After Death, I Became the Foolish Wife of a Treacherous Minister

[Next up: The Era Novel, The Cannon-Fodder Heroine Trades Marriages and Accidentally Marries an Era-Novel Tycoon. Blurb below]

Xue Ling'er is the legitimate daughter of the Duke of An's household. She has grown up in luxury, wanting for nothing.

After entering the palace, she wins the favor of the current emperor, Shen Qingyuan, and becomes the most dazzling jewel in the inner palace and the court, envied by all.

Yet she is inexplicably poisoned to death at her own birthday banquet.

When she opens her eyes again, she finds herself lying in a coffin, now the foolish, not-yet-wed wife of the top scholar Song Ruzhang, whose charms have captured the hearts of the capital's noble young ladies and even princesses?!

Unable to believe it, she goes to the Duke of An's estate to tell her parents she's still alive.

But passersby tell her that not long after she was poisoned three years ago, the Duke of An's household was accused of treason and wiped out by the Imperial Guards in a midnight massacre.

Looking at Song Ruzhang in his second-rank official robes, with the right to attend court, Xue Ling'er digs her nails into her palms. "My husband..."

She will not let this life go to waste. She will investigate and uncover the truth.

Three years ago, Song Ruzhang made a name for himself overnight and became famous throughout the capital.

Three years later, he has become a second-rank official in charge of the Hanlin Academy and an investigating censor, a trusted courtier of the emperor whom countless people seek to curry favor with and admire.

Everyone says he is cold and heartless, without an ounce of human warmth. But he alone knows that he does have warmth.

He harbors deep, forbidden desire for the Noble Consort who sits beside the emperor, whom he can only glimpse from afar at palace banquets.

Blurb captured on September 14, 2024

Coming soon: The Era Novel, The Wicked Supporting Female Character Is Dumped and Marries a Relocation Tycoon. Please add it to your collection.

After transmigrating into an era novel as a supporting female character, Yao Mei finds herself just as the original has lost her iron rice-bowl job and her fiance has accused her of being a seductress. He's now trying to break off their engagement.

The rest of the plot is infuriating. The original would rather pay money herself than let go of the marriage, only to end up divorced and commit suicide. Having transmigrated into the book, Yao Mei takes him for a hefty sum and spits, "Get lost!"

Everyone says Yao Mei's life is over. A jobless young woman who's been dumped, they say, wouldn't even be wanted by the vagrants on the street. But things turn out even worse than they imagined: she finds herself the most notorious hooligan in the neighborhood.

Han Chao has never had a job. He barely scrapes by with a tiny, shabby tailor shop, and spends his free time making shady friends and getting into fights. Apart from being handsome, he's a complete menace with nothing going for him.

But after Yao Mei marries him, Han Chao changes completely. He never leaves the house. During the day, he works at the sewing machine; at night, he works on pampering his wife. He's the busiest man on the whole street.

It's no wonder he keeps her at home. His young wife has a naturally seductive look, with a willowy waist and peach-blossom eyes. One distant glance from her can steal any man's heart.

She's also an amazing cook. Even ordinary home cooking becomes so fragrant in her hands that the aroma drifts halfway down the alley, making the neighbors peer through the tailor shop's door cracks.

Eventually, they can no longer peer through the door cracks. The Han family's tailor shop becomes a garment factory, the factory becomes a department store, and the department store becomes the heart of a thriving commercial district.

After losing his job, her ex-fiance from before the engagement ended pedals a tricycle, sweating buckets. By chance, he sees the jobless seductress he once kicked out, arm in arm with the former neighborhood hooligan. The couple is dressed in luxury and exudes the presence of powerful tycoons, commanding the whole street.

Several business partners arrive in luxury cars to welcome them, bowing and scraping. "Mr. Han, Ms. Yao..."

Coming soon: The Republican-Era Novel, The Opera Singer Is No Canary. Please add it to your collection.

Yuan Yingxia, an opera singer in the Republican era, is reborn on the day her voice fails and she loses all hope of performing onstage.

In her previous life, she gave up becoming a rich man's concubine and stayed with the opera troupe, acting like a mother to everyone. In the end, she died a horrible death.

Reborn, she has learned her lesson and chooses Old Master Shen, who urgently needs a wife to bring him good luck. But when she receives the gift list, the name at the bottom isn't the dying father. Somehow, it has been replaced by his son, Shen Yuan.

The good news: Shen Yuan is the city's top tycoon, in his prime, with influence everywhere.

The bad news: Shen Yuan goes through concubines quickly. It's said that his concubines are actually offerings, secretly passed between the mansions of powerful, untouchable nobles. They either die young or end up disabled.

But the marriage that follows proves the whole city wrong. Yuan Yingxia isn't a concubine, but his principal wife.

An unknown, low-ranking opera singer marries into wealth with more pomp and ceremony than the city's most prominent young ladies. Yuan Yingxia truly gets to taste what it's like to rise to the top overnight.

In her previous life, she was desperate enough to kneel for a single silver dollar. Now, she receives gold and deeds until her hands are full, pushing her powerful husband away with a coy voice. "Enough, enough. I can't hold any more."

In her previous life, she begged for help in vain and suffered endless scorn. Now, everyone in the city watches Mrs. Shen's expression. She doesn't even have to speak. A lift of her brow is enough for someone to take care of everything for her.

In her previous life, the opera troupe treated her like a sucker and bled her dry. Now, she wins over the entire opera world with her loyalty and talent, becoming the powerful woman behind the scenes who protects all her fellow performers.

Everything is wonderful during the day. Unfortunately, when night comes, Yuan Yingxia can't help feeling that something is wrong with this marriage. Being Shen Yuan's principal wife seems even more exhausting and miserable than being offered up to a nobleman.

When her back aches and her legs give out and there's nowhere to run, pounding her fists against Shen Yuan's iron-hard chest is useless. She can't help pleading softly, "Didn't you say you'd send me to the Marshal's residence? The Vice Minister's residence would be fine too..."

Naturally, the man only takes her harder. "Don't say things like that... I promised to get a distinguished guest to attend the opera competition and support you..."

Perhaps because she practices her voice every night, Yuan Yingxia's failed voice recovers, and she returns to the stage.

She creates a new style, takes on students, founds her own school, and drives countless fans wild. She's not only the powerful woman behind the scenes in the opera world, but also a renowned diva who will go down in history.

The visions she saw before she died in her previous life have all come true in this life, after her rebirth.

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