Has the Tyrant's Canary Managed to Escape Today?

*The hero's regret and pursuit of the heroine + faked death + the leads share dreams

Ji Yu transmigrated into the body of a palace maid serving a tyrant.

She had planned to keep her head down in the palace, but shortly after arriving, she angered the tyrant, who ordered her dragged to the Office of Punishments to be tortured.

Ji Yu was terrified out of her wits. At the crucial moment, she saved the tyrant’s life and avoided punishment at the Office of Punishments.

But the tyrant did not let her go. Instead, he kept her at his side and slowly tormented her.

Gradually, she realized that the tyrant’s gaze was growing stranger and stranger, and without her noticing, the distance between them seemed to shrink.

Eventually, she grew used to sitting on the tyrant’s lap, eating pastries he fed her by hand and letting him draw her brows and style her hair.

She even dreamed every night of the two of them entwined in intimate embraces.

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One day, Yan Hui discovered that he could share dreams with a little palace maid.

When he first realized this, he wanted to kill her.

But later, he found himself drawn to the little maid, wanting to give her everything he possessed.

He wanted to lock her away in the inner palace, to merge her into his very flesh and blood, keeping her forever by his side as a docile, obedient canary.

He knew the little maid was always trying to escape, so he chose to break her wings, leaving her a soulless puppet.

Even in their shared dreams, he forced her to please him every day.

In the end, the little maid chose to take her own life.

Only then did he realize what a terrible place he had driven her to.

He clutched her keepsakes, his heart shattered.

From then on, the decisive and ruthless tyrant became a complete madman.

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When they met again three years later, Yan Hui saw his little maid laughing and chatting with another man. All he could do was hide in a dark corner and watch her walk farther and farther away.

After trying every method he could think of, why could he never win the little maid’s heart back?

[A timid, reassuring heroine who looks like a delicate flower but is actually vengeful × a tyrant who is a wolfdog at first and a puppy later, with a dark side]

1. Happy ending.

2. Both leads are each other's first and only. The hero is an emperor, but has no harem.

3. An alternate-world setting. Everything serves the plot.

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Pre-release: The Prime Minister Is Still Pursuing His Wife Today. Please add it to your favorites.

Three years later, at her late husband's funeral, Jiang Baiwan saw her childhood friend Ji Sui again. He had risen all the way to become prime minister.

When Jiang Baiwan saw him walking toward her, she was reminded of their sordid past, and of how he had once betrayed her.

She wanted nothing to do with him, but things did not go as she wished. After the funeral, she kept running into him.

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After an accident, Jiang Baiwan was forced to stay in a thatched hut with Ji Sui.

He looked utterly wretched, and his eyes pleaded with her.

Ji Sui kept telling her how much he had missed and loved her over the years. As he watched Jiang Baiwan remain completely unmoved after hearing him out, despair slowly appeared on his face.

“Ji Sui, we’re even. You were the one who said so back then.”

Ji Sui shut his eyes in despair. Even breathing seemed to make his heart ache.

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The thing Ji Sui regretted most was letting Jiang Baiwan marry Pei Qu.

During the three years of her marriage, in every shadowy corner she could never have imagined, he watched her live in perfect harmony with Pei Qu, wishing he could kill Pei Qu and take his place.

At last, he received word that Pei Qu had died.

Ji Sui dressed himself in the way Jiang Baiwan had once loved most and appeared at Pei Qu’s funeral.

But all she said to him was, “Prime Minister, please conduct yourself with dignity.”

Theme: Love and ideals are both worth holding on to.