to the end of her days. If her ambition hadn't grown ever greater, if she hadn't seized the emperor to command the feudal lords and sent the Yan army to conquer city after city, provoking the six kingdoms to unite and counterattack Great Yan, she would not have died beneath a rain of arrows. So she died. She'd had a good run. But who would have thought the King of Hell wouldn't take her, and sent her wandering soul back to her homeland? Her homeland? Hadn't it fallen along with her? To Cen Jingchen's astonishment, Liang Xiao, Prince of Chen'an, who had always kept a low profile, had become Great Yan's God of War. Under his protection, not only did the realm remain intact, but the armies of the six kingdoms were utterly routed! The realm was as it had been. So were its people. Only she had become Cui Shizhan, a village girl from some little mountain village... An undefeated general who dotes on his wife without limit x a woman who courts trouble and brings about her own ruin [Extra Scene] One day, after drinking too much, Liang Xiao gave Cui Shizhan a strange look. After a long moment, he blurted out, "A-Yao..." (The Chief Eunuch's childhood name.) Cui Shizhan's heart skipped a beat. Had he recognized her so soon? She smiled uneasily. "Your Highness is drunk. That person died beneath a rain of arrows long ago." Liang Xiao, who had seemed drunk just a moment ago, suddenly turned serious. "How do you know who I was talking about?" Cui Shizhan froze, then wanted to bang her head against the wall! Her childhood name had been given to her by her master. Ever since she had disguised herself as a man and taken charge of the Eastern Depot in her previous life, it had been a secret. But the moment he mentioned it, she'd assumed he meant her, giving herself away without meaning to... As she fretted, a question suddenly occurred to her: How had Prince Chen'an known about it? Message: Even when darkness lies before you, keep the light in your heart