Candles Glowing Toward Dusk (Reborn Twice)

[Female Lead's Perspective]

Only when Song Wan died did she understand one thing.

The man she'd risked her life to support had never cared for her.

In her previous life, she took a blade for him, helped him scheme, and stood by his side on a knife's edge for two years.

Until the most intimate night they shared, when he whispered another woman's name in her ear.

After being reborn, Song Wan has just one thought: in this life, she wants nothing more to do with him.

But she soon discovers that Zhao Xuan seems even clingier than he was in her previous life...

[Male Lead's Perspective]

In his previous life, Zhao Xuan occupied the Eastern Palace, schemed for years, and kept himself free of worldly desires.

He was so busy he hadn't even held a girl's hand. At last, amid a storm of court intrigue, he secured the throne.

On the night of the celebratory banquet, he had just tasted a little of life's pleasures when he was poisoned to death.

Reborn, he makes his plans and advances step by step, while also hoping to repay the debts of love he incurred in his previous life.

But the person he can't stop thinking about seems to despise him.

And she's surrounded by a few men who are incredibly annoying.

---About This Story---

1. Both leads are reborn. Dual perspectives. There are misunderstandings, but the male lead is not a scumbag.

2. Set in an imaginary world with a mixture of official systems. No historical nitpicking, please. No ranking comparisons.

---Coming Soon: The Retainers---

In a turbulent age, all the realm's retainers gather at the Juke Pavilion.

The elusive pavilion master has three lifelong ambitions: sell retainers, sell retainers, and sell retainers!

Looking at the retainers she has kept in reserve, the pavilion master carefully drafts an ad: "Delicate and soft, easy to push down. Try one and see for yourself."

Employers who wield both wealth and power soon come flocking, each taking what they need.

The retainers sell out. Demand is through the roof.

The pavilion master counts money until her hands ache.

Many years later...

The pavilion master transforms, dons an imperial crown, and sets out to rule the realm.

The retainers of old hear the news and all return.

Looking at the retainers she hasn't seen in years, she asks just one question: "Have you all eaten your fill?"

Serious blurb: Retainers have their ranks. The powerful exploit others, while the lowly seek a full stomach. The learned excel at strategy, while the martial serve in battle. Whoever secures the best of them wins the realm.

---Coming Soon: Seeing All My Subjects (Reborn)---

In her previous life, Dou Zao was a maid in a marquis's household. Because she was pretty, her master sent her to the palace to extend the life of the dying old emperor.

But Heaven had other plans. After the old emperor died, a fire broke out in the mourning hall, taking with it the princes and consorts who had come to mourn him.

Thus, the only surviving infant prince inherited the throne, and the only surviving consort, Dou Zao, became empress dowager.

While serving as regent, Dou Zao became an expert at "playing weak to devour her subjects": one official, then another, and yet another. In the end, she seized all power and spent the rest of her life in glory.

After being reborn, Dou Zao thought Heaven had decided that one satisfying life wasn't enough and was giving her another.

What she didn't expect was that all those officials, one after another, had also been reborn...

Well, this is fun.

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Theme: Love means giving and protecting.