Mistakenly Married in Year Nine

On my wedding night, I was mistakenly married into the Pei family. When my wedding veil was lifted, the man waiting for me wasn't the Third Prince, Xie Jingan, whom I'd longed for, but the Pei family's eldest son, Pei Hengzhi.

Everyone knew he and my younger sister had been childhood sweethearts, but only that night did I learn that my own betrothed loved her too, and had even plotted to switch the two of us.

How laughable. I, the eldest daughter of the Gu family, had become a sacrifice for my own younger sister.

The bride had been switched on their wedding night, but Pei Hengzhi had no choice but to swallow his anger. He bided his time and plotted for years, becoming a powerful court official whom everyone feared and respected, even the emperor.

Everyone praised my good judgment in choosing a husband, but no one knew I spent every night alone. He often stayed overnight at the palace under the pretext of discussing state affairs and never came home. People's looks of envy turned to pity.

In the first year of our marriage, he said contemptuously, “You know this marriage doesn't count.”

In the third year, he came back from the palace and said, “You're the legitimate daughter and my first wife, and you've done nothing wrong, so I won't divorce you. But don't meddle in my affairs, and don't even think about having a child.”

In the fifth year of our marriage, he said, “Lianqing, it wouldn't be so bad if you had a child.”

Gu Lianqing smiled. Since ancient times, women from prominent families had never had the right to choose whom they married. She had thought that marrying the man she loved was already a great blessing. But the man she loved abandoned her. She diligently helped her husband seize power, only to hear him say, “I'll keep you because you're useful.”

After five years of marriage, all she received in the end was this so-called favor: “It wouldn't be so bad if you had a child.”

She looked at Pei Hengzhi and said yes.

In the sixth year of their marriage, the eldest young mistress of the Pei family died in childbirth.

As she lay dying, she said, “May I never meet any of you again in my next life.”

In the ninth year, by the Gupan River, beneath the willows.

A little girl pointed at a familiar face in the distance and asked, “Mother, who is he?”

The woman turned around, her expression cold. “I don't know him. Just some passerby.”

“Oh.”

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Will the Empress Be Deposed Today?

Synopsis: Huo Changjun accompanied Xie Xingzhi from the Eastern Palace to the Forbidden City for ten years. She thought that even if they weren't a perfectly harmonious couple, they at least treated each other with respect.

It wasn't until Su Lianyue appeared that she learned there had always been someone else in his heart. Those ten years had been nothing more than a beautiful illusion.

Later, the Yan army invaded the border, captured three cities in succession, and marched straight for the imperial capital.

Huo Changjun exchanged her palace robes for armor and took over her father's troops. With her own strength, she held the border and protected the Han Empire.

Only then did Huo Changjun vaguely remember how spirited and ambitious she had once been.

Xie Xingzhi: “Changjun, you've worn armor long enough. It's time to take it off.”

Huo Changjun: “I respectfully request a divorce.”

From then on, the Han Empire had no more Empress Huo Changjun, only General Huo. Her tears belonged on this vast land, not within the gloomy palace walls.

Later, once the fighting had subsided and Yanbei was pacified, news that General Huo had died in battle reached the palace. The emperor rushed to the battlefield and searched through piles of broken bodies and wreckage, soaked in blood, his eyes red. “Changjun, you can't abandon me.”

At that moment, Huo Changjun heard the news and exclaimed, “Oh wow,” before continuing to eat her osmanthus cakes.

The husband pursues his wife after losing her.

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The day I was led to the executioner's platform, Xie Xinghe still demanded that I prove I had never loved him.

I tugged at the corners of my mouth and said nothing. In this world, you have to prove that something exists, not that it doesn't. How was I supposed to prove that I hadn't done something?

When the executioner's blade fell, I thought my life was over.

But when I opened my eyes again, I saw Xie Xinghe, his hair completely white and his face aged.

He said, “A Luo, I've waited forty years for you.”

From a spirited young man to an old man nearing the end of his life, he had spent his whole life waiting for me to wake up and look at him.

*

In a daze, I remembered that before I died, Master had given me a pill. He said it would make my death less painful. I only remembered that the world after death was bright and sunny, warm as spring. Master cherished me, my brother loved me, and even Xie Xinghe turned back to look at me.

So this is how warm hell is.

That's why I never woke up after closing my eyes, and why I didn't want to.

But later, I learned that the executioner's blade had never fallen on my head. And the pill I'd taken wasn't a painkiller, but a Gu.

The Mortal Dream Gu.

In a Dream of Mortal Life, you can wake up whenever you want. If you don't want to, you can remain in the dream for the rest of your life, never to return.

Completed novels: The Pampered Marquis's Guide to Taming His Heir (Reborn), Picking Up a Disabled Crown Prince After Transmigrating into a Book, I Heard I Was the Villain's Master, Will the Empress Be Deposed Today?, The Deposed Empress Seizes Power Over the World

Theme: Stay resilient and bloom amid hardship.