What to Do When a Clingy, Two-Faced Teaholic Won't Leave You Alone

A ruthless, sharp-tongued beauty x a scheming, dark-hearted drama king

A perfect match: you're poisonous, and so am I

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The superstar Lin Ziyu transmigrates into a book and becomes a condemned woman, hated by everyone for harming a princess.

The System tells her that if she becomes empress, she can return to the modern world.

But it doesn't say who the emperor is...

Lin Ziyu: "..."

So it's basically a blind box?

No fear!

She's acted in countless palace power-struggle dramas, and the cutthroat scheming of showbiz is nothing new to her. This kind of comeback plot is right up her alley! How hard can it be to become empress?

But why isn't anything going the way she expected?

At the start of her first life, Lin Ziyu decides that finding the future emperor would take too long, so she goes straight for his father. Why not choose the emperor who's already right there?

But in the end, the princes launch a coup and swear to punish her, the wicked consort. Amid a torrent of curses, she is given a cup of poisoned wine.

In her second life, Lin Ziyu bets on a general from a humble family and follows a story of overthrowing the dynasty and rising to power, only to discover that he already has someone he loves!

She is pierced by a rain of arrows and sentenced to start over once again.

In her third life, Lin Ziyu learns from her mistakes. She takes a step back and observes everyone first.

Who could have guessed that after she had spent just one day and night observing them,

Prince Su, Xie Yueshan, the most useless man in the original book, whose scoundrel credentials could fill an entire line,

would be a ruthless killer who cut down people outside, yet turn red-eyed and pouty the moment he saw her, tears pattering down as he trapped her in his arms and pleaded in a hoarse, aggrieved voice:

"Big Sister... They all bully me. If you were willing to protect me, no one would bully me again."

"I'll give you my military merits, and I'll give you this realm, too. But you can only have eyes for me!"

Lin Ziyu: "?"

So... she'd bet on the wrong man in both her past lives?

Prince Su, Xie Yueshan, is dignified and self-possessed, with a string of military victories to his name. He is a once-in-a-century young hero.

And yet he falls for a convict.

He watches that sinful woman rise to become his father's favorite consort, then, after the next turn of the cycle, shyly throw herself into the arms of a rising court dignitary.

Xie Yueshan is furious.

What's so great about those two? One is older than him, and the other isn't as handsome.

Lin Ziyu must be blind.

But as long as she's happy, he can put up with men who aren't as good as him.

Then, twice in a row, she dies with her head and body separated.

At last, Xie Yueshan comes to his senses. "As long as she's happy" is all nonsense! Those two useless men can't make her happy. Only he can!

When he opens his eyes for the third time, he gets ahead of everyone else, becoming a general and vying for the throne.

Everyone at court fears his methods and falls silent in his presence.

But in front of Lin Ziyu alone,

he is frail as a willow in the wind, with pear-blossom tears on his cheeks, a pitiful little cabbage bullied by the whole world.

Later, on the night they consummate their marriage, Xie Yueshan cradles her face, and the scent of wine and his overwhelming presence wash over her.

He lowers his head and murmurs her childhood nickname against her ear:

"Nuonuo."

"Between me and my father, who's better?"

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One day, she finds the little notebook in his study. Its pages are covered in notes: Nuonuo smiled at me today. Nuonuo ignored me today. Nuonuo looked at the guard for a little too long today. I'll remember that.

Lin Ziyu: ...

Marriage first, love later | Past lives and present

Both the hero and heroine remember all three of their lives. They reveal their identities to each other right at the start, with no secrets.

One-on-one romance, both leads are devoted to each other. In the first two lives, the heroine has no feelings for anyone and is focused only on her mission; there is no cheating. The hero's perspective is biased. In their first two lives, the hero secretly pines for her, brooding in the shadows, while the heroine treats him like he's invisible. The System plays a minor role. This is a fictional setting with many original elements.

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