Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Xia Weibao had never imagined that she would live to see another day.
The emperor died and the empress was buried. When she reopened her eyes, she realised that a thousand years had already passed, and that she was in the body of a once-famous movie star.
Debuting at the age of fifteen, she achieved immense and constant success. At the age of seventeen, she won the Best Actress award for a movie, becoming the youngest Best Actress in history.
In the two years after her debut, she could have easily taken advantage of her striking looks. Instead, she chose to buckle down and prove her own worth through hard work and was thus known as the conscience within the entertainment industry.
Yet, it was to such a brilliant star that an explicit video appeared on the internet the very next day after she was crowned the Best Actress!
A small push was all it took, and everything came falling down like dominoes. All the artistes who had previously worked with her came out one by one, denouncing Xia Weibao for being fake, going for plastic surgery, being a mistress, bribery, and putting on airs.
The clear stream of the entertainment industry turned into a muddy pond!
In just one night she practically fell from grace and her reputation was greatly tarnished!
This all came as a bolt out of the blue for the innocent and pure-hearted Xia Weibao!
Her company terminated her contract, and sponsors decided to withdraw their sponsorships. Even just staying at home, Xia Weibao was met with death threats from people who smashed her windows.
Under this immense pressure, Xia Weibao could no longer take it anymore and went crazy. She entered a mental hospital, and stayed there for three years.
Until two days ago, her fiancé that seemed to sprout out from nowhere appeared and fetched her from the mental hospital, and then they got married. But just as they received their marriage certificate, Xia Weibao lost her footing and fell down the stairs.
The empress Xia Weibao grabbed this opportunity and possessed the movie queen Xia Weibao’s body, thereby coming back to life.
As she recalled the life of this body’s original owner, she could not help but think that Xia Weibao was such a pitiful child.
But the movie queen Xia Weibao had never gotten on the bad side of others. This was not like within the palace, where concubines had to fight against each other for the favor of the emperor. The empress Xia Weibao racked her brain but could not figure out what had happened.
Forget it. Whatever will be, will be, she thought. She was the empress of six palaces in the great Xia state, the empress of the mighty Imperial Court, a thousand year old spirit. Why would she be bothered by these monsters from over a thousand years in the future?
If it is a dragon, then sit! And if it is a tiger, lay still! She thought confidently.
The empress stood up proudly and aggressively, with one foot on the bed head.
Click!
Just at this moment, a slight noise came from the door.
Xia Weibao turned her head and peered over to see a calm and handsome figure appear at the door.
The pride and haughtiness that was on her face just moments ago stiffened, and her body fell squarely to the ground as if in free fall.
The empress proclaimed herself to be a civilised person who never spoke loudly. Yet, at this moment, she could not help but curse and swear over and over again.
Wasn’t she reborn a thousand years in the future? Why was that bast*rd emperor still here?
When she came back to her senses, she leapt to her feet. According to the standard court etiquette, she greeted him, “Emperor.”
Lu Hualiang glanced at her coldly, walked in and sat on the sofa expressionlessly.
He leaned back and crossed his legs naturally.
His face was cold and dignified, with an indescribable coolness and regalness.
His straight and sharp eyebrows, strong and thin nose, and lips gently pursed together made his facial outline even sharper.
His cold eyes fell on Xia Weibao.
This caused Xia Weibao’s heart to pound within her chest. She thought to herself, is this person Emperor Xia Liang who transmigrated, or is he just someone who looks like him?
With that accumulated power and influence, she was scared stiff, even if he just happened to look alike.
Indeed, a lunatic, he thought.
“Sign it.”
Lu Hualiang retracted his gaze indifferently.
He tossed an agreement over.
Xia Weibao received it. With the memories of the body’s original owner, reading simplified chinese was an easy feat.
“Divorce Agreement?”
Quickly thinking back on what a divorce agreement was, Xia Weibao’s eyes widened. To put it simply, he wanted to get rid of her!
Her head shot up in disbelief. “Emperor, do you really want to depose your empress?!”
Lu Hualiang remained indifferent. To him, Xia Weibao was nothing but a passer-by and they merely benefitted from each other in the way they needed.
It was not worth his attention at all!
“Sign it. Be Mrs Lu for a year, and then we will get divorced. This is the condition on which I brought you out of the mental hospital!” Lu Hualiang paused. When he had brought her out from the hospital, she was still mentally sound. But this had nothing to do with him.
