Reborn as a Great Beauty in a Chaotic Age

[Upcoming novel, Enter the Forbidden Palace. Please add it to your reading list!] In the eighteenth year of the great upheaval, Pei Zhen united the warring factions and established himself as ruler of Luodu. It was then that Yue Jiang first met the chaotic era's tyrant, a man she'd heard about countless times. Her face was filthy, her hairdo disheveled, and her coarse clothes were ripped and torn. She was escorted to his side. Born at the end of a dynasty, Yue Jiang had already weathered more than her share of hardship in her short twenty years. She thought her troubles had finally ended, but... they hadn't. Meeting Pei Zhen shattered her life even more completely. Even though, at first, he'd said he was taking her home out of regard for their friendship in the past. All lies! Yue Jiang's cheeks flushed red with anger. #A friend's wife is off-limits# #But Pei Zhen is a traitorous rebel, and he doesn't care about that rule# Reader's guide: The heroine was born into her current world and only happens to remember later in the story that she transmigrated. The setting is very, very loosely based on history, so please don't overanalyze it. Blurb for upcoming novel Enter the Forbidden Palace: Lian Li was an orphan. At sixteen, she married the only scholar in her village. Everyone said she'd hit the jackpot, and Lian Li thought so too. She waited for him in his ancestral home, day and night, hoping he'd make a name for himself and return to take her to the capital. In the spring of the second year of the Dayi era, the good news she'd been waiting for finally arrived. A government official came to announce that her husband had passed the imperial examinations at the highest level. Lian Li was delighted and dressed herself up, eagerly waiting for her husband to return home on leave and take her with him. But she waited and waited, hoping and hoping, until all she received was a divorce letter addressed to the clan elder. The elder read it aloud to her before the whole ancestral hall, with no regard for her dignity or humiliation. That night, Lian Li cried until her face was soaked. . Li Bozong divorced his country wife on the grounds that she had failed to bear him a son, one of the Seven Reasons for Divorce. He lived amid the splendor of a pleasure quarter and thought he would never have anything to do with her again. But during the autumn hunt at the royal hunting grounds that year, he clearly saw the woman who had once been his wife, wrapped in the emperor's robe and led toward the imperial tent. Li Bozong's eyes turned red with rage. . Lian Li was alone and widowed. Since her parents had died, many people had privately called her helpless, weak, and easy prey. But even someone easy to bully couldn't tolerate Li Bozong insulting her like this! She gathered her belongings and traveled to the capital alone to demand an explanation from him. But the journey was full of hardship, and Lian Li had to endure plenty of indignities along the way. Eventually, fed up with people's contempt, Lian Li slipped into a wealthy family's carriage under cover of night. At first, Lian Li only wanted someone to rely on. Once she'd found Li Bozong, called him a faithless bastard, and ruined his reputation, she'd return to her little village. But who could have guessed that once she climbed into that carriage, whether she could get out again would no longer be up to her? Theme: Cherish the stability you have