In her previous life, Du Zhuqing stayed behind in Yancheng. When the enemy forces surrounded the city, she led the remaining soldiers in a desperate defense. This was her home, and the city's people had watched the lanterns with her. Sadly, she still couldn't hold the city.
When an arrow pierced her heart, Li Chengyin was walking step by step toward the throne, the highest position in the land, cheered on by the assembled officials. He didn't know that at the very moment the officials knelt before him, Du Zhuqing had closed her eyes forever.
But her spirit remained. She watched as the new emperor's troops arrived, only to find Yancheng already devastated, with corpses strewn everywhere. Knowing they were doomed, the enemy slaughtered the people in the city out of spite.
Li Chengyin didn't come. He was the new emperor, so naturally he wouldn't. She was posthumously honored as Empress Xiaoxianren, and their son was named crown prince.
Afterward, to balance the court and the powerful clans against the humble families, the new emperor held several rounds of consort selection. She watched him favor one woman after another.
She also watched their son gradually become another version of him.
They had been together for more than ten years, and she had never doubted their love, not even now. She had always known that whoever sat on that throne would have to sacrifice many things.
But she also knew that if she kept living, watching this life unfold would only cause her more pain. She watched him call her name again and again as he lay dying, yet still felt that she didn't want this kind of love in her next life.
When she opened her eyes again, she was back at the Lantern Festival in the fifteenth year of Jinghe, the day they first met.
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The Lazy Girl Gets Back on Her Feet
As a nationally protected useless person,
Chu Rou went from being a modern-day couch potato to a lazybones in ancient times.
If you've transmigrated, shouldn't you do something?
She shook her head furiously: No. I'd rather die than do anything.
Fight for justice?
What does that have to do with her?
Battle for the throne?
What's it got to do with her?
Then disaster struck out of nowhere.
Halfway through enjoying the lazy life, her husband died and her younger brother was wrongfully imprisoned.
Luckily, a benefactor came to her aid.
At last, she was able to lie back down and be a lazybones again.
But then...
Her supposedly dead husband came back.
And started fighting with her benefactor.
Chu Rou was baffled. All she wanted was to be a lazybones. Why was she always being forced to get back on her feet?
The life of a lazybones forced to get back on her feet.
Theme: Love life, love yourself
