The Tyrant's Cinnabar Moth Has Returned

When Zheng Yanlan died, the whole world cursed her.

The court historians vilified her, the people despised her, and her own father personally put her to death.

Only one person braved the rain and searched everywhere for her. At last, he brought back her corpse, so overcome with grief that he could barely speak.

She watched as he killed every last person who had harmed and slandered her, eventually becoming the infamous tyrant recorded in the history books.

Later, she was forced to transmigrate back to two years after her death and possess a young girl from a prince’s household.

She even found herself standing over the young man who had been utterly broken by her death.

The girl, who once feared and loathed him, began pulling the reckless young man back from the brink again and again, soothing his wounds.

He complained that she was annoying, yet secretly couldn’t help protecting her because she reminded him of her.

The more the girl resembled “her,” the more painfully he was tormented by longing.

Just as he forced himself to hold back and decided to keep his distance, Yanlan’s true identity was suddenly revealed...

The young man gripped his riding crop so tightly that the veins stood out on his hand. He regretted everything bitterly.

Was it too late to start listening to her, rein in his vicious temper, and become a wise ruler with a sense of duty who didn’t slaughter people indiscriminately?

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A fantasy novel by a fellow author: Her Name Resounds Across the Three Realms, with a strong female lead and a loyal younger man.

The author next door has started a groveling-to-win-her-back story, but this one really is a lost cause: The Grand Secretary Will Never Be Worthy of Her.

Below are the author's upcoming sweet romance novels:

Please add them to your library ^_^ After finishing The Grand Secretary, the author will start whichever one has more followers

Upcoming novel one: My Mortal Enemy Has His Eye on Me

Si Si Que, the youngest daughter of the King of Chu, was raised as a boy and followed her parents to Qi as a hostage for eight years.

The sickly Crown Prince of Qi, Ji Yichang, who was so frail he could barely take three steps without gasping, had disliked Si Si Que from the time they were children. The feeling was mutual.

Any bone carvings, painted pottery, or famous swords Si Si Que took a fancy to would be snatched away by Crown Prince Chang in the blink of an eye.

She once set her heart on a fighting cock, but before it could even crow, Crown Prince Chang had it seized.

Even the gorgeous robes, skirts, hairpins, and jeweled ornaments she secretly collected were targets for Crown Prince Chang...

At last, her eight years as a hostage were about to end. Si Si Que was eagerly preparing to return to Chu with her parents.

But... Crown Prince Ji Yichang of Qi was getting sicker and sicker, and seemed close to death.

Well, if he was sick, then he was sick. It had nothing to do with Si Si Que. At most, before leaving, she could go to his bedchamber, bow a few times, and burn him some incense.

But the King of Qi issued a secret decree, detaining the King and Queen of Chu again and threatening Si Si Que: If she wanted to save them, she must marry the Crown Prince first, then divorce him!

It turned out the King of Qi had known she was a girl all along!

Si Si Que thought: Getting a divorce will be easy. The problem is... Ji Yichang loathes me so much that I have to get him to agree to marry me first!

Later, Si Si Que finally realized she had it backwards. Getting Ji Yichang to marry her was easy, but getting a divorce proved harder than scaling the heavens!

Later still, after Ji Yichang seized the throne, gained absolute power, and cowed the four corners of the land, the eight kingdoms were shaken. As he forged an alliance with neighboring Chu to promise eternal friendship, Si Si Que was the only woman he allowed into the inner palace after clearing it out. The vast palace grounds became overgrown with weeds!

He carefully kept her in his bedchamber, personally serving her tea and food every day, clinging to her so much that she wanted to kick him. That was when she finally realized that his frailty all those years had been an act!

Since childhood, Ji Yichang had harbored a deeply buried secret he considered shameful: He liked that arrogant, overbearing boy from Chu so much that he could barely suppress his feelings, forcing himself to hate him instead. But one day, the truth came out, and the person he loved willingly threw himself into his arms...

He smiled coldly. Now that he had him in his arms, did he really think he could let him go so easily?! Did he think Young Master Chang was raised by hugging medicine jars?

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Upcoming novel two: The Murderous God Is My Darling

Upcoming novel three: The Villain I Raised Beat the Male Lead to Death

Currently updating: The Bewitching Consort Transmigrates into a Showbiz Romance

Tanji was once a lowly, impoverished fisherman's daughter who stood out among the dazzling noblewomen through sheer seductive skill. Later generations of historians recorded her as a bewitching consort in a controversial, rather scathing entry.

After Tanji died, she transmigrated into a troublesome supporting female character in a showbiz romance novel.

This troublesome character existed to be thoroughly humiliated by the Mary Sue heroine.

When Tanji first received this script, she hissed and cursed: “I fought my way through the three palaces and six courts, outlasted the empress, and nearly talked that dog emperor into dying so I could take the throne myself. And now you expect me to grovel before this clueless fool?!”

Following the plot:

As a brainless little white flower who bought her way into a leading role in show business and loved showing off and courting disaster, Tanji was supposed to sabotage the heroine’s clothes out of jealousy, only to be caught and thoroughly face-slapped by the heroine afterward. Her actions were also meant to win her the attention of a huge number of fans and the male lead.

Instead, Tanji gave a cold laugh and disdainfully put away the “itching powder” in her hand.

The experts from the production’s testing department came to examine the clothes and discovered that the substance on the heroine’s outfit wasn’t an irritant at all. It was just a freshener meant to cover up her body odor...

Following the romance plot:

The male lead and a group of handsome, wealthy male supporting characters repeatedly grew deeply disappointed in the heroine, who was supposed to be kind and clever, a poor girl striving to make it on her own.

Meanwhile, the supporting female character, once affected and artificial, had somehow become alluring and captivating.

Tanji only wanted to follow the leveling-up route. She had no interest in romantic mooning with a bunch of pretty boys.

She casually took the hand of a bearded street vendor who often squatted beneath an overpass smoking, gave him a bewitching look, and said: “Actually... the person I really like is just a street vendor!”

Tanji had no idea that the street vendor was the future villain who would monopolize the entire real estate, film and television, and artificial intelligence industries five years later.

Tanji sighed in frustration. “I just want to be a female lead without a romance plot. Is that really so hard?”

Premise: Expressing the deep bonds people build through sharing both good fortune and hardship