Transmigrating Straight Into the Wedding Night

[Not a traditional farming novel. Set at the end of a dynasty. The female lead becomes emperor. Don't read if that's not your thing.]

[I'm planning to rewrite this story with a new outline. I don't have an outline right now and am making it up as I go. Why are the opening and ending ratings so bad? Can anyone tell me? Is the pacing too slow?]

Song Yunzhi transmigrates to ancient times. Awkwardly enough, she arrives at a rather awkward moment: the wedding night...

She flees as soon as she wakes the next morning, but there's nothing outside the house but a bamboo grove, and she can't find her way out no matter how long she wanders. She spots a handsome young man and asks him how to get to the village.

The young man pauses while chopping bamboo and gives her a strange look.

Can you blame her? How could she know that this seemingly frail young man was the one who had exhausted her the night before?

Unsurprisingly, she's dragged back. In broad daylight, the young man throws his clothes to the ground, proving that he really was the man from last night.

She keeps trying to escape, only to be caught and brought back every time. She angrily tries to explain herself, but he looks at her as if she's an idiot.

The reason is simple: they don't speak the same language.

She has never understood a word spoken by the man who forced himself on her, until she hears him say, "I don't know..."

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In the war-torn final years of a dynasty, Song Yunzhi transmigrates to a remote mountain village. From the start, she's married off on her wedding night. When she wakes, the house is bare, her husband is fierce, and they can't understand each other. She suspects she's been abducted.

To make matters worse, bandits raid the village and try to take her as a wife!

Watch Song Yunzhi escape the village, make her fortune, and perhaps even conquer the realm along the way.

She goes from a poor village bride to an empress with the power of life and death.

P.S. The male lead speaks Cantonese, which legend says was spoken in ancient China.

The male lead is very powerful. The female lead is a good-for-nothing for the first few chapters, but gradually grows stronger. One-on-one romance with a happy ending.

The female lead can't cook, so the male lead does all the cooking.

Later, the male lead is forced to join the army, while the female lead shines on her own.

This story is very much an alternate world. The author makes the rules.

The male lead is very, very, very doting.

September 20, 2025: I finally figured out why this story flopped. Because I wrote about a time of chaos? A farming novel with a time of chaos in it?

Theme: If you can't keep your own house in order, how can you put the world in order?