After Li Meixing is executed by her lover alongside her family, she wakes up four years earlier and searches for a way to survive the coming conflict. ***** Li Meixing is living the perfect life. Her father is a powerful politician in the Qi Kingdom, and she is engaged to the charismatic new Emperor, Huang Siming. But at the Emperor's coronation, Li and her family are framed as traitors by and ruthlessly executed. When Meixing wakes up, she finds that she has returned to the day when she first met Huang Siming. Now no longer naive and knowing what is to come, Meixing must dive into the world of politics that she has always avoided in order to save her family from their terrible fate. If she fails, she won't have a third chance.

Set in Tang Dynasty, on a small farm in China, Peizhi Jiang is born. Because she is born physically different from everyone else being both Black and Asian, Peizhi lives a silent and reserved life with her big family far from the outside world. It isn't until a childhood friend of Peizhi's mother, Lady Xiaomeng, pays a visit to seek a good wife for her mysterious son, Zian Xiaomeng, to pay back a debt. In return, the wife shall live nobly and of certain status. To much discretion, that daughter becomes Peizhi. She soon moves with her husband's family and is excited to see beyond her walls though she will miss home. Unprepared for a world she did not expect nor sign up for, Peizhi faces many struggles and challenges within her marriage and the environment around her. Including her husband being the missing Emperor of this faceless nation. And secrets too heavy to bear on one's shoulders, a permanent outcome is only inevitable. ┌── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──┐ 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 2019 𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: 1/6/23 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁: 200k + 𝗥𝗲𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀: 2/9/25 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱: N/A ☆ 𝗔 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗘 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗖 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗗𝗬 : 𝑨rranged Marriage, 𝑻rust No One, 𝑳ove Triangle, 𝐈ll-fated Love, 𝑳overs To 'Enemies?', 𝐃oomed Faith, 𝑻wisted Obsession, 𝑯arems, Political & Court Intrigue, 𝑨 Twist Never Seen Coming, 𝑺ad/(𝑺atisfed? Angry?) Ending, 𝙋𝙇𝙐𝙎 𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙀 (warnings&triggers inside) FEATURED: ☆ @AsianReads' "The Time Machine/ Historical Fiction" list ☆ @HistoricalFiction └── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ──┘