The Empress

(Reborn Early-Death Queen Consort Who Focuses on Her Career X Pure-Love Feudal Lord)

Zheng Yu married two men in her life.

One ended her confused, bewildered life with a cup of poison.

The other gave her a new life.

The year Zheng Yu met Shen Hong was one of terrible disaster: locusts swarmed across the land, and plague ran rampant.

Nearly stripped of his clothes and covered in blood, he collapsed before her, clutching the hem of her skirt...

Poor thing.

She took him home.

Later, when a cup of poison sent her on the road to the underworld,

he did the same for her, taking her home from the mass grave...

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine is not a virgin, and the hero is. The heroine has truly been married before, so please don't read if that bothers you.

2. The heroine grows over the course of the story. She's no pushover and is genuinely kind, but she's weak at first.

3. The story's historical setting is entirely fictional and is not intended to be historically accurate.

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Blurb:

Ten years after transmigrating, Maisui still hasn't found a way back to the modern world.

Her father, who had supported her, fell seriously ill and was near death. He sold her to work as a maid for a wealthy family in the county town.

The family was said to be very powerful. The master was an official in the capital, but the household had few members: only the madam, a concubine, a young master, and Maisui, who was about the same age as him.

The madam said Maisui was young and couldn't do hard labor, so she assigned her to serve as the young master's study companion.

The young master was handsome and well-mannered, generous and gentle with others. He didn't mind that she was clumsy and couldn't look after him properly, and even taught her to read and write.

Maisui felt as if she'd landed in a little paradise.

Sadly, the good times didn't last. Three years later, news arrived from the capital: the master had committed a serious crime, and the family was to be seized.

On the day the family was confiscated,

the madam took Maisui before the high-ranking official who had come and said, "This girl is an orphan and is not among the Ji family's three generations of relatives. I beg Your Excellency to show mercy and let her go."

The official glanced at Maisui and waved for her to leave.

Maisui refused to go.

She followed the prison cart, trudging along until her shoes wore through, all the way to the capital.

She thought that among all the nobles in the capital, surely someone would be able to help them appeal and save the family.

But she was wrong. There was no one.

It took more than half a year to travel from the county town to the capital, and the family was still sentenced to execution after the autumn harvest.

Only the young master survived, but he was sentenced to castration.

The day before the punishment,

Maisui stood outside the Anle Hall for a long time. At last, she went in and walked up to the young master. She began taking off her clothes, one piece at a time, and said, "I've grown up. I can give the Ji family an heir."

The young master gave a bitter smile. He picked up her clothes one by one and put them back on her, telling her, "You're still young. You don't understand anything. When you leave, forget everything that happened with the Ji family and live well."

The day Maisui married was the day Ji Xuan was executed.

The wedding sedan and the prison cart passed each other.

That day... they both believed the other would find happiness.

Blurb dated August 10, 2025

Content Warnings:

1. Bad ending for the main couple. The hero and heroine are both ordinary people with no golden finger. The story is angsty from beginning to end, but there will be a modern-day bonus chapter with a happy ending. If you can't handle angst, please read with caution.

2. The heroine was transmigrated into a baby, so there's no issue of her inhabiting someone else's body.

3. The hero is genuinely a eunuch. The heroine is not a virgin and will have a child with a supporting male character. Please don't read if you require chaste characters.

Theme: Women should be strong and self-reliant.