Princess Xiao Yao of the Great Sheng Kingdom is stunningly beautiful, famed as the most captivating woman under heaven. The Xiao imperial clan has few heirs, and when her elder brother dies suddenly, she has no choice but to don the imperial robes and shoulder the burden of rule.
Her experience from her previous life tells her that someone is about to succeed in a rebellion and may even send her beyond the frontier as a political bride.
At court, Grand Secretary Ji once again urges Xiao Yao to take an imperial consort. Xiao Yao props her chin in her hand and listens, then points to the most talented man in the hall: Ji Yun, Grand Secretary Ji's youngest son.
Grand Secretary Ji: “That man won't do!”
Ji Yun: “I thank Your Majesty for your gracious favor!”
Imperial consort Ji Yun works diligently, handling countless affairs every day and never letting a memorial sit until the next day. Xiao Yao has it easy, spending her days fooling around with the three thousand beauties of her late brother's harem.
Ji Yun's handsome face grows darker by the day. “Your Majesty, there are too many memorials. I can't review them all by myself.”
Xiao Yao considers this for a moment. “Should I take another imperial consort to help you?”
Ji Yun: “No need!”
Xiao Yao quietly packs away her private savings, waiting for the day of the rebellion so she can run. But, to her surprise, Ji Yun suddenly has the would-be rebels' estates confiscated.
Xiao Yao: “???”
One day, Xiao Yao is slacking off in the hot spring when, with a splash, someone emerges from the misty pool.
Xiao Yao: “I didn't summon anyone today.”
Ji Yun: “Since there's only my name on the selection list, Your Majesty needn't trouble herself with choosing.”
Xiao Yao thinks she will spend this life wasting away within the palace walls, until she accidentally discovers an edict her father left behind.
#She is the imperial consort's unattainable love#
#She takes an imperial consort as a hired hand, only to become the one doing all the work#
Reader's notes:
1. This story is entirely fictional, so please don't scrutinize the historical details.
2. Both leads are reborn.
3. Is this a story with a female-dominated society? Probably not? (To avoid confusion, the heroine is not an empress for the entire story.)
Please add my upcoming novel, The Eldest Princess, to your reading list. Here's the blurb:
The Eldest Princess's Story
In her previous life, Xiao Qingluan was the most flamboyant and radiant woman in all the Great Sheng Kingdom. On the day the exam results were posted, she even snatched the third-place scholar, Qi Lu, and made him her consort.
After a lifetime of entanglement that left her heartbroken and worn down, she finally understood: meddling in other people's romantic fate never ends well.
In this life, she plans to prepare a fine wedding gift for them and quietly watch him enjoy a promising career and a house full of children and grandchildren.
On the bustling main street, he rides by with a flower in his hat, just as he did in her previous life. Xiao Qingluan leans against the window and gazes at him intently, but gives no order to her guards to go down and seize him.
As Qi Lu passes, however, he suddenly looks up. Xiao Qingluan hastily draws back, and the jade hairpin in her coiffure slips free. He leaps forward and catches it between his fingers.
The Third-Place Scholar's Story
Ever since returning to the capital, Qi Lu has dreamed every night of a woman whose appearance is hazy and indistinct. Only her eyes, gazing deeply at him, are clear enough to be etched into his heart.
Those eyes do not belong to his fiancée.
When his mother brings up his marriage to his cousin again, Qi Lu inexplicably turns it down.
He doesn't believe in ghosts or gods, but even he starts to suspect that he encountered something uncanny on the road to the capital.
Then, on the day he parades through the streets with a flower in his hat, he feels someone's burning gaze. He looks up abruptly and sees a woman in splendid clothes upstairs, with the very same features as the woman in his dreams.
As a young man who has found success early, the third-place scholar has many ideas about his future. Becoming a princess's consort is the one thing he never imagined.
But in his dreams, he clearly sees himself asking the Emperor to let him be buried in the Eldest Princess's tomb after his death!
Theme: Understand yourself and strive for what you want.
After a Fake Divorce, I Became the Emperor's Favorite Concubine
Stealing Her Heart
She Builds Infrastructure in the Cold Palace
Falling in Love a Second Time
Stealing a Wife
Folding Beauty
Marrying into the Eastern Palace
A Beauty Chooses Her Branch
Renting a Future Prime Minister as My Live-In Son-in-Law
The Young Lady Is Determined to Marry Up
My Dandy Ex-Husband Became the Most Powerful Man in the Court
The Substitute Bride
I cried when I read the farewell letter, and then I laughed when the author said something. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
So did the consort really sleep with his cousin?
Sprinkle flowers, it's May Day, I just plan to stay at home_(:з∠)_
Wow! (●—●)
Oops, it will be gone so soon_(:з∠)_
Hahaha_(:з∠)_ Zhaozhao: I see you continue to pretend
I had completely planned not to watch it. But I'm curious about what's going to happen next... I'll come back and take a look. I really don't like it the most... I don't mean to blame you. Is it because you feel that Nvgoose has adapted to the change of status from emperor to empress very smoothly? It's unbelievable. He just returned to the harem and became a queen? Oh my god... It's hard to calm down. I felt very uncomfortable. A person who has been an emperor would be willing to become a harem girl... It would be more comfortable to live in the clouds and wild cranes with his parents.
Two updates a day is still not enough
I'm starting to look forward to our reunion tomorrow.
No, I can't accept this and go to Beibi. I wish them happiness haha.