The Emperor’s Crematorium After My Fake Death

(Pre-release: The Emperor's Crematorium After I Faked My Death. Please add it to your favorites!)

Guan Mingyue, the legitimate daughter of Prince Yong'an of the capital, was breathtakingly beautiful, born into a noble family, and doted on by her parents. She became Chu Wangshu's empress as soon as she came of age.

Yet everyone said she had forced her way into the position by relying on her family background. Chu Wangshu loved her cousin, not her.

To prove herself worthy of the position, Guan Mingyue suppressed her spoiled nature and began taking care to be proper in everything. Gradually, she became dignified and composed.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard she tried, Chu Wangshu remained cold toward her, and all the capital's nobles watched her become a laughingstock.

Her cousin, on the other hand, seemed to be loved by everyone no matter what she did. Even Chu Wangshu treated her differently.

The day before her cousin was to enter the palace, Guan Mingyue finally snapped. She hurled the seal to the ground and shouted, "Whoever wants to be empress can have the job. I'm done!"

Chu Wangshu, the cultured and martial Emperor of Great Chu, was peerlessly handsome, skilled in both letters and arms, a master of imperial strategy, and cold-hearted.

The empress he wanted should have been like the Guan Mingyue of today: dignified and magnanimous, not the childish, ignorant girl she had once been.

That was what he had always believed.

Until a great fire engulfed Kunning Palace, and Empress Guan Mingyue perished in the flames.

All of Great Chu knew that the Emperor disliked the Empress more than anything. If she died, so be it.

But nobody expected that, upon hearing of Guan Mingyue's death, the usually solemn, aloof Emperor would go mad and charge into the sea of flames to find her.

No one was unaware that Zheng Mingchen, the Imperial Tutor's eldest granddaughter, loved the Crown Prince Wang Jinghe. With the power of the Zheng family behind her, she was sure to marry him.

On the day Wang Jinghe ascended the throne, he issued an edict naming his empress, just as everyone had expected. But the empress was not Zheng Mingchen. It was her cousin, the one rumored to be gravely ill.

Zheng Mingchen looked at her silent grandfather and the grieving members of the Zheng family, her heart filled with sorrow.

She had heard that Wang Jinghe and his cousin had been childhood sweethearts who relied on each other in their early years. Zheng Mingchen suddenly understood that it had all been planned from the start.

Now, Wang Jinghe's feelings were clearer than ever. The Zheng family had been nothing more than stepping stones for him.

Word spread that most of the Zheng family's estate had burned to the ground, that the eldest granddaughter had died in the flames, and that the Imperial Tutor had fallen gravely ill upon hearing the terrible news.

The Zheng family of Xingyang was already in decline.

Wang Jinghe's confidants all knew that the aloof, dignified new Emperor detested the Zheng family's arrogance and wanton behavior.

But nobody expected that, upon hearing of Zheng Mingchen's death, the usually stern and imposing new Emperor would go mad, holding her charred remains and ordering everyone to get away.

Later, by the banks of a river in Jinan on a spring day in the third month, Wang Jinghe, now lonelier and more distant than ever, saw a bright, captivating smile.

"Chen'er?"

The woman kept smiling, but looked surprised. Her voice was distant. "I'm afraid you've mistaken me for someone else, sir."

++++A few friendly reading tips:

++++1. Both leads are virgins, one-on-one romance. The male lead does not love his cousin.

++++2. The tags include tragic romance, and the author loves melodramatic twists. Please don't criticize the story for that.

++++3. The author has limited writing ability, so if you dislike something or have other complaints, please stay calm and feel free to click the X and leave. You can criticize the male lead or the female lead, but please don't criticize the author. The author really did her best.

Pre-release: The Regent's Frail Empress

Everyone knew that Regent Shen Jingce was ambitious and immensely powerful, forcing the Emperor to submit to him.

When the Emperor brought his newlywed empress to pay their respects to the regent, they were turned away.

Everyone said that the dignified and virtuous new empress had failed to win the regent's favor, and probably wouldn't survive long in the palace.

To protect her family, Deng Xiansi was forced to play the dignified, imposing empress by day and pay the regent a visit every night.

Once her younger brother came of age and could shoulder the duties of clan head, she looked at the increasingly unhinged regent and decisively faked her death to escape.

She hadn't even enjoyed two days of a peaceful life before the Black Banner Army completely surrounded the little courtyard where she planned to retire.

Deng Xiansi trembled as she knelt on the ground and begged the man to spare her.

The regent, clad in a bright yellow imperial robe, rode a tall black horse. His eyes were bloodshot as he rasped, "Don't even think about it."

In this filthy world, the only pure sanctuary in his tainted soul was the legitimate daughter of the Deng family, who had shown him the purest affection when they were young.

If being regent wasn't enough to win her, then he would defy the whole world and become Emperor. So what?

As long as he could keep her by his side for all eternity.

Theme: Even when trapped in dire straits, never give up on yourself.