After His Majesty's Passing (Reborn)

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Also known as The Tyrant Is a Sickly Beauty

His Majesty governed with diligence, was distant and aloof, and had no interest in men. Then, at a young age, he passed away.

The court officials knelt in mourning. Xu Mu accidentally fell down the steps and died too.

Then she was reborn, back at the moment her elder brother died unexpectedly.

In her previous life, her mother had forced her to live as a man in her brother's place to secure her own position, then blamed her for her elder brother's death. She wanted Xu Mu to bring glory to the family, but couldn't stand to see her do well, and privately tormented and humiliated her in every way.

In this life, Xu Mu decided to give up. To hell with studying for the civil service exams and supporting a family of bloodsuckers. She wouldn't help the dog emperor come up with plans, work herself to death, and then get dragged into rumors. She would stay in her room and embroider, keeping as far away from the dog emperor as possible.

Unfortunately, the dog emperor was reborn too. He caused a scene in the mourning hall, insisting on seeing her alive or dead. Coughing every few steps, he shakily drew his sword and split open her elder brother's coffin, but still refused to give up. Threatening to wipe out her entire clan, he insisted the Xu family hand over an official Xu.

Xu Mu, who was part of that clan, had no choice but to bring her needle and thread and embroider a pair of mandarin ducks that looked more like ducks in front of the tyrant. But the look he gave her grew even stranger. Color rose in his pale face as he bashfully took her hand. "I'm not a rigid traditionalist. If you care for me this deeply, Xu, I don't mind if you're a woman."

Xu Mu: "???"

She had every reason to suspect that this guy was the one who started the rumors about her in her previous life!!!

After finally getting away from the living demon, Xu Mu ran off again. But the dog emperor came back for a second round, and this time he was even more of a dog...

In the Golden Throne Hall, the gloomy, cold, unsmiling empress let her gaze drift over the crowd. Her phoenix eyes lifted slightly. "I've heard that Xu Mu, a scholar from Jiangnan, is as handsome as Pan An and exceptionally talented. Let's name her the third-place laureate."

The whole hall erupted in an uproar. This was absurd. Who the hell here was named Xu Mu?! But they had to admit, they were jealous of the pretty boy who had won the tyrant's favor!!!

Xu Mu, dragged back yet again, was forced to put on an official's robe and follow the same path as in her previous life. Wearing an expressionless face under the envious gazes of the crowd, she muttered, "...Are you all insane?"

Then one day, after Xu Mu got drunk, the eunuch who served the emperor sent her to the dragon bed. The empress, giddy with happiness at the prospect of having someone to help her with the burdens of ruling, held her tighter and tighter. "I knew you were all talk, Xu. You even died for love for me, and still you say you don't love me?"

When Xu Mu woke the next morning, she thought she'd just earned herself a whole-clan execution. Instead, she was lying in the dog emperor's lap and being fed a grape. Full of regret, she said, "The dog emperor is really soft. I'm the one who deserves to die..."

Theme: It's never too late to start over. You can still get what you want.