Sharing Dreams with a Mad Regent

Qin Siyu, the third daughter of the Qin family, had skin as fair as ice and beauty beyond compare. She and her childhood friend Ji Shuchen were the perfect match, a couple everyone in the capital admired and loved to talk about. It wasn't until she was on the verge of death that Qin Siyu learned Ji Shuchen, who had treasured her above all else, had approached her as part of a plot. Reborn, all she wanted was to break off the engagement and leave the capital with her parents to live a peaceful life. But before she could even end the engagement, she had a strange dream. She dreamed of a strange and dangerous man. At first, she thought it was just a coincidence. But after that, she dreamed of him every single night. Then one day, she finally saw his face. His breathtakingly beautiful features were all the more dazzling and alluring because of his uninhibited smile. He was the most stunning man she had ever seen. She remembered him. The tyrannical, outrageous, mad regent at court, Yin Que, the man Ji Shuchen had drugged her and offered to in her previous life. ** Regent Yin Que was the late emperor's younger brother. He had taken to the battlefield at twelve and won countless military honors. He was widely recognized as the Great Qi dynasty's God of War. Not only did he wield power over the entire court, but he was also blessed with unparalleled beauty, making him the dream of every noblewoman in the capital. Yet his residence remained empty, and he showed no interest in women. Rumor had it that he had never married because he was in love with the Empress Dowager. They said his tyranny and depravity stemmed from his inability to win her heart, and that he had gone mad with love. No one knew that Yin Que was sick to death of being regent, and just as sick of the intrigues and power struggles at court. If not for his elder brother's dying wish, he would have killed the woman in the Palace of Compassion and Tranquility! His fury grew stronger by the day. Just as he was about to lose control, an unfamiliar young woman entered his dreams... Next book: The Imperial Exam Novel's Male Lead and His Wicked Elder Sister-in-Law (Food) Blurb: Chen Lingxi transmigrated into an imperial-exam novel as the male lead's wicked elder sister-in-law. In the original story, her husband died on their wedding day, leaving her a widow, branded as a husband-killer. Her husband's family was so poor they had barely a penny to their name, and he had left her with three mouths to feed. There was the male lead, Fu Yuanting, a sickly bookworm who was a money pit, and his two young siblings, Fu Yuanlang and Fu Yuanying, neither of whom was as tall as her waist. The original owner couldn't bear the inhuman life any longer. One dark, quiet night, she gathered up the Fu family's valuables and ran away. The moment she left, the Fu family's world collapsed. To buy medicine for her gravely ill second brother, Fu Yuanying secretly sold herself. Fu Yuanting didn't find his sister, who had been driven out of her mind by hardship, until he passed the highest imperial examination. It was his greatest regret, and the reason he hated the original owner most. Under the male lead's revenge, the original owner died on the road to exile. When Chen Lingxi arrived, the original owner had already packed her things and was about to run away. Sensing a pair of eyes watching her in the dark, Chen Lingxi: “...” After hesitating for only a moment, she shoved her bundle into the arms of Fu Yuanting, who was pretending to sleep, and said to herself, “Old Li says there've been lots of chicken thieves and burglars lately. This is all the money our family has, and we still need it to buy medicine for Second Brother. We have to hide it well.” Fu Yuanting, who had long since realized that “she” was about to run off with the money: “???” ** Though she was in a disastrous situation from the start, she only had to work hard for a few years. Once the male lead passed the imperial exams, she could enjoy the good life with him. Chen Lingxi thought her future looked bright. She worked tirelessly, going up the mountains and tending the fields every day, and somehow managed to make a thriving life for them all. Since the original owner had done some wicked things before Chen Lingxi arrived, she worried Fu Yuanting would hold her responsible. Whenever she had the chance, she would remind him, “Your sister-in-law may not be very capable, but I'll do my best to support the three of you and pay for your studies. When you become the top scholar one day, just make sure your sister-in-law can live comfortably for the rest of her life.” After hearing this nearly eight hundred times, Fu Yuanting replied, “...Mm.” ** She had changed. At first, Fu Yuanting only suspected it. Before long, he was certain she was no longer the Chen Lingxi he had known. He didn't say a word. He simply watched her in silence. Seeing that she truly treated the Fu family as her own, and that although she had her little schemes, she wasn't a bad person at heart, he pretended not to have noticed anything and carried on as usual. That was, until a well-off classmate began indirectly asking about her, hoping to marry her as his second wife. Fu Yuanting couldn't sit still any longer... Message: Even when fate is unfair, keep striving toward the light