Lu Jiuci spent the first half of her life in a sheltered boudoir, surrounded by fine clothes and good food. In the second half, she struggled at the very bottom, tasting every kind of hardship.
Her father was imprisoned and sentenced to death for treason. Her mother fell ill from the shock and died. Lu Jiuci was sent to the music academy as a court entertainer, then entered the palace as a servant.
At the academy, she had to smile and sing for others' amusement, even when they harassed and coerced her.
In the palace, she had to grovel and tread carefully, suffering abuse and exclusion at every turn.
She recalled her mother's delirious words on her deathbed: "A Ci, endure... You have to keep enduring if you want to live... Stay alive..."
This is your fate.
Accept it.
On countless sleepless nights, Lu Jiuci sat beneath the shabby eaves, gazing at the moon and listening to the wind and rain, trying over and over to persuade herself.
The court was rife with hidden currents, its intrigues ever-changing. The Empress and Chancellor Xu were locked in an increasingly bitter struggle. Lu Jiuci was lowborn and as insignificant as a blade of grass, not even worthy of being a chess piece. Caught in the crossfire again and again, she met a miserable death deep in the palace.
When she opened her eyes again, she was back at the moment she was sent to the music academy. Lu Jiuci lowered her eyes and smiled, a sharp edge glinting in her gaze. This time, she refused to accept her fate.
Can the people and events of this world ever rise above their station?
She wants to know: can a tiny mayfly, no more than a blade of grass, shake the world?
[Side Story] (Also known as How to Make the Person You Love Go Mad for You)
On a dark, blustery night, the perfect time for murder and robbery, Jiang Jin, dressed in black stained with blood, collapsed in a pile of straw in a storage shed. His beautiful peach-blossom eyes were half-lidded as he saw a delicate, lovely young woman approach. Beneath the moon, she looked like a painting, radiant with shimmering light.
Across the street, lanterns blazed brightly, while the clamor of armor and weapons rang out now and then.
The young woman parted her red lips, pressing a thin blade against his vitals. "This is a nuisance. We should just kill him."
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How should you repay someone who saved your life?
Before meeting Lu Jiuci, Jiang Jin was an unruly, arrogant young man who hated being threatened.
Later, he saw how lonely and fragile the girl was, how she looked as if a gust of wind might knock her over, and how beautiful she was. How could she possibly survive like that?
So he taught her martial arts to defend herself, sheltered her from the storm, and became her willing servant, wishing her peace, happiness, and a long life.
In the end, all he got was, "I was only repaying your kindness."
Jiang Jin refused to accept that. A life-saving debt should be repaid by giving yourself to the other person!
Lu Jiuci: "I've always been using you."
Jiang Jin: "Then keep using me for the rest of your life."
Theme: The road ahead is full of obstacles, but you never leave my side
Come on, don't be in a hurry 🌈 [like]
I feel that the emotional line is actually a bit abrupt. I can understand what kind of emotion I want to write, but now it seems not very coherent (? It feels like the heartbeat of the male and female protagonists all rely on the two beautiful faces, especially now when we don't know each other that well. I feel like I want to write about a woman seducing a man, and the man is secretly moved. When dating or meeting by chance, the heroine should be secretly in control of the situation, but now it seems that the heroine is more like passively following the hero. Or maybe when there is no way to understand each other in depth in the early stage, the male and female protagonists do not need to interact so anxiously. They can try to advance the plot first and get to know each other in the plot. I always feel that the two people are moving too fast now, as if they have known each other for a long time. For me, the big plot line is more attractive.
In just a few years, Xie Juan went from the Jiaofang Bureau to the Imperial Palace, from an actor that no one cared about to a female official who can control life and death at will. He is also very powerful. But what did you pay for in the previous life, why did you kill your mother, why did you kill the heroine... This time she saw the heroine reveal her plan and told the heroine her plan, hoping that things would be different.
"Shaking my head with joy" Such a cute baby girl
Did the heroine know the hero in her previous life and know that he is not a bad person?
"You are still young, I won't touch you" doge Does the author make a big comment?
Can you use osmanthus cake to cover the smell of hair oil?
Hahahahaha, the heroine who doesn't waste food! And it's for the male protagonist to eat hahahahahahaha
When the male protagonist talks about repaying his kindness, does the female protagonist believe it without warning? What if he is really a bad guy and will kill her as soon as she wakes up?
Very well written! Keep it up hahaha!