A stunning beauty with a talent for schemes x an iron-fisted warlord in a chaotic age
She was once the empress of two dynasties, the most dazzling flower to bloom in a withered, chaotic age.
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Later, in Xu Changxin's memories, she had been empress three times across two lifetimes.
Twice in her previous life.
The first time, on the day her kingdom fell, someone made her empress and had even chosen her posthumous title, "Zhaojie," hoping she would die for her country and her honor once she became empress.
But she was in the prime of her youth, a beauty who dazzled the world. She was unwilling to die for such a useless man, so she refused.
Instead, she climbed over the still-warm corpse of the fallen emperor and threw herself into the arms of the rebel who had stormed Chang'an.
He doted on her, too. After becoming emperor, he made her his Noble Consort and favored her exclusively for several years.
But later, he was also the one who furiously denounced her as "disloyal and unchaste" and kept her under house arrest for years.
So the second time she became empress was after she had reached the end of her rope and died in despair, when that man posthumously bestowed the title upon her.
She died in his Chang'an Wei Palace before the age of thirty-five. Her life was reduced to seven characters: "Empress Xu, Taizu's wife, Wenzhao."
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Only after living a second life did she finally touch the cold golden seal of the empress while she was still alive.
In her previous life, that man had treated her with utter coldness. He watched as she struggled in the depths of the palace until she was driven to despair. Only after she died did he deign to posthumously grant her the title of empress.
In this life, after raising his troops to bring the realm under his control, he personally presented her with the imperial seal of the empress, confiscated from the palace in Chang'an.
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(1) In the main story's current lifetime, both leads are sexually inexperienced. The hero was sexually inexperienced in his previous life; the heroine was not.
(2) The heroine loves wealth and splendor most of all, and the hero is no saint either.
(3) The leads had a melodramatic entanglement in their previous life. The heroine's former husband, the fallen emperor, has little page time and is merely a disposable character.
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Theme: Love her by giving her more.
