Highlight: The female lead is quite unhinged early on. After being betrayed by someone she holds dear, she struggles to accept it and falls into a somewhat deranged state.
The male lead is a bit of a naive sweetheart at first. Though clever, he has been soft-hearted since childhood, but he is absolutely not a scumbag. He toughens up after taking some hard knocks from society. So if that sort of thing is a dealbreaker for you, feel free to steer clear!
At sixteen, Du Chulan was sent into the palace to become Pei Jingxiu's empress. At the time, the Great Ning was divided among three powers: the imperial family, the Du family, and the Qi family.
The late emperor died suddenly, and the new emperor ascended the throne as a child. The regent minister, Qi Heming, seized complete control of the government. Unwilling to accept this, the Du family used its influence to put Du Chulan on the empress's throne.
Du Chulan wanted the Du family's status protected. Pei Jingxiu wanted to be a true emperor.
They fought each other for ten years, only to die together after drinking the poisoned wine brewed by Qi Heming and delivered into the palace by the Du family.
Pei Jingxiu had lost. He had never expected the Du and Qi families to join forces and condemn him to death.
Du Chulan had lost, too. After ten years of painstakingly scheming for the Du family, she ended up discarded like a pawn.
As the poison took effect, Du Chulan felt Pei Jingxiu clasp her hand tightly. His voice was gentler than she had ever heard it.
He said, "Empress, we were childhood sweethearts, and we stayed together for a lifetime."
Heaven took pity on them. When they opened their eyes again, they saw each other on their wedding day and instantly understood the fate the other had left unsaid.
Du Chulan smiled, her voice gentle. "Your Majesty, have some soup."
Pei Jingxiu blinked, then pushed the bowl back without a word. "You should have it, Empress."
Du Chulan rolled her eyes. "I didn't poison it this time!"
"Empress, if I don't return from this battle, I entrust Great Ning to you."
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. If that happens, as long as I draw breath, I will keep Great Ning peaceful and prosperous. I only ask that you wait for me on the road to the underworld. We should go together, after all."
Coming soon: "Light Burning in the Evil Night" and "I'm Chasing Idols in the Imperial Palace." Please add them to your reading lists!
After Pangu created the world, several ancient gods came into being. They divided the four corners of the land between them.
Later, Gonggong shattered the Pillar of Heaven, and the ancient gods gave their lives for all creation.
Only one remained, suppressing chaos and protecting all living things from being devoured by it.
But as time passed, even this ancient god could no longer hold chaos back. There was only one solution: the Heart of Pangu, which had been lost among mortals.
Xiao Youzhi is a Daoist priest, with both credentials and connections.
His family has done this sort of work for generations, and knows plenty of important people. So when gods, demons, spirits, and monsters all set out in pursuit of the Heart of Pangu, Xiao Youzhi naturally couldn't sit it out.
His story begins when an old friend entrusts him with the care of a little black-furred fox.
"Great Ancestor, do you know what love is?"
"I do."
"Have you ever loved anyone?"
"I have."
"Then what is love?"
"Love is not daring to look at him for two thousand three hundred years."
During a heavy downpour, Ye Huaijiu transmigrated by sheer chance into the body of the Empress of Great Chu.
She arrived at a convenient time. The emperor had accompanied the Empress Dowager to the summer palace, and his absence gave Ye Huaijiu time to figure out the situation.
She heard that years ago, she had been engaged to a brilliant young man, accomplished in both letters and arms, and devastatingly handsome. But the emperor loved her obsessively, and had married her by force.
Ye Huaijiu looked at herself in the mirror, then at the emperor's portrait. She wailed until snot bubbled from her nose, and finally understood why the previous owner of this body had been ignoring the emperor for the past two years.
The emperor was so ugly that calling him not ugly would be a lie!
He was hideous!
Ye Huaijiu: This is so miserable. No wonder I transmigrated here. The previous owner of this body had it rough.
A month later, the emperor returned to the palace.
Ye Huaijiu greeted him in utter gloom, then looked at his face with the greatest reluctance.
Ye Huaijiu: ????????????
Ye Huaijiu: The previous owner of this body was seriously ungrateful!
Ye Huaijiu: Your Majesty, I'm here! Your Majesty, come give me a kiss! Your Majesty, don't run away!
Theme: Live with a clear conscience before heaven and earth.
There are two anti-other stories in this article. The model of the time-traveling girl and the King of Chu must have a good beginning and an end, but the fact is that this is only possible if the emperor is kind-hearted and benevolent (well, if King Ning writes other stories, he is a cannon-fodder male with a second life). In other stories, Ye Qing and her husband definitely use her becoming vulgar and declining to show that she should not give up her glory, wealth, and noble status for an actor. What is the reality? A girl who has always been smart will not misjudge the person even if she is in love. Even if her life is miserable, she will not not live well. Brother Ye Qing may be single in other articles, or he may just treat his wife as a mistress and respect her, and he will always be infatuated. What is the reality? Huh? He became Mr. Ye, but it's not vulgar.
It turns out that the girl who traveled through time still left a prince for King Chu. Will King Chu regret it? Definitely, but he still did what he did to force the prince's mother to death. He doesn't want the heroine's daughter to match the prince. His mother is very nice but hates half of his father's bloodline.
In fact, I feel a little uncomfortable. The ending is too hasty and a lot of things that should be explained and should be written are not written. I also want to see more of the emperor and the empress spreading sugar, but I personally think this is a good ending.
Alas, actually compared to the male and female protagonists, the girl who traveled through time and the King of Chu are the standard empress doting novels! However, this article reflects the cruel reality under feudal kingship. Only a kind man who is destined to be a king can start well and end well, and he must go through the test of life and death! The kind-hearted person who is destined to be a weak queen will only become a sacrifice to the cold emperor, even if it is his beloved!
What a pity Yu Huaijiu, such a brilliant person
Seeing that Chu and Ye were included in the pre-release, I was a little curious as to whether that book would also be the direction of this article... Oh, it's really a pity for Ye.
It's a bit of a pity, Spread flowers
Hahahahahahaha, sleep on the way. Not bad. It is the dignity of modern tour groups.
The ending is also a bit rushed.
I feel like it's such a pity to travel through time with that girl