[A cast of geniuses + an aristocratic young lady who plays the game + a carefree, unhinged prince + fellow transmigrators exposed]
Xie Lingyi transmigrates into a book as the legitimate daughter of the upright Xie family of Southern Qing. Emperor Qing forces her to marry his second prince, Li Chengze, a deep-thinking, capricious madman.
Everyone thinks the Xie family has stepped into a deadly struggle for the throne. But Xie Lingyi, who knows the entire plot, understands that Li Chengze is merely the “whetstone” Emperor Qing has prepared for Fan Xian, destined to walk clear-eyed toward his end by poison.
On their wedding night, Li Chengze sits barefoot, a knife hidden in his smile. “Did your father send you here to spy on me?”
Xie Lingyi elegantly brews tea, then drops a bombshell. “Your Highness, Father never intended to pass the throne to you. You're just a whetstone prepared for Fan Xian. Also, the Grand Princess, who secretly supports you, is actually on the Crown Prince's side.”
The second prince's entire worldview is shattered on the spot by his cool and aloof princess!
From then on, the situation in the capital spirals out of control. She pulls up the Grand Princess's secret forces by the roots with a few words and smashes Emperor Qing's chessboard with a single move. The most bewildered of all is Fan Xian, who has just arrived in the capital. At the state banquet, this cool and aloof second-prince's consort whispers to him, “Fellow transmigrator, odd numbers change, even numbers stay the same?” Fan Xian's eyes nearly pop out of his head!
She breaks the deadlock and changes fate. The mad prince, who never trusted even his own family, pulls her into his arms, his eyes red and his voice hoarse. “Lingyi, I'll tear the world apart if you say the word. When will you finally look at me?”
Help, the Psycho Villain I Wrote Has Fallen for Me
Reborn as the Villainess, the Mad Villain Can't Live Without Me
You Laugh at Me for Delivering Takeout, So I Turn Around and Buy the Whole Company
After Her Entire Family Is Wiped Out, the Princess Consort Demands a Divorce
The Night My First Love Returned Home, I Signed the Divorce Papers
After reading the entire book, I found that the characters in the book are all very consistent with the original book's character design, including the plot rhythm and the characters are full-fledged. But I don't know if I'm too stupid and didn't quite understand the plot. The description of the plot in the book was so confusing that I didn't understand what it was talking about. There are also some inconsistencies. For example, the most obvious thing is that at the beginning, the two got married because of the imperial decree of marriage, but in the last chapter, it was said that they got married again before the marriage was granted.
It doesn't feel like a novel, it feels like a script 🤦. Most of the content is dialogue, dialogue and dialogue. More than ten chapters have passed and the plot is still ten minutes before the first episode. The repeated wind, tea, and door cracks can be used as metaphors. Different people keep saying the same thing over and over again, which makes it feel a bit procrastinating in a novel.