It's So Hard to Win Over That Foolish Emperor

Xiao Wuyi was born into a distinguished family, destined for a life of privilege.

At fifteen, she married into the imperial family. At eighteen, the old emperor died.

As a member of the exalted Xiao family, Xiao Wuyi supported the young emperor as empress dowager and ruled from behind the throne.

The court was corrupt, with powerful relatives and eunuchs abusing their authority.

Xiao Wuyi shielded the young ruler and used an iron fist to reform the court.

A traitor was killed at the vermilion gates of the Secretariat. The blue bricks of the Censorate ran red with blood. Three thousand eunuchs were executed.

Their remains burned in the streets, and the flames did not die for a month.

But before she could fulfill her ambitions, she was branded a usurper who had "a hen crowing at dawn."

Poison was poured down her throat, her hands were cut off, and she was thrown into a pit of venomous snakes.

And the one who had personally poisoned her was the eight-year-old young emperor Li Mingxian, whom she had loved as her own!

The traitor standing behind the young emperor, weapon stained with blood in hand, was none other than the Xiao family, whom she had protected single-handedly for years.

Filled with regret, bitten by poisonous snakes, Xiao Wuyi died, her soul extinguished.

But her spirit endured, and she transmigrated fifteen years into the future, into the body of Pan Xiaoyu, a dancer in a music house.

Xiao Wuyi looked at her new body, which had crossed through time and space, baring her belly and going barefoot as she danced and sang seductively for a crowd of bloated, self-important nobles.

A cold smile appeared on her exquisitely charming face.

Li Mingxian was eight, a little emperor with no control over his own life.

He had no say in anything.

He once thought that if only the cold, ruthless empress dowager died,

he would be free

This obsession made him watch helplessly as Xiao Wuyi was poisoned, and watch helplessly as she was thrown into the snake pit.

Only after the person who had always protected him disappeared

did he learn what it meant to be utterly alone.

Fifteen years later, Emperor Mingxian was twenty-three.

As he lay sick in bed, the emperor, who had suppressed his desires and kept himself pure for years, glanced at Pan Xiaoyu, a dancer presented by the Imperial Music Bureau.

His eyes, weary to the extreme, closed, then opened again.

They fixed without blinking on the slender waist he could almost encircle with one hand.

Reader's guide:

* Romance is the main focus. They are not blood relatives, and there is no generational gap.

* The emperor isn't incompetent, and the heroine has no intimate relationship with the emperor's father.

* From the lowliest palace servant in a side hall to the master of Han Hong Hall in the Taiji Palace.

Blurb updated November 14, 2023, at 5:30 p.m. Screenshot saved.

Here's the next story I plan to write. Please add it to your to-read list!

"The Little Taoist Nun Doesn't Want to Take Responsibility"

The little Taoist nun Yin Chang was originally a young girl living at the foot of Peach Blossom Mountain.

A demonic Taoist kidnapped her and took her up the mountain, intending to turn her into a vengeful ghost to harm people.

But for some reason, the demonic Taoist

spared her life and even taught Yin Chang all kinds of strange skills.

When Yin Chang turned seventeen, the demonic Taoist's natural lifespan ran out.

He took advantage of the still-naive little Taoist nun

and made Yin Chang promise to take responsibility for him.

So, in an ancient temple lit by green lamps, a single promise used up three hundred years of her cultivation to restore his flesh and blood.

From then on, the cultivation world gained a prodigy with exceptional talent: Luo Yinhe.

Many years later, Yin Chang was pierced through the heart by Luo Yinhe's sword and reduced to ashes. As she lay dying, she remembered the past and thought, Hah, so when two people love each other and both consent, you don't have to take responsibility after all.

It was all because she was young and naive back then~

Luo Yinhe earned merit by vanquishing demons and became the foremost figure in the immortal realm, unrivaled across the Three Mountains and Four Seas. Yet on the day he was honored as its supreme one, he remembered his past and present lives, and that unforgettable first glance at the foot of Peach Blossom Mountain. With a single thought, the supreme immortal fell into demonic ways.

*The journey doesn't matter, the ending is HE.

*Headcanon piled high.

Theme: Demonesses and foolish emperors are both wonderful people