And how could a spoiled young lord possibly reform himself so obediently?
Looking back now, Ye Shuixin thought she had been so foolish. She had believed she could help a man grow up. Every day she worked herself to the bone running the household and serving her parents-in-law, busy as a spinning top. She decided to divorce him.
But he refused to let her go.
Ye Shuixin was determined. When he wouldn't let her leave, she decided to fake her death and escape.
Completed: The Emperor Went Mad After His Substitute Died
I was the woman Emperor Song Zhao of the Great Yan Dynasty loved, and the only daughter of the prime minister. I always thought I would be made empress, but instead I received an imperial decree naming me a consort. On the day I entered the palace, I asked him why. He said the ministers opposed it, and told me to wait.
But on the day I gave birth, I heard him say to someone, "How could a substitute like her ever be worthy of becoming empress?"
Those words drained the strength from me, and I 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 our child crown prince. But what did it matter? I was already dead!
Completed Short Historical Romance: He Went Mad After I Died
I was 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 even stayed in that world for him. Just when I thought I was living happily, I heard him say, "The child in Xu Yan's belly has to be aborted. I won't allow my child to have a mother with a record as bad as hers."
I was stunned. I was Xu Yan.
I thought I must have misheard. We loved each other so much, and I had been with him from obscurity to his rise as the powerful Chief Minister. How could he treat me like this?
But when the System warned me that the soup he had handed me contained an abortifacient, I realized it was true.
So I drank the soup as he wished, pressed the button to leave that world, and let myself die 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 Second Wife
Five years ago, Chu Yunting was injured on the battlefield and left with a limp. My legitimate elder sister refused to marry him, so she shoved me, her concubine-born younger sister, into the bridal sedan in her place.
After marrying Chu Yunting, I spent five years cautiously and diligently. At last, his leg healed and he was appointed a great general. I thought my hard times were over. Then I heard that Chu Yunting had asked His Majesty to let him marry my sister as his second wife.
It turned out Chu Yunting had never once forgotten his original fiancée during those five years.
I wondered why I should stay here and get in the way, so I chose to fake my death and leave.
But I heard that after I died, Chu Yunting searched for her frantically, causing a huge commotion throughout the city.
Theme: Cherish the people you have now.