The Cousin Is Sweet and Sly, and the Capital’s Powerful Men Fall at Her Feet

[Scheming villainess + female rivalry + one-on-one, both leads are each other's only ones + winning her back is a living hell + the aloof prince comes down from his pedestal]

After a dream spanning an entire lifetime, Shen Qingli finally learned that she was a cannon-fodder character in a romance novel, existing only to make the Chancellor's legitimate daughter, Shen Yuyao, shine.

She was framed for seducing Shen Yuyao's fiancé at the matchmaking banquet.

Shen Yuyao's powerful suitors spread rumors about her until her reputation was ruined and no one dared marry her.

Her gentle, virtuous aunt even knocked her unconscious one night, staged her suicide, and drowned her in a lotus pond...

Shen Qingli had always been peaceable and proper, yet she met such a horrific end!

Given a new life after that dream, Shen Qingli vowed to cast off the upbringing expected of a noblewoman and become a villainess who put herself first!

She seduced her refined, honorable cousin, the Chancellor's top-scoring graduate, and brought every powerful man who had harmed her for Shen Yuyao to heel!

When the unremarkable young lady of the Chancellor's household stopped hiding her brilliance, everyone finally saw how dazzling she was.

Even the aloof Crown Prince, who had once called her affected and delicate and treated her as if she were nothing, began looking at her differently...

On the day she was to marry her cousin, the cold and restrained Crown Prince stormed into the bridal sedan and stole her away. His gaze was more unhinged than ever. “Shen Qingli, if you dare marry him, I'll slaughter everyone in the Chancellor's residence!”

Later, he repeatedly softened his voice and bowed his head, begging for her affection. “Li'er, use me if you want. Even if you want the whole world, I'll win it for you, all right?”