Two Centuries of Professional Flower-Throwing

Blurb:

A cowering, obsequious little fairy x a ruthless, truly terrifying Ghost King

Song Jinyinfu is a lazy nobody at the side of Ghost King Song Fei, responsible for scattering flower petals and making a grand entrance whenever he shows up.

For two hundred years, wherever he went, she followed with a flower basket. One lift of his hand and she knew what he wanted. One look from him and she knew whom he was sneering at.

Two hundred years later, thanks to her outstanding work performance (not really), Song Fei sent her up to Heaven without a word.

Two months later, Song Jinyinfu sneaked down from Heaven and clung desperately to a stone pillar in the Ghost King's palace. "I'm not leaving! I want to be a ghost, not an immortal!"

Song Fei glowered and ignored her.

Song Jinyinfu shouted again, "Heaven is unbearably boring! Nobody wants to play with a ghost like me. I'd rather die than go back!"

Song Fei glowered and still ignored her.

Song Jinyinfu kept rambling. "I've never realized how carefree the ghost realm is. Look, you're so powerful. You have ghost talismans protecting me and spiritual energy surrounding me. I can be a lazy bum forever, without a care in the world..."

Song Fei kept glowering and was already thinking about throwing her out.

Song Jinyinfu glanced at his expression and said seriously, "Of course, I mean, if you could spare a little more spiritual energy and a few ghost talismans for the little fairy in front of you, then maybe Heaven wouldn't be so bad..."

In the end, Song Fei ruthlessly hauled her out of Wanyao Palace and took back the last trace of ghostly spiritual energy in her body.

#Sob, cultivation in Heaven is so hard. All I know how to do is scatter flowers, and Song Fei won't give me any spiritual energy. Anyway, I've already lived a hundred years, so training probably won't help. Maybe I should just give up.

#What, Heaven doesn't allow people to give up? The Emperor wants me to go on a business trip to the mortal realm!

#Sob, the mortal realm is terrifying. Why are there so many monsters and ghosts? Don't come near me! I have the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea's armory, and I can summon ghosts. I have plenty of connections in the ghost realm!

#Song Fei, you deadbeat! When I become a true god, I'll make you taste... Whoa, Song Fei, you're like a god from Heaven! Beat him up! Smash his face in! He just kicked me!!!

And finally, Ghost King Song Fei, who just happened to be passing by / kindly stepped in / was simply being a good Samaritan: "Let go. I have things to do. You're not one of us anymore, so remember to keep your distance."

Song Jinyinfu, sniffling and crying: "Sob, I have to go to Huangque Mountain tomorrow. You know, the rat demon's territory. Tomorrow at the mao hour!"

Song Fei: "I don't want to know."

The next day, at the mao hour, Huangque Mountain.

Ghost King: "Just happened to be passing by..."

Please add my new novel, After Giving Up, I Became the Empress, to your reading list~

Blurb:

The emperor decrees that a daughter of the Gongsun family is to become the wife of the ninth prince.

As everyone knows, the current emperor has many children, and his sons are locked in a fierce struggle for the throne. The ninth prince, however, is universally regarded as a useless fool, a spoiled wastrel with no ability, and the least likely to inherit the throne.

Forced into marriage, Gongsun Yao is convinced that she'll eventually become cannon fodder in the battle for succession.

Thinking that she might as well make the most of each day, she sensibly starts giving up right alongside her wastrel husband.

After their marriage, he spends his days eating and drinking with her, walking dogs and teasing birds, taking her to all the most entertaining spots in Chang'an and showing her the most magnificent scenery in the land. They live freely, without restraint.

Then, a few years later, the emperor dies.

Just as she thinks her good days are finally over and the bloody battle for the throne is about to begin, her husband, who has been content to eat and wait for death, suddenly sends his trusted eunuch to fetch her from their residence.

The old eunuch holds the imperial decree and respectfully kneels before her, loudly proclaiming:

"By imperial decree, Her Majesty the Empress is to enter the palace at once and take up residence in the Phoenix Ceremony Hall!"

Gongsun Yao: "Huh?!!!"

#I gave up, and somehow became the empress

#My wastrel husband isn't really a wastrel

#But how do I tell him I figured it out ages ago?

A little scene:

The new emperor realizes that his empress doesn't seem all that happy about his sudden ascension to the throne.

He puts on a stern expression. "What do you mean by this, Empress?"

The empress answers nervously, "Actually... I knew... a long time ago..."

The new emperor: "You knew I was secretly plotting to win the succession?"

The empress nods, worried he'll have her killed for knowing too much.

Instead, the new emperor says, "Then do you also know that the year you were too afraid to say anything, you secretly wrote your feelings on a lantern and set it adrift? Who has that lantern now?"

The empress: "!!!"

A sly, calculating male lead who pretends to be a fool x a pitiful heroine who speaks her mind and loves to give up

Marriage first, love later / Extra-sweet romance / One-on-one, happy ending

A fictional world modeled on the Tang Dynasty. Please don't overanalyze the historical details.

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