After 99 Failed Attempts to Win Her Over, the New Emperor Finally Snaps

[Both leads are reborn + second male lead's groveling pursuit + new emperor takes the throne + irresistible physical attraction]

Outside the screen, Jiang Qingyan's actual target, her fiancé and the newly crowned top scorer in the imperial exams, is eagerly waiting for her to change into her wedding dress.

Inside, her clothes are half undone as the new emperor pins her against the wall and kisses her until her legs go weak.

“Yanyan, before you marry him, how about letting me be your first teacher?”

“No... mm... yes.”

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Jiang Qingyan can't understand it either. After failing to win over her target 99 times, why did the new emperor, who had never crossed paths with her, suddenly come looking for her?

She lied and told him that she and the top scorer were fated to be together for three lifetimes, and that if they couldn't end up together, the world's timeline would keep resetting.

The new emperor was sick of winning the succession struggle over and over, only to have everything start again.

“Ninety-nine times! What kind of man is so hard to win over? I'll help you get him!”

One unexpected kiss turned her into the fantasy that haunted his dreams at midnight, the inner demon of the future emperor who had always been pure and desireless, and a bewitching water spirit he couldn't resist.

He went to a temple to ask a master to calm his mind.

But the master said, “When Heaven is about to entrust someone with a great task, it first wears down their resolve.”

“How will it wear down my resolve?”

“Through life's eight sufferings: birth, aging, illness, death, the suffering of the five skandhas, separation from loved ones, meeting those you hate, and being unable to get what you want.”

The young emperor gave a scornful laugh. “Unable to get what I want? Taking it by force counts too!”