Pre-registration novel: Cloud Gazing. If you're interested, visit my author page. Sending love.
Blurb:
Cui Shen loved Wei Yujie all his life. He indulged her, comforted her, and doted on her.
He cherished her like a delicate flower and worshipped her like a goddess.
In the twenty years they knew and stayed by each other, he did three things that made her angry.
He forced her to marry him. He divorced her. He died for her.
All three went against her wishes.
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Every love in this world seeks union,
except hers for him: a love of silence and parting.
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In this absurd life of ours, we found the best possible ending.
We could not die together, but we could live on together.
[A madwoman with the face of a bodhisattva and the heart of a demon VS a refined and noble scion of an aristocratic family]
Note: A short story. The heroine has experience; the hero does not. Bad ending.
Pre-registration novel: Cloud Gazing. If you're interested, visit my author page.
Blurb:
During the autumn hunt at Shanglin Park, the Crown Princess was assassinated.
A poisoned arrow pierced Jiang Zhanyun's chest. As she plunged from a cliff into a stream below, she suddenly thought of the young general away at war.
Before he left for battle, on their wedding night, they had a terrible argument.
"I grant your wish. I hope you win glory as a general and come back wrapped in your own shroud! Don't come back and get in my way!"
Well, that worked out nicely. She had died before him.
Now he could have everything he wanted: take her seal and carry out the policies he favored, sleep in her bed, and marry the woman he had long yearned for...
Jiang Zhanyun was consumed by regret. She could not close her eyes. If only she could live again!
The rushing water swept her away without mercy, leaving half of a bell set with seven treasures embedded in the rock.
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By the time Xue He led his troops back to the imperial capital, Jiang Zhanyun's body was gone. A tomb containing her clothes and personal effects had been set up in the Mingguang Hall of Weiyang Palace. Inside lay half a bell.
Everyone knew that the seven-treasure jade pendant was the ancestral token of the Xue clan of Tengzhou, a symbol of marrying into the imperial family and protecting the realm. But the Crown Princess of this generation had a wayward nature and was at odds with Xue He. She thought the pendant looked plain, so she had someone turn it into a bell.
That would have been bad enough around her neck, but she had also used the leftover jade to make tiny bells for an anklet. They jingled endlessly beneath the red wedding curtains.
On their wedding night, the young man who strictly observed etiquette had been driven from the palace by just such antics.
He would rather spend his whole life guarding the border with the army than share a room with a headstrong princess like her.
"Your Highness, if you don't change your ways and temper your temper, sooner or later..."
Your life will be in danger, and the realm will change hands.
He had wanted to say those eight words many times. That day, he finally let them slip.
Who could have known his words would become prophecy?
The Jiang line ended then and there.
To preserve the peace of the realm, Xue He went against the majority and supported Ming Ye, a prince of a different surname who was only twelve, as the new emperor.
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In the sixth year of the new emperor's reign, Xue He raised his kinswoman, Xue Jiu, to the throne as empress.
He had it all planned out. He now held a slight advantage at court, and if he gained control of the inner palace as well, he could overturn the world anew. He would restore the Jiang clan's rule and avenge Jiang Zhanyun.
As it turned out, the mastermind behind everything had been the very emperor he had supported.
The year he learned the truth, he rescued a woman from the entertainment quarter and had her take the place of his kinswoman, who had died young. He had her carefully taught the six arts and personally trained her in both letters and martial arts, shaping her into a sharp, obedient blade.
But once that blade entered the ninefold palace and ascended the throne, Xue He found her increasingly difficult to control.
Then, one day, during a debate on state affairs at Weiyang Palace, with all the civil and military officials present, a long sword thrust through the new emperor's chest from behind. The empress emerged from behind the curtain. With one hand, she pulled out the sword and kicked the Son of Heaven aside. With the other, she held up the imperial seal, symbol of the emperor, and smiled sweetly at Xue He, who was splattered with blood from head to toe.
"I truly can't think of any other way to reclaim what was mine all along!"
Theme: I am the continuation of your life, and you are my light.
After reading it, I feel that the heroine has never trusted the hero. I know she can't bear to drag him into the water, but after ten years, since she knows she can't escape, so what if she gives him some true love? Why let him and his family suffer pain and heartbreak over and over again for ten years? Isn't this another blunt knife cutting flesh? That was ten years. In these ten years, she had countless opportunities to speak. I believe that as long as she believes in him, this situation will be solved. The hero will solve it with her. They can get through the same boat. As long as she believes in him, he is willing to die for her. In the face of life and death, what can't be said? It was a waste of his ten years of sincerity and his life.
I remember reading a short story before, and it was quite sad, be. When I saw this, I suddenly remembered a sentence in that novel, "The high platform is thousands of miles away, so don't touch the wind and snow."
From Cui Yue's point of view, what's wrong with her? She has finally reached the age where both sides can understand. She understands Cui Yue and the heroine.
An orphan girl can be pampered and even become a mistress. An orphan girl can be as coquettish as she wants and become a mistress without bloodshed. Only Yu'er will be sacrificed
What kind of mother, if you treat your daughter like this in order to let your daughter succeed to the throne and restore the country, I have nothing to say, but for the sake of my niece, I have been treating my own daughter like this for so many years...
It doesn't matter if you don't want this mother. It would be great if the heroine confesses and kills the heroine's mother together with the hero. This mother completely treats her as a tool. If the purpose of restoring the country is to let her daughter inherit the throne, I will not feel so alienated. I would treat my daughter like this for my brother's daughter.
Cui Yue is Yu'er's other life, right? Our Yu'er has nothing. The small house where he kept raccoon slaves when he was a child was given to Cui Yue by his brother. The impatiens that his father specially found for Yu'er was also taken away by his brother and gave a pot to Cui Yue.
Let's all live well together in the next life...
Holy shit, I never thought the ending would be like this. It feels so shocking. Yu Er and Cui Lang will be happy in the next life 😭
She even admitted what she had never done and only wanted to die.