Can I Still Successfully Usurp the Throne While Coughing Up Blood?

A frail, sickly white lotus with a dagger hidden in her smile X a ferocious little wolf who can lift a cauldron Complete * Qin Nonghua set out to become a Wu Zetian, but ended up with Zhuge Liang’s fate. Unluckily, she became the first princess in transmigration history to die from overwork. The moment she opened her eyes, she was back at the time she had first transmigrated. The kingdom was still standing, her father was alive, her few neurotic brothers had only just begun their pathetic infighting, and the enemy spies had yet to stir up trouble. Frailty itself, Qin Nonghua coughed up blood at the slightest breeze and took a hard look at her life: Emperors weren’t cut out for ordinary people. She’d be better off raising a younger imperial brother. The newly minted Ninth Prince seemed perfect. His background was tragic, he’d suffered all his life, and a little kindness from her would surely move him to tears and make him repay her kindness with unwavering devotion. Years later. Qin Nonghua, who had set out to become Lü Buwei but ended up with the reign of two sovereigns, slowly typed a question mark. Before Qin Yaoyuan had the surname Qin, he once heard a madwoman muttering behind a rock garden: “The First Prince is headstrong and self-important, the Second Prince has a pathological hatred of women… The Sixth Prince is unhinged, the Seventh Prince looks down on everyone, and the Eighth Prince is petty to a fault. Which lucky fellow should I manipulate to contend for the throne?” Qin Yaoyuan: Who’d be unlucky enough to end up in that role? Then, in a sudden turn of events, he rose to power. The madwoman held him, battered and bruised, and wept like a flower in the rain. “From now on, your elder sister will share every hardship with you. Even if it costs me my life, I won’t let you get hurt!” Qin Yaoyuan: …Oh. So I’m the unlucky one. * “I knew all along that you were hypocritical, devious, and cold, an ambitious man who hides a dagger behind his smile.” “I also knew of your aspirations, your talent, your pride, and the kingly benevolence you show while wielding power and manipulating politics.” “But I can’t let you know that I’m willing to be at your beck and call, and that it has nothing to do with sharing your concern for the nation’s peril or your compassion for the people’s suffering.” “All I have ever wanted is to grow old by your side.” “Elder Sister, when will you grant me my long-cherished wish?” Please note: 1. The leads are not related by blood. 2. There is no absolute right or wrong. 3. One-on-one romance, happy ending, alternate world. 4. Updates every night at 9. Joined the paid serialization on February 18, 2020, with three chapters released that day. Updates daily unless something comes up. New novel, please add it to your wish list: Fox’s Crossing In the capital of Great Wei, humans and demons live together in prosperity. The Spirit Pacification Bureau oversees all nonhuman clans, hunts down evil demons, and settles disputes between humans and demons. Though Bureau Chief Wu Xiaohan is human, his methods are more ruthless than those of demons. On the day an army escorting strange and marvelous creatures for the Thousand Autumns Banquet arrived in the capital, Wu Xiaohan rode alone before tens of thousands of Wei soldiers. Not one dared take another step. Tan Ning, in a cage: …Isn’t that the nine-tailed fox who once saved me? … Everyone knows that medicinal beasts can identify all kinds of herbs, but few know that their hearts can also dispel illusions. To everyone else, he is a human prodigy, cold and merciless, with a venomous tongue and a heart of stone, more like a demon than a man. To Tan Ning, his nine tails are wonderfully soft to touch. After swallowing a medicinal beast’s heart, Tan Ning passes the Spirit Pacification Bureau’s inspection and stays on as an envoy from the demon clans. To make sure she has the right fox, she decides to sound him out. “Bureau Chief Wu, may I ask you something?” The fox corrects her with a cold expression. “Call me Master.” “Master, did you visit Snowglaze Valley ten years ago?” Wu Xiaohan denies it outright, but the nine-tailed fox in Tan Ning’s eyes pricks up his ears warily. Tan Ning: My savior fox must have a good reason for hiding his identity. I’ll secretly help him through whatever trouble he’s in. … The Longzhu has three great regrets in life. First, he was born with nine heads. Second, his fur was bright red, nothing like the pure white coat of the Celestial Fox. Again and again, he stared into the water, and again and again, he shattered the ugly, horrifying reflection of the fox staring back. After becoming Wu Xiaohan, he made sure not a speck of red ever touched him. But the new demon envoy wore eye-catching red every day, and she was so capable that in no time, everyone at the Spirit Pacification Bureau was singing her praises. “Wu Xiaohan, when you blink, it’s like butterflies are flying.” “Wu Xiaohan, the snow in Snowglaze Valley never melts, and not a speck of dust ever touches it. Just like your skin.” At first, he thought she was just another flatterer. But later, he saw her pluck the first red leaf of early autumn for him, rush into a blazing fire without a thought for her own life, and even reveal that she was human in the process. “Wu Xiaohan, you look so handsome when you smile.” He still turned away with an expressionless face, pretending not to hear his heart beating out of control. Until one day, he learned that ten years ago, when he had ambushed the Celestial Fox outside Snowglaze Valley, the fox had only nine tails because he had sacrificed a century of cultivation to save a blind girl. Only then did he realize that the kindness he had received had been stolen. From then on, he had a third regret. #Humans pretending to be demons, demons pretending to be human# #A little mystery-solving# Theme: Tame mountains and seas, serve the people, and turn the tide of history as a woman.