The Lazy Deposed Empress Refuses to Marry Two Generations of Emperors

[First Novel for a Newbie]

Fate was the greatest shackle for Lu Shanying. The phoenix crown fate had bestowed upon her would cost her a lifetime of freedom.

Being stripped of her position as empress was an unprecedented relief. All she wanted was to laze around outside the palace.

At a Taoist temple, she spotted a handsome young eunuch. Hoping to dispel her loneliness and seek a little excitement, she decided to play out the tale of a dashing Taoist and a charming young man from one of those romance stories.

One day, she returned to her home carrying wildflowers, a smile in her eyes. In the courtyard, her "young eunuch" stood in a dark robe embroidered with subtle gold and silver dragon designs, his bearing noble and imposing.

Late that night, he abandoned his daytime elegance and trapped her on the dragon throne, imprisoning her with the greed of a beast.

She could only whimper softly, biting her skirt. His calloused fingertips wiped the tears from the beauty mark beneath her eye, and the new emperor whispered wickedly in her ear.

"Shh."

"Keep your voice down."

"You wouldn't want the guards outside to hear us, would you?"

In a sentence: My beloved wife and I share the realm.

Li Yun was a new emperor who had schemed for years to finally claim the throne. Above all, he scorned talk of gods and spirits.

So he waved his hand and banished the deposed empress, whose destiny was said to make her the "Empress Chosen by Heaven," from the late emperor's harem. He sent the former empress, who had long been cultivating herself in the palace, outside to become a Taoist.

An empress chosen by Heaven? Just a vainglorious fraud.

Later, when he left the palace and glimpsed her breathtaking beauty beneath her veil, he realized that the woman he had searched for everywhere had once been right in front of him. In a hoarse voice, he asked the eunuch beside him, "Who is that?"

"Your Majesty, that is the former empress, deposed by the late emperor."

That day, Li Yun learned that the woman he had fallen in love with at first sight had married his father fifteen days after they met.

An empress chosen by Heaven?

She should have been his empress all along.

Reader's Guide:

1. A refined, alluring beauty who knows how to draw people in * a seemingly mild-mannered man who is obsessive and jealous beneath the surface. A powerful man bends for love, while a timid woman stands tall. Not a traditional coercive romance. The heroine is no typical couch potato.

2. The hero is a paragon of virtue, the headmaster of the School of Virtue, and a lovesick fool. The heroine is adored by everyone, regardless of gender, and has both a personal growth arc and a career arc. She will gain the freedom she wants.

3. No secondary couples.

4. I just want to write something exciting. A sweet 1v1 romance, not a serious historical drama. The setting is fictional, very fictional. It's a love story between a kapok tree and an oak.

5. This silly author is a newbie. Thanks for reading.

Coming soon: Palace of Desire, a scheming, sweet-natured beauty + a mad, shameless hero who steals his minister's wife + a second male lead who wins her heart.

Coming soon: Ripe Plums, a sweet and silly girl x a cold crown prince, childhood sweethearts, raising your own wife.

Theme: Human will can triumph over fate.