Bai Shuyi is a famously sickly presence in the world of infinite missions.
Gravely ill and frail, she somehow always manages to survive to the end of countless high-risk S-rank missions.
Then an unexpected mishap strikes during one mission. When Bai Shuyi wakes up again, she discovers that she has actually transmigrated!
Three pieces of good news rain down on her in this new world.
First: Her new life comes with a pretty decent background. She may be a spoiled, sickly layabout, but at least she's still salvageable.
Bai Shuyi: Great, great, great!
Second: After being single for years and only attracted to women, she has transmigrated into a kingdom populated entirely by women!
Bai Shuyi: I'm in love, I'm in love!!
Third: Three days ago was her wedding day, and the woman she married is the current empress, graceful and magnificent.
Bai Shuyi: Mmm, ovo, cuddle with my wife!!!
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With her memories damaged after transmigrating, Bai Shuyi falls in love at first sight with Empress Pei Qingwan in her magnificent palace.
To grow closer after their wedding, Bai Shuyi makes sure to be in Pei Qingwan's presence every day. She accompanies her to court in the morning, sticks to her while she reviews memorials at noon, and even volunteers to share her bed at night.
Pei Qingwan: ...So many schemes, and not a shred of shame.
Bai Shuyi: I got to cuddle with my wife again today!
Just as their relationship is about to blossom naturally, Bai Shuyi accidentally intercepts a secret order from Pei Qingwan.
In it, Pei Qingwan states plainly that marrying her was only a delaying tactic. Once the situation has stabilized at the end of the year, she will sentence Bai Shuyi to be torn apart by chariots and hang her head above the city gate as a warning to others.
Bai Shuyi, who values her life, flees in the middle of the night.
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Pei Qingwan, empress of the Jing Kingdom, ascended the throne at the age of nine. She appointed worthy officials, pursued reform, and devoted herself to good governance, earning the admiration and love of the whole kingdom. Her otherworldly elegance and peerless beauty have made her renowned throughout the Nine Provinces as a rare beauty, unmatched in all history.
No one knows that even Pei Qingwan, whose heart is as cold as ice, can be melted by one person.
That person pesters her every day to make her happy, dances and performs swordplay for her, recites poetry and sings for her, and even heads fearlessly into battle for her.
She was confused, resisted, and tried to avoid her. Even knowing the other woman might well be putting on an act, in the end she was willing to lose herself in it.
But she never expected that woman to run away.
And yet, running would be futile. In this vast world of mortal entanglements, she had already prepared a golden cage for her.
With its barred windows, spring locks, and bolts, the cage would keep her imprisoned here day and night, wrapped in a tender embrace and lost in endless pleasure.
#A secret order nearly turned this into a forced romance#
#For my wife, I can fight another hundred years!#
A frail but formidable Valkyrie top x a cool-headed empress who plans several moves ahead bottom
★ Reader's Guide:
☆ The setting is loose, with mountains of authorial liberties, and the writing is amateurish, so please don't scrutinize it too closely.
☆ Single-couple romance, but the blurb is misleading. This is a somewhat comedic, sweet little treat, and their daily cuddles are very sweet :D
☆ Blurb posted on December 2, 2023. It will be polished later.
Theme: "Having seen the vastness of the world, one still cherishes the green of the grass and trees."