Historical
When He Forgot Me for the Third Time, He Personally Sentenced Me to Death
Crown Prince Bai Xiuzhu had been afflicted with the Southern Border Love-Forgetting Gu.
Every time he clawed his way back from the brink of death, he would forget the person he loved most. The first time, he forgot his mother.
The second time, he forgot the marriage vows we had exchanged before Heaven and Earth at the border.
The third time-after I had slit my wrists to feed him my blood and save his life-he sat high atop his throne in the Hall of Golden Chimes and personally marked my death warrant with a stroke of vermilion ink.
Joyful Reunion
I am the unlucky princess who got thrown into the Cold Palace.
The people above gave me two choices: either become a eunuch’s palace wife, or marry a fool.
Without the slightest hesitation, I chose to marry the fool.
After all, he comes with an extra part. I’d be getting the better deal~
The Sound of That Year’s Waves
On the day the Su Clan was raided and seized, Father dressed me in a magnificent gown and threw me in front of the soldiers.
“She is Su Yueying, the Eldest Young Miss of the Su Clan.”
Everyone said Father was a loyal servant.
When I saw him again, Father had become the New Emperor’s most trusted Divine Martial Great General.
Su Yueying had become Empress, the New Emperor’s one and only for the rest of his life.
And I was a courtesan in a brothel, a woman anyone could have.
To buy back my freedom, Mother dragged her gravely ill body to beg Father for help.
The gatekeepers beat her to death with two strikes of their staves.
I begged Su Yueying to let Mother be buried.
But she said, “There are plenty of untouched entertainers in the pleasure houses. If you had held fast to your principles, I might still have helped you. But you chose to debase yourself. I will not help someone like that.”
That very night, someone hacked off my limbs and sank me into the river.
When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the day the Su Clan was raided.
This time, let Su Yueying go to the brothel herself and hold fast to her precious principles.
Jiaruo
The day I married into the Gu marquis’s household, my father-in-law died and my mother-in-law fell ill.
The wedding feast became a funeral banquet, and I was forced to take charge in the midst of the crisis, assuming control of the household and carrying the funeral through with composure.
My husband thanked me for preserving the Gu family’s dignity, yet never set foot in my room again.
In time, he filled the household with concubines and fathered a brood of sons and daughters by them.
I raised them conscientiously and planned for their futures.
Then I overheard my husband speaking to them behind my back.
“I have never met anyone as coldhearted as your mother. Your grandfather died, and she did not shed a single tear. You may call her Mother, but never learn from her. She is unworthy of the name.”
By then, a physician had already told me I did not have long to live.
Not one of those children came to visit me or bring me medicine; they simply left me to die.
With my last strength, I set fire to the Gu residence and burned that cold, loveless place to the ground.
When I opened my eyes again, I had been reborn.
The Gu family came to propose marriage, and as I looked at the refined, handsome man before me, we spoke the same words at the same time.
“I refuse.”
It turned out I was not the only one who had returned.
The Empress Hated Me for a Lifetime
The day she died, a heavy snowfall blanketed the capital, sealing the city gates.
When the eunuch came to report the news, I was drinking in Noble Consort Liu’s palace.
I simply said, “Understood.”
It wasn’t until that cup of plum blossom wine-the one meant for our reconciliation-seared through my chest that I finally understood.
She had waited ten years, but she was never waiting for me to have a change of heart. She was waiting for me to die with her.
Year After Year Without Worry
When I was young, I found the Crown Prince and took him with me as we spent three years begging for a living.
After the Crown Prince was restored to his position, the Emperor took me in as his adopted daughter.
Everyone assumed that I would be betrothed to the Crown Prince. Instead, the Crown Prince became engaged to the legitimate daughter of the Duke’s Mansion.
On my birthday, he remarked with a casual smile in front of the crowd, “How can one of noble blood be matched with a beggar?”
I raised my glass and sincerely wished him a life free of worries, year after year.
He did not yet know that I had accepted the decree for a marriage alliance.
In the years to come, there would be no more Ah Yu by his side.
Autumn in the Heart of a Parting Lover
Chapter 0
Pei Qian forgot me. All because, on the eve of our wedding, he got drunk, took a fall, and forgot he was supposed to take a bride. Was I to believe that, or not?
Naturally, I believed it with the utmost gratitude. Since he had forgotten me, my marriage to him could be written off in one stroke.
I packed up my money and dowry. Boling was no longer an option, so for the time being, I settled down in Hedong.
If my father had not died so early, I feared I never would have come anywhere near the gates of the Pei Family.
My father died after taking elixirs and running naked through the streets. Everyone praised him for being romantic and unrestrained-a true eminent gentleman!
He had only been a concubine-born son of a collateral branch of the Cui Clan, yet within a few days of his death, he had somehow become the pride of the Cui Clan.
For a time, the worth of my sisters and me rose with the tide. The great aristocratic families all came asking for our hands. Mother even forgot to fake her tears. Every day, she beamed with joy as she received one guest and sent off another.
This world had gone mad, and so had the people in it.
After much careful selection, Mother chose Pei Qian, the Second Young Master of the Pei Clan of Hedong, for me.
Everyone said he was elegant, graceful, wild, and unrestrained-the foremost romantic figure of Great Wei.
At that, I thought of my father, sprinting along with all that pale flesh jiggling in the wind.
I despised these so-called eminent gentlemen from the bottom of my heart.
As it turned out, he would rather change his name and identity than marry me. Excellent. That suited me perfectly.
A Small Matter About Spring
On the day I died, Xiao Xu was about to make another woman his empress.
He came to the Cold Palace, hoping I would swallow my pride and yield to him. What greeted him was only my ice-cold corpse.
For reasons no one could explain, Xiao Xu broke down. He did one deranged thing after another, and every day he wept blood before my grave.
In the end, he got his wish and was reborn a thousand years later.
In the twenty-first century, Xiao Xu and I were classmates.
He was still dazzling. Still exceptional.
He was looking for me.
But he didn’t know that I had been reborn too, with all my memories intact.
Clearly, He’s a Princess
The day His Majesty bestowed a marriage upon me, my entire household wept like we were holding a funeral.
Mainly because I was a woman disguised as a man attending court, and even my Adam’s apple was drawn on.
There was no way I could make the princess happy!
But the princess who bowed with me to Heaven and Earth was a full head taller than I was.
Tentatively, I reached toward a place I really should not be touching.
In a rough voice, the princess confirmed, “Yes, I have a peepee.”
I entered the palace to plead guilty, but His Majesty said that spending one son to make four generations of my family work loyally for him was an excellent bargain. Me: ?
I Doomed Them All
The Crown Prince fell in love with the Mute Girl who saved him and insisted on breaking off our engagement.
Out of kindness, I advised him:
“The Mute Girl is alone and without support. Why not take her as a concubine first?”
The Mute Girl felt humiliated and, overwhelmed by shame and anger, took her own life.
Ten years later, the first thing the Crown Prince did after securing the throne was to depose me as Empress and exterminate my entire clan.
“This is what you all owe Ruoruo.”
When I awoke again, it was the day of my sixteenth Birthday Banquet.
The person seated at the head of the table asked me what I wished for.
“I only wish for Your Highness the Crown Prince and Miss Liu… to grow old together in harmony, forever united in heart.”
I bowed reverently:
“Your Majesty, please bestow a marriage upon the two of them!”