While we were making love, my husband suddenly said he wanted to take a concubine.
Ji Qingdai was stunned.
So a lifetime together, with only one another, had been a lie.
Completed: The Emperor Went Mad After His Substitute Died
I was the beloved of Song Zhao, emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty, and the only daughter of the chancellor. I always thought I would be made empress, but instead I received an imperial edict naming me a noble consort. On the day I entered the palace, I asked him why. He said the ministers of the previous court opposed it and told me to wait a little longer.
But on the day I gave birth, I heard him say to someone, "How could a mere substitute like her deserve to be empress?"
Hearing those words, I lost all strength and eventually died in childbirth.
Who could have known that after my death, Song Zhao would go mad? He defied the ministers and made me empress, and named my child crown prince. But what did it matter? I was already dead!
Completed historical short story: He Went Mad After I Died
I am a mission-taker. Ten years ago, I couldn't bear to leave a villain who had nothing to do with my mission to die, so I saved him.
Ten years later, we were together. When my mission ended, I stayed in that world for him. Just as I thought I was living a happy life, I heard him say, "The child in Xu Yan's belly has to be aborted. I won't let my child have a mother with such a sordid past."
I was stunned, because I was Xu Yan.
I thought I must have misheard. After all, we loved each other so much. I had been with him from the time he was a nobody to when he became a powerful chief minister. How could he treat me like this?
But when the System warned me that the soup he had given me was laced with abortifacient, I realized it was true.
After that, I drank the soup as he wished, pressed the button to leave this world, and died right in front of him.
I never expected him to go mad when he saw me die.
Completed short story: I Faked My Death After the General Took a Secondary Wife
Five years ago, Chu Yunting was wounded on the battlefield and left with a limp. My legitimate elder sister refused to marry him, so she stuffed me, her concubine-born younger sister, into the bridal sedan in her place.
I married Chu Yunting and spent five careful, dutiful years by his side. At last, his leg healed and he was named a great general. I thought my hardships were finally over, only to hear that Chu Yunting had asked the emperor to let him take my elder sister as a secondary wife.
It turned out Chu Yunting had never forgotten his former fiancée during all those years.
I thought, why stay here and get in the way? So I chose to fake my death and disappear.
But I heard that after I died, Chu Yunting searched for me like a madman, causing a huge commotion throughout the city.
Theme: Cherish the person in front of you