A Qing-Dynasty Tale: I Found an Amnesiac Kangxi

* Yu Sangzhi was born in the apocalypse, one of the rare people with a psychic ability.

She was aloof and powerful. Beneath her delicate, pitiful appearance lay a violent and nasty personality.

Sometimes, people would see her looking delicate and weak, tears like pear blossoms in the rain, even as she cried and stomped on a zombie's head, snapping its arm.

The knife spinning in her hand would suddenly flash, spraying the zombie's pale brain matter everywhere.

One day, she found herself in a dynasty called the Great Qing, surrounded by lush green fields instead of the ruins that had once covered the ground.

Her mother, so hungry she was skin and bones, handed her a small hoe. Her little brother behind her was crying to be fed.

Her mother: "Go cut some pigweed."

Her: "?"

- -

Kangxi, on his southern inspection tour, hadn't expected there to be any corrupt officials left who had escaped justice. Wounded by an assassin, he collapsed by the roadside.

When he woke, he saw a pair of slender hands. The woman was delicate and charming, her figure as graceful as a willow in the breeze. Every frown and smile of hers was soft and demure.

When she saw he was awake, she put on an utterly vulnerable expression and offered him the small hoe she had been spinning in both hands. When he touched her hand, he could feel her trembling with shyness.

She asked, "Could you do me a favor?"

So, whenever Kangxi came back at night after cutting pigweed, he would sometimes see the girl sitting in a tree, her hem stained with blood and a blade of grass between her teeth, smiling sweetly at him.

- -

Once Kangxi remembered who he was, he finally escaped the days of cutting pigweed.

How could a young emperor, born to such exalted status, keep company with people like these?

On that day, as the people bowed before him and his gilded sedan chair was raised high, a sea of armed guards bowed their heads and waited for the young emperor, renowned from an early age, to return to the palace.

Inside the small sedan chair on the way back to the palace, the delicate and helpless Yu Sangzhi leaned against the seat, pressed her lips together, and gave everyone a frightened, fragile smile.

- -

Ever since Emperor Kangxi returned to the palace, all the consorts felt that life had gotten much harder.

That shameless woman put on an alluring act, but she was rotten to the core.

They couldn't go on like this.

Content warnings: 1. An alternate universe, very much an alternate universe.

2. Career-focused in the early part, romance-focused later.

3. One-on-one romance.

4. Since this is an alternate universe, there are no rotten melons.

The Spoiled Girl Is Everyone's Crush [The 1980s]

Lin Yuan was known throughout the surrounding villages as a sickly girl. What a shame she had such a pretty face.

Once she grew up, she'd have to marry the village idiot.

But...

Yuan Yuan, from another continent far away, transmigrated here.

Brought by accident to this strange world by System 007, Yuan Yuan blinked.

As a church saintess who had been cherished since childhood and adored wherever she went, Yuan Yuan had never seen a world as poor and barren as this one.

Her gaze shifted to the boy next door, from the Xie family.

He was taciturn, but he would wash her clothes and put her socks on for her, just like the bishop who had always stayed by her side back at the church.

- -

Everyone who had been with Xie Mingyi for long knew that Brother Xie was decisive, sharp-minded, and perceptive. No one dared cross his bottom line.

He had clawed his way up from a remote little town to where he was now. The people under him were always on edge, not daring to entertain the slightest ulterior thought.

But no one knew how the formidable Xie Mingyi, who struck fear into everyone around him, would softly coax someone into putting on her socks.

Theme: What you can't forget will surely return to you.