After Taking My Own Life in a Political Marriage, I Was Reborn with My Archrival

Upcoming works: After Becoming Bedfellows with the Deposed Crown Prince and Every Obscure Star I Followed Became Famous. Blurbs below. If you're interested, sweeties, please add them to your favorites. Mwah!

In her previous life, Shen Hanyan was the most disliked princess in all of Daxia. Her ambitions soared to the heavens, but her life was as fragile as paper. She had planned to put herself on the throne, but her political maneuvering was clumsy, and she lost to her archenemy, Pei Sinian.

After the new emperor ascended the throne, one imperial decree sent her to die on the road to a political marriage.

Given an unexpected chance to live again, Shen Hanyan decided to be a couch potato and stay quietly in her homeland, causing no more trouble. To avoid the fate she had met in her previous life, she even arranged a marriage early on. But through a twist of fate, she ended up marrying Pei Sinian, whose reputation was even worse than hers, but whose career was on the rise and who was riding high.

The fate of that political schemer in her previous life didn't seem much better than hers. Shen Hanyan took a certain schadenfreude in it, but couldn't help worrying about her own future.

Her dream of being a couch potato was shattered.

Later, she discovered the joy of winning without lifting a finger.

In his previous life, Pei Sinian had plotted every move and fought Shen Hanyan tooth and nail. He helped the Crown Prince ascend the throne, never imagining that the new emperor would be out of his mind.

Not only was he impossible to control, he also gave away Daxia's dignity.

So, reborn, Pei Sinian turned his attention to the famously ambitious princess, only to discover she seemed eager to marry herself off and become a couch potato.

Everyone said Shen Hanyan's ambitions soared to the heavens, but her life was as fragile as paper. Pei Sinian knew, however, that she was merely trapped inside the shell of a princess, with no one willing to bet on her.

When the imperial decree of marriage arrived, Pei Sinian was quite pleased.

On their wedding day, she stood before him in her wedding dress. He lifted the bride's veil, and Shen Hanyan glared at him furiously, eyes red.

A feeling he had never known before suddenly stirred in him. From then on, things would no longer be mere schemes.

[Upcoming: After Becoming Bedfellows with the Deposed Crown Prince. If you like it, please add it to your favorites.]

Blurb:

Ruan Baoshu was a palace maid who tended flowers and plants in Fangfei Pavilion. She had always hoped to attach herself to some noble lady and climb the social ladder, but every time the matrons selected maids, they would see her face and shake their heads, saying she would steal the mistress's limelight. So she was left to toil away in Fangfei Pavilion.

One day, she finally got her chance. She was told she could go serve a noble, who had no personal maids, meaning she would be the only one at his side. She packed her things and hurried to Guying Palace, only to be dumbfounded.

This wasn't some noble. It was the King of Hell. The first deposed Crown Prince in our dynasty's history, condemned by the emperor as vicious, ruthless, cunning, and duplicitous. Even Ruan Baoshu knew what he had done: colluding with court officials and forming a faction for personal gain. She realized she had been set up. No wonder he had no attendants. They were afraid that if the emperor got angry one day, he would have her executed along with him.

Ruan Baoshu stood trembling, but the man in the room watched her for a long while, then gave a low laugh and said, "Come here."

Ruan Baoshu had never served a highborn master. When she saw Shang Yuqing, she thought he was the most beautiful person she had ever laid eyes on. It's said heroes can't resist a beauty, and palace maids are no different.

She set down her bundle. With such beauty to feast her eyes on and no scheming to worry about, even if the deposed Crown Prince gave her an item worth ten thousand gold, it wouldn't be a bad deal.

One day, they were set up. A man and a woman alone together, like dry tinder meeting a blazing flame.

To their surprise, they became addicted to each other. That night, she crept into his room, clutching her quilt. In the darkness, his voice was low and amused. "So young, yet you already know how to find yourself a bedmate."

Ruan Baoshu bit her quilt, and from then on, there was no turning back.

No one was tending the deposed Crown Prince's cold hearth anyway. So what if they became bedmates? What could anyone do to her? Heaven knows, Earth knows, you know, and I know.

But people can make plans, and Heaven can have other ideas. Ruan Baoshu never imagined Shang Yuqing would have a chance to rise again.

He was welcomed back to the magnificent Eastern Palace amid cheers and beating drums. With a casual gesture from the nobleman, she was taken along with him.

The court officials were all overjoyed, but Ruan Baoshu feared that one day the Crown Prince would remember their past, find it unbearable, and have her dragged out to be executed.

She had to leave.

Especially after seeing the second young lady of the Duke of Protecting the State's household, whose face was so like her own that even she was momentarily confused. The inner household was a dangerous place, and with the Eastern Palace's marriage alliance with the Duke's family imminent, she couldn't stay and become a thorn in the young lady's side.

On the day she tried to sneak away, the Eastern Palace was hosting a grand banquet. She made it all the way to the West Straight Gate, only to see a familiar figure in a dark purple fox-fur cloak. His voice was low and ominous, his peach-blossom eyes nearly burning through her. "Ruan Baoshu, who said you could run?"

"We were just bedmates. It didn't count."

Her words made him laugh in anger. The usually smooth and affable Crown Prince now had a roiling darkness in his eyes, black as ink. "So that's what I am to you?"

"Come here, Shushu."

[Upcoming 2] Every Obscure Star I Followed Became Famous

Lin Yan was a vicious supporting character in a story about a real and fake heiress. Born with negative luck, she was switched at birth and only brought back to her family at eighteen. She had nothing to her name, yet was competitive and willful, completely unlike the fake heiress, who had been lovingly raised.

Her older brother thought she was all looks and no substance, and doted exclusively on the fake heiress. Whenever her parents looked at her, they seemed reminded of their own mistake and couldn't bear to face her. They tossed her a tiny entertainment studio saddled with debt and ignored her.

Later, she worked day and night to prove herself and died of exhaustion in the studio. The Lin family issued only a brief obituary, while the next day's newspaper announced the fake heiress's debut as a leading actress and her upcoming engagement to a wealthy family.

After being reborn, Lin Yan no longer wanted to prove herself. To stay alive, she wanted to keep as far away from the studio as possible, be an ordinary fan who lived off her family, follow obscure stars, and eat her way through life until death.

To her surprise, she discovered that she could see everyone's fortune.

Her fortune was negative, but some people were blessed with incredible luck!

And so, a few years later:

A failed exam candidate who couldn't afford tuition became a renowned designer in the industry;

A trainee abandoned by his agency became a top-tier creative idol;

A supporting actor who couldn't land any roles became the youngest Best Actor;

A frequently benched driver who had changed teams became the highest-paid Grand Slam champion;

A shy, reclusive nobody became a bestselling author, earning over a hundred million in royalties;

A swaggering street thug became a rising star in technology and the head of a wealthy family.

In their acceptance speeches, every one of them mentioned the same name: Lin Yan.

With the buzz building, the studio's stock soared, and Lin Yan effortlessly made a fortune. In interviews afterward, she modestly said, "I just have an eye for talent."

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