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Also known as Four Corners of Cicadas.
Lian Xiang: cold-hearted, merciless toward her enemies, flamboyant, willful, and wicked as a black lotus.
Helian Yu: fierce, insecure, gloomy, and fiercely loyal in the early story; an obsessive, jealous foreign khan later on.
[Important: No suffering for the female lead. Sweet and satisfying.]
The northern frontier is in danger, and her childhood sweetheart is dead. The emperor takes Lian Xiang by force, and she has no choice but to go to the capital and become empress. The palace is treacherous and full of intrigue. The emperor puts on a lovesick act, pretending to be utterly obsessed with her, so Lian Xiang naturally acts as she pleases and repays every wrong.
Through a twist of fate, Lian Xiang, a caged bird, ultimately dies in the emperor's hand. With her dying breath, she begs him not to make her younger sister his next empress, but the emperor refuses to change his mind.
Lian Xiang is reborn, and this time, there's still time to change everything.
The father who sold out her mother, the uncle with ulterior motives, the subordinates secretly plotting against her...
Helian Yu, Lian Xiang's childhood sweetheart, who died young in her previous life. This time, she still has time to save him.
In this life, the northern frontier is besieged on both sides. The emperor resorts to his old tricks, trying to force Lian Xiang to repeat her past and become a caged bird in the palace.
But the emperor never expected Helian Yu, the new ruler of the northern frontier, rumored to be violent and tyrannical, to bow his head before Lian Xiang and submit to her.
The emperor is utterly defeated.
Helian Yu holds a blood-soaked sword, yet still has a free hand to cover Lian Xiang's eyes. "A Xiang, you don't want to look, do you? Don't be afraid. I'm right here."
Lian Xiang, eager to see the emperor's miserable end, agrees without changing her expression. "Mm, I'm so scared."
Crimson light, a fine rain, the blazing sun breaking through the clouds: the past is gone. In the eternal heat of the Jiachen year, the cicadas' cries from every direction pierce the clouds. Lian Xiang lands lightly before Helian Yu, and for a moment, it feels as though they have missed each other for ten thousand years.
A scene from their previous life:
Childhood sweethearts vs. forced possession, like this:
Lian Xiang always felt an uncontrollable tenderness and favoritism toward Helian Yu. His early death in her previous life was an everlasting pain and nightmare, a wound that bled endlessly and would never heal whenever she thought of it.
In her previous life:
On the northern frontier battlefield, Helian Yu lost an arm. Even as he lay dying, he remembered to say, "Remember to sew my arm back on. Don't let A Xiang see... She'll cry if she does."
In the imperial garden, Lian Xiang saw the emperor coming after her and turned to leave.
Anger and resentment churned in the emperor's heart, and he refused to let her go. "You're already my empress!"
Smack!
Everyone stared in stunned silence as Lian Xiang delivered that earth-shaking slap.
But the emperor laughed, his voice touched with a mad, tender affection. "A Xiang, does this mean you're willing to touch me now? Does your hand hurt? Getting this angry can't be good for you."
Reader notes:
1. Neither the heroine nor her younger sister has romantic feelings for the emperor, her former husband Yin Yu, and neither has any physical contact with him.
2. The tyrant ex-husband gets his comeuppance, and the second male lead takes the top spot.
3. In her previous life, the younger sister didn't suffer any losses when she became empress. She won power in the struggle between the emperor and empress, ruled all under heaven, and took the throne under a new reign name.
4. 1v1, both leads' first time.
5. No suffering for the heroine, and no wicked female characters. The female supporting characters also have their own growth arcs.
6. Sweet and satisfying.
Theme: Live as if reborn from death
Come on author, it comes from your eighty thousand springs. I will watch it later, stick to V to finish 💪
Nice! Come on, keep up the good work!!