[The companion novel in the same series, Yong An, is now underway. Please add it to your collection.]
[Male Lead's Story * Previous Life]
In the autumn of the thirty-sixth year of Changping, King Qin Xiao Yan died in battle after his consort, Ye Zhao, stole the city defense plans. The rebels hung his body from the city wall.
That night, someone tried and failed to retrieve his body, then died fighting outside the city with it in their arms.
At dawn, King Qin's army surrounded the rebels on all sides and captured them alive.
It had all been a trap to lure the enemy in.
From then on, Xiao Yan commanded the armies of the four quarters and brought peace to the land.
The army celebrated, raising cups in congratulations.
Xiao Yan dismissed his attendants and climbed the city wall alone. The woman's face filled his mind. In the end, he waved his fan and cast it away.
He had done all he could for her, but he could never warm a heart of stone.
She had stolen a fake map. He had used her once, a small repayment for the information she'd gathered by staying close to him back then. Now they were even, and each would forget the other.
Xiao Yan suppressed his tangled thoughts, opened his fan, and left the city, determined to think of her no more.
He only wanted to pay his respects to the hero who had protected his body, and to apologize for causing his needless death.
*
On a cold, moonlit night, the battlefield outside the city was still drenched in blood. Bones were piled like mountains, and the earth was stained red. A disheveled little girl stumbled among the corpses, turning them over one by one and calling, "Mother!" again and again. At last, she fell at Xiao Yan's feet.
"Sir, have you seen my mother?"
"Who is your mother?" In the moonlight, the face of the silver-robed young lord with the folding fan turned deathly pale.
"Ye Zhao," the little girl answered. "Two days ago, Mother said Father loved cleanliness and couldn't bear dust or the sun and wind, so she was going to take him home. She told me to wait for her."
"But she still hasn't come back."
[Female Lead's Story * This Life]
Reborn, Ye Zhao was still the finest blade in the Blood Guard Camp, still sent as a hidden agent to serve at King Qin Xiao Yan's side.
As she stepped through the gates of the manor, Ye Zhao steadied the knife hidden in her sleeve.
She thought, in this life, she had come to repay her debt. She would protect that refined, frail man well.
She absolutely could not let him die in vain as he had in her previous life.
In her previous life, she had been the one who killed him with her own hands.
*
The royal manor's deep courtyards held a hundred-flower banquet in the waterside pavilion and covered walkways.
The sun was sinking when the handsome young lord, ripe for the picking, finally showed up with a reluctant flourish of his fan.
Their eyes met.
Xiao Yan's hand froze, and his fan fell to the ground.
Ye Zhao lowered her eyes, avoiding his gaze. The image of him hanging from the city wall in her previous life came to mind again.
[Orphaned Assassin vs. Gentle Prince] (The prince occasionally goes completely off the rails and can turn dark at any moment)
Note:
1. Both leads are reborn. Entirely fictional setting, many original additions. One-on-one romance, happy ending.
2. The male lead acts like a gentleman in public but is a scoundrel in private. When he goes crazy, he's worse than a dog.
3. This novel has 80% chapter protection, with a 48-hour delay. Please support the official release. Thank you!
4. The plot has some angst, but the romance is mutual.
Yong An
Princess Yong An, Xiao Wu You.
Her name and title both suggested a beloved girl, blessed with joy and peace.
For the first thirteen years of her life, that was true.
After that, the words "Yong An" became a dream she could never attain, no matter how long she lived.
Because in the year she turned fourteen, she offended someone.
The Imperial Tutor, Wen Gu Yi.
She told him, "Teacher, A Yin likes you."
She wanted him to marry into the royal family.
Wen Gu Yi rejected her.
Three years later, the Northern Qiang invaded, and the border was in danger.
The Great Ye dynasty was battered by storms, unable to fight back, and sent a princess to marry for peace.
Wen Gu Yi submitted the memorial recommending the marriage. He sent her away.
Another four years passed. On the battlefield, the Qiang took the princess hostage, hoping to force the Great Ye army to retreat. The Imperial Tutor, commander of the three armies, drew his bow to a full moon and shot an arrow through her heart.
The princess fell from her horse. A jade pendant slipped from her sleeve and shattered.
She thought, Wen Gu Yi really was a bastard, and she was a fool.
How could she have believed that the marriage was a necessary compromise, or that he had come to take her home?
*
When she opened her eyes one day, Xiao Wu You had become Shu Qing, the younger sister of a fourth-rank Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review.
The situation before her only confirmed what she'd concluded before dying in her previous life.
Wen Gu Yi really was a dog.
After wiping out the Qiang, he turned his forces against the Great Ye dynasty and replaced the ruling family's name with his own, Wen Gu.
It was now the third year of Jian'an. The Imperial Tutor of the former dynasty had become the emperor of the new one.
The emperor's selection was underway. Shu Qing was already engaged and wasn't among the candidates.
But a month earlier, during the imperial procession's tour of the south, the emperor had glimpsed her at Mount Yandang and thought her heavenly.
Back in the Great Ye palace, the inner courts had been filled with beauties, including Princess Yong An, whose radiance surpassed them all.
Yet he had never so much as glanced her way.
What kind of beauty could make a man who liked to wear the mask of propriety go so far as to risk public condemnation and steal another man's wife?
Xiao Wu You studied her face in the mirror.
...Well, would you look at that. The third Miss of the Shu family had a face identical to Princess Yong An's.
Note:
1. The second male lead is currently slated to become the endgame. The man in the blurb is the male lead, used specifically to drive the plot and suffer.
2. This is an atypical rebirth story. The timeline follows the events in the blurb and continues after the female lead's death.
3. Other than the second male lead, no character is a virgin. Readers who prefer otherwise, please take note. Old-school, melodramatic angst. Entirely fictional setting, many original additions.
Theme: Be strong, courageous, and loyal
Little Leaf has slept with a lot of people in the past five years.
It's good-looking, has a happy and perfect ending, and is just a torture at the beginning. . . . Also, I really like the story of Xiao Zizi!
Let me tell you all, my next book will be "Yongan", which is almost as sweet and sadistic as "Xian Sha". "The Empress" may be even more miserable than a sadistic novel. It is a tragic novel. I feel that I haven't prepared the psychological preparation to write a tragic essay yet, so I will put it aside for now.
After reading it, the relationship between Xiao Zizi and Lu San is still boring. I still only like the chapters with male and female protagonists. It would be fine if my daughter lives in her daughter's present moment.
The cruelty set off in the contemporary environment is combined with the sweetness of fate, and the intertwining of sweetness and cruelty without deliberateness or cruelty is even more heart-warming. Thank you for encountering such a thoughtful ancient saying ~
I really can't understand how these so-called family members used a method that was most unacceptable at that time to save the country. So many family members made a person who has lived two difficult lives have to endure hardships in this life, not to mention that the family and the country are free from war. If you want to test a woman, it's like getting married. I really can't understand how you can achieve the so-called security of your home and country. A peaceful evolution that solves the problem without spending a single soldier can indeed achieve the safety of the people at the least sacrifice. I admire such a person, but I can't stand it. Maybe it's because this is a novel. I have different assumptions in my heart. See you again when we are in the world.
Nice! So Yongan is Xiao Zizi's female goose?
Madam, is Yongan and A Zhao a series of articles? I think the country is Da Ye, and the royal family is all named Xiao.
The writing is so nice dT-Tb. Every character is well drawn and the plot is well-constructed. I really love it!! Crazy confession, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
It's been a long time since I've read an article. Thank you to the author for writing it so well, especially the scene where father and daughter get along in the previous life. It made me cry again and again. I really couldn't bear to finish it!