The Empress Always Wants to Leave the Palace

[Blurb for the upcoming novel "Consort, She Always Wants to Hold a Funeral" below. Please add "The Emperor and Empress" and "Reborn, I Won't Pick Up a Mad Dog" to your reading lists!]

When the palace held its selection of consorts, an event held once every three years, no woman from the Jiang family had ever taken part.

The Jiang family had originally wanted Jiang Yuexin, Jiang Yuerong's half-sister, to enter the palace. But Yuexin was already preparing to marry the second son of the Earl of Pingyang, and she refused to go to the palace at all costs.

Their father doted on Yuexin and couldn't bear to send her all the way to the capital, so he set his sights on Jiang Yuerong instead.

Her mother tried her hardest to stop him, but she couldn't keep her father from insisting on sending her away.

Her father told her that if she behaved badly enough, the emperor wouldn't let her enter the palace.

She was young then, and believed him.

That one act of trust landed her in a palace where all she could see was a small patch of sky.

She entered the palace and became a consort to the widely praised wise ruler. She would have to fight his other consorts to the death for the emperor's favor.

She knew she wasn't clever, and didn't want to compete for the love of a man she had never even met. All she wanted was a peaceful life.

Later, the emperor promised her, "Yingying, if it's something you wish for, I'll grant it."

She blinked and thought for a moment. "I want to leave the palace."

He fell silent.

"Anything but that."

Ha. As expected, not a single word from a man can be trusted.

[19-year age gap. Heroine: I won't bother anyone who doesn't bother me, but if anyone wrongs me, I'll make them pay.]

Content warnings:

1. A fictional setting! A fictional setting! A fictional setting! Don't overanalyze the historical details.

2. The emperor is not a virgin. Once he falls in love, he will favor her alone.

3. In this story, girls come of age at sixteen. The heroine enters the palace a few months before her coming-of-age ceremony, and the romance begins afterward.

4. There is palace intrigue, but it's not the traditional kind.

5. The author is working hard to improve their writing.

*Blurb written on 2022.12.21, revised on 2023.7.23. A screenshot has been saved.

*The blurb may be revised at any time.

Blurb for "Consort, She Always Wants to Hold a Funeral"

Gu Weiyin and Prince Su were betrothed as children. As soon as she came of age, she married into the imperial family and became Princess Consort Su.

Everyone envied the match. Only Gu Weiyin found it miserable.

Prince Su was sickly, too weak to lift a hand or carry a burden. A gust of wind could knock him over, and he wouldn't live long. Marrying him meant becoming a widow. It was a bad bargain.

But before she could marry Prince Su, the emperor died, and Prince Su's elder brother, the crown prince, suddenly passed away. Prince Su was pushed onto the throne and adopted the crown prince's child.

Just as everyone thought she would naturally become empress, the new emperor postponed the wedding, saying the late emperor had only just died.

Three years later, after the mourning period ended, he finally welcomed her into the Jiaofang Hall.

The new emperor's excuse for marrying her was that he was "only finding a mother for the adopted child." He had no affection for her.

Gu Weiyin could barely hide her delight.

He was emperor now, and had only the adopted child as an heir. If he died young and his adopted son ascended the throne, she would become empress dowager as the boy's adoptive mother.

She could be empress dowager. Why settle for empress?

From then on, Gu Weiyin hoped every day that the new emperor would die.

But as she waited, the day of his funeral never came. Instead, his complexion grew rosier and rosier!!!

A friend's upcoming novel: "After I Pursued the Wrong Target"

An obsessive, gloomy, sickly villain who seems cruel but has a soft heart beneath it

The wedding was imminent, with red decorations stretching for miles.

The day before Shen Yixiao was to marry Pei Xuan, the System told her she had pursued the wrong target.

The man who held a long sword, stained the streets with blood, and had a gaze so murderous it seemed frozen into ice, wasn't the most gloomy and heartless man in the world?

The person she was supposed to pursue was Pei Xuan's brother, Pei Jing. That refined, upright man, as graceful as an immortal, was her actual target.

The consequence of failing was death. Shen Yixiao was afraid to die, so she "died" the day before her wedding, in the bridal chamber Pei Xuan had carefully prepared.

They met again at Pei Jing's wedding banquet. The woman he had longed for became his brother's bride. All his hatred and longing converged into one thought: They all deserve to die!

A little scene:

Pei Xuan's greatest regret was giving in to pity and taking in the woman who had fainted at his manor gate. He had picked up a real handful of trouble.

Pei Xuan: The last person who dared point a sword at me... is eating food I cooked right now.

He does her hair and makeup, and washes his hands to cook for her.

To make her smile, he dances with a sword beneath red silk, and grinds ink to paint for her.

He strips away the blood covering her, only to fall into the depths of hell himself.

Reading guide:

One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins, happy ending

[The hero pursues the heroine after she leaves him]

[Romantic rivalry]

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