Everyone said the general was dead and urged me to remarry. Only I refused to believe he'd died, and stayed in the general's residence, waiting for him.
I waited year after year. Finally, in the third year, my general came back. But he brought a pregnant woman with him and said he would marry her as his second wife, because she had saved his life.
But I couldn't give him up, because he had once saved my life, too.
I willingly stepped aside for her.
I never expected the general to regret it on the day I married someone else.
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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 chancellor. I always thought I would be made empress, but instead I received an imperial decree naming me a Noble Consort. On the day I entered the palace, I asked him why. He said the ministers 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 substitute like her ever be worthy of becoming empress?"
Hearing those words, I lost all strength and eventually died in childbirth.
Who could have guessed that after I died, Song Zhao would go mad? Defying the ministers, he made me empress and named my child crown prince. But what difference did it make? I was already dead!
Completed ancient romance novella: He Went Mad After I Died
I was a mission-taker. Ten years ago, I saved a villain who had nothing to do with my mission because I couldn't bear to leave him to die.
Ten years later, we were together. When my mission ended, I stayed in the mission world for him. Just when I thought I was living happily, I heard him say, "Xu Yan's baby has to be aborted. I won't allow my child to have a mother with such a terrible record."
I was stunned, because I was Xu Yan.
I thought I must have misheard. After all, we loved each other so much. I'd been with him from the days when nobody knew his name to his rise as a powerful chief minister. How could he treat me like this?
But when the System warned me that he'd put abortion medicine in the soup he'd given me, I realized it was true.
After that, I drank the soup as he wished, pressed the button to leave this world, and let myself die in front of him.
I never expected him to go mad when he saw me die.
Completed novella: I Faked My Death After the General Took a Second Wife
Five years ago, Chu Yunting was wounded on the battlefield and left with a crippled leg. My elder sister refused to marry him, so she shoved me, her illegitimate half-sister, into the bridal sedan in her place.
After marrying Chu Yunting, I spent five years behaving cautiously and working hard. At last, his leg healed, and he was made a great general. I thought my hardships were finally over, only to hear that Chu Yunting had asked the emperor for permission to marry my elder sister as his second wife.
It turned out that Chu Yunting had never forgotten his original fiancée, not once in all those five years.
I thought about it and 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 me like a madman and caused a huge commotion throughout the city.
Theme: Cherish the people who are with you now