The Ex-Husband I Abandoned Ascended the Throne

My new novel, Reborn, I Found My Child’s Father, is now underway. Please add it to your favorites!

Blurb:

In the twenty-fifth year of the Tiancheng era, Emperor Wen’an died, and a new emperor ascended the throne.

The Duke of Yiguo, Su Min, returned to the capital with his family. The city was in an uproar, gossiping about the duke’s legitimate daughter, who had been born in the countryside, lived away from her family for seventeen years, and had only just been recognized and brought home.

Half a month later, the Grand Empress Dowager betrothed the duke’s legitimate daughter, Su Zhier, to the heir of the Marquis of Zhennan. She followed her grandmother into the palace to offer thanks, only to unexpectedly see a familiar face seated high above.

The new emperor gazed at her with gentle eyes, but the cold glint within them made her shiver.

Su Zhier nearly shredded the handkerchief in her sleeve.

Will someone tell her why the new emperor looks exactly like the lame husband she once married?

*

Everyone knew that the new emperor, Xiao Yu, was peerlessly handsome and quick-witted, and had been deeply favored by the late emperor. But at the age of twenty, he was framed, left with a crippled left leg, and exiled to the bitterly cold northern region of Lining.

Few people knew that, when Xiao Yu had lost all hope and felt there was no point in living, he married a country girl in Lining.

To avoid being given by her maternal aunt to a local wealthy old squire as his sixth concubine, the girl plotted to drug him unconscious. The next morning, wrapped in his quilt, she wept like a pear blossom in the rain.

“My innocence has been taken. You’ll have to marry me and take responsibility.”

Xiao Yu’s gaze darkened, and, as if possessed, he nodded.

He never expected that a year later, the woman who always called him “husband” in her sweet, clear voice would suddenly take the household’s belongings, leave behind a divorce letter, and disappear without a trace.

When they met again, she had become the duke’s legitimate daughter and was already discussing marriage with someone else.

Remembering her promise that she wanted to spend her life with only one person, Xiao Yu gave a mocking, icy smile.

She had always said he was kind. She didn’t know that he never let a slight go unanswered!

If she chose to get involved with him in the first place, then she could forget about escaping him for the rest of her life!

*

Everyone in the capital despised Consort Yun, condemning her for using her beauty to seduce the new emperor, make him foolish, and brazenly steal a minister’s wife.

Fortunately, the new emperor was wise and came to his senses in time. After Consort Yun entered the palace, he showed her no favor and instead neglected her day after day.

But only Su Zhier knew the truth.

When they were alone, the new emperor often trapped her in his embrace, firmly lifted her chin, and coaxed her again and again in a low voice.

“Call me husband...”

*

A little scene of the new emperor’s “revenge”

Xiao Yu: Have these tribute lychees gone bad? Throw them out.

Chief Eunuch: !

Xiao Yu: Take away this iced milk dessert. I hate sweet things most of all!

Chief Eunuch: ?

Xiao Yu: This dish is too greasy. Don’t let me see this bowl of cherry pork again!

Chief Eunuch: ...

Forced into the palace, Su Zhier had spent several days eating lychees, milk dessert, and cherry pork. She contentedly wiped her mouth, then pretended to be afraid and asked,

“Eunuch Gao, how will His Majesty punish me tomorrow?”

Also known as: After I Ran Away, My Ex-Husband “Went Dark”

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other’s first, happy ending.

2. Farming in the early part, court politics later.

3. The heroine is no innocent flower. She has flaws, and there’s a reason she left on her own.

4. The hero gradually becomes more unhinged as the story goes on.

Upcoming novel 1: Reborn, I Found My Child’s Father

The year she came of age, Mu Xiyao accompanied her stepmother to a banquet, where she unexpectedly lost her innocence and became pregnant. Her stepmother’s legitimate daughter imprisoned her in a side courtyard, where she gave birth to a daughter, Suisui, after ten months.

After mother and daughter relied on each other for three years, Suisui fell into a well and died. Mu Xiyao, devastated by the loss of her daughter, went mad. In October of that same year, her half-sister Mu Xiyun barged into the side courtyard and ordered someone to strangle her with a white silk cord.

Only on the brink of death did Mu Xiyao learn that her encounter with that man had been part of her half-sister’s scheme, and that Suisui had died because of her, too.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the year Suisui was two. Mu Xiyao resolutely fled the capital with her child and headed south to Yezhou to find Suisui’s father.

But there was a problem. She only knew that the man belonged to the Marquis of Zhennan’s household and seemed to have a scar on his chest.

Yet there were three men from the Marquis of Zhennan’s household in Yezhou.

Lin Zheng, the old Marquis of Zhennan’s second son, was spirited and approachable.

Wei Zishen, the marquis’s cousin and military strategist, was composed, wise, and refined.

Mu Xiyao quietly thought to herself:

As long as it wasn’t the cold-hearted, ruthless Marquis of Zhennan, who always stared at her with such a frigid gaze that it made her uncomfortable all over.

She didn’t care which one was Suisui’s father.

*

A flirtatious young widow arrived at the military camp as a cook’s assistant.

Lin Duo, however, found her suspicious and kept his guard up at every turn.

But not only did his two younger brothers gradually fall under her spell,

her two-year-old little dumpling was always hugging his leg, looking up at him and sweetly calling him “Daddy.”

Soon, even he, a man who had always kept his desires in check, began dreaming again and again of the night three years earlier when he had lost control at a banquet in the Duke of Yiguo’s residence.

At last, the truth came to light.

Rain fell on the begonias. Lin Duo stood by the window, bent down to her ear, and ground out each word in a low, hoarse voice.

“Your husband is dead?”

“And you still want to find another father for my child, hmm?”

Also known as: Reborn, I’m Finding My Little One’s Real Dad

Also known as: How I Found My Child’s Father and Ended Up with Him Myself

Reader’s guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other’s first, happy ending.

2. A lighthearted story about finding a dad and raising a child, more or less.

3. That’s all for now. I’ll add more if I think of anything.

Upcoming novel 2: A Marriage as Cold as Ice

As the noble eldest legitimate daughter of the Duke’s household and the Crown Princess praised by everyone, Pei Yun believed she had done everything properly and beyond reproach. She had even trained herself to be hard-hearted.

But in the thirteenth year of her marriage into the Eastern Palace,

she fell into an icy lake and watched her husband swim toward another woman. Suddenly, she felt how stifling and empty a life shackled by etiquette and status could be.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to six years earlier.

She wanted to live differently. She wanted change.

She wanted to avoid disaster and preserve her family’s glory.

She wanted her children to escape the plague and avoid dying young.

She wanted to make up for her mistakes and restore the bonds of family with her mother and younger sister.

But it never once occurred to her to change the man at her side, whose manner toward her was as cold as ice and whose temperament was bland and distant.

What Pei Yun didn’t expect was that, little by little,

the Crown Prince she disliked, who restrained himself and followed every rule, even insisting on strict propriety in bed, had quietly changed, too.

Theme: Keep your heart turned toward the light and fear no darkness