After My Twisted Stepsister Took an Interest in Me

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Resilient, self-serving noblewoman with a black-lotus heart X sharp-tongued, devoted, scheming stepson

Height difference | Rekindled romance | Coercive love | The chase to win her back

The day Xiao Ce lost his mother, the empress, and his elder brother, fell from the heights, and was forced to go north as a hostage was also the day Xie Yunshu cruelly abandoned him, accepted the imperial edict summoning her to the palace, and became his father's Consort Shu.

Once, Xie Yunshu and he had grown up together, childhood sweethearts, deeply in love.

Afterward, Xie Yunshu made careful plans at every turn, scheming to ensure that she remained favored and influential.

But people cannot outscheme fate. The emperor suddenly fell gravely ill, and because he could not choose an heir, the palace and the court descended into chaos.

It was then that Xiao Ce pushed open the doors to Xie Yunshu's chambers.

Five years of hardship had sharpened his features, transforming the young man of old into an ambitious man brimming with murderous intent.

He gripped her chin and smiled at her. "Consort Shu, it's been years. You're still as beautiful as ever."

*

After Xiao Ce lost everything, the person he hated most was the fiancée who had abandoned him.

On the road back to the capital with the private troops he had trained, all he could think about was how to take revenge on the heartless, poisonous woman who had become his stepmother.

He would make her kneel and weep. He would make her taste every blizzard he had endured and atone for every drop of blood he had shed.

But faced with his hatred, she merely stroked her belly and smiled at him. "I'm pregnant. It's your child. You'll protect us, won't you?"

He sneered and gripped her chin. "Who do you think you are? You think a lump of flesh is enough to soften my heart?"

A little scene

As Xiao Ce's most loyal subordinate, Lin Yue often warned him to be wary of the empress dowager. She was devious and would surely bring him harm sooner or later.

Xiao Ce merely waved him off. "I have my own plan."

But one day, when he went to the palace for a meeting and did not return for a long time, Lin Yue grew worried and went to check on him.

In the flickering candlelight, he saw His Highness the regent, usually a man of few words, grasping the empress dowager's slender ankle and leaning over her. His lips brushed her ear as he whispered, "The person sitting on the dragon throne had better truly be my child. Otherwise..."

He paused, running his fingertip slowly up the inside of her calf.

"I'll make sure Your Majesty gets pregnant again."

[Reading Guide]

1. A groveling chase to win her back and coercive love. One man, one woman.

2. The male lead is a sweet puppy at first, then a big bad wolf. He is devoted to the heroine in body and soul. The heroine is not a virgin, but the male lead is.

3. The heroine is no pushover. She entered the palace for a reason, and there is a twist at the end.

4. The old emperor is only old in the way he talks. He is not actually that old: he was thirty-five when the heroine entered the palace and forty when the male lead returned.

5. Beware of melodrama. Read at your own risk.

P.S. While the stepmother-stepchild relationship remains in place, meaning while the male lead's father is alive or the heroine is a consort of his father, there are no inappropriate scenes.

Some forms of address in the story are used for plot purposes only and have no special meaning.

Coming-soon story

Resourceful, flexible princess X dark, obsessive, controlling brother with a sister complex

In the year she graduated from university, Sheng Quhua was diagnosed with an extremely rare terminal illness. She closed her eyes for the last time while seeking treatment.

Then she transmigrated into a historical romance novel.

The real princess, maliciously switched at birth by her wet nurse, would overcome countless hardships, discover her true identity, and live happily ever after with the young general she loved. Unfortunately, Sheng Quhua was the fake princess, the villain of the story.

She would repeatedly scheme against the heroine, only to die a wretched death in the wilderness.

Terrified by this ending, Sheng Quhua was relieved when the binding System told her that if she could win over the original story's devoted second male lead and earn enough points, she could survive, return to her original world, and reunite with her family.

At this, Sheng Quhua was full of enthusiasm.

How hard could it be to pursue someone?

But the devoted second male lead was devoted to the heroine, heart and soul. Just as Sheng Quhua had finally managed to move him a little and get him to accept the imperial edict arranging their marriage, she disappeared.

When she woke, she found herself on a couch in the Eastern Palace. The story's great villain, and also the elder brother Sheng Yunzhi she relied on more than anyone, held a chain in his hand and said through gritted teeth, "I doted on you and raised you in the palm of my hand, and yet you humbled yourself like that for some man who means nothing to you."

"I've put up with you for long enough."

Rumors outside the palace claimed that Princess Zhaoning was ill and had withdrawn to her princess's residence to live in comfort. Meanwhile, the Eastern Palace had gained a beauty who was favored day and night.

Lin Jihan, the young tutor who had always been a model of restraint and propriety, ignored the astonished looks of everyone around him and begged the crown prince to return his wife.

Sheng Yunzhi glanced at the girl in his arms, whom he had thoroughly tormented, and raised an eyebrow. "Do you want to go back with him?"

"If I say I want to go back with him, won't you eat me alive... Mmph! Help!"

Note: The male and female leads both know that the heroine is a fake princess. Their intimate relationship only begins after the truth comes out, and there is nothing inappropriate while their original relationship is still in effect.

Theme: Love is like tending a flower