First-person narration, with a little magic
A career-focused heroine who also cheats x a career-focused, abstinent, sharp-tongued hero
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Asiya was poisoned by her husband, the founding emperor.
It was because she revealed that her husband wasn't the original person in that body, and that the original soul had long since disappeared without a trace.
All the prosperity she had fought for her country, all her schemes and plans, came crashing down.
She thought God would take her to heaven, where she could enjoy milk and honey forever. But when she opened her eyes again, she was still with her "husband."
"Asiya, my beloved, come here. Come to me."
"Don't resent me. You simply lost to me, and lost badly."
Her broken life began again. Don't blame me for not giving you a chance, Asiya thought.
She was not content to be the consort of the empire's emperor, a jewel adorning its crown. She deserved that crown. The epic would go on, and Asiya would fill every page.
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An earl's collection of scandalous anecdotes:
From the old capital of Saint Cecilia to the new one, everyone knows that Her Highness Asiya and His Majesty Nathaniel are a model couple.
In decades of marriage, there hasn't been a single scandal about His Majesty and a mistress. He might as well be an abstinent monk. But our beloved Empress Asiya? She certainly knows how to have a good time.
All sorts of foreign races are often seen entering her bedchamber, while our emperor is frequently beguiled by Asiya's full lips and eyes that ripple like spring water when she smiles. Again and again, His Majesty falls under her spell, even agreeing to her increasingly outrageous demands.
According to one drunken legion commander, His Majesty even peeks through a secret passage's keyhole to watch Her Majesty drink, talk, and flirt with people of other races...
They say that His Majesty's abstinent nature has reached the point where he needs an excuse just to get close to the empress:
"My dear, for the glory of Saint Cecilia, let's have another heir."
"Your Majesty, you and I are both busy with affairs of state. We've already fulfilled our duty to provide heirs for the empire. Or is it that Your Majesty wants to enjoy himself with me?"
Silence. Our great emperor, who can poison himself with a single careless word, has fallen silent!
A newspaper from a certain country on the continent of Mashikali:
Nathaniel Hoval is known as the Iron-Blooded Emperor. Under his leadership, Saint Cecilia grew from a small northern kingdom to a power entrenched in the north-central part of the continent of Mashikali. Under his cruel rule, elves and dwarves suffer enslavement and abuse.
Those who have suffered so much, let us rise up and overthrow this tyranny!
Theme: Death cannot extinguish the will
Damn, why don't you update? 😭