Spring Dawn

After many years as the second wife of a prominent family, working herself to the bone and holding the household together, Xue Wen had just one wish as she lay dying: Let me rest in peace after I'm gone.

In other people's eyes, she was a scheming wretch who seduced her brother-in-law while her elder sister was gravely ill, an ambitious concubine-born daughter who had married above her station into a duke's family.

She had worked tirelessly her whole life, leaving no one able to find fault with her. The two children her elder sister left behind regarded her as their own mother, and everyone in the household obeyed her... She had fulfilled her elder sister's last wish, but she was truly exhausted.

She never imagined that the two children who had always been so obedient in front of her would stuff her into her elder sister and brother-in-law's grave as soon as she breathed her last, saying they wanted to fulfill her wish to keep serving them.

After a lifetime of labor, that was the reward she received. She never expected to open her eyes and find herself back at the time when her elder sister was gravely ill.

She had yet to accept the offer her elder sister had made, at the urging of her birth mother.

She was still young and had not yet grown frail.

She no longer had to swallow her anger and let her own family drain her dry.

Given another chance, she discovered that everything in her previous life had been part of a scheme. Facing the elder sister who had started it all, she said, "I won't be your husband's second wife."

She couldn't understand. "If you love him so much, why don't you take him with you when you die?"

In her previous life, she had only tried to please others. This time, she wanted to please herself and live differently.

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Only before his death did Shen Jinchuan admit that he had fallen for Xue Wen, even though she was deeply calculating and had seduced him before his first wife was gone.

Reborn, Xue Wen avoided him as though he were a plague and directly refused to marry him as his second wife.

Unable to bear the consequences of losing her, he set aside his pride and hoped she would change her mind.

But later, Shen Jinchuan watched Xue Wen, the woman he had once despised, standing above the masses beside the new emperor, receiving their bows and their support.

And he was one of the countless people bowing to her.

A little skit:

The person she had saved by chance turned out to have another identity. The tyrant himself had been by her side in her previous life, but she had always mistaken him for a stray puppy.

Later, the tyrant learned the truth from her former husband, who had also been reborn. He was consumed with jealousy. "I'll destroy your entire family!"

"And that man's entire family too!"

Xue Wen was overjoyed. "Really?"

Reading notes:

1. Set in an alternate early Tang Dynasty, with awful relatives and comeuppance for villains.

3. The novel is open to paragraph comments, with 200,000 words already written. Updates every night at nine.

4. People have their own thoughts. Even with their bones broken, they will find a way to escape. This is a story of a sweeping fight for self-rescue, written for everyone who wants to break free of their chains.

5. One-on-one romance, with both leads devoted to each other. The former husband is reborn, but he's just a minor character.

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Meng Guqing studied veterinary medicine. Her mental state couldn't exactly be called good; she was simply deranged.

Close to graduation, the pigs she raised wrecked the agricultural college's fields.

Overworked, she suddenly keeled over. When she woke up, she had become a little girl living on the grasslands.

Horseback riding, archery, dancing around bonfires. Eat when she wanted, sleep when she wanted. With her mental state in excellent shape, Meng Guqing became the terror of the grasslands!

Then one day, a man dressed differently from the others, with a queue braided into the shape of a coin, came to visit. From her meager Mongolian, she learned who she was.

A descendant of Genghis Khan's golden bloodline, the pearl of Khorchin, an empress certain to be crowned, and destined to become a... deposed empress.

If she was to be deposed for acting arrogant, then she should watch her words and deeds and obey everything Fulin said.

Meng Guqing thought it over seriously:

1. She had a bad temper.

2. Fulin had a bad temper too.

3. She would live a long time, while Fulin wouldn't.

So she would stop putting up with it.

She had to live a long life. Fulin could put up with her, and this life would be over before he knew it.

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Other emperors had three thousand women in their harems, all vying for favor and getting jealous.

In this harem, everyone looked at the empress with stars in their eyes. Whatever the empress said went.

Other emperors had a court full of capable officials and prevented the harem from interfering in politics.

In this court: "The empress is wise! Long live the empress!"

Fulin was furious. "Is this empire mine or the empress's? Is this court mine or hers?"

"Was Consort Tong's child born for me or for the empress?"

"Is there anyone under heaven who has become an emperor like me? I might as well wash my hands of it and serve as her horse slave. At least then I'd get a kind look from her."

Consort Dong'e blushed. "But Her Majesty the Empress really is amazing."

Theme: No matter how difficult things are, there is always a way forward.