A Drama Queen Transmigrates Into the Most Hated Person in Ancient Times

An Ziqing is an internet celebrity famous for being a drama queen who will act for anyone willing to pay. She shot to fame in college. At the same time, though, someone grew jealous of her and plotted against her, setting her up with rumors that unleashed a wave of online abuse. This person even used her real name in a period tragedy novel titled 101 Ways to Torture An Ziqing, all to give her internet haters something to celebrate. The entire story was about the ways she was tortured. Although it was all about her, the author also created a male and female lead who rose through the ranks together, serving as her contrast.

Driven by sheer curiosity, An Ziqing even skimmed through the whole thing.

But the moment she finished, she transmigrated into the novel as herself and became bound to a Drama Queen System. The System told her that if she used her acting skills to kill one of the story's villains and change the original plot, avenging the original host, the traces left in the world by the person who had harmed her would disappear. She could then take all the money she had earned so far, return to the modern world, and start over on the day her college entrance exams ended.

The original An Ziqing in the book was an unloved concubine-born daughter: sickly and foolish, with nothing going for her except her beauty. Everyone shunned her. All she had were her meek mother and younger brother, and her sole purpose in life was to be tortured.

The book only showed the original host being tormented and the male and female leads living happily ever after. An Ziqing had no idea what the main plot was, how to change it, or what would count as revenge for the original host.

An Ziqing: No problem. Who says a drama queen can't fight evil and get revenge, while turning from everyone's least favorite into everyone's darling?

Her greatest talent was playing all kinds of roles while quietly achieving her own goals.

When she was framed for adultery and sentenced to be drowned in a pig cage,

she had already planned everything. As the truth came to light, she put on a fragile, helpless expression and looked at everyone with pitiful eyes.

The Prince of Huaining, her ally, produced an imperial edict and condemned the entire An family.

The guests at the banquet: The An family has oppressed Third Miss An for years. Their crimes are unforgivable!

The tables turned, and public opinion swung in An Ziqing's favor.

The System assigned her a mission to kill the wicked Consort. The Emperor shielded her, and her power was so great she could twist truth into lies.

An Ziqing: It's fine, it's fine. This is easy.

All she had to do was play an innocent, clueless little rabbit and get everyone in the palace to take her side!

Let the wicked couple die together. As for her, she hadn't done anything, had she?

With the realm thrown into chaos, she resolutely set out for a remote island to seize the medicine that could save countless lives.

She had to play a game along the way.

Using the store, she got her hands on everyone's identity cards and quietly tricked them all into doing exactly what she wanted.

After claiming her spoils, she shed her disguise, her beauty breathtaking. Standing on a small boat, the girl smiled as she joined the man who had gathered all the evidence at court, putting on a chuunibyou act: "The game should end now."

She played countless roles, and there was always some side of her that drew people in.

Ministers at court and consorts in the inner palace all took notice of her. The young masters and ladies of the capital, even the princes and princesses, competed to befriend her.

The people: Miss An is truly like a god... We were so wrong back then. Please forgive us, Miss An qwq

The only person she couldn't bear to leave behind in this world was Shen Yuchi, a prince who was a drama queen just like her.

Since childhood, the prince had been taught to stay out of conflicts. Though he was a top-tier powerhouse, he could only pretend to be a dissolute wastrel as he went through life, all to protect himself.

Perhaps neither of them cared for worldly affairs, and everything was just an act.

But the Prince of Huaining said she was the only light he had ever seen in his life.

Only then did she belatedly realize that she had grown used to spending her days and nights by his side...

Later, they learned that they had not actually met for the first time in this world. The prince had also transmigrated into a book. They had shared a connection in the modern world, but fate had kept them apart.

After transmigrating, they lost their memories of each other, yet still resolutely made their way toward one another.

Once An Ziqing completed her mission, they remembered everything. They learned from the System who had written the book and why they had to complete these missions. They also found out why Shen Yuchi had come here.

After everything they had been through, all they wanted was the chance to return to the best years of their lives, enjoy the world together, and be each other's partners in crime.

They loved every side of each other.

[Beautiful and delicate on the surface, but a master of saying whatever suits the person in front of her, with maxed-out acting skills, paired with a prince who pretends to be a womanizer and a wastrel but is secretly a strategist. Two drama queens putting on a show together]

[One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins, happy ending]

[Entirely fictional setting, with plenty of original worldbuilding. Please don't nitpick the historical details or compare it to reality, and don't expect rigorous logic]

[Includes some unconventional palace intrigue]

[The logic serves the story]

[A little ensemble cast]

A recommendation for the blurb of After the Princess Binds a Stray Cat Rescue System. Visit the author's page to bookmark it.

Zhu Yuning transmigrated into the body of a princess on her way to a political marriage. She heard that the emperor in the other kingdom was so old he could have fathered her, and so cruel that marrying him would mean certain death.

Zhu Yuning: ? Run away, now!

In her bridal sedan, she became bound to a Stray Cat Rescue System. Thanks to the merit she'd earned by helping stray cats in her previous life in the modern world, the System made an exception and gave her one chance to speak with cats.

As luck would have it, there were some cats nearby.

She told them about her predicament, and they swarmed the bridal sedan.

The incident caused an uproar, and both kingdoms took the marriage as a bad omen.

In the end, the marriage was called off, and Zhu Yuning was stripped of her princess title.

