The White Moonlight Chancellor's Thousand-Layered Schemes

The Qin and Lin families arranged a marriage for their children when they were young. Qin Xiang disguises herself as her dying older brother and goes to Luoyang to bring back her future sister-in-law for a celebratory wedding, hoping it will bring him good luck. Carrying the token of their engagement, she asks around and finds her way to the "Lin residence" to seek out her bride.

Her future sister-in-law is so cold that it seems to seep into her bones. She smiles and tells her, "The day after tomorrow, we'll marry, but we won't consummate the marriage."

Two days pass. On their wedding night, her sister-in-law asks again, "Do you know how to kiss?"

Qin Xiang doesn't. They agreed to marry without consummating the marriage. That wasn't supposed to include kissing.

Her sister-in-law says, "I'll teach you."

After they kiss, someone tells Qin Xiang that this is the Chancellor's residence, not the Lin residence.

Qin Xiang panics and runs away.

Yun Qian, who only pretended to be her sister-in-law but is actually the Chancellor, says, "We've been intimate. You can't call off the engagement."

She can't break off her engagement to the Chancellor. So what is she supposed to do about the marriage to the Lin family?

Yun Qian is reborn. The moment she wakes, she encounters Qin Xiang, the empress who brought ruin to the realm and overturned the court in her previous life.

She assumed the little empress was wicked, but it turned out she was a beautiful fool who couldn't even find the right house when she went to marry in place of her brother.

Qin Xiang is still young and guileless. Yun Qian can teach her slowly. She can keep watch over her day and night, and if anything seems off, she can nip this menace in the bud.

Later, she goes to great lengths to keep a close eye on Qin Xiang, feigning illness and weakness until she develops a condition: "I'll die if I leave Qin Xiang."

There is no cure.

Later...

"A Xiang, I'm dizzy."

"A Xiang, I don't feel well."

"A Xiang, I think I'm going to faint."

Qin Xiang: "..." I think I have a tendency to bring harm to my wife. People who are healthy before they marry me grow thinner day by day.

* Qin Xiang eventually regains memories of three lifetimes. There is a touch of chasing-her-wife-to-the-crematorium angst.

* Both are each other's first and only partners.

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Married to the Villainous Chancellor in Place of My Brother: Sisters-in-law romance.

The Empress Dowager's in a Bind, the Empress Sighs: An empress dowager and an empress.

The Young Marquis Is So Gentle: Reborn, she marries her unrequited love.

Overstepping My Station: Chasing-her-wife-to-the-crematorium angst.

She Is Utterly Rebellious: I'm not your daughter.

The Child Sent to My Door Became My Doll: My wife has only just learned to walk.

The Empress Is Too Upright: My empress has superhuman strength.

Coming next: Has His Majesty Been Doted On Today?

A kindhearted young lady from a marquis's household dies while saving a little fox. The fox enters the young lady's body and becomes a "human."

On her first day home, she is sent to the palace to marry the empress, who is ten years older and has no interest in love.

On their wedding night, the empress doesn't come, and the young woman spends the night alone in the bridal chamber.

The young woman's mother, the Marchioness, comes to her in tears. "You must get His Majesty to favor you. It's the only way our household can rise to prominence."

The little fox doesn't understand what "favor" means. After pondering for a while, she goes to the empress's bedchamber.

In the dead of night, she lies down on the empress's bed and waits and waits, but the empress doesn't return all night.

She keeps waiting the next day. The empress is so diligent that she doesn't come back to sleep for three whole days.

The little fox thinks: This empress must be filthy. She hasn't bathed in three days.

On the fourth day, the empress returns. To the little fox's surprise, she smells lovely.

The little fox uses magic to make her faint, then follows the poses in an illustrated book and spends a passionate night with her.

When her mother visits again, she happily tells her, "I favored her!"

Her mother faints on the spot.

Magic is forbidden among humans. The little fox is struck by lightning, turned back into a fox, and flees in a hurry.

The empress goes missing, and the palace is thrown into turmoil. Yet in her own bedchamber, the empress discovers a little fox.

The little fox's fur is completely black. She was knocked unconscious by lightning, and rather than look for his empress, the ruler orders the imperial physician to save the fox.

Sadly, the little fox disappears the next night.

Now his little empress starts clinging to him.

He can't sleep at night.

Bonus scene:

The little fox asks the empress, "I favored you. Will you have a cub?"

The empress looks up at her. "No."

The little fox asks again, "Then... if we switch, and you favor me, will I have a cub?"

The empress covers her mouth. "Stop talking. The more you say, the more embarrassing it gets."

Theme: Living together in harmony.