Bad Luck for Husbands, Know What I Mean?

[Interactive Story] Choose at the end of each chapter to jump to your selected route

You are a young widow, and very much a widow. Although your late husband is everywhere, it doesn't stop you from navigating your way among plenty of people.

Don't worry, you have your own pace.

"The Imperial Consort":

As a widowed imperial consort, you face all the people coveting you without batting an eye.

The noble and refined heir to Prince Ning has turned away one aristocratic lady after another, yet treats you with unparalleled care.

The bold and flamboyant Crown Prince is still unmarried. From the way he usually looks at you, how could you not know what it means?

The upright and incorruptible Minister of the Court of Judicial Review is willing to abandon everything to save you, even breaking the law and wielding a blade himself. When faced with the choice between morality and social conventions, what will you choose?

Of course, you firmly choose yourself.

"The Fair Lady":

As the impoverished daughter of a once-prominent family, whose arranged-marriage partner died just after your wedding, you bear the future of your family on your shoulders and have no choice but to stay with your husband's family, enduring their disdain.

Your husband's elder brother offers to help you, on the condition that you marry him. You are lost and helpless, after all, you love your arranged-marriage partner deeply.

Your husband's closest friend is willing to fund your family's rescue. You hesitate a little, since his elder brother is still eyeing you like a tiger watching its prey.

Your husband's female confidante sympathizes with you. She saves you from danger several times and even plans to hire assassins to kill the two men above.

But your husband's ghost sees it all. For everyone's sake, so you can all love each other like one big family, a sudden inspiration strikes you: you don't have to join them at all.

You're here to leave this family.

"The Princess":

You are a prince's daughter, adored by everyone, but a fortune-teller's prophecy gives your father a wicked idea.

Prince: "Whoever she marries will die? Send her to my sworn enemy!"

You marry your father's sworn enemy, and the man suddenly dies on the eve of your wedding.

You marry the sworn brother of the man who succeeds your father as prince, and he is thrown into prison and executed.

You marry the bandit chief who rises in rebellion and declares himself emperor...

Husband, will you die?

"The Orphan":

You are an orphan, bought at a young age to be a child bride. Your young husband is accidentally hacked to death with a butcher's knife.

Later, you enter the Imperial Preceptor's residence as a widow. Everyone mocks the Imperial Preceptor's foremost disciple for being a widow, but nobody can bring themselves to look away from you.

They say, "There's always trouble around a widow's door. Daoist, would you risk getting mixed up in any trouble with me?"

You wield your sword to slay demons, cold and ruthless as if swinging a butcher's knife.

Later, the gates of the underworld swing wide open. Behind them stands the Ghost King, intent on dragging the whole world down with him. You take a closer look and discover that he is your young husband, who died long ago...

He is still holding that same butcher's knife.

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1. An interactive second-person story. Choose at the end of each chapter to jump to your chosen route.

2. Firmly 1v1, with lots of one-sided crushes on you.

3. You may have secrets even you don't know about, so choose carefully.

Please, everyone, make sure to check out my upcoming novel, sob sob sob: [The Goddess's Guide to Training Dogs: A Deification Story]. Here's the blurb:

After transmigrating as an evil goddess, Tianzhu must use submission points from the System's starter pack to stay alive.

[Your mission: Play the goddess and survive until the Rift King takes the throne.]

[Your starter pack: Submission Set (direct contact tames instantly; indirect contact is half as effective~)]

At the religious assembly, Tianzhu sweeps a long banner across the crowd. Her fair face is sacred and pure.

"Maji Ami! She has such beautiful eyes."

"Even the eagles atop the cliffs will submit to her!"

"I will fear no biting wind."

[Submission points +0.5+0.5+0.5+0.5...]

[Submission points -1]

Tianzhu's hand falters.

The filthy slave's gaze travels up the prayer flags, and his wolfish eyes meet Tianzhu's beautiful ones.

[You have met [Rift King: Lin Luosang].]

Historical records: The Rift King, Lin Luosang, led the slaves of the snowy highlands in rebellion, killed the goddess and destroyed her temple, overthrew the religious court and installed the Buddha as ruler, then challenged the Eastern Kingdom for supremacy.

Tianzhu is the infamous goddess in the history books, who took pleasure in killing.

The followers' eyes fill with murderous intent when they see the goddess watching him.

"Would the goddess really show mercy to a slave?"

To save the slave Lin Luosang, Tianzhu plants a foot on his face.

[Submission points +1]

"No way, has he gone mad with rage?" Tianzhu's voice trembles. "If he kills me, how will I get back to the modern world?"

System: Maybe you made him feel too good.

Tianzhu: "..."

Is this really the mighty Rift King from the history books?

[Your intermediate pack: Weather Effects (Congratulations, you can now command the wind and rain!)]

On the sacred drum, the ancient divinity in the beads on the goddess's head glows. As her rune-embroidered robe slips down, the sound of conch shells and drums echoes across the sky above Jue Lin Ka.

Fine rain begins to fall, then suddenly turns into a downpour.

"It's... it's raining!"

"Longsheng Tian... Grant us favorable winds and rain..."

"Goddess, may you have peace and joy."

The drought and famine melt away in the rain.

The goddess, however, falls from the drum and collapses into Lin Luosang's arms.

[System...]

System: Is there anything you need help with?

[You didn't say... making it rain would be this exhausting!!!]

[Your advanced pack: Summon a senior (there's no guaranteed grand prize in this gacha~)]

Lin Luosang pushes open the door.

The brutal Rift King glares furiously. "How dare you! Drag him away and execute him!"

Lin Luosang's brow twitches.

The evil goddess smiles seductively. "Want me to teach you how to use them?"

Tianzhu: ...

I'm not going to live long enough to see him ascend the throne. Good night.

But later, Tianzhu's skills at governing reach perfection, and she becomes a master at keeping her subordinates in line.

She becomes a true deity in the eyes of the people.

Her submission points soar, even surpassing those of the Rift King, Lin Luosang, who was supposed to take the throne.

Tianzhu: "???"

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1. A goddess who seems aloof but is softhearted and loves to act cute vs. a taciturn but scheming slave male lead.

2. [Important] A universally adored heroine, delicate and frail in the traditional sense but strong-willed within, a sweet and obedient girl who grows over time, and a flirt who doesn't know she's flirting.

3. An alternate-history setting. Don't nitpick the history.

4. This novel is also known as "Sweetie Is Flirting with the Filthy Dog Again," "Step One in Raising a Filthy Dog: Kick Him in the Face," "I Wish I Could Spend Every Day in the Buddhist Temple Cursing Lin Luosang to Die," "The Sound of Someone Longing for the Goddess," "A Crushing Blow to My Rival in Love," "Some People Are Really Swinging Their Hoes Until They Smoke," and "Sweetie, Don't Let That Filthy Dog Enjoy Himself."

Theme: Break free from the shackles of fate and illuminate the brilliance of human nature with the light of faith