Everyone Wants to Reform the Tyrant, But I...

★ The male lead is an emperor. This is genuine coercive love, dark and twisted.

★ The blurb may change, but the central premise won't.

A modern, independent, self-reliant minister's wife who will never submit and wants nothing but to kill the male lead for as long as she lives vs. a feudal-era emperor who takes what he wants by force and is utterly ruthless.

[Blurb 1]:

Xuanhe thinks she's terribly unlucky.

She transmigrated and fell in love with a poor doctor named Yan Sui, but was forced to marry Prince Huai, Ji Changji.

She thought that was as unlucky as she could get.

But the young tyrant she'd once indirectly killed turned out to be alive and had ascended the throne.

She would never forget seeing the young tyrant kill his father and mother when she first transmigrated.

She didn't think a boy like that could still be reformed, so she coldly watched as the young tyrant was assassinated.

As the flames engulfed the young tyrant, she clearly saw hatred and malice interwoven in his eyes.

Now that such a tyrant, who had committed every evil imaginable, had returned from the dead, and was also her husband's cousin, how could he possibly spare her?

So Xuanhe misled the tyrant, making him believe her husband was the one she loved.

Then she misled her husband, making him believe the tyrant was forcing himself on her.

At last, after all her tireless deception, the tyrant and her husband turned against each other and fought over her.

And on the very night her husband rebelled, she secretly eloped with the man she loved.

[Blurb 2]:

The day Ji Fuwei went completely mad was the day he learned that Xuanhe loved Yan Sui.

Yan Sui was an upright gentleman, pure as the moon, someone Ji Fuwei, born with a demonic nature, could never become.

If he could never become someone like that, then he would kill every person like that, so she could never love anyone else!

As for Yan Sui...

With his bow drawn to the full, he aims an arrow at Yan Sui and Ji Hewan. Blood stains his brows and eyes as he laughs coldly, his voice bloodthirsty and soul-chilling. "Ahe, who do you choose: the man you love, or your own child?"

[Blurb 3]:

Ji Fuwei is evil by nature and knows nothing of love, yet people keep foolishly thinking they can reform him with affection.

He thinks it's ridiculous. Does he look like some gullible idiot?

Then Xuanhe appears.

Unlike everyone else, who keeps trying to reform him, Xuanhe is kind to everyone but him. It seems all she wants is for him to die.

Ji Fuwei finds it baffling.

He and she have no grudge between them, so why does she want to kill him?

It isn't until he's being assassinated and she stands by without helping that he realizes the truth: she thinks he will bathe the world in blood, so she wants to strike first and kill him.

So what if she's his sister-in-law?

Doesn't she hate him most? Doesn't she want him dead?

Then he'll make sure she is bound to him forever. He's evil by nature and can't stand a good person like Xuanhe.

She hates him, so he'll make her watch as everything she treasures is destroyed by his own hands.

[Reader's guide]:

1. The male lead genuinely takes what he wants by force. He's dark and twisted, and his emotions have been unstable since his first appearance.

2. Though the story is dark in style, the heroine is always optimistic and positive, and the overall outlook is optimistic as well.

3. There is a vast cultural divide between eras. The male lead is a true feudal emperor, while the heroine is a truly modern, independent woman. As long as she lives, she'll never submit or be assimilated by feudal ideas.

4. The heroine is not a virgin; the male lead is. See Chapter 9 of Don't Laugh. Don't ask me why the heroine has had sex while the emperor is still a virgin. All I can say is that it's the uniquely Jinjiang kind of "deeply realistic" masterpiece!

5. The ending is tragic, and the male lead will definitely die. If he doesn't die, should the heroine die while he rules the world, surrounded by children and grandchildren and three thousand concubines, mourning her? Is that the legendary "You lost only your life, while I still have my children, the world, and my wives and concubines, but I've lost love!"?

Theme: Against the "special Stockholm syndrome" of refusing to fall for an ugly, poor man who takes love by force, but falling for a handsome, rich man who does the same.