The Road to Becoming Emperor Is So Hard

Feel free to check out the upcoming novel next door, Can You Take My Head Today?~

Chen Lingyu is the most exalted princess of Northern Chen. She has a fief and a noble title, and is spoiled, willful, and utterly lawless.

One day, this esteemed princess is actually ordered to teach the Sixth Prince of Southern Xie a lesson. He has come from afar to serve as a hostage.

Chen Lingyu goes, but in the end, she spares him.

There are two reasons:

First, Xie Mingkan is a wonderful cook.

Second, Xie Mingkan copies books incredibly fast.

She gives in to a little selfishness and keeps Xie Mingkan by her side from then on, taking him into her service and making good use of him.

But after spending every day together for three years, she raises a wolf that turns on her. Before leaving, he gives her a deep, unwavering look and says, "Chen Lingyu, from now on, we are mortal enemies. We will never see each other again."

Chen Lingyu thinks this is ridiculous.

After thinking it over for half the night, she decides she can't just let it go.

He says they won't meet again? Then she'll make him see her whether he likes it or not.

At worst, she'll swallow up Southern Xie and march her army to the gates of its capital. Then she can see whether he'll meet her or not.

Xie Mingkan originally planned to play the part of an obedient, sensible hostage by Chen Lingyu's side, earning her trust.

But in his first year with Chen Lingyu, he discovers that this little princess is wildly ambitious.

In his third year with Chen Lingyu, after traveling a long road at her side, he and Chen Lingyu become friends who can trust each other with their backs.

In his fifth year with Chen Lingyu, he stabs her in the back and returns to his country to fight for the throne. An arrow Chen Lingyu looses without hesitation remains embedded in his chest.

They gaze at each other from opposite banks of the Canglan River. He cannot see the coldness in her eyes.

That night, he cannot imagine that the unruly princess he watched grow up will cast away all affection, ascend the throne with the coldest heart in the world, destroy his country, and become the sole emperor of the Central Plains.

* A feel-good story from the heroine's perspective. The heroine takes the throne in the end.

* The heroine is ambitious from beginning to end. She does not want the throne because of the hero; she simply wants to be emperor and have power, okay?

* The hero will suffer. Comments insulting the heroine will be deleted.

* The hero is a virgin.

Feel free to check out the upcoming strong-female-lead power fantasy next door, Can You Take My Head Today?

Blurb:

Song Chujing transmigrates into a book.

She is a supporting female character, and a vicious one who throws every obstacle in the main cast's way as they pursue immortality.

She plays both sides and lives in constant fear, repeatedly jumping between the future leader of the righteous path, the second male lead who serves as a guardian of the demon world, and the third male lead, the chief of the demon race. She struggles to survive while sowing discord between them and the heroine's team. Of the five fights in the book, she instigates three.

Apparently, she is a minor boss with the bloodline of the Demon King, sealed within her. As a child, a cultivator from the righteous path takes pity on her, seals her powers, and brings her back to their sect. In return, she repays his kindness with treachery, remains as vicious as ever, and eventually gets run through with a sword by the chief of the demon race, becoming an experience point for him.

The most amazing part is that she transmigrates into the book on the very day she is supposed to be written out.

Song Chujing: So I have top-tier power but have to stay sealed and live as a useless person, scrambling for a living all my life, only to become a blood bag for the main cast?

System: ...Yes.

Song Chujing: Oh.

The next second, she breaks through the seal.

The System is horrified: You could explode and die!

Song Chujing: Oh. I wasn't exactly keen on living anyway.

But she doesn't die. Not only does she break through the seal, she also stabs the third male lead.

Song Chujing: Tsk, how weak.

She looks at the third male lead, who is spitting blood and glaring viciously at her. Completely calm, she says, "I'll wait for you all to come kill me."

She waits, and waits, until she rises through the ranks, one step at a time, with every step marked by a trail of blood. She really doesn't want to live, but unfortunately, nobody can kill her.

The male leads, the second and third male leads: all these so-called darlings of heaven are incapable of it.

Song Chujing stands at the mountain's peak and sneers. "A bunch of useless fools."

Gu Ye cultivates both medicine and swordsmanship. The first time he meets Song Chujing, she is about to explode and die, so he lends her a hand, only to get cursed out.

The second time he meets her, she is covered in blood and refuses treatment, so he gives her a pill, only to get cursed out again.

The third time he meets Song Chujing... Fine, he's gotten used to being cursed out.

Rumor has it that Song Chujing is crazy.

With a Lingxiao Sword in hand, she kills gods when they stand in her way and Buddhas when they stand in her way. She asks everyone she meets, "Can you take my head?"

At the same time, the major sects issue warnings that this is obviously a provocation and a premeditated attempt to pick a fight. Everyone must stay on their guard, lest they die by her sword.

Song Chujing: ...

Gu Ye: ...Could it be that she really does want to die?

1. The heroine is a villain through and through. Having lost all interest in life, she fears nothing. She takes on the entire cultivation world by herself and looks down on everyone equally. She's a chaos-loving troublemaker. Don't expect her to say anything decent, and don't hold her to moral standards.

2. The heroine grows throughout the story and will become the strongest under heaven. The cast has some ensemble elements.

3. The male lead is a virgin, and so are the other male characters. The heroine has more than just the male lead; she's adored by everyone. The male lead is the male lead because he gets more page time than the other male characters.

4. Hope you enjoy reading~

Theme: Life is precious when lived to the fullest; there's no need to resent a withered existence.