I Long to Sleep Among the Fragrant Grass

Chen Chunjian dies at the age of twenty-three.

Just before her death, she learns that the husband who shared seven years of hardship with her has risen to power and secretly returned to the capital without her, where he is to marry a princess.

A concubine-born daughter of her clan, a curse on her family, a big-footed wife...

There are already too many names weighing her down. She can bear one more: "the abandoned wife of the marquis's household."

In life, everyone turned against her. As she died, not a soul was by her side.

So this was her fate.

Chen Chunjian closes her eyes amid the roaring river.

Her fate is not over.

Instead, it only truly begins in her second life.

Through a twist of fate, her life begins anew, and Chen Chunjian becomes Liu Chunjian.

Her brother is the top graduate who once rode through the imperial city carrying flowers.

Her brother is the traveler who once tucked a flower into her hair before leaving.

But none of that matters.

Chunjian cradles her face in her hands and listens to Liu Jun speak of equality, freedom, and a world where all are equal.

He tells her not to curry favor with the powerful or look down on the poor.

He teaches her freedom. He tells her what beauty is. He says it wasn't her fault.

The sunlight is brilliant, and peach blossoms reach in through the window.

The spring colors fill the garden, yet the world in his writing is more dazzling still.

Everything from her previous life is in the past.

She only wants to climb a little higher, then a little higher still,

and turn their shared ideals into a reality within reach.

In the first year of Yuanzai, the emperor ascends the throne.

Across this vast realm, I celebrate my new life.

Couple: Chunjian x Liu Jun. No switching partners, one-on-one, both physically and emotionally pure, pure love.

Warnings:

1. The male lead has transmigrated! The male lead is from the modern era and transmigrates into the past! He is not an ancient person!

2. The writing style in the first part is melodramatic. At first, I only wanted to write a "chasing his wife to the crematorium" story, but the more I wrote, the more I loved the heroine, and it turned into an empress story.

3. The leads have a foster-sibling relationship. There is no romance while they remain brother and sister.

4. This is fundamentally a story of healing, with the heroine saving herself. The plot can also be summed up as: "What happens when a modern person raises an ancient girl all over again?"

Theme: What happens when an ancient girl is raised in a modern way?