Dark Empress - Prologue

Have you missed me, my lovelies?

Presenting a new novel; it's actually part of a series of web novels which Love Me Again is part of. They are of the same universe. The stories are three modern ones and three historical ones. Dark Empress is part of the historical set. I cannot for the life of me figure out what the series is supposed to be called, so someone with more Chinese Language proficiency - have at it: 老梗也是梗系列之一

It should go without saying for the old readers, but for new readers please be aware that I make running commentary. A lot of running commentary, it waxes and wanes through the chapters. See my post for the whys and wherefores. But if that kind of thing rubs you the wrong way, close the tab and go enjoy life, no one should intentionally imbibe anger.

I chose to start with this one because not only is it the first of the historical part of the series but the I loved the character of the heroine, Jiang Chuwei minus the complaining about being dark skinned -  I mean four chapters later, get over it already. Being dark skinned ain't a death sentence.

Anyway, without further ado, I present: Dark Empress!

Blurb:

Why was her fate so rough?
Everything has turned disastrous.
She a high flying working girl has transmigrated into a black charcoal.
In addition, a completely unfavoured Empress!
That pervert Emperor can go to hell!
No matter what life, men were to lick her toes.
Want her to serve a man, dream on!
But, she didn't expect the Emperor to be handsome and seductive.
She wasn't interested in one moment, but rolling with him in the next.
But his acceptance level is high, that he can chew on a piece of charcoal.
And she doesn't mind reciprocating since he is the meal.
But this ancient man sees her as a new toy.
Did he think that by having her body he could have her heart?
Although, she is now an ancient person herself, she has long decided she would not spend the rest of her life in the harem.
How could she let herself become a poor woman waiting for a man to occasionally bestow her with his favours...

Dark:

It looked like – she had transmigrated.

One of those overused plots in dog blood dramas on TV and novels: Transmigration.

But she was calm. Why was she so calm? Because, the terrible thing that happened to her wasn’t the crossing; Jiang Chuwei from the moment of her birth in her former life, was beautiful. From Kindergarten, there had been little boys vying for the position of her boyfriend. The moment she entered Primary School, the title of ‘School Flower’ was unchanged till she left University. She had been 168cm tall. Her breasts had been 34E, her waist measured 23in and her beautiful buttocks 34in. (Zuben: Once upon a time her vital statistics were in centimetres and it was hilarious!) Her face was glamorous. She was regarded as a sexy stunner constantly pursued by men. She didn’t know the number of men that had fallen under her seven inch heels.

But now…

Chuwei stood before of the blurry bronze mirror. Though it wasn’t clear, it let her see what she was now. She was thin – and flat. Her new body was more bones than meat. Her chest, she touched it, was flat. Well, there was a little rise, but in her opinion was just a manhole cover on asphalt. And this face - good lord! Jiang Chuwei was heartbroken; was this even a woman’s face?

She had a small face and big hands! Even that wasn’t it, she was so plain. As if being ordinary looking wasn’t enough, what was with the complexion? She grimaced as she looked at the face reflected in the mirror. Sorrowful tears threatened to fall. There was no other way to describe the complexion except for dark.

People say whiteness covers ugliness (Zuben: Where do they say this?), but this ordinary face being topped with such dark skin like it was covered in charcoal, how can one live? (Zuben: you could top yourself, but then we won’t have a story)

Crossing over was not the most disastrous thing; it was a little suffering to become gain the love of a magnificent person. But how does one do that with this dark skin she was wearing? Was this karma for tossing over so many men?

The Beautiful Jiang who had never lost a man in her life, for the first time at the age of twenty-eight, cried. (Zuben: cry me a river)

Zuben:
As a dark skinned person, this rankled so much. Any annoyance with the story stems from this. Logically I understand this is an Asian novel and being light is beauty. Still rankles though. Teehee

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