The Empress Dowager Is a Little Timid

Up next: She Defies All Convention, a pseudo mother-daughter romance.

The leader of the demonic cult, Zhong Zun, is betrayed and killed by her disciple. When she opens her eyes, she has become Princess Nanyang, a one-year-old toddler with tiny legs.

She is the daughter of Empress Fusang, but there isn't a single man in Fusang's harem, so naturally she ends up sleeping in the empress's bed.

After lying there for fifteen years, she discovers that she isn't Fusang's daughter after all.

Nanyang is so anxious she can barely sleep. Looking at the beautiful empress, she gets an idea: Why not defy convention just once and become the empress's wife? Then I won't die!

After getting drunk one day, Nanyang kisses the empress, and her feelings begin to blossom.

It was just a simple moment of intimacy, but later, during their stay at the palace retreat, she finally did something truly outrageous.

After that, her bedchamber is never lit after nightfall. Whenever she is tormented by unbearable longing, the empress always appears in her chamber as if from nowhere.

She thought it was love, until one day she discovers by chance that there is something wrong with the wine she has been drinking.

She was manipulated...

The best hunters always appear as prey!

Bonus scene:

In the cold of winter, Fusang pulls Nanyang into bed to sleep. But when the sweltering summer comes, she complains that Nanyang is too hot.

Nanyang refuses to leave. I want to sleep with Mother!

Fusang, disdainfully: Come back when you've learned how to be warm in winter and cool in summer.

Nanyang: I'll go practice a martial art that keeps me warm in winter and cool in summer, then come back to sleep with you!

[Story Blurb]

Shi Sheng has been frail since childhood. After meeting Yan Ru, she becomes attached to the dignified and graceful older girl.

They grow up together as childhood friends.

Shi Sheng has an extraordinary gift: since she was little, she's been able to see how much time everyone has left to live. After Yan Ru kisses her, she is amazed to find that she gains an extra day of life.

One moment of intimacy, one extra day.

Shi Sheng never dreamed that Yan Ru would become the crown princess, and that she herself would naturally become empress.

On the night of the crown prince's wedding, the bridal chamber catches fire, and Yan Ru has only one hour left to live.

Shi Sheng decisively brings Yan Ru back to her own bedchamber.

After spending several days together, she discovers that when she moves farther away from Yan Ru, the time she has left to live shrinks.

And after they grow intimate, that time changes.

After that, the amount of time left on her wrist changes every day.

The crown prince is killed, and the new emperor ascends the throne. Shi Sheng is honored by the new emperor as the empress dowager. She keeps Yan Ru in her own bedchamber, watching the number of years left on Yan Ru's wrist.

Why hasn't it changed?

Yan Ru: There's too much. Do you really want to live for two hundred years?

Please note: 1. Cherry blossoms bloom on the female lead, Shi Sheng, but only at certain times.

2. Both leads are each other's first and only.

Theme: Carry the past forward and strive to live