Hating the Bright Moon

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Blurb:

Chu Youxia is the daughter of a scholar, and her marriage to a young nobleman was arranged long ago. If nothing unexpected happens, they will become a couple everyone envies.

What nobody knows is that Chu Youxia has been reborn.

In her previous life, a tyrant slaughtered her entire family. In this life, she wants to take a desperate gamble and win herself a peaceful life.

But things do not go as planned. Her assassination attempt fails.

Chu Youxia thought she would be ground to dust, but the tyrant Qin Wuying spared her life and kept her by his side.

After entering the palace, Chu Youxia endured endless torment. She gritted her teeth and bore it until one day Qin Wuying said to her, "Be my woman."

Chu Youxia was stunned. She told him she had feelings for her fiance and politely refused.

Her fiance traveled a thousand li to Luoyang. Chu Youxia used official business as an excuse to leave the palace and meet him in secret.

As she made love to her fiance, the fear and unease she had felt since entering the palace eased.

On a stormy day, she left the tavern where they had met, covering the red marks on her body. What awaited her was even more terrifying: the person standing before her.

Qin Wuying stood in the alley, his face dark as he glared at her viciously.

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Qin Wuying swept across the six states and united the realm. He is the ruler of the world today. Rumor says he is violent and debauched, but the people dare not voice their grievances.

Yet, strangely, although the Son of Heaven's might is known throughout the land, his harem has always been empty. His ministers worry about the lack of an heir, but none dares speak up.

Only his closest attendants know that the emperor holds one woman in his heart, a woman no one is allowed to mention.

Qin Wuying will never forget that rainy night twenty years ago, when she abandoned him.

He struggled to survive in a sea of blood. The only thing that kept him going for the rest of his life was his hatred for her.

Their blood feud was forged in this life, and it would not end until death.

The setting draws inspiration from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods through the Qin and Han dynasties. It is fictional and not historically rigorous.

1. The heroine is reborn and transmigrates three times, with a different husband each time. None of her official husbands is the male lead.

2. Happy ending.

3. This will tell the story of three lifetimes, but the blurb only covers the first. The male lead's treatment of the heroine is tied to cause and effect, forming a closed loop through time. For the other two lifetimes, see the author's note in Chapter One. Covering all three in the blurb would make it too long.

To explain the closed loop through time: the male lead's timeline progresses normally, while the heroine keeps being reborn after transmigrating. The story is told from the heroine's perspective as she experiences events that affect the male lead at three different ages.

Theme: Follow the will of Heaven and do all you can