After Toying With and Abandoning a Paranoid Yandere

[Imperial Exams and Officialdom] [Everyone's Favorite] [Men Competing for Her] [1v10] [Captivity and Coercive Possession]

After her family falls from power, the impoverished scholar Chu Qingli spends three years as a slave, enduring every humiliation. By chance, she gets a taste of power, and from then on develops an obsession with it. Without some authority in her hands, she feels uneasy and cannot sleep.

So she wants to become a powerful minister.

To smooth her path to office, she can bow her head when others would not, and endure what ordinary people could not.

She can even stop at nothing.

To climb the ladder of power, she uses a whole string of handsome men, then abandons them after having her way. They give her their sincere hearts, only for her to trample them into the mud and toy with them.

The world accuses her of being unscrupulous, of currying favor with the powerful, and of being a heartbreaker!

But Chu Qingli has never thought she did anything wrong. So what if she craves power? In this world, the strong have always ruled.

Until one careless move leaves her in a hopeless predicament...

[The lovesick prince she jilted hates her to the bone. On the eve of her coronation, he locks her up in iron chains... and toys with her...]

[The aloof, chaste Imperial Preceptor loses control after she teases him and then throws him aside. He uses a deadly secret as leverage to make her spend every night with him at the Observatory...]

[The all-powerful "Crown Prince" sees her as a plaything. After forcing her to give herself to him, he intends to discard her, but when he sees her being intimate with someone else, he goes mad and imprisons her...]

[Her former kind and upright friend hates her for betraying him. After bringing her to justice, he punishes her with the lash in prison... and bullies her...]

Chu Qingli: ...???

Is this what they mean by good and evil getting their just deserts? Has even Heaven finally had enough of me and come to collect?

What goes around comes around.

1. Multiple male leads, all virgins, and many are lovesick and possessive. There will be coercive scenes. There are ten male leads, not just the ones mentioned in the blurb.

2. The heroine is intelligent but conceited. She can bend and adapt, and will stop at nothing. She is cold-hearted. She is rather passive in romance. This is not a story about an invincible heroine. She will make mistakes and hit rock bottom, and her road will not be smooth. If that's not your thing, please don't read.

3. This is not a matriarchal world. Men and women can both hold office. The main plot follows the heroine's rise through the ranks, and her career takes up a substantial part of the story, interwoven with the romance.

4. Court intrigue, schemes spanning the realm, and plenty of twists, in a fast-paced, satisfying story, plus possessive male leads who try to claim her by force.

---------- Upcoming Story ----------

Another upcoming story in the same genre: The Strategist Plays Her Hand

A cool, frail beauty and female strategist who leaves nothing to chance x her proud, noble, dazzlingly debauched archenemy

After her entire family is executed, the daughter of a condemned official is carried away by a servant and hidden in the countryside as the family's sole surviving heir.

Naturally frail and reserved, she is a beauty whose looks outshine everyone in the capital. Gifted from childhood, she is a young genius whose plans never fail.

For three years, she lives under an assumed name in the countryside, secretly moving the pieces on the board. One move sends shock waves through the realm, and a single letter reshuffles the balance between the court's pure and corrupt factions.

To uncover the truth about what happened and avenge her murdered family, she vows to enter the court and stir up a storm, armed with a frail body and an unmatched strategic mind.

She intends to conceal her identity and take her time carrying out her plans, but her archenemy Xuan Ying pursues her relentlessly.

Whenever she makes a move, he closes in like a hunting falcon and wolfhound, until she has nowhere left to retreat and nowhere to hide.

This is a story about

serving as a strategist in a golden age, helping a prince contend for the throne and stirring up the court;

serving as a military adviser in chaotic times, taking on ten thousand enemies alone and turning back their armies despite her frail body;

and, in the end, finding a happy ending with her archenemy.

Contains coercive scenes. Please don't read if you dislike them.

Theme: Stand on your own two feet and grow stronger.