After Nine Loops, I Finally Fell in Love with My Enemy

A Deranged Courtesan Pretending to Be a Sweet, Innocent Beauty x A Naive Little Princess Who Grows Into a Resilient Female Lead

Su Qing was trapped in an endless cycle of reincarnation.

Every time she died, she returned to the day she first met Mu Feng at the Nan Feng Brothel.

She had fallen in love with Mu Feng at first sight, bought him, and helped him enter officialdom.

Five years later, Mu Feng was made a marquis and prime minister, then proposed to her.

On their wedding day, the candles wept blood and blades laid the palace to ruin.

Mu Feng murdered the emperor and launched a rebellion, while she was forced onto the phoenix throne and made empress.

Her father's killer knelt before Su Qing, eyes bloodshot and voice trembling.

"Didn't you say you'd love me no matter what I did, Sister?"

Mu Feng had come for revenge.

Fifteen years ago, Prince Mu was accused of treason and rebellion, and Emperor Wu exterminated his entire household. Mu Feng was Prince Mu's only son, a survivor who had slipped through the net.

Five years of deep affection could not dissolve the blood feud that had wiped out his family. Su Qing's love was the sharpest blade in Mu Feng's hand.

She had let a wolf into her home and caused her family to die. Nothing could undo it now.

Her crimes were unforgivable, love and hatred impossible to reconcile, and she had brought this bitter fruit upon herself.

With poisoned wine down her throat, Su Qing ended this absurd tangle of love and hate.

When she opened her eyes again, the cycle began anew.

Su Qing was back at the Nan Feng Brothel, where she had first met Mu Feng.

Mu Feng was still young and not yet powerful, his family was still alive, and everything could still be changed.

She resolved to kill Mu Feng and protect all her loved ones, but accidentally uncovered a long-buried secret:

The so-called treason and rebellion had been a grave miscarriage of justice, one destined to be remembered for ages.

General Mu An had never betrayed his country. He had won countless victories and was utterly loyal, but his achievements had overshadowed the throne, making him a thorn in the emperor's side. And the very father she revered had been the mastermind who used him and then discarded him.

Right and wrong had been turned upside down, and family ties clashed with conscience.

Su Qing suddenly had no idea what to do.

What was right? What was wrong?

Should she protect her flesh and blood, or follow the greater good and restore the honor of a loyal man?

Or was this new version of the truth about the massacre also a lie?

A leaf can obscure the whole mountain. Perhaps only by clearing away the layers of fog and uncovering the truth of the past could she break free of fate and escape the cycle, reborn.

Reading Guide:

1. The heroine is imperfect early on. She is a princess who grew up spoiled, and she makes mistakes and fails to see clearly. Even after she grows, she only becomes more mature and steady, not miraculously brilliant.

2. Both leads are each other's only partners. While the hero was a courtesan, he performed but never slept with clients or served anyone else.

3. At the start, the hero is focused solely on revenge and comes across as a villain. He is redeemed midway through.

4. Their love is mutual; it isn't a story of the heroine alone suffering unrequited love.

5. The reason for the cycle is revealed at the end, with clues appearing midway through.

6. This novel is also titled The Cycle of Tribulation.

[Mutual Salvation] [Obsessive Possessiveness] [Blood Feud] [Reincarnation Cycle]

Theme: The cycle of fate