"General Fei is renowned, but she's quite the rake."
She captures a city and wins herself a pretty boy.
She seizes a pond and claims a dark-skinned beauty.
Even on her expedition to the Western Regions, rumors say she meets with foreign youths every day.
On the night another of Jiang Xianyi's scandals reached the capital, frost and snow lay heavy beyond the frontier.
The young emperor, Xiao Huai, rode through the night to see her. His clothes were damp with dew, his face as still as water. He broke off a branch and offered it to her: a flower found only in the capital.
He walked slowly toward her, gritting his teeth. His voice was colder than frost and snow.
"Have you found yourself another sweetheart on this campaign?"
Jiang Xianyi was carefree by nature and knew well the saying, "Better to die beneath the peonies than live a dull life." She paid little attention to her reputation.
But she never expected to lose by a single move on the battlefield and die in the yellow sands.
When she opened her eyes again, she saw a golden, dragon-carved throne. Incense curled through the air as the ministers knelt before her and said respectfully, "Your Majesty."
Jiang Xianyi was just as surprised to find herself in the emperor's body.
Wearing Xiao Huai's face, she worried people might start rumors that the emperor was attracted to men, so she had to rein in her wandering gaze around the men nearby.
Then... she turned her attention to his harem.
With beauties by her side and the realm in her grasp, life was truly carefree and delightful.
Until one day, a "love-struck young woman" climbed over the palace wall in an attempt to "catch the emperor's attention," only to be shot down by a hidden guard.
The guard seized the lovestruck girl and brought her before Jiang Xianyi. At the time, Jiang Xianyi was wearing Xiao Huai's face, grinning smugly with an arm around a beauty's shoulder, lips puckered as she leaned in to eat a grape from the beauty's fingertips.
The captured girl suddenly looked up, fury in her eyes.
"Jiang Xianyi, don't use my face to make such a disgusting expression!"
There is a popular saying that Qingfeng Temple can bring the dead back to life.
The young emperor knelt and bowed his way up the mountain, step by step, all for the chance to bring his beloved back to life.
But it turned out the temple couldn't be trusted.
The once-proud young emperor found himself in the body of a Jiang family's illegitimate daughter. The moment he opened his eyes, someone threw a basin of cold water in his face.
"With a background like yours, you think you can take part in the selection?"
Xiao Huai's eyes turned cold. Fine, fine. So this is what a woman's household scheming looks like.
#Of three thousand beauties, I choose only one
#Does an emperor have to fight for favor in the harem too?
A heads-up: Single-couple romance. The heroine is a sucker for pretty faces. The household and harem scheming are at a very basic level, as is the warfare.
This is not a strong-female-lead story. The heroine dies and her soul travels into another body. Later, the hero and heroine will return to their original genders.
The Jiang family's illegitimate daughter dies, and the hero and heroine will avenge her.
A lighthearted comedy. Don't read too much into the politics or the harem scheming.
2024.7.30
Theme: A love story between two romantically clueless people
