Surviving Until Day Two in a Palace Intrigue Novel

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↓ Novel blurb ↓

Su Yao transmigrates into a palace-intrigue novel as a low-ranking palace maid.

Everything before her feels strangely familiar, as if she's been here before.

When she sees the Empress, she suddenly understands: she really has been here before. She just didn't make it past the first day before being killed off.

Su Yao grits her teeth, deeply ashamed. She feels she's brought shame upon all transmigrators, and this time, she's determined to survive until the final episode!

Then she dies again.

After loading a save and starting over once more, Su Yao is furious. She refuses to believe she can't survive even two days!

After dying N times, Su Yao decides to give in and find someone powerful to cling to, just so she can stay alive.

But as a minor cannon-fodder character, she doesn't want to be sent to the old emperor as fresh meat. Her eyes fall on the second-biggest boss in the palace: Her Majesty the Empress.

Clutching her powerful patron, Su Yao tearfully asks, "Your Majesty, are you in need of a loyal, hardworking lackey?"

The fake Empress, Yan Wei, narrows her eyes and studies the little palace maid in surprise. "You're still alive?"

A little scene

Consort Zhen / Noble Consort Li / The Grand Princess: "You're just a lowly palace maid relying on the Empress's favor to throw your weight around and act like a bully. How despicable!"

Su Yao clutches her aching waist and cries. "You have no idea what I've had to give up..."

[Reader's Guide]

The male lead is a genuine cross-dressing big shot: sinister and ruthless, with morals that apply only within this story.

The female lead faces a death loop from the start and has a truly miserable time. She may not become all that powerful later, either.

Strictly 1v1, and then it's a sweet romance.

[An escape-room heroine trapped in a palace-intrigue novel x an overpowered male power-fantasy hero who wandered into a female-oriented novel]

Blurb for the next novel ↓↓

I Became My Ex's Master's Wife

Jiang Yao always thought she was a fairly kind person.

Until she was reborn.

Only then did she learn that she was the villainess in a cultivation novel.

The villainess is a disciple of the righteous sect, but she acts flirtatiously and rebelliously, and gets together with the male lead through lies.

When the male lead discovers her deception, he ruthlessly cuts off their romantic ties, turning the villainess into a laughingstock.

In the end, the villainess refuses to give up and keeps pestering the male lead. She frames and harms the female lead, and meets a fate in which both body and soul are destroyed.

Jiang Yao slowly types: ?

The male lead was the one who pursued her first. How did it become a story about her lying her way into his heart?

When he liked her, she was a clingy little sweetheart. When he didn't, she was a vicious woman who wouldn't leave him alone?

What, is a proper ex supposed to have weeds growing three feet high on her grave by next year's Qingming Festival?

Jiang Yao: No!

She has already crawled out of hell. She's not going back.

The disciples of Yuquan Sect discover that Jiang Yao, who used to be flirtatious and stagnant in her cultivation, has changed!

Not only has her cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, she also wins first place at the Sword Trial Tournament, trampling a host of heaven's chosen beneath her feet.

Just as everyone speculates that heartbreak has awakened her potential and she is about to become the sect's newest rising star,

Daoist Lord Haochuan, the unattainable beauty of the Tianyuan Continent, suddenly announces that he will hold a bond-forming ceremony with his Dao companion.

But at the ceremony, everyone sees that the person standing beside Daoist Lord Haochuan is... Jiang Yao?!

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Haochuan, peak master of Yuquan Sect, never imagined that one day he would fall in love with someone and break his path of emotionlessness.

And that person is his disciple's ex.

He knows their first meeting was all part of her long-planned scheme. But when he sees her lying before him, covered in wounds, he still wants to hold her in his arms and shield her from every harm in the world.

[Beautiful, calculating heroine] vs. [unattainable male lead]

In one sentence: You don't want me as your Dao companion? Fine, then I'll be your master's wife!

Theme: Have the courage to survive even in adversity