My Empress

The eighth installment in the Feiyejin Academy series. For stories about the other people at Feiyejin Academy, please visit the author's profile. Coming soon: A Moonlight from the Past for the Real Heiress. Please add it to your reading list. The blurb is below. Thank you. Princess Leshui, Xi Ruzhi, studied at Feiyejin Academy for ten years. When she returned, she took over from her short-lived older brother and became the crown prince. With powerful relatives on her mother's side, an autocratic empress dowager, and a court full of officials she couldn't trust, Xi Ruzhi felt she might be kicked off the throne before she ever sat on it. The only person who treated her with genuine care was Shui Mingting, the empress her brother had left behind. ※ ※ ※ Because her surname was Shui, Shui Mingting was sent into the palace to become the empress of a sickly emperor. She also became a pawn in the Shui family's struggle for power. When the emperor died, the pawn became disposable. But she refused to accept it. She refused to spend her whole life at the mercy of others. How could a pawn leave the board? This time, she would be the one moving the pieces. ※ ※ ※ They both knew the other was no simple person. But the court was treacherous, and they needed to support one another and tread carefully. Testing, caring, helping, comforting... At last, a wolf and a jackal joined forces and successfully put Xi Ruzhi on the throne. After taking the throne, Xi Ruzhi's first imperial decree was to make Shui Mingting empress, shocking the court and the country. Xi Ruzhi: "I'm not leaving tonight." Shui Mingting: "All right." A few days later, Xi Ruzhi rubbed her aching lower back. "Empress, can we talk? I have no problem with you being my empress, but why does the entire harem have to stay?" With a stroke of her vermilion brush, Shui Mingting rejected the decree to disband the harem. "Your Majesty is the ruler of the country. It wouldn't do to have such a small harem." Xi Ruzhi nearly wept. "Aren't you afraid I'll actually share my favors equally?" Shui Mingting smiled, alluring and bewitching. "You wouldn't dare!" ※ ※ ※ Xi Ruzhi: I thought we agreed I was going to play the pig to eat the tiger! (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ Shui Mingting: Who says playing the pig means you can eat the tiger? ┓(???`?)┏ Content warning: They are each other's only partner, and their roles are based on their first time. A deep, scheming empress as the pursuer x an emperor who plays the pig to eat the tiger as the pursued. Coming soon: A Moonlight from the Past for the Real Heiress College student Lin Wuqiu transmigrates into a novel about a real and fake heiress, becoming the hapless fake heiress who shares her name. The original owner was switched at birth and raised as the only daughter of the wealthy Yuan family, showered with love. When the truth comes out, she grows to hate the real heiress, Yuan Heyang, and begins using every means at her disposal to harm her. In the end, Yuan Heyang has her sent to prison. Lin Wuqiu knows she's timid and softhearted. She has neither the nerve nor the ability to hurt anyone, and she definitely doesn't want to go to prison. After transmigrating, she looks at Yuan Heyang, whom she's just drugged and knocked out, then sneaks away. Too panicked to hear the beauty behind her mutter with deep resentment, "Why did she run away?" ※ ※ ※ ※ In her previous life, Yuan Heyang came from a family of renowned doctors. The imperial court used her, and after she helped a prince ascend the throne, her entire family was wiped out. Only as she lay dying did she learn that the princess had killed herself in the palace hall to save her. When she woke again, she was a medical student. She had transmigrated into a novel about a real and fake heiress that she had just read, as the real heiress who shared her name. The moment she opened her eyes, she saw the princess who had died for her in her previous life: the fake heiress in the book. Oh, fate! ※ ※ ※ ※ Yuan Heyang: "Tell me, what do you want? You can have my life." Lin Wuqiu: "No, no, there's no need to be so generous. You can have your parents and your inheritance back. Please, just let me go." The beauty smiled and leaned closer. "I'm afraid not. I'm still waiting for you to come and hurt me." ※ ※ ※ ※ A scheming real heiress who seems like a sweet, innocent flower x a fake heiress who seems sharp-tongued and timid. Reading guide: Both transmigrate into a book. The pursuer has memories of her past life; the pursued does not. Feiyejin series: Book 1: Light Flowing into a Painting, Jing Hanyou x Yi Jiachenxu Book 2: The Princess Wants to Spoil Her Wife, Gu Li x Qin Qi Book 3: Master Wen's Quest to Win Her Husband Back, Yin Panliu x Wen Xiange Book 4: The Head of the Academy, Jiang Fengmin x Shu Yunci Book 5: The Emperor and Chancellor Love Their Countries Too Much, Feng Jingsu x Xue Ai Book 6: The Beloved Junior Sister, Gongye Sitong x Weng Lingxiao Book 7: Master, Don't Run Away, Leng Weizhi x Wen Wuying Theme: My fate is in my hands, not heaven's.