The Ten Directions of Bones

[A sweet-looking but sharp-minded, stunning heroine who sees through everything vs. an ambitious villainous hero who schemes for every advantage]

[Also known as: My Wife and I Had a Ghost Marriage!]

[Also known as: I Hear You've Been Going Around Telling Everyone I'm Dead?]

[Coming next: a historical romance of bitter love and possessive obsession, The Emperor Will Repay You with His Own Life. See the blurb below! Please add it to your reading list, and please support it in every way~~~]

Yan Lu is a thoroughly ambitious man.

He wields power over the court and advances his plans step by step. Once his influence is secure, he earns the condemnation of the entire court.

Because he is a staunch loyalist to the emperor, he enjoys the deep trust of the emperor and empress dowager,

who grant him Ningci, the most beloved princess in the imperial palace, as his bride.

On their wedding night, faced with the radiant, beautiful Ningci, Yan Lu doesn't lay a finger on her.

Instead, he throws aside their nuptial wine and tells her that he has long loved someone else, and will never give Ningci a second glance in this lifetime.

Then he gives her two things: a divorce letter and three or five tiny golden peaches, each no bigger than a thumb.

She may choose one.

Ningci understands: either she leaves, or she dies.

Raised by the imperial family and spoiled by them, Ningci has never suffered such a humiliation.

On the very night of her wedding, she returns to the palace with those two things.

But as soon as she returns, Yan Lu leads tens of thousands of soldiers in a rebellion and lays siege to the palace.

Yan Lu is a man of his word. He said he would never look at Ningci again, and he truly never does.

He says only one thing from beginning to end: "Every member of the imperial family must die! So the sleepless ghosts of my late teacher and his entire family may rest!"

"What about Ningci? She's the wife you just married today!" someone asks.

The unfeeling Yan Lu doesn't even look at Ningci, who stands in the hall holding her divorce letter and golden peaches. "My wife died many years ago."

*

Reborn before the imperial decree arranging her marriage, when the emperor still trusts and relies on Yan Lu,

Ningci refuses the match in advance and even takes a detour whenever she sees Yan Lu!

To avert the tragedy of Yan Lu's rebellion and the slaughter of the imperial family,

she can only secretly use the meager power at her disposal to try to turn the tables.

But although her resources are meager, the more she uses them, the more she realizes something is wrong.

It seems... Yan Lu's rebellion isn't what it appears to be.

It turns out that the imperial family has doted on her all these years only to cover up a shocking murder involving her own family!

So, all these years, she was the one being deceived.

And the people who deceived her were members of the imperial family, who raised her with nothing but false affection.

Ningci, beautiful yet ruthless, needs greater power to avenge herself.

She turns her gaze to the court, and after considering her options, realizes that only Yan Lu, who wields tremendous power, can be useful.

She doesn't want to marry this heartless rebel. She only wants to use him! Nothing but use him!!!

"Lord Yan, shall we make a deal?"

"Of course, my wife."

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Reader's guide:

1. The leads are strictly monogamous, and both are virgins.

2. Ningci is the heroine's princess title, not her given name. She was given this title because she isn't a real princess, and the villain has always wanted to kill her.

3. This story is set in an imaginary world. No historical nitpicking.

4. In her previous life, the heroine was not personally killed by the hero. Absolutely not!

5. New chapters every day, no missed updates, posted after midnight. The author is reliable, so feel free to dive in!

[Here's another historical romance of possessive obsession and bitter love: The Emperor Will Repay You with His Own Life, currently updating daily!]

[Also known as: The Emperor Will Repay You with His Own Life]

Xu Zhiwei is going to marry Lu Linchuan, the leader of the Taihu Gang.

Red wedding decorations fill the entire Xiaopenglai estate.

She thinks she can finally escape the man

who left her with no one to rely on and indirectly caused her to lose her sight: the dog emperor, Qin Du.

But on the day of the wedding, Qin Du personally leads an army of tens of thousands to suppress the Taihu Gang.

He destroys her wedding with his own hands,

wipes out the entire Taihu Gang,

and madly drags her back,

only to immediately throw her into the Cold Palace.

With bloodshot eyes, he is like a starving beast trapped in a cage.

He pins her to the cold tiles and snarls hoarsely in her ear:

"Your brother once owed me. You must repay his debt many times over!"

After repeated failed attempts to resist,

Xu Zhiwei lies on the icy tiles, her heart turned to ash.

Though she loathes him, she speaks in the calmest voice:

"How are you going to repay what you owe me?"

"With your own life?"

"Heh. The emperor really thinks too highly of himself. I don't want it."

Theme: Love should be spoken aloud