After Getting Tangled Up with a Sinister Celestial Dragon

Reader’s guide: An innocent, adored-by-all, sweet-looking-but-dark-inside heroine × a group of privileged men Includes: melodramatic Mary Sue, an adored-by-all heroine, rival men fighting for her, a heroine with little sense of morality who isn’t truly an innocent flower, an emotional storyline about the men pursuing her after losing her, not traditional Western fantasy, and many original settings The heroine later gets revenge on several of the men After a self-serving innocent flower catches the attention of three mad, privileged men After transmigrating to another world, Shen Tongqing found herself in a disastrous situation from the start: resources were monopolized, her farm was in decline, and she was helpless. Worse still, a wanted black dragon was hiding in her home. If he was discovered, she would be executed along with him. To survive, she remembered the “old ties” she had with three men. On a rainy night, Shen Tongqing knocked on the bishop’s door. The hinges turned, and the bishop stood in the shadows, looking down at her. With her head bowed, Shen Tongqing spoke timidly. “You promised you wouldn’t make things difficult for…” Lu Tingjun said nothing. He put an arm around her waist, lifted her up, and carried her into the darkness. 2. At the tavern, council president Qian Qiong wore a carefree smile. “Then… Miss Shen has nothing to offer me in exchange for my help, does she?” But his hand roamed to her waist. “Still… it’s not impossible.” By candlelight, he watched her undress with a cold gaze, as though she were something filthy. He gripped the back of her neck and spat out two words: “Devil.” As she moved between the two men, Shen Tongqing’s body and mind were tormented day after day. Only Mai Yi treated her with unchanging gentleness. She had saved his life, and he called her his master. Shen thought he was the only one she could rely on. So she confessed her feelings, and when Mai Yi pulled her into his arms, she happily assumed he had accepted. Until Shen Tongqing rushed into his engagement banquet and asked tearfully, “But yesterday you clearly said you’d be with me…” Mai Yi smiled, pure and harmless. “But I never said yes.” At that moment, her heart turned to ice. 3. Shen Tongqing, her heart dead, completed her System mission and chose to die and leave. But when she woke up, it wasn’t the real world that greeted her. She was lying in a hospital bed, with the three of them gathered around her like fiends from hell. Their weighty gazes made it hard for Shen Tongqing to breathe. When Etienne sensed something was wrong and kicked open the side hall of the bishop’s residence, he saw the three of them surrounding her. The bishop pinned her hand to the table. The council president bent down and bit her earlobe. The captain, dressed in his knight’s uniform, buried his face in the crook of her neck. Her lips were crimson, her eyes glistening with tears. “Let her go!” Etienne drew his sword. The bishop looked up unhurriedly and pulled her into his arms. “She isn’t going back with you.” She trembled slightly in the crook of his arm, then turned to Etienne. Her lips moved, silently forming two words: Save me. What’s done is done. There’s no turning back. Qian Qiong / President of the International Bank: A carefree, vulgar rogue with a smiling, two-faced nature Lu Tingjun / Archbishop: A haughty, dignified, old-fashioned iceberg Etienne / Black Dragon: A cool beauty and sweet, jealous husband Mai Yi / Guard Captain: A youthful, passionate, cold-blooded, scheming puppy Theme: Every road to freedom comes with a price.