The New God Keeps Trying to Step on Me to Rise

Coming soon: The Lazy Empress Is Forced to Get to Work

Zhilu was an ancient god from the Ninth Heaven, revered by all the gods for her exalted status.

Whenever an immortal from the lower heavens descended to the mortal realm to undergo a trial, she was the one who assigned their tribulations.

But an accident occurred, and after completing their trials, two mid-ranking immortals both perished, their souls destroyed.

The gods suspected that Zhilu had assigned the wrong tribulations, and distanced themselves from her to protect their own interests.

Zhilu's reputation in the Ninth Heaven plummeted.

A hundred years later, a new god ascended to the Ninth Heaven and took charge of the laws governing all the realms.

The first case this new god took on was to summon Zhilu to the Divine Judgment Platform for trial.

The usually serene and unruffled Zhilu's calm facade shattered completely the moment she saw the new god.

The new god's face was dark, as if he had come from the frozen depths of hell.

"If you cannot prove your innocence, Divine Lord, then I will have to strip you of your divine rank."

But what Zhilu saw was a young immortal from a peach grove a hundred years ago.

He had tried to hide his embarrassment like a young man, tugging at her and murmuring softly:

"If I am ever fortunate enough to take my place in the Ninth Heaven, I hope the Divine Lord will show me kindness."

Zhilu gave a self-mocking smile. He had played her for a fool, and she accepted that she had lost.

But she would get back everything she had lost in the past.

*

Zhilu had an old colleague, another ancient god like herself.

Though there had been a few misunderstandings between them, they had recently been resolved, and now they could pick up where they had left off.

On the day of the banquet, the new god caused a scene at the feast on the Celestial Terrace.

In front of all the gods, he looked utterly wretched, nearly mad as he accused her of betraying him twice for the same person.

At the time, Zhilu thought he was probably sick in the head.

Only afterward did she understand.

What a coincidence. She, too, had fallen for the same person twice.

Coming soon: The Lazy Empress Is Forced to Get to Work

Overworked office drone Fu Nanshuang is reborn as the empress in an old-fashioned palace-intrigue tragedy.

The original empress was rigid and stubborn. She repeatedly interfered when the male lead stole a minister's wife, and after the female lead entered the palace, she schemed against her at every turn. In the end, she was forced to drink poison and died a gruesome death.

Fu Nanshuang lounged on the phoenix bed, pondering. As long as she didn't go looking for trouble or make enemies, surviving shouldn't be too difficult.

She could lie flat in the front row and watch the show, then wait for the male lead to dismiss his harem and devote himself to the female lead. After that, she could leave the palace and live happily as a rich woman.

But at the palace banquet where the male lead fell in love with the female lead at first sight, the female lead never showed up.

With the plot going nowhere, Fu Nanshuang couldn't leave either. She had no choice but to grit her teeth and hold a second banquet, then a third...

At the sixth palace banquet in a single month, the male lead turned toward her and whispered in her ear, "What exactly is the empress looking for?"

Fu Nanshuang withdrew her disappointed gaze. "A childhood friend."

Following her line of sight, the male lead spotted the lonely Vice Minister of the Secretariat.

Three days later, the Vice Minister of the Secretariat was sent into exile in Lingnan with his family.

Fu Nanshuang: ???

You wretched emperor, where did you send my female lead?

*

In the third year of Jiawu, the emperor fell gravely ill, and the imperial physicians were powerless to help.

Hearing that a female physician was renowned for healing the sick, the empress offered her a fortune and humbled herself to visit her three times before finally persuading her to come out of retirement.

The female physician worked a miracle, waking the emperor from his days-long coma.

Standing behind the physician, Fu Nanshuang watched as the emperor's gaze met hers, and felt a swell of emotion.

It was the kind of feeling you get when a project you've worked on for three years finally launches.

But the emperor's gaze passed over the female physician and landed on Fu Nanshuang. His voice trembled and rasped. "Empress, you saved me."

#The female lead is still giving you acupuncture. Are you blind?#

#Hey, female lead, why are you running away? This is your male lead!#

#How I was forced to take over after the female lead of a tragic romance ran away#

Theme: All forms of oppression will eventually be overthrown. No one has the right to control another person's life.