Imperial Favor (Reborn)

[Ongoing: Pillowside Darling (Double Rebirth)] Past and present + double rebirth. Blurb at the very bottom ↓

Blurb:

Also known as: "Is It My Fault That I'm Beautiful?" and "I Was Wrong. I'll Do It Again Next Time."

Yun Si, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Yong'an, had a face of peerless beauty. She often went out beneath the moon carrying an umbrella. The world found her strange, yet no one dared say much.

One day, she broke off her engagement to the new emperor. The Empress Dowager denounced her as a calamity-bringing temptress and imprisoned her for life.

The once-ravishing beauty fell into the dust overnight.

She was reborn on the day she broke off the engagement.

In the imperial garden, she fell into deep thought:

Ahead of her was the venomous Empress Dowager, who would personally send her to the secret prison.

Behind her was the stern emperor, whose marriage proposal she had just rejected without hesitation.

In the end, she gritted her teeth, abruptly turned around, ran back to the Golden Throne Hall, and apologized obsequiously.

The man leaned coldly against his throne, his expression unreadable.

*

Later, Yun Si spent three straight days in the emperor's bedchamber without coming out.

The palace was full of gossip. Everyone said she was using her beauty to beguile the emperor, and mocked her for having no title or status.

After that, news kept arriving: the emperor made an example of someone for her sake; the emperor executed the traitors in the marquis's household; the emperor... brought down the Empress Dowager.

Yun Si: ...

That night, behind the hanging brocade curtains, Qi Jing breathed raggedly. "Are you still breaking off the engagement?"

He could never forget the girl beneath a plain umbrella in that flower-strewn alley years ago.

Alone amid falling blossoms, a single thought became longing.

#Their reunion was hard-won, but from then on he indulged her without end, letting her throw her beauty and power around. #

[Reading Guide]

1. Both leads are each other's only ones. Happy ending. Romance and sweet affection are the focus; everything else is secondary.

2. The dog emperor turns the world upside down for me.

3. Many liberties have been taken; don't scrutinize the details.

4. Chapters 1 and 13 have content warnings in the author's notes (please read).

5. Cover art thanks to A Maomao~ @ Jinjiang author Jin Li Mao

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Pillowside Darling (Double Rebirth) blurb ↓

In her previous life, Jin Yu went from a pampered princess to a remnant of the former dynasty. When the new emperor summoned her to his bed, she refused and threatened to die, thinking day and night of escaping the imperial palace.

Later, she stumbled into the tent of Chi Yan, Prince of Dingnan.

The man wore gleaming armor. He raised a cup of fragrant tea and smiled with wicked abandon. "Little girl, the army camp isn't exactly a fun place."

In the end, she was still inexperienced. One glance was all it took for her to give him her heart.

Beneath gauzy curtains, they shared a wild dream for one night.

Their amorous affair reached the new emperor's ears. In a fit of rage, he slaughtered the entire Prince of Dingnan's household, and spared not even Jin Yu.

Reborn on the night she escaped the palace, she wanted him to be safe and well this time, so Jin Yu went straight to the new emperor's bedchamber.

In the quiet night, red candles glowed in the bedchamber, and the incense burner was warm as jade. She bowed to confess her guilt, willingly offering to serve him.

At last, someone slowly emerged from behind the crystal curtain.

"I grant your wish."

In the face of her stunned gaze, Chi Yan raised the same bewitching smile.

*

Chi Yan remembered the delicate chain around the little girl's right ankle, with a bell hanging from it. It rang softly with every step, a sweeter sound than blades and spears.

When they first met, the sound of that bell had set his heart trembling and stirred his every feeling.

Having lived his life over, he thought, he wanted that silver bell to ring by his bedside every night.

Since he had won this kingdom with his own hands, why should he give away the throne?

This time, he would be her king himself.

#Weary birds return to their nests. I return to you. #

[Reading Guide]

1. Double rebirth. The male lead is reborn earlier than the female lead. Neither of them may be a good person (just kidding).

2. The guardian general usurps the throne for his one true love.

Theme: May our days and nights remain as they always were, through every dawn and dusk in this world.