The Noblewoman's Slave

Coming next: "The Holographic Era [Female Alpha, Male Omega]". The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your collection~ Here is this novel's blurb: Scheming Reborn Lady × Rebel Leader and King of the Tribes In an era engulfed by the smoke of war, the ruler of the Southern Kingdom is weak and ineffectual, and the realm has been torn apart. The daughter of the Marquis of Dingguo is first framed and punished along with her family, then betrayed by her own slave. Once a favored daughter of heaven, upon learning the rebel leader's name and his demand for a political marriage, she smiles and plunges a dagger into her heart. Unexpectedly, she is reborn. Grateful to the heavens, she swears never to make the same mistake again. She will prevent her family's downfall. As for the slave who betrayed his master, she'll treat him like a falcon being tamed: mistreat him, torment him, and put him through the most cruel ordeals until he either breaks completely or is thoroughly tamed. To her, it makes no difference. Either way, he doesn't matter. * What she doesn't know is that her slave was tamed long ago. Many, many years earlier than she thinks... The tribal king never marries. After falling gravely ill one sweltering summer, he is never seen smiling again. The stern and formidable lord of the grasslands from legend kneels before the Buddha through countless suffocatingly hot summers, praying with devout sincerity. I am willing to endure a lifetime of suffering and loneliness, generation after generation, in exchange for one person's safety and happiness, and a heart free of regrets. End of the serious blurb. Below is an unserious little interview scene Reporter: Miss Shen Zhi, do you hate the male lead, Tuoba Linqiang? Shen Zhi: Of course. He kept saying he would serve me as his master for the rest of his life to repay me for saving him. In the end, he drove me to my death. Wouldn't you hate him if you were me? Reporter: (Gasp...) Fair enough. So if you could see him again, what would you do to him? Would you still save this slave? Shen Zhi: (Smiles confidently) Save him, of course. I can't just let him die so easily... People of the grasslands like taming falcons, don't they? I want to give it a try too. Reporter: (Cautiously) But... from what I understand, when you met the male lead Tuoba Linqiang again, things didn't quite go according to plan. Shen Zhi: (Her smile slowly freezes) I... DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HIM! Shen Zhi: (Through gritted teeth) That lowly traitor was already so, so tall when he said goodbye to me! (Stands on tiptoe to demonstrate) And in this life, we met two years earlier than before! Little A Man was only this tall (gestures casually). After he'd been fed properly, he still had a bit of baby fat on his cheeks! Who could have recognized him?! (Furious) Reporter: (Trying not to laugh as they look through the script) But... I heard that after you found out who he was, you treated him pretty sweetly. Why was that? Shen Zhi: (Silent) Reporter: Why, exactly? Shen Zhi: (Turns her head awkwardly) Have you heard of gap moe? I admit, for a tiny little moment... I couldn't quite bring myself to be cruel to him... Shen Zhi: (Gradually catching on) Wait, you call those things I did "treating him sweetly"? Reporter: (Looking through the script carefully) Gasp... Well, I suppose you can't call all of it that. (Muttering quietly) My mistake for not reading more carefully, but that word "sweetly"... it was clearly said by the other person involved. Reporter: (Loudly, to cover for themself) One last question! If... and I mean if, one day the male lead suddenly regained his memories of his previous life, what would you do? Shen Zhi: (Startled) Wouldn't that make him just like me? Shen Zhi: (Gets up and leaves without looking back) I'd kill him with my own hands to get revenge. * Reporter: What do you think? Tuoba Linqiang: I have no opinion. Reporter: (Sympathetically) She said that if such a day came, she'd kill you with her own hands to get revenge. Tuoba Linqiang: (Smiling) Do you know what it means to have a heart free of regrets? If I can't take revenge with my own hands, how can I be free of regret? Any other questions? Reporter: Aren't you afraid of dying? Tuoba Linqiang: (Murmuring softly) I am. Terrified. * Reporter: (Rushing angrily into the author's writing room) You cold-blooded, heartless devil! You villain! You typing machine with no principles! What kind of script have you given the male and female leads? Shrimp Fried Rice: (Looking up while revising the script) You can slander me, but you can't say I write without principles. Reporter: (Furious) What principles do you have? Shrimp Fried Rice: One-on-one, both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending. Reporter: What else? Shrimp Fried Rice: It's sweet. Shrimp Fried Rice: (Serious face) Trust me. Coming next: "The Holographic Era [Female Alpha, Male Omega]". Please add it to your collection~ During her lovestruck teenage years, Yao Guo had a crush on her team captain. Before her secondary gender had even manifested, she secretly changed her intended designation to Omega for his sake. Alas, her love was unrequited. The team captain was aloof and celibate, a man of few words who was ruthless, and whose skill was the pinnacle of holographic competition. But he absolutely did not date! By the time the team captain mysteriously disappeared during a star-system livestream, Yao Guo still hadn't won the heart of the man she adored. As the years passed, her dream gradually changed from "winning him over" to "finding" the man who had vanished. In the end, following in her idol's footsteps, she gradually became just like him. Cool and celibate, with superb skills, she became the undisputed team captain of a holographic squad made up entirely of top-tier Alphas. She finally learned the hidden secret at the heart of the team, too. * That same year, a delicate, beautiful young man emerged from the second team with astonishing talent and seasoned skill. Everyone knew that this mysterious newcomer had come for Yao Guo. His gaze never left her. Unfortunately, Captain Yao was slow to catch on when it came to romance, and stingy with her attention. She had never spared him even a glance. Perhaps that wasn't the only reason. This young man looked so, so much like the person she couldn't let go of... especially around the eyes and brows. To everyone's astonishment, when this rising star applied to join the first team, the captain coldly stamped his application with the word "REJECTED." * "This is ridiculous!" Yao Guo slapped the examination report down in front of the team doctor. "An Omega? Hm? How is he supposed to join the first team?" The team doctor looked embarrassed. "Other Omegas might not be able to, but he definitely can." "He can pass himself off as a Beta for years and fool everyone? And make it through such grueling training? You're overestimating him." "He really can." Yao Guo scoffed, grabbed Si Mu, who was hiding in the inner room, and contemptuously blew a smoke ring into the pretty young man's face. "I'm not as easygoing as the team doctor." "Want to join the first team? Get through your heat first." Theme: No matter what adversity you face, never give up on the light