The Substitute Bride Empress

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Advance Notice Blurb

The Eldest Princess has been feeling rather troubled lately. She's reached the age when she should choose a husband...

Her first candidate, the newly crowned third-place scholar, only came to the palace to play chess with Zhao Mingxiu. During their game, the scholar unexpectedly gained enlightenment and left the world to become a monk.

Her second candidate, the son of the Northern Garrison General, was out on a date with her when they ran into Zhao Mingxiu leading a young child by the hand. The child saw the young general and called him Father.

Her third candidate came from a respectable family and was handsome and refined. She was quite pleased with him, but Zhao Mingxiu had just stepped forward under the pretext of helping her assess the man when he fled behind his mother in terror...

After careful deduction, she finally identified the culprit behind her inability to find a husband!

"A Xun, just because you can't get married right now doesn't mean you can forbid others from marrying before you..."

"I'm your aunt. What kind of junior meddles in an elder's marriage?"

Zhao Mingxiu had never been able to abide anything unclean before his eyes. At that very moment, the person before him angrily slapped the table, accidentally tipping over the inkstone. Ink stained the desk and the memorials he had yet to review.

The more the Eldest Princess thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. But Zhao Mingxiu gently wiped the ink from her hand and asked calmly, "Auntie, why do you think I stopped you from choosing a husband?"

She looked up. There was an inscrutable emotion in Zhao Mingxiu's eyes, and a sudden thought struck her. "Could it be that you..."

Zhao Mingxiu had a feeling she wouldn't say what he wanted to hear.

Sure enough...

"Could it be that you don't want to call a man younger than you Uncle?"

"A Xun, get over your pride!"

Zhao Mingxiu thought to himself: Rather than let those fools become his uncle, he might as well become his own little uncle.

In his previous life, he became a wise emperor, but could only watch the person before him die unjustly. Now that he had been reborn, what was wrong with living recklessly for once?

(Important: The leads are not related by blood! The male lead knows! Their current ages: male lead, twenty; female lead, seventeen.)

Adorable girl x master schemer (June 30 revised blurb)

Blurb

Version One

Everyone says the Seventh Prince is waiting for a marriage to bring him good luck and prolong his life. No one knows that the Chen Earl's household's future bride has already run away from the capital, never to be seen again. The wedding date is approaching, and disaster is about to befall the Chen household.

Chen Qingci's small, pale face was set with determination. "I'll take my sister's place and marry him. She's been frail since childhood, and our parents have always doted on her. How could I stand by and watch them suffer?"

On their wedding day, her sickly-looking husband lifted Chen Qingci's red veil. She flinched, her little hand trembling so badly she nearly dropped the jade scepter.

One day, she was stealing a quiet moment in the garden to feed the fish when she turned and saw her husband standing behind her. Her foot slipped and she squeezed her eyes shut, but she never hit the ground.

"Why are you so afraid of me? Do you think I'll eat you?" The man chuckled, holding her hand firmly. His voice was low, his feelings carefully hidden.

Chen Qingci's eyes welled with tears. What else could it be? I'm afraid you'll kill me if my secret identity is exposed! QAQ.

Every day, Chen Qingci anxiously guarded her little secret identity. It wasn't until she became mistress of the harem, surrounded by children and grandchildren, that she finally realized: Huh, had her secret identity been exposed ages ago?

Version Two

Xie Jingyu was reborn. The first thing he had to do was marry the girl he loved, even though she hadn't fallen for him yet. His girl was so adorable, always playing hide-and-seek with him. All those schemes and intrigues seemed to fade away. He wanted only to lose himself in this dream of growing old together with her.

In his previous life, timid Chen Qingci had actually taken an arrow for him. That splash of crimson was etched into his eyes. He trampled his enemies' corpses and finally ascended the throne. But even on the day he died, he couldn't let it go: his girl would forever remain eighteen.

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