I Became the Most Popular Character After Entering a Palace-Intrigue Dating Game

My next novel is an older-brother's-wife romance, My Sister-in-Law as My Wife. The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your reading list QWQ

After staying up for several nights playing an old-school palace intrigue game, Fu Suijiu opened her eyes to find she had become the player character at the center of that world.

Everything around her felt so real that she couldn't tell whether she was dreaming or awake.

All she knew was, since she was already here, she had to thoroughly toy with all the male leads!

Using save files, she passionately kissed her self-disciplined and proper cousin while everyone watched; took the chance to feel the gloomy regent's pecs again and again while pretending to drown; wore a eunuch's uniform and kissed the newly crowned top scholar until he stammered, his mouth full of talk about morality and propriety; opened wide and bit the moody tyrant until half his face was covered in teeth marks; hooked a cautious fake eunuch by the sash at his waist and dragged him into a room to have her way with him; and took advantage of the language barrier with the delicate male companion in the princess's household, constantly teaching him obscene words.

Once she'd had her fun, she simply clapped her hands, restored a save file, and pretended nothing had happened.

Thinking back on how she had flirted with all the princes and ministers right under the emperor's nose while playing a palace consort, Fu Suijiu would even raise her head proudly and exclaim, “That was so thrilling! So much fun!”

She'd transmigrated into a game to play with its paper-doll characters. Could other players do that?!

After all, once she loaded an old save, these NPCs wouldn't remember a thing. Didn't that mean she could do whatever she wanted in this world?!

But after following the strategies she remembered and maxing out every male lead's affection, the hidden ending she'd expected never appeared.

Instead, everyone asked her with red-rimmed eyes, “What do you mean, ‘You're a game player, so what you did was only natural’? What do you mean, ‘That's how you're supposed to play this game’? So you only ever saw us as part of a game, never cared for us, and never intended to take responsibility for us, is that it?”

Fu Suijiu was on the verge of tears as she tried to reload an old save and escape.

But no matter how many times she reloaded, those men's memories never changed.

It seemed they had awakened the moment she entered their world.

They remembered everything.

(This premise was written on 25.11.18 and has been screenshot and archived.)

Reader's guide:

1. Loosely based on the official system, clothing, and names of vassal states of the Northern Song. The details aren't very precise, so the setting is fictional and doesn't require historical scrutiny.

2. The heroine has a player's mindset, is mischievous by nature, and often gets up to mischief. Readers with high moral expectations for protagonists who can't accept this should stop reading in time.

3. All the male leads have no prior partners, including the emperor (emphasis).

Coming next: My Sister-in-Law as My Wife

(Beautiful, honest, married woman X younger man who's sweet on the outside but cunning underneath)

Yuan Shiheng leaned against the open doorway of her home, staring without blinking toward the village entrance.

The villagers all said the rebellion in the north had long been put down and the soldiers were about to return victorious. Her husband and younger brother-in-law were surely among them.

She waited from morning until night, looking so hard her eyes nearly fell out, and at last a familiar figure appeared: her younger brother-in-law, Li Xunyi.

Unlike the spirited young man who had set off for war, his handsome face was now flecked with blood.

The first thing Li Xunyi said after returning was, “Sister-in-law, my brother isn't coming back.”

How could a perfectly healthy man simply not come back?

Yuan Shiheng twisted the handkerchief in her hand. By instinct, she wanted to shed a few tears for her dead husband, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't cry.

Perhaps he saw her panic. Li Xunyi gently took her wrist, his thumb stroking the fine scars on her forearm, and softly murmured in her ear, “Don't be afraid. No one will bully you again.”

Yuan Shiheng nodded, believing him.

Her younger brother-in-law was a courteous and proper man, as well as a renowned strategist. He was well-traveled and would never harm her.

In these troubled times, she was grateful that he would protect her despite her low birth, so she obeyed him in everything.

Her brother-in-law told her that her late husband had never intended to marry her or give her a proper place in the family. Heartbroken, she lay in his arms and cried all night.

Her brother-in-law told her that he too was a member of the Li family, and if she wanted to continue the Li bloodline, there was nothing wrong with bearing his child. Though astonished, she blushed and obediently let the bed curtains fall.

Her brother-in-law told her that she had never actually married her late husband, so she was technically unmarried, and marrying him would not violate the moral order. After much thought, she placed a hand on her slightly rounded belly and nodded.

But she never expected that one day she would overhear Li Xunyi speaking with someone else.

It turned out her husband's death in battle was a lie. What he really wanted was to force himself on his sister-in-law.

Theme: Play through life, happiness above all