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The Witch They Slayed
They called me a witch who bewitched men’s minds, and put me to the sword.
Later, they tried everything they could to bring me back to life.
It turned out that the prodigy I had supposedly bewitched had gone mad.
He meant to slaughter the whole world and send it to the grave with me.
Spring Reckoning
Ten years into our marriage, my husband began lavishing attention on a Transmigrator outside our home.
While the two of them were in the throes of their affair, that Transmigrator, in all her ignorance, came to make a scene before me.
“As expected of a feudal relic trapped in the inner residence until death. You think everyone is like you, unable to live without a man. You underestimated me and belittled him. Apologize.”
I sat in my warm, cushioned sedan chair, my head propped lazily on one hand, without even lifting my eyes.
“Slap her mouth. Use the roughest bamboo paddle.”
This feudal relic might not have much else, but my rank was a little higher, and my methods a little harsher.
So when they beat her, they put a little more force into it.
Hearts Gone Rotten
Mom brought home the dead crabs our neighbor had thrown away and cooked them with the live ones.
“One for your big sister, one for your little brother, and one for your little sister.
See how fair Mommy is?”
But my little sister spat out her first mouthful of crab roe.
“Mom, I think this crab smells bad…”
Mom slammed down her bowl in a rage.
“Why would yours be the only bad one?
Don’t waste food.
Finish it!”
That night, my sister got food poisoning.
But Mom insisted on making our neighbor pay the medical bills, delaying treatment until my sister died.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back on that same evening.
I immediately switched my sister’s crab with Mom’s.
“Hers is much too big.
We should give it to Mom!”
Then I shelled the dead crab in my own bowl and handed it to my brother.
“You’re still growing, Xingxing.
Have mine!”
The Classic of Mountains and Seas in a Box
[Connecting Past and Present + Troubled Times Famine + Classic of Mountains and Seas]
On her first day back in her hometown, Qin Ying discovered an ancient Miniature Kingdom inside a box.
Within the Miniature Kingdom, there was a famine in a world of chaos, tyranny, ferocious Monstrous Beasts, and hundreds of millions of commoners struggling to survive in the cracks of society.
Qin Ying looked down upon the World in the Box, and from then on, that world of suffering gained a Savior Deity.
With a casual pour of rice, she fed an entire city.
With a sprinkle of water, she ended the drought across the Thirteen Provinces.
With a wave of her hand, Qin Ying supported a handsome and upright New Emperor to ascend the throne, exterminating the anomalies and stabilizing the chaotic world.
Later, the Land of Gods was built within the World in the Box, and her Divine Name was praised across the Four Seas.
However, Qin Ying found herself in a dilemma as she looked at the Rare Beasts offered as sacrifices by the Miniature Kingdom.
Should she first kiss the Mini Panda in her left palm until its fur was ruffled? Or should she first tease the Tsundere Little Tiger in her right palm until it cried?
The New Emperor pressed his face against her knee, rubbing against her to vie for her favor: “Please, look at me.”
Qin Ying used her toe to tilt up his chin: “Have you no ambition?”
The New Emperor lowered his eyes and kissed the arch of her foot: “Your gaze is my only destination.”
The Grave We Share
On the third day after being diagnosed with Stomach Cancer, I chose a grave for myself.
They say the feng shui is especially good.
It’s supposed to bless me so that in my next life, I won’t be the real daughter everyone despises.
No one will steal my parents, my brother, or everything else from me.
No longer… unloved.
I burned my photos and clothes, erased every trace of my existence.
Then I slit my wrists, lay down in the bathtub, and waited peacefully for death.
But then the Cemetery Center suddenly called me:
“Miss Lu, we’re terribly sorry.”
“Two Agents accidentally sold the same plot.”
“This grave was also sold to another gentleman.”
“Would you… mind moving your grave?”
Advising Breakup Eight Hundred Times, Finally Drinking at the Best Friend’s Wedding
I tried to persuade my best friend to break up eight hundred times, but in the end, I attended her wedding and drank her wedding wine.
On the wedding day, I sat at the main table with the guy’s strategist, both of us checking our phones and comparing notes.
We realized that every time the couple threatened to break up, it was always the two of us who got dragged into it.
Our chat histories were eerily similar.
[We broke up. This time it’s for real.]
[But what about him/her? What should I do?]
Guy’s strategist: [Maybe you should change jobs. You’d make a great clown in a circus.]
Me: [Pay me some compensation.]
Did I Become the Heir Today?
Ever since I was little, Mother had told me that the Marchioness was a broad, hulking shrew with the heart of a viper.
Anyone who offended her, she said, would be beaten half to death and locked in a dark room to perish.
Yet on the day we were brought to the marquis’s estate, the woman seated at the head of the main hall looked like a celestial maiden.
Mother sprang forward and hoisted her out of the chair.
“Sitting in the Marchioness’s place? Have you got a death wish?”
Spring Scenery and Broken Joy
For six years after marrying into Xiping Marquis Manor, I spent six years a living widow.
My husband was stationed at the Northern Frontier, yet somehow found time in the midst of his duties to fall madly in love with another woman.
She was beautiful and strong, able to ride tall warhorses, wield a long spear, and read the art of war.
She fought shoulder to shoulder with my husband on the battlefield, killing the enemy.
The people and soldiers of the border city all called her the General’s Lady.
As for me, the true General’s Lady, no one even knew I existed. She was the eagle of the Northern Frontier.
I was a sparrow trapped in the inner courtyard.
But disaster was already creeping closer.
The Underworld Calls Me Little Master
In ancient, remote places, many eerie and terrifying things are bound to happen.
And these things happen right around Hua Jiunan.
In fact, Hua Jiunan is a part of these events himself.
For instance, he is a Corpse-Born Child!
Jianqing: The Emperor’s Last Game
My mother was a general.
A powerful prince humiliated her, then spread vicious rumors to avenge his wounded pride.
When my brother sought justice, the prince’s sister accused him of rebellion.
The emperor condemned our entire household, and she was crowned empress.
They thought we were all dead.
They were wrong.
I survived—and entered the palace as the emperor’s favorite Go player.
Now I would become his favorite consort, and make every move count.