But it was fine. With the System's help, she established a stray cat rescue center among the people. The System not only gave her money to set it up and a regular salary, but also helped her find cats in need. She could redeem all kinds of things with the points she earned, and she spent them all on cats.

She even established a chain of rescue centers throughout the country.

Just as before, her goal was to make sure no stray cat in the world had to suffer. She didn't care much about anything else.

Gradually, the rumors among the people died down. She stayed where she was, living a quiet and peaceful life.

She also opened a cat cafe, where gentle cats welcomed the customers. To her surprise, it brought in quite a lot of silver.

The young woman smiled softly, able to tell every cat's name, background, and story.

But... there was a handsome young gentleman who kept coming to visit her. When they first met, he looked pitiful and said his cat had gone missing. Could she please help him find it? Once they did, he could leave it with her and visit from time to time.

Why leave it with her?

Later, she learned that the gentleman was a prince born to the consort of the man she had been meant to marry. His mother hated cats. When he was little, he brought home a cat, and she insisted he throw it out. He had been trying to find it all these years.

He never expected her to actually find it.

She heard about the prince's circumstances and was furious on his behalf. When she learned he planned to seize the throne, it just so happened that she had finally unlocked the ability to talk to stray cats through her own efforts. She sent the cats she had rescued to speak with the palace cats and gather all kinds of secret information.

Her motto was: How could someone who treats cats well possibly have bad intentions?

Wait a minute... Was this decisive man, who swept away every obstacle on his way to the throne and made her empress, really the same pitiful little thing who used to hover around her and do whatever she said?

[The author has never worked in stray cat rescue. All related information comes from online searches, and corrections are welcome]

[The setting is fictional, so please don't nitpick]

[The male lead is sweet and pitiful in front of the heroine, but has endured for years and turns ruthless in an instant, paired with a sincere heroine who doesn't care about anything except cats]

[Older woman-younger man romance, with the male lead two years younger]

[Thank you all for reading]

If you enjoy yuri, you might also like my upcoming novel, After Falling for My Favorite Fanfic Author. Here's the blurb too. Visit my author page to find it.

As she was about to start her senior year of high school, Ruan Qingguang got a recommendation from a friend and became obsessed with a female celebrity pairing that had taken the entertainment world by storm seven years ago.

There was tons of content, fan creations were everywhere, and even now they frequently trended online and were used as a benchmark by other pairings.

On impulse, she started a fan account and began making graphics for them.

But the name of her account happened to match the title of a new story by Nuanching, a popular fanfic author who had been writing in the fandom for seven years. The coincidence got people talking.

At the time, she simply laughed it off. Later, she discovered it might actually have been the beginning of fate.

She really did fall in love with her.

She told a friend as if it were a joke. Her friend: ...Is there no respectable way for you to start a fan account in this fandom? Wait, are you serious?

How could she describe the words the woman wrote? Ruan Qingguang thought they were gentle, delicate, and perceptive. Perhaps only the moon in the sky could compare.

She organized a theater screening of a film starring one half of the pairing. While checking the attendees' Weibo IDs, she spotted someone with a slender figure and extraordinary poise. Those eyes seemed to hold all the lights in the world.

The woman showed her Weibo profile. Before Ruan Qingguang could cry out, she covered her mouth, a playful smile in her eyes. "It's me. Don't tell anyone."

She sat beside Ruan Qingguang to watch the film, and Ruan Qingguang was so startled that she spilled the water she'd just bought.

Afterward, heavy rain began to fall outside.

They walked side by side into the rain like that, and exchanged their private contact details.

"How can I ever forget her?"

Her feelings grew beyond her control, but how could Ruan Qingguang not understand reality?

She reread the fictional stories Nuanching had written countless times, along with their sporadic chat logs, piecing together a supposed "love" from a few scattered words, fully aware that it was only a fantasy.

Timid and cowardly, she gazed at the moon and clung to the warmth she'd imagined, yet never dared to take a step forward.

She was easy to please. She could live on the imagined love alone. She had always lived that way.

Reason and delusion fought in her mind every day. At last, she decided to just get through the college entrance exams first. Once they were over, she would definitely let go.

After the exams, she got her phone back. Seeing the woman running toward her with a bouquet of flowers, Ruan Qingguang stared blankly and opened the pinned chat on WeChat.

It was a long confession letter.

She had never imagined that such flawless writing could one day be used to describe her.

Sunlight stretched across the vast sky and shone on her spirited, radiant face as she embraced the woman at her side, close enough to touch.

It turned out she wasn't the only one who had repeatedly tested the waters, imagining a hopeless love of her own making.

Beyond the downpour, the sky clears.

[A seemingly gentle and poised but actually sweet and slightly spoiled university student who writes fanfiction, paired with a seemingly outgoing and cheerful but inwardly sensitive high school senior who runs a fan account. Fourth-year university student and high school senior, four-year age gap]

[Little Ruan's family is fairly well-off. This is a story about a very rich girl and a very loving girl]

[Also known as A High School Senior's Guide to Unrequited Love and What to Do When You Fall for Your Favorite Fanfic Author]

[Little Ruan's personality may be a bit extreme early on. I can't say more without spoiling things. If it's not for you, feel free to drop it without telling me]

[A story about loving yourself before loving someone else]

[And little angels, please don't waste your senior year of high school pining after someone like Little Ruan does!!!]

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