My Cousin Still Dotes on Me Most Today

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Blurb:

When Wei Ling'er was a young girl, her parents died together in an accident. After completing her period of mourning, she had no choice but to seek refuge with her maternal aunt, the wife of the eldest son of the Duke of Zheng, who lived far away in Yejing. The Shu family was an eminent, aristocratic clan, and Wei Ling'er knew life as a dependent would not be easy. She planned ahead and was lucky enough to learn that her cousin, Shu Jin, the heir to the Duke's title, had a particular weakness for delicate beauties. From then on, Wei Ling'er acquired a whole new set of skills: speaking softly and sweetly, acting aggrieved but keeping it to herself, and getting teary-eyed at the slightest disagreement.

With these tricks, Wei Ling'er got plenty of benefits out of her convenient cousin. So when she learned that she was about to be betrothed to someone she disliked, she immediately ran to Shu Jin for help.

Who could have guessed that Shu Jin, usually so proper, would sit on the edge of the bed, listen to her tearful complaint, then beckon her over with an inscrutable smile. "Come here. Your cousin will teach you how not to marry him."

Wei Ling'er: "..."

There was something wrong with this convenient cousin of hers.

Scheming little cousin x secretly devious older cousin

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Blurb:

By imperial decree, Yu Yao became the empress of Chu Jingxuan.

The young emperor was violent and capricious, often behaving in outrageous ways. He showed little respect for her, his empress, until she gradually became the laughingstock of the concubines. But Yu Yao was grateful to Chu Jingxuan for saving her life from a tiger's jaws, and devoted herself to fulfilling her duties as empress. She was dignified and composed at court, and virtuous and magnanimous in the harem.

Three years passed. Then the Empress Dowager died.

After the mourning period ended, Chu Jingxuan forced Yu Yao to hand over the phoenix seal.

Believing she had repaid the debt she owed him for saving her life, Yu Yao accepted calmly. From then on, she became a discarded empress confined to the cold palace.

Later, a raging fire swept through the cold palace, and the discarded empress, Lady Yu, perished in the flames.

The concubines treated it as a joke, never imagining that the emperor would never set foot in the harem again.

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The third year after losing Yu Yao.

Chu Jingxuan happened to take shelter from the rain in a temple, where he saw a nun holding an umbrella in the rain. She looked very much like Yu Yao. He ran toward her as if possessed, his eyes bloodshot and his voice trembling. "Yaoyao..."

The beautiful nun in a blue robe turned at the sound of his voice.

With confusion in her eyes, she asked gently, "Have you mistaken me for someone else, sir?" Her voice was unlike Yu Yao's.

Chu Jingxuan stood there, stunned.

As rain poured down, he could only watch the figure he had longed for day and night move farther and farther away.

※ A melodramatic groveling-after-the-wife-is-gone trope

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