Amid the Cuckoo's Call

[Recommended: Complete Historical Romance Redemption Story, "Jianyue"] The powerful minister Xie Hanzhi is ruthless and has killed countless people. Under the pretext of purging corrupt officials around the emperor, he spills blood across the court, with tens of thousands of lives on his hands. With public resentment running high, the emperor has no choice but to issue an edict exiling Xie Hanzhi to Lingnan. His former enemies come rushing in, all scrambling to buy his life. Xie Hanzhi has long known that his death will come when the court is purged. On the day the prison cart carrying him out of the capital sets off, the jailers sharpen their blades, planning to take his head for the reward. Covered in wounds, he sits in the snow. He closes his eyes and calmly waits to die. Someone comes stumbling over and stands in front of him. When Song Jin lost her family, it was the notorious Xie Hanzhi who saved her life. When Xie Hanzhi falls from power, everyone rushes to trample him. So Song Jin volunteers to marry him, bringing her dowry and servants to escort him to Lingnan and save his life. That way, they'll be even. Later, Xie Hanzhi climbs to the pinnacle of power once more. Everyone admires and curries favor with him, saying that calling him a master of wind and rain would still be an understatement. As the daughter of a disgraced official, Song Jin asks for a divorce. Unfortunately, she doesn't succeed. The young man, once reserved and dignified, now looks at her with restrained desperation and pleading, locking her away without a second thought. Between whispered endearments, he makes a humble threat. "If you dare leave, I'll pave the road from Lingnan to Bianjing with blood." Xie Hanzhi has been betrayed and misunderstood all his life. For the vow to establish justice for the people and bring peace to all generations, he steps over darkness and blood, pressing forward on a path to certain death. Yet one person is determined to drag him back to the world of the living, even if it kills her. Sickly beauty x beautiful, strong, tragic minister Happy ending / single-couple romance / 1v1 / sweet romance / mutual redemption / both devoted to each other Reading notes: 1. If the blurb says it has a happy ending, it will definitely have one. No need to worry. 2. There is more to the male lead impeaching the heroine's father. 3. If it doesn't suit your taste, please drop it in time. 4. Set in an imaginary world, very, very loosely based on history (if you must say, it's more Song and Ming than anything else). Here's a coming-soon ancient-to-modern transmigration redemption story, "Yaoji Comes by Night" One afternoon in the second semester of her junior year. Shen Chi is engrossed in a book at the library. When she opens her eyes again, she has returned to a thousand years in the past. To the page of the history book she had been reading, the seventeenth year of the Chun Cheng era. That year, The realm is in turmoil, and its people suffer. Everyone is waiting for the Azure Emperor, Yin Qi, to appear out of nowhere, command the six realms, bring the world to heel, and establish an unprecedented era of peace, saving all people from misery. But what Shen Chi sees is a young man sitting in the snow of deep winter, facing his family's corpses, bloodlight reflected in his eyes. - Even thousands of years later, a great many of Yin Qi's career-minded fans still fill the forums, agreeing that he was "my most swoon-worthy ancestor." He expands the borders and pacifies the realm. He lightens taxes and prioritizes people's livelihoods. The only thing worth criticizing is that during his reign, he spends vast sums on building lofty platforms and pursuing immortality, seeking to climb close to the heavens and live as long as the immortals. Apart from that, he is almost the perfect emperor, the most outstanding career-minded ruler in history. Until 2025, when the Azure Emperor's tomb is excavated and opened to the public for the first time. The densely inscribed words on the tomb's stone tablets and gold artifacts all record the obsession that defined his life: "When will the immortal maiden return?" "If I do not die, might I yet see you again?" He spent his whole life waiting for someone. Though the annals of history may turn to ash, his love shines in every stroke of the historical record. A thousand years, a hundred generations, and it cannot be erased. #20240326 #It should have a happy ending "If I do not die, might I yet see you again?" is adapted from the pre-Qin poem "Ballad of White Clouds": "May you not die, so you may come again." [Thanks to my friend Kaqihou Le for the cover art] Theme: Living toward death