The Foolish Empress Has the Emperor All to Herself

[Coming soon: My Face-Blind Beauty Is Always Flirting with Me and My Beloved Is Actually My Brother! Please add them to your reading list.]

Blurb:

Jiang Yue Bai transmigrates into the doomed empress in a book, a supporting character who is poisoned to death by the heroine. She’s already on the brink of death from the start.

She flees in a panic, only to run into the book’s male lead, an overbearing, obsessive, violent, and murderous emperor. Worst of all, his methods are so brutal they make torture seem tame.

The male lead is in front of her, the heroine behind her, and both want her dead.

Jiang Yue Bai can only offer a helpless smile and close her eyes, ready to die.

But the male lead gets the first move in. At his command, someone is killed... the heroine???

The plot has gone off the rails!!

Before she can even react, she’s inexplicably bound to a Villainous Empress System: bring down the empress dowager, kill loyal ministers, and become a notorious empress.

Jiang Yue Bai blinks innocently and points at herself. “A notorious empress? Me?”

To complete her mission, she has no choice but to cling to Fu Yuan:

“Your Majesty is like a precious pearl.”

“Of course I adore Your Majesty.”

“Your Majesty, can you protect me?”

“I feel safe by Your Majesty’s side.”

“...”

With such disarmingly frank words, she really does become the notorious empress who bosses Fu Yuan around day and night.

*

As the Son of Heaven of Great Zhou, Fu Yuan has long known that his gentle and virtuous empress is conspiring with rebellious ministers.

He doesn’t care. She’s just another insignificant clown.

But one day, his calculating empress suddenly becomes an innocent young woman whose every thought is written all over her face.

She only gazes at him with clear, almond-shaped eyes and acts sweet:

Calling him handsome as a pearl, claiming to adore him, asking him to protect her...

Her sweet words are scattered over his heart without restraint.

Then one rainy night, she sneaks past the guards and slips into his bedchamber just to hold him and tell him she likes him.

His resolve shifts, little by little. On the night he can no longer contain his feelings and is about to confess:

He sees her chatting happily and leaning close with another man in the moonlight, accepting a hairpin that signifies affection.

A silly, sweet girl who loves to flirt x an overbearing, obsessive emperor

Reading Guide:

1. One couple, both leads are each other’s first.

2. No character is perfect. The characters’ values do not represent the author’s.

3. The protagonist does not transmigrate into a book, but she does transmigrate to another world.

My upcoming book, My Blind Beauty Is Always Flirting with Me, is also open for reading-list additions.

Blurb:

A blind, meek, timid, soft, silly beauty who loves to flirt x a cold, cunning, mischievous, and noble Crown Prince

A Wu, the only daughter of a Vice Minister of Rites, is breathtakingly beautiful and radiant, yet she’s a wooden beauty, cold and taciturn.

Only she and her father know that she was born face-blind. Even at sixteen, she can’t recognize the family members she sees every day.

Her father, the Vice Minister of Rites, sighs and frets over her marriage every day. A Wu herself is calm about it. She walks into the flower hall and tells him, “Father, A Wu is willing to remain unmarried for her whole life.”

To her surprise, her father’s terrified voice suddenly comes from behind her:

“Your Highness, please forgive her. My daughter has poor eyesight.”

A Wu draws in a sharp breath. The Crown Prince turns around before her, his bearing peerless and his face exquisitely handsome.

A Wu’s handkerchief falls to the ground.

Not because she’s dazzled by his beauty, but because she’s seen that face before. She’s touched him, and she remembers...

She wants to step back.

But the man before her walks closer, treading over the shadows of flowers. “My lady, you are as beautiful as a celestial being. Would you do me the honor of marrying me?”

*

The Emperor is selecting a consort for his third son.

The fourth prince recommends the daughter of the Vice Minister of Rites, calling her dignified and gentle.

The third prince shakes his head and remarks that Shen Qingyi may be beautiful, but her temperament is exceedingly cold.

The imperial family argues back and forth.

Someone suddenly asks: “What does the Crown Prince think?”

A faint, mocking smile curls the Crown Prince’s lips.

Dignified and gentle? Cold-tempered?

Then why does he remember her as passionate, with her heart set on him?

He has met her three times, and each time she had a new trick.

The first time, she called him Big Brother.

The second time, she called him Dearest.

The third time, she called him Master.

What will she call him next time?

*

Later, on their wedding night.

A Wu’s hairpins are askew, her wedding dress half removed, as she opens her eyes beneath the golden bed curtains.

Pearls sway, shadows dance, and fragrant mist fills the air.

A damp finger gently presses against her lips.

“A Wu, who am I?”

She looks toward the voice. The man behind her is impossibly handsome, a teasing smile playing at his lips.

The golden curtains sway as the broken fragments of his name are finally coaxed out of her.

“Pei Yan... husband...”

My upcoming book, My Beloved Is Actually My Brother!, is also recommended. Click the announcement or my profile for its full blurb.

Theme: Even in adversity, keep a positive outlook and strive to grow