After Jiang Yuan died suddenly, she transmigrated into a novel called The Illegitimate Daughter Becomes Empress.
Unfortunately, she was not the heroine, but the story's vicious female antagonist, the heroine's legitimate elder sister.
In the novel, the male lead was deeply in love with the heroine. But because he had been engaged to the female antagonist for years, he could not marry the heroine.
After their wedding, the female antagonist made a scene at every turn. Because the male lead was thinking of the heroine, she made life difficult for her in every way and schemed to marry her off to the male lead's sworn enemy.
The male lead grew to hate the female antagonist even more. To take the heroine back, he eventually rose in rebellion.
In the end, the male lead ruled the world and, despite everyone's objections, made the heroine his empress. They spent their lives together as the only ones in each other's hearts, and their story became a celebrated legend.
As for the female antagonist, she was sentenced to a cruel death for plotting against the heroine, and tortured until she died.
When Jiang Yuan arrived, she was fighting tooth and nail with her sisters over the male lead's engagement, while the heroine had just been brought back to the family home.
Remembering the plot of the novel, Jiang Yuan was on the verge of tears.
She didn't want to fight the heroine over a man. If she wanted to stay alive, she had to keep her distance from the male lead.
The man behind her slowly drew near, his arm clamping tightly around her slender waist. His voice was forceful, leaving no room for refusal: "If you leave me, where do you think you're going?"
Jiang Yuan: ...
When did the plot start going off the rails?
She only wanted to be a carefree salted fish. She never expected to become the male lead's darling.
One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced.
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1. The heroine is the original character. The male lead never liked the original heroine.
2. Sweet and satisfying romance. This is not a story about an all-powerful heroine, so don't expect her to defeat everyone single-handedly.
3. This story is set in an alternate world. Please don't nitpick the historical details.
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The Marquis's Beloved Beauty, please add it to your reading list
She heard that her childhood sweetheart, her cousin, had someone he loved. To make herself give up, she planned to run into him during the Double Seventh Festival and catch a glimpse of that woman's face.
But she slipped and fell into the water.
When she opened her eyes, she had become a kitchen maid in the Duke of Wei's residence. Then she learned that the Yongping Marquis's family had been wiped out.
Gritting her teeth, she used every means at her disposal to get close to the heir of the Duke of Wei, a man who seemed gentle as jade but was actually cold and ruthless. From a kitchen maid, she became a first-class maid at his side, then the steward of his courtyard whom he trusted. Before long, she was known throughout the capital as his "favorite maid."
He made no effort to explain, leaving countless young ladies heartbroken.
Li Shu didn't care. She only wanted to avenge herself, buy her freedom, and get away from him.
On the eve of her departure, his fiancee killed her with a cup of poisoned wine.
Reborn, she was once again the Fourth Young Lady of the Yongping Marquis's household. Her family was alive, and her parents doted on her.
She even had a maternal aunt who was a Noble Consort and a cousin who was a prince.
There was still time to set things right.
As for the heir of the Duke of Wei's household, she would treat him like a stranger.
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Chen Yanxing didn't want to obey his parents' orders and marry. To find a shield, he let the rumors spread unchecked.
He never expected to gradually fall for that young girl, until he was willing to give her the position of his principal wife just so she would stay by his side. But before he could confess his feelings, she became a corpse.
After being reborn, he immediately sought out that young girl, only to discover...
Wait, was this not her?
The Fourth Young Lady of the Li family, whose proposal he had once rejected, was the one?
One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced in both lifetimes.
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1. The first time the heroine was reborn, she took over another person's body. She and the male lead had no intimate relationship at all; they had never even held hands.
2. The male lead was not engaged in his previous life.
Theme: No matter what circumstances you find yourself in, face them calmly and bravely. Only then can you find happiness and fulfillment in life.
