[A vicious, spoiled young empress dowager x a regent who endures humiliation while coveting the heroine's beauty]
In her previous life, Xie Jiujiu was wicked and cruel, despised by everyone.
That didn't stop her from living out the role of a triumphant female lead. She entered the palace and was made empress at twelve. Over the next five years, she outlived the old emperor and helped the crown prince ascend the throne. By seventeen, she had secured her position as empress dowager and seized control of Chen.
There was one person she hated more than anyone: Pei Jizhi.
A former prince who was skilled at disguising his dark, sinister nature, he was granted the title of Prince Li after the old emperor died.
Xie Jiujiu had no reason for hating him. Just looking at him put her in a foul mood. To get revenge and humiliate him, she spent two years sending thirty beautiful concubines to Pei Jizhi's residence, under the pretext of ensuring the royal family had heirs.
"You're not getting any younger. If you won't think of yourself, at least think of the future of Great Chen. I want grandchildren to cuddle, too."
Pei Jizhi glared coldly at Xie Jiujiu, who sat above him, hiding her face behind a fan as she smiled suggestively. He clenched his fists in fury.
At last, one day, after doing every kind of wicked thing, Xie Jiujiu was set up and died suddenly in the Palace of Compassion and Tranquility.
How tragic!
After Xie Jiujiu died, she wasn't buried in the imperial mausoleum. Her body was dumped in the wilderness.
Three months later,
A woman came to her grave and wailed, lamenting how unfairly fate had treated her: her father had died a gruesome death, her mother had become a nun, her younger brother was sick, and she herself was broken. Now her second aunt was forcing her to become the concubine of a lecherous treacherous minister.
She'd been wronged.
Lying in her coffin, Xie Jiujiu found the woman noisy and thought, Sister, you've got the wrong grave.
When the woman finished crying, she threw herself against the grave and died on the spot.
Xie Jiujiu: "..."
I didn't do anything! Don't blame me!
While she was still bewildered, Xie Jiujiu felt something strange happen to her body. She had actually transmigrated into the woman's body. Stranger still, the bridal sedan bearers showed up, and without a word, they shoved her into the sedan and carried her away.
Only when the sedan stopped outside Prince Li's residence did she learn that the so-called treacherous minister was Pei Jizhi, and that this absurd marriage was something she'd arranged three months earlier to get revenge on him.
She'd become his thirty-first concubine!
What a disaster!
Xie Jiujiu had always believed Pei Jizhi suffered from some hidden ailment. Otherwise, how could he have so many beautiful concubines and no children?
Until one day...
A drunken Pei Jizhi carried her to the bed and nuzzled her pale cheek. "Didn't you say you wanted to hold a child? Let's have one tonight."
[SC, HE]
[Content Notes and Guide]
1. I'm writing chapters in advance. I'll revise them later, and the launch date is undecided.
2. The writing is basic, and the language isn't period-appropriate. Read at your own discretion.
3. The female lead is a spoiled troublemaker, and the male lead isn't exactly a decent person either.
4. Romance-focused, sweet, with no angst.
Theme: Live life positively
