The Regent's Darling (Reborn)

[Coming Soon: For My Brother and The Imperial Princess. Please add them to your reading list!]

* Clear-headed beauty vs. powerful, devoted regent

* Cherished in two lifetimes + iron-blooded, pure-love warrior, one-on-one, happy ending + the second male lead's road to redemption

A pair of peach-blossom eyes, tender and dewy,

A body of jade-white skin, delicate as if boneless.

Tan Baolu, the most beautiful woman in Great Jin, was skilled at dancing on ice mirrors. One dance made her famous throughout the capital.

In her first life, she danced at the emperor's birthday banquet,

and the emperor took a fancy to her on the spot and made her his favored consort.

Regent Cen Jianan, seated at the same table, silently crushed an emerald wine cup in his hand.

The wretched emperor personally forced her to drink a cup of poison. Blood poured from every orifice as she died a gruesome death.

After death, her lonely spirit saw how everyone met their end.

It turned out that the one who ultimately stood at the pinnacle of power was Cen Jianan, the taciturn regent who had sat at the banquet that day.

And this man was truly ruthless.

Even in death, he would not let her, the former empress of the previous dynasty, go.

He even stole her corpse,

and held her in silence for an entire night.

*

With a single thought,

she came back from the dead.

Tan Baolu vowed not to repeat her past mistakes. If she was going to cling to someone's coattails, she would choose the strongest one!

She returned to the night she had danced for the wretched emperor.

She danced gracefully on the ice mirror once more,

but deliberately shattered the ice with her bare foot at the very last moment, making Cen Jianan turn around for her.

"Your Highness, my feet are so cold ┭┮﹏┭┮..."

This cold and unfeeling man

cupped her bloodied ankle

and carefully put her dancing shoe back on.

*

His origins were unknown.

He had a strange, beautiful purple eye.

His very existence was a symbol of ill fortune and evil.

No one knew how Cen Jianan had climbed to a position second only to The Outcast and above all others.

Only he knew that

in the dark past where daylight never reached,

there had once been a girl

who looked at his purple eye and told him:

"Big brother, your eye is so beautiful!"

*

Bonus scene:

On their wedding night,

Tan Baolu touched her lips, which were nearly bitten raw,

and decided that being reborn might not be worth it after all...

Tan Baolu: "Your Highness, let's make a deal. From now on, only three times in the morning and four times at night."

Cen Jianan: "Mm."

Tan Baolu was carried back again: "I meant kisses..."

A lesson learned through tears and blood:

Never provoke a man who's been holding back for two lifetimes!

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Coming Soon: Best at Palace Intrigue, Worst at Household Battles

Song Keke had the face of a peerless beauty, but she was a concubine-born daughter of the Song family. She was also tongue-tied and bad at arguing, so she always lost her battles with her sisters. Only after going back would she think of what she should have said, consumed with regret.

One day, she found a badly wounded man in the kitchen.

He seemed kind and clever, so Song Keke saved him and became good friends with him.

She asked the man, "What should you do if your older and younger brothers bully you?"

The new emperor Zou Xun, who had just killed his own imperial brother to seize the throne, thought this question was right up his alley.

Qiu Xun: "Thanks for asking. I usually turn them into bean paste."

*

Overnight, the fourth young lady of the Song family, who had been the worst at arguing, became incredibly good at it. No matter who she argued with, she could make them cry their eyes out.

No one knew what had happened.

Until one day, the phoenix palanquin stopped outside the Song family residence.

A handsome man clad in imperial yellow stepped down from the carriage and said to her in a soft, placating voice, "Still angry? Don't be angry anymore."

"Then promise you won't make it hurt so much next time."

"Mm, I promise."

Theme: Work hard to change your fate