Toying with the Regent Using a Restriction Romance System

"Marrying into the Eastern Palace" is this year's top female-oriented novel, a smash-hit historical romance with all kinds of adaptation rights poised to take off! And she's not the lead actress in its S-rated TV adaptation, nor the voice actor for its audio drama. She's... the lead artist for the comic adaptation of "Marrying into the Eastern Palace."

Yu Xinhui: Sixty yuan a panel? Is that how you treat someone like me, an art school illustration graduate?

Also Yu Xinhui: Wait, no, please, Editor! Don't let AI draw it. Let me do it! I'm an art school illustration graduate, and I'm better than AI!

The economy is down, and jobs are hard to find. She puts up with it.

Then she draws herself into a daze, working until day turns to night and she passes out! Before losing consciousness, she thinks, In my next life, I want to be born into a powerful family and study art again. I want to create freely. I want to...

When she opens her eyes, she really has been born into a powerful family.

The home of the villainous regent from "Marrying into the Eastern Palace"... to be more precise, in the villainous regent's bed.

She's transmigrated into the nameless, disposable beauty whom the male lead, the crown prince of the Eastern Palace, sends to the regent's bed to expose the regent's improper conduct.

Luckily, she has a restricted-comics System from the start. The System tells her it's sure to help her win the heart of this feudal patriarch!

Yu Xinhui: …

[Ding. Host's new work, "Tempting the Holy Monk," is complete. It will be placed in the target's dream.]

She swears she only drew these strange little comics to complete her missions, redeem generous rewards, and get to a life of lying flat as soon as possible. As someone with artistic aspirations, she really doesn't draw Spring Palace scenes very often.

"Tempting the Holy Monk," "The Fragrant Abode," "The Dragon King and the Fisher Girl," "The Paralyzed Patriarch and His Pretty Maid"... To complete her restricted missions, she draws a whole pile of comics like these.

Then one day, the regent returns holding one of the little booklets called comics that have recently become popular on the market and asks her, "Xiaohui, how can you peer into my dreams and draw them all as these strange booklets for the world to see? Can you explain?"

Oh dear, he's found out. She thought he never read her comics.

Heaven knows her published comics are perfectly respectable. She just couldn't be bothered to redraw the settings, so she reused some scenes from her Spring Palace drawings. What about the ancient temple where a temptress seduces a monk, or the Dragon King's palace where he imprisons a fisher girl? She turned them all into action comics where the temptress and monk battle it out, and the fisher girl resists oppressive feudal forces and slaps the Dragon King. What's wrong with that?

But across from her, the regent Nie Songlian smiles again. "Your pen name is even Cai Lian Ren. Are you trying to 'pick' me, too?"

Yu Xinhui: What a coincidence. Just a coincidence. It's all an artistic coincidence.

*BG romance. The male lead is sexually inexperienced. He's 28, and the heroine is 22 (mentally 22, in a 19-year-old body).

A famous ancient-world comic artist and a regent, with a sweet age-gap romance and an older male lead who dotes on her.

The heroine is passionate when drawing comics and pursuing her career, but otherwise she's a lazy lie-flat type. She tackles restricted missions with a laid-back attitude, and things go smoothly without much fuss.

Theme: Love means understanding