The Tyrant's Love Rival Is Himself

[Note] The male lead has a split personality. His primary personality is a tyrant, while his secondary personality occasionally emerges.

Shen Yishu is peerlessly beautiful, with a graceful figure and extraordinary looks. The third young lady of the Prime Minister's residence, she is cherished by everyone.

Unfortunately, when she is sixteen, the deposed Crown Prince lays siege to the city in a rebellion and seizes the throne.

Shen Yishu is forced into the palace and becomes the new emperor's bedchamber attendant, tasked with recording the emperor's daily life and... his intimate affairs.

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The new emperor is violent and eccentric, takes pleasure in tormenting others, and is deeply suspicious. Though he has a harem, he keeps women at a distance.

The consorts tremble whenever they see him.

One day, Shen Yishu happens to meet the new emperor by a lotus pond. On this day, his features seem gentler, and he is devastatingly handsome. He gently strokes her hand. "When I return, I will defeat that demon and come back to you."

But after a night of tenderness, the new emperor becomes a completely different person. Gripping her chin, he warns her, "I forbid you to think about the man from last night again!"

Shen Yishu: "..." The man from last night was the emperor himself!

Later, Shen Yishu discovers that for several days each month, the tyrant acts strangely. During those days, he always keeps her by his side and dotes on her endlessly.

One day, Shen Yishu becomes pregnant, and the tyrant flies into a rage. "How dare you! This child isn't mine!"

Shen Yishu: "...Sob, if the child isn't His Majesty's, whose could it be?!"

Later, Shen Yishu is elevated to empress. The tyrant treats her differently from one day to the next, and she finally learns that two people live inside him...

One of them is the young man she saved when she was little.

So, here's the question: which one of them is really her husband...?

[The Tyrant Gets Jealous of Himself Every Day]

[The Tyrant's Love Rival Is Himself]

[The Tyrant Has a Split Personality]

P.S. 1. One couple; happy ending. Both personalities will fall in love with the heroine.

Next story: The Powerful Minister's Moon

After Su Mian suffers a serious illness, she keeps having strange and unusual dreams.

She dreams that a dynasty change will come in the future, and that the Su family will back the wrong side and be exiled as a whole. She will fall into the hands of a treacherous minister and become a caged songbird he keeps captive.

Su Mian decides she must stop it all before it happens. Strangely, she often hears a voice speaking to her inside her head:

"Silly girl, if someone bullies you, fight back. What's the use of crying?"

"With the factions in court, your wisest choice is to seek the current Grand Tutor's protection."

Like a heavenly deity descended to earth, he helps her defeat one household rival after another. But whenever he mentions the Grand Tutor, Su Mian loses her nerve, remembering the terrifying nights from her dreams.

"No way! The Grand Tutor is ambitious, hypocritical, wicked, utterly immoral, lustful, and shameless. He's my archenemy!"

The Grand Tutor, who has been guiding the delicate beauty step by step toward a bright future, freezes. "..."

When did he ever give her that impression?!

Everyone says Su Mian was foolish to break off her engagement to the Yan family.

But who could have guessed that before long, she would still marry into the Yan family? Only, she wouldn't marry the second young master of the Yan family, but its powerful and influential Seventh Lord, the Grand Tutor.

And so she becomes her former fiance's aunt by marriage...

[The First Meeting After Online Dating]

Su Mian finally works up the courage to meet the "voice" in her head.

That day, peach blossoms bloom for miles in the eastern part of the city. The man traps Su Mian between a peach tree and his chest, his long, thick lashes trembling. "Y-You... how could you deceive me?!"

The man's handsome lips curl slightly, his refined features outshining the falling peach blossoms. "You insisted on meeting me. Now that you've seen me, do you regret it?"

Su Mian: Regret it! I regret it so much! Is it too late to run away now?

[After meeting their online friend in person in ancient times, she discovers that he's her archenemy!]

[Reading Guide]---Screenshot saved

1. [Beautiful, Delicate Heroine] VS [Aloof, Secretly Passionate Grand Tutor]

2. The male and female leads have a ten-year age gap.

3. Sweet, feel-good, and lighthearted.

The Marquis's Graceful Beauty

After her family is destroyed, Ruan Xian goes from being the capital's greatest beauty to a criminal's wife overnight.

Among the trembling families of convicted officials, Ruan Xian stands out with her lovely, delicate beauty and willow-like figure, seeming fragile and helpless.

Lu Chengshen stands in the Ruan family courtyard, ordering his subordinates to confiscate their property. His gaze falls on the young woman, and his thin lips curl in an amused smile.

The once proud and aloof legitimate daughter of the Ruan family had betrayed him and broken off their engagement. Yet now, hadn't she fallen into his hands all the same...

One day, seeing Lu Chengshen weighed down by worry, an adviser offers him a suggestion. "My lord, the Ruan family kicked you when you were down and went so far as to break off the engagement. You survived countless brushes with death on the battlefield to protect your estate. Now the Ruan family is at your mercy. Why not take their daughter and make use of her?"

Lu Chengshen glances at the adviser and has him given thirty strokes with a military baton that very day.

Everyone thinks Ruan Xian has fallen into the tiger's den now that she is in Lu Chengshen's hands. Only Lu Chengshen knows the truth: he's brought home a little ancestor!

Lu Chengshen: Ever since I was young, I've been chasing after a ray of light. I schemed and did whatever it took, and at last, one day, she became the moon in my palm.

[Bonus Scene]

In the dim candlelight, Lu Chengshen gazes at the woman before him and asks, "Have you made up your mind?"

Ruan Xian pauses, then hesitates no longer. She raises a hand and removes her jade hairpin, letting her long black hair fall. "I place myself in your care."

1. The male lead is cunning and flamboyant, and loves her deeply.

2. Overwhelming devotion and relentless pursuit.

Theme: Cherish the present and live well.