“Xia Weibao, you should know your place. Don’t even dream…”
Before Lu Hualiang could even finish his sentence, Xia Weibao bit her finger and sealed her fingerprint on the divorce agreement without a second thought.
“I’ve signed it. You better mean what you say. Since we got together peacefully, let’s separate peacefully as well.”
Upon seeing her quirky way of acting, Lu Hualiang twitched his eye and sealed it with his own fingerprint…
How did she think of such an old-fashioned way of signing an agreement? He thought to himself in bewilderment.
There was a faint glimmer of light in his dark eyes.
It wasn’t easy for her to rise up into the Lu family. Who would have thought that she would agree to a divorce so readily?
Besides, she seemed very eager to get rid of him?
As Lu Hualiang’s cool cold eyes looked down, his eyebrows furrowed into a frown.
“So can I leave?”
Xia Weibao looked at Lu Hualiang impassively.
The tone that cleared the air about the relationship caused the displeasure on Lu Hualiang’s face to deepen, and the surrounding pressure dropped significantly.
Oh!
Letting him go just to gain more control over him later on, he thought.
His eyebrows were deeply furrowed. This woman was clever. Truly a top actress!
Lu Hualiang looked towards Xia Weibao, inquisitiveness in his eyes.
This person does not look like she is really crazy. I guess it is faked. He thought.
Upon seeing the scene that had just unfolded before him, Yang Su, the special assistant who followed behind Lu Hualiang was shocked and speechless. This movie queen Xia Weibao, was she really mad?
Looking at the divorce agreement in her hands, the ends of the empress’ mouth curled into a slight smile and she could not help but chuckle. But immediately after that, she suppressed all emotions.
Keep a low profile to stop that bast*rd emperor from realising that she wanted to be deposed — no, divorced. She thought.
Just thinking about how she would be free in a year’s time, she was as happy as a lark.
That’s right. In her past life, she entered the palace at 16. Although there were 3,000 other beautiful palace ladies, the emperor loved and pampered her only.
She had definitely proved her worth! In the 10 years after entering the palace, she had given birth to a crown price, four princes, and a princess!
But giving birth to so many children naturally brought about hatred from others. She led her life in fear and could not escape the fate of falling in traps. Now that she could get away with it, she could not be any happier.
Seeing her ridiculous and crazy actions, the disgust in Lu Hualiang’s eyes deepened.
She acts just like it! He thought.
He did not dislike women who used these means, provided they did not use these means on him.
Xia Weibao was an extremely adaptable person. She took only one day to completely integrate into her new environment.
At night, she crossed her legs and sat on her bed with a laptop in front of her. She logged into her Weibo account somewhat clumsily.
What the original owner of the body liked to do most was to scroll through Weibo. And as they say, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. So, the empress followed suit. She remembered that she used to have five million fans in the past.
But when she logged on, she realised that she not only had about 50 thousand fans, but there were also numerous messages scolding her.
No wonder the original owner had gone crazy! The language was violent and abusive!
Just as she was thinking, a hot topic popped up.
#XiaWeibaoReleasedfromMentalHospital
The corner of her eyed twitched agitatedly. Her being released from the hospital could also become hot news! These modern people really have nothing better to do!
A saying suddenly popped up in her mind: extreme notoriety is also fame…
After searching for a while, she found that she had claimed all three of the top news topics!
#TheReturnoftheNumberOneB*tchoftheEntertainmentIndustry
#Shocking, Sl*t Xia is being kept by a mystery man
And the comments were even more varied.
— F*ck, Xia Weibao was actually released from the mental hospital!
— To the commenter above, you mean a b*tchy battle. Would anyone want to dig deeper and enlighten me on which man B*tch Xia hooked up with to get out of the hospital?
— Darn it! You guys even dare to deal with such a promiscuous woman like Xia Weibao? Aren’t you afraid of contracting AIDS? [disdain] [disdain] [disdain]
— Damn, that’s disgusting! You guys are actually discussing this kind of person. Xia Weibao should scram from the entertainment industry!
…
Seeing those menacing comments, Xia Weibao shook with rage and her face was filled with gloom.
Even if those insults were not about her, she could feel the anger raging within her!
Weren’t all these words deliberately forcing her to her death?
Feeling the original owner’s despair, the empress’ anger turned into laughter.
Such a smile was indeed bone-chilling.
After haphazardly keying in a few words, she sent out a post on her Weibo.
“I am back.”