After Becoming a Ghost, I Raised the Regent

--Blurb--

After dying young, Ji Yu transmigrates into a female-led novel as a puppet empress, a short-lived cannon fodder character who dies for good in the very first chapter.

Because the cannon fodder doesn't die, the heroine, who should have inherited the throne and made her entrance, is nowhere to be found, left somewhere out in the sticks as an extra.

So Ji Yu is forced to take on the heroine's role and become the target of the villain's oppression.

But the villain is aloof and ruthless, with no shred of humanity. Ji Yu, not being the Heavenly Dao's darling, simply can't beat him.

Since running away is the best plan, she tries to flee, only for the Heavenly Dao to take issue and send her back to her original form: a ghost.

Heavenly Dao: Go on. This is the golden finger I'm giving you.

Ji Yu: ...?!

When she sees the villain as a soft, adorable child, she suddenly understands. "I get it! I'm supposed to strike while he's weak and take his life!"

The Heavenly Dao roars: "What nonsense! I told you to win him over! Win him over, do you understand?!"

Understand? Ji Yu isn't sure. It isn't until years later, when the grown young man pulls her into his arms, that she realizes the Heavenly Dao had tricked her.

Because... she got turned on the tables.

[*Cheerful, sunny heroine who's a kitten on the outside and a tiger within x Reserved, secretly flirtatious, abstinent male lead]

Coming soon: The Heroine Is Reborn After Her Luck Is Stolen

Five years ago, after her half-sister woke up, her personality changed completely. From then on, Ruan Shu's life was turned upside down.

She went from a gifted girl envied by everyone to a nobody. Her family and friends turned against her, her reputation was ruined, and in the end she died like a rat in a foul, shadowy gutter. Passersby even spat at her and cursed, "Disgusting!"

When she returned to the age of fourteen, she heard a voice claiming to be the "Luck System."

It had hidden itself in her sea of consciousness and told her she was the heroine chosen by fate, but an anomaly had stolen her luck. It had come to help her reclaim her rightful place.

The System told Ruan Shu that her half-sister, Ruan Qingqing, had a "Favorability System." If she collected the favor of every male chosen by fate, Ruan Shu would never be able to touch her again.

By then, her half-sister had already gained the favor of four of the five chosen ones. Only the young Imperial Tutor of Great Wei remained: a mysterious, highborn, cold-hearted man who kept to himself and rarely showed his face. That was why her half-sister had failed to win him over despite repeated attempts.

Ruan Shu fell silent for a moment, then decided to grab onto this last lifeline: win the Imperial Tutor over!

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On her first attempt, Ruan Shu stood in the moonlight, dazzlingly beautiful, her figure graceful...

But the Imperial Tutor, dressed in white, looked down at her without a flicker of interest and walked away.

On her second attempt, Ruan Shu dazzled everyone with her clever words, quick wit, and intelligence...

But the young Imperial Tutor merely swept his dark eyes over her, his expression unchanged.

Stubbornly, Ruan Shu tried again...

After the nth attempt, she slammed the table in anger. "So what if I die? Damn it, I'm done!"

True to her word, Ruan Shu let herself go. She sat in a tree along the Imperial Tutor's usual route, cracking sunflower seeds. The shells landed all over his attendant's head.

The Imperial Tutor noticed and finally looked up, giving Ruan Shu her first real glance.

Ruan Shu: "..." Her hand shook, and more shells fell.

*

Ruan Shu thought she might have found the right way to win him over (or get herself killed)...

After repeatedly dancing on the edge of death, Ruan Shu finally won the Imperial Tutor's heart. Then she defeated the anomaly, reclaimed her luck, and lived a life of doting affection and unparalleled glory.

Theme: Growing through adversity