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Pre-release: Overthrowing the Dynasty. Please add it to your library. The deposed crown princess was born defiant.

The loyal daughter whose family was executed and exterminated led the revolt.

Blurb: Lu Li was the eldest son of the Prince of Chu's household, but because he was born to a concubine, he was called Second Master Lu from childhood.

Lu Li refused to accept this and was determined to make a name for himself through the imperial examinations.

He even sought the hand of Qin Feishuang, the daughter of a Grand Academician.

Three years after their wedding, he finally passed the imperial examinations with top honors and secured his position as heir to the prince's title.

His beloved cousin, the moonlight in his heart, also arrived at his side as promised.

But his cousin refused to be a concubine.

Lu Li thought he couldn't let her suffer.

As for Qin Feishuang, he hadn't touched her in three years,

reducing her to a laughingstock, yet she hadn't dared voice a single complaint.

Making her an equal wife was no big deal.

He never expected Qin Feishuang, who had always obeyed him without question, to insist on a divorce and leave him without looking back.

Lu Li thought, Hmph. No woman in the Qin family has ever remarried. He'll wait for her to regret it!

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Zhao Buyi was a son the late emperor refused to acknowledge. From childhood, he had neither name nor status,

and grew up in the cold palace, living worse than favored eunuchs.

Everyone could tread on him, and everyone had.

No one could have imagined that he would eventually become emperor.

Rumor had it that the emperor was so beautiful he had once been molested by a powerful eunuch,

leaving him with a lasting affliction and an intense aversion to skin-to-skin contact.

In the three years since taking the throne, his harem had remained completely empty.

Until one day, at a palace banquet, the emperor descended from his throne,

intimately took Qin Feishuang by her pale wrist, and humbly invited her to sit beside him.

The entire hall was stunned.

Qin Feishuang rose graciously, enduring the many different looks cast her way,

and brazenly took a seat on the imperial throne, drinking the emperor's wine from Zhao Buyi's hand.

The grape wine slid from her fiery red lips down her fair, delicate neck...

In an inconspicuous corner of the banquet hall,

Lu Li stared with bloodshot eyes.

Watching the woman on the throne bloom in all her bewitching beauty,

he crushed the wine cup in his hand.

Amid the gasps of those around him,

Lu Li's coughing fit suddenly returned, and a bright red stain spread across his handkerchief.

At last, he understood: he had long since regretted it, regretted it until his heart and liver ached.

Reader Advisory: 1. Old-school melodrama, including amnesia, stand-ins, a groveling ex-husband pursuing his wife, and a she-runs-he-chases plot. 2. Updates follow the rankings before signing; daily updates after signing.

This novel is entered in the "Growth and Comeback" competition. Please support it with your votes!

Reason for entry: The heroine, Qin Feishuang, is subjected to the scumbag's methodical taming, demoted from wife to concubine, and, pushed to the brink, fights to break free and bravely divorces him. She begins a journey of self-discovery and ultimately becomes someone who can stand shoulder to shoulder with the emperor.

Pre-release blurb: Overthrowing the Dynasty

Also known as: The Deposed Crown Princess Was Born Defiant.

Heaven has wronged me, so I will bring heaven down.

Blurb: Meng Xiang was declared destined from birth to become an empress and was appointed crown princess.

But when the dynasty suddenly collapsed, her entire family was executed, and she was poisoned while being exiled.

A phoenix fallen to earth is no better than a chicken. All of the capital laughed at her: So much for being destined to become an empress!

From then on, she knew there was no trust to be found in this world.

A beauty without thorns would always be a fish on someone else's chopping block.

Only supreme power could protect the most beautiful people in the world.

So she transformed herself,

from the capital's most virtuous young lady into Yang Family's Eleventh Son.

She would fight her way back from the mud,

all the way to those who thought themselves high above everyone else, masters of fortune and fate,

and relish the sight of them crawling on the ground, wagging their tails and begging for mercy.

A deadly game. A dynasty overthrown.

Only then did everyone understand that being destined to become an empress meant this:

If heaven gives it to me, I take it. If heaven does not, I seize it!

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The White Lotus Training System (Quick Transmigration): The supporting heroine takes center stage and sings her own song.

[Dream of the Red Chamber] Welcoming Spring Sends a Child: Welcoming Spring is reborn and becomes the Goddess of Fertility.

The Daoist Lin Daiyu [Dream of the Red Chamber]: This younger sister? I've been afraid of her!

When a Lin Daiyu Fan Reincarnates as Jia Min [Dream of the Red Chamber]: To raise Daiyu, I replaced an emperor!

I See Ghosts Every Night: With Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio in hand, the world is mine!

Bowing My Head to the "Charming" Flower: A rugged police chief and a petite policewoman, who is also a fierce flower.

Theme: There is always a way forward. Through hard work, we can build a new future.