After My Emperor Ex-Husband Dug Up My Grave

In her previous life, Miaoyin took her younger sister's place in a political marriage. She left Nanzhao, traveled three thousand li north, and married into the Great Yong dynasty as the Crown Princess. But the Crown Prince was deposed soon after, and they were confined to a separate residence.

On freezing winter nights, she braved the snow to beg the palace servants for firewood, charcoal, rice, and flour, seeking food and warmth for the Crown Prince. She endured their cold remarks for four whole years.

Then came a palace coup, and the Crown Prince ascended the throne. The new emperor took Miaoyin by the hand and escorted her to the empress's throne.

But before she had even grown accustomed to her phoenix throne, the princess who had originally been sent for the political marriage was brought to the new emperor's side, made a Noble Consort, and favored above all the women in the palace.

The Noble Consort developed a strange illness and needed a close relative's body to filter a fierce, potent medicine. The emperor issued an order for Miaoyin to test the medicine on her behalf.

Miaoyin grew thinner by the day. Her once radiant, jade-like face lost its luster. Full of resentment and unwillingness, she closed her tired eyes.

On a snowy winter night, the funeral bell for the empress rang across Chang'an.

Dressed in nothing but thin sleeping clothes, the emperor staggered through the snow, personally slaughtering countless palace servants until the inner palace ran with blood.

The official records say that the empress's coffin was placed in the underground palace. Three days after the tomb was sealed, the emperor personally dug up her mausoleum.

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Reborn at sixteen, Miaoyin vows to avoid the disastrous pitfalls of her previous life.

She pays no attention to the Crown Prince, who personally comes to ask for her hand, and instead turns her bright eyes toward a... monk who terrifies the nations beyond the borders.

The Crown Prince's face darkens. Could his prophetic dream have been wrong? How could his sweet, gentle Crown Princess throw herself into a monk's arms?!

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Zhantan is the foremost monk of the Buddhist order and the master of the divine capital. His meditative heart is unbreakable, and he commands a million Buddhist warriors, keeping the nations beyond the borders in submission.

To escape her fate of being sent away in a political marriage, Miaoyin uses every means to cling to him. Once she learns that he observes the Thousand Buddhas' Great Precepts and will never fall for a woman, she leaves freely.

But he sends three groups of pursuers to block her way.

"I have felt joy and given in to greed. I broke the precept against lust long ago."

"As long as I live, I won't let you leave me."

"You are my medicine."

The foremost monk, as untouchable as moonlight over a pine forest, removes his supreme Buddhist robes and steps into the mortal world for her.

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Note: Both the heroine and the Crown Prince are reborn. The male lead is a monk, and the second male lead will suffer a painful reckoning.

Upcoming novel: Who Says a Slender Waist Must Be Graceful?

[Middle-aged emperor x the genuine daughter of a noble family]

[Age gap: 20+]

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Theme: You cannot undo the past, but you can still pursue what lies ahead