Chronicles of the Eastern Palace Crematorium

Upcoming novels: After the Palace Maid Escapes and The Princess's Substitute Consort. My friend's upcoming novel, The Down-and-Out Concubine Turns Her Luck Around, is also included below. Please add them to your collection!

Everyone in the capital knows Crown Prince Xu Huaiyi loves Shen Susu, the general's legitimate daughter. They were engaged as children and are known as a perfect match.

Shen Zhaohe, on the other hand, is only a concubine-born daughter of the general's household. It seems there's an unbridgeable gulf between her and Xu Huaiyi, and her love for him is dark and hidden from sight.

Later, Shen Zhaohe is granted in marriage to a hostage prince from Nanqi. She finally gives up her secret hopes, believing she will never have anything to do with Xu Huaiyi again.

But when she wakes from a drunken spring banquet, she finds herself lying beside Xu Huaiyi in full view of everyone. The scandal grows, Xu Huaiyi marries her, and Shen Susu can only marry the hostage prince from Nanqi. The world accuses Shen Zhaohe of scheming to steal her elder sister's good match.

Xu Huaiyi hates her to the core.

Until one day, Shen Susu flees Nanqi in a panic and returns to beg him for help. While he stands at a loss, Shen Zhaohe, wearing a face almost identical to Shen Susu's, appears before the soldiers who have come to find her. She smiles at him and says, "At last, I've returned your elder sister to you."

Only then does he panic.

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Later, Xu Huaiyi learns the truth. The man who never so much as furrowed his brow even when beaten until his body was covered in bloody welts finds his eyes reddening in the brilliant spring sunshine.

----------Upcoming Novels-------------

Upcoming Novel 1: After the Palace Maid Escapes

Changxing is a little palace maid who stutters. Because she isn't quick enough at her work, she's assigned to the cold palace.

The palace matrons think she's stupid and clumsy, and often bully her. One day, she is punished for no reason. A matron beats her with a stick until she's covered in blood. Just when she thinks she'll die there, someone steps in front of her and takes the blows for her for the first time.

That person is Zhou Jinghe, the seventh son of the emperor.

His mother is of low birth, so the emperor doesn't favor him. He has never even seen the emperor's face.

The people in the palace are the most snobbish. An unfavored master is worth less than a servant. Zhou Jinghe is bullied at every turn, and he is all the more determined to climb his way up.

During her time in the harem, Changxing gives him all her heart. She saves her meager monthly allowance to buy him the books he wants, mends his torn clothes, and even sneaks food from the kitchen so he can eat his fill while he's growing.

Once, when she tries to find out news about the emperor for him, a consort sets her sights on her. Thinking Changxing has improper designs, the consort has her tied up in a sack and beaten.

When Zhou Jinghe sees the bruises on her body, his eyes turn red. He holds her and promises he will rise to prominence.

Eventually, he does rise to prominence. But on the night he is named Crown Prince, he is also married to someone else.

When Changxing asks him about it, unable to swallow her resentment, he coldly tells her he always thought of her as nothing more than a lowly servant.

But when Changxing puts all her foolish hopes to rest and takes a guard's hand, asking him to let her leave the palace, he holds her captive in his arms and whispers: "Do you want him to live?"

Upcoming Novel 2: The Princess's Substitute Consort

Chen Yuezhi falls for someone she can never have, so she finds a substitute.

The substitute is Xu Chengyan, the newly crowned top scholar. They say he writes beautifully and has keen insight into court politics. Even Chen Yuezhi's picky elder brother approves of him after meeting him once.

But Chen Yuezhi doesn't care about any of that. All she cares about is how much Xu Chengyan's face resembles that person's.

At first, Chen Yuezhi is willing to fill his courtyard with rare treasures just to enjoy the moonlight with him. When he is injured, she searches everywhere for imperial physicians and nurses him with care. She even puts aside her dignity and cooks for him herself.

Later, even when she hears that he plans to marry someone else, Chen Yuezhi is completely unconcerned. "He's just a substitute. If this one won't behave, I'll get another. The Shen family's third young master seems pretty good..."

But the next day, Chen Yuezhi hears that the third young master of the Su family, who is skilled at riding and archery, has fallen from his horse and had his face slashed by a sharp rock.

That night, Chen Yuezhi hears the black-clad man pressing against her whisper over and over: "Even if I'm just a substitute, I must be the only one."

My friend's upcoming novel: The Down-and-Out Concubine Turns Her Luck Around

Wen Jiao'er transmigrates as an unfavored orphan. On her first day after transmigrating, her heartless second uncle gives her to the current prime minister, Song Pei, as a concubine.

The current prime minister, Song Pei, is ruthless and merciless. Everyone in Shengjing fears him, and no one dares provoke him.

They say the prime minister loves only one person, and that any woman who tries to get close to him ends up dead without a bone left behind.

Wen Jiao'er thinks she's doomed too, but instead she's sent to a run-down estate at the foot of Huajing Mountain in the outskirts of the capital.

The estate has nothing, no one to serve her and no supplies of food or cloth. Even the house leaks when it rains. On top of that, the estate is full of other poor souls just like her.

It's fine. As long as she can stay alive, that's enough. The optimistic Wen Jiao'er rolls up her sleeves and starts clearing land, planting crops, and hunting and fishing to provide for herself.

But when she casually digs up wild vegetables in the mountains, they turn out to be thousand-year-old ginseng. The rocks she picks up by a stream reveal top-grade jadeite...

The middle-aged man she casually saves turns out to be the current emperor, and the auntie next door who often comes over to mooch food turns out to be the empress.

Wait, who are you, young man who brings me flowers every day, runs errands for me, and pursues me like crazy?

Song Pei: I'm your husband.

Theme: A melon forced from the vine isn't sweet.