[Novella]
They entwined in dreams, night after night.
Lian Cheng went to find a Daoist priest.
The priest glanced at her and said just one thing:
"You can't remember anything at all?"
"...What?"
"She's the wife you stole from me," he said. "She's your Zhiqing."
Memories of her past life came flooding back like a tide.
In that life, he was called Lian Cheng.
He should have been a young master raised in luxury, but someone had cruelly switched their identities. The fake young master took his home, his parents, everything.
He was indifferent by nature and only wanted to rise to the top one day. He had never thought of reclaiming any identity.
But the person who had stolen his life kept working against him, day and night.
In the crowd, she stood beside the impostor, smiling pure and innocent, unaware of the world. He was a hypocrite, faithless and unfeeling, yet he cherished her above all else.
The more he cherished her, the more determined Lian Cheng was to take her for himself.
On the day of the grand wedding, the top scholar married the princess. The whole city celebrated, and he was radiant with triumph.
His Zhiqing died in the back courtyard, and no one knew.
She became a vengeful ghost and dragged him into an illusion.
In the illusion, their identities had never been switched. They were childhood sweethearts, close and innocent. She wanted him to lose, to watch power slip from his grasp, to have his legs broken so he could not even crawl to her.
She had planned for everything.
But that elegant gentleman, who stood at the pinnacle of power and held the court in his grasp, merely raised his eyes to look at her and asked:
"Does Zhiqing want to be emperor?"
She had accounted for everything, except that he would ask her that.
Then she raised her hand and slapped him hard across the face.
"You shameless thing," she gritted out. "Are you really that eager to be my bedwarming eunuch?"
Reader's Guide:
* Both leads are physically and emotionally pure, but expect plenty of melodrama.
* The female lead was a boy in her past life, and the male lead was a girl in his. In this life, the female lead may encounter the male lead from her past life, so please be sure this isn't a dealbreaker for you.
* The female lead was a real jerk in her past life.
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