Yearning for Your Grace (Reborn)

* Everyone is reborn, including the heroine

* Everyone ends up in the regretful-exes doghouse, including the heroine

Xie Shichu was born a princess, pampered and treasured beyond measure.

Her eyes sparkled like stars, her skin was as smooth as jade, and her lovely smile could captivate the soul.

On the day she came of age, her father and mother said they had a gift for her. Then they brought dozens of handsome young men in bright, colorful clothes before her and let her choose.

Xie Shichu looked them over and immediately chose Mu Heng, whose clothes were the brightest and whose eyes were the most beautiful.

She truly loved Mu Heng, falling for him at first sight, and she treated him exceptionally well, promising him a life of wealth and raising him to high office.

Everyone said that Princess Shichu was wanton and depraved, obsessed with handsome men, and that people of the age ought to be ashamed of her.

But her father stood against the whole world for her. "My daughter is as precious as a pearl. What right does anyone have to criticize her? Anyone who says such things again will be executed without mercy."

Her mother, too, used her position as empress to revise The Rules for Women and The Admonitions for Women, determined to ensure that Xie Shichu would never face the slightest criticism.

Xie Shichu was deeply moved and thought herself truly fortunate.

Then, three years later, Mu Heng, whom she loved dearly, poisoned her with his own hands. Her father, whom she revered, ordered her locked inside the imperial mausoleum. Her mother, whom she trusted, personally sealed its doors.

Only then did she learn that all the kindness they had shown her was because she was the sacrificial offering ordained by the Imperial Preceptor.

Offering her body to the imperial mausoleum would keep the dynasty prosperous for a thousand years.

Reborn, Xie Shichu finally understood the principle of equivalent exchange.

But the memories of her past life were too bitter and painful. So when her parents asked her to choose a young man, she turned down Mu Heng.

Then she saw the astonishment on her parents' and Mu Heng's faces.

What was going on?

After Xie Shichu was sacrificed in her previous life, those who knew the truth all thought it was a blessing for the dynasty to enjoy a thousand years of prosperity.

But the emperor would often visit Xie Shichu's chambers for no reason.

Whenever the empress had free time, she would make clothes for Xie Shichu.

Mu Heng, who had risen to the highest ranks of the court, dreamed of her every night, then sat awake until dawn.

As time passed, their condition grew worse.

Only then did they finally realize how important Xie Shichu was to them.

Then they returned to the day Xie Shichu came of age, given another chance to start over.

They vowed to treat her well this time and let her be a truly happy princess.

But why, this time, was Xie Shichu the one who wanted nothing to do with them?

* Important: The male lead has changed! The male lead has changed! The male lead has changed! Mu Heng is not the male lead. The male lead is Zhou Sui'an.

* Important: The heroine has an ex, but they never slept together. They were simply in a relationship for three years.

* Everyone ends up in the regretful-exes doghouse.

Theme: Take your own life in the present seriously