I Found Happiness with My Sickly Crown Prince Nemesis

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Lin Haiyan transmigrates into the body of a highly respected Grand Tutor of the dynasty.

In everyone's eyes, Lin Haiyan and Crown Prince Xiao Jianli have been bitter enemies for years.

Fortunately, the emperor keeps the crown prince in check, giving Lin Haiyan a chance to hold her ground.

Xiao Jianli ventures alone into danger, and Lin Haiyan secretly follows.

Xiao Jianli: Grand Tutor, could it be that you're worried about me?

Lin Haiyan: The crown prince went alone. If something happened to you, I'd have to collect your body.

Lin Haiyan oversees the imperial examinations. Xiao Jianli comes to test the waters, hands in a blank paper, and saunters away. Yet before long, he places among the top three.

Xiao Jianli: Grand Tutor, you went easy on me on purpose. Are you in love with me?

Lin Haiyan: You're overthinking it, Your Highness. I just wanted to avoid getting myself into trouble.

Their good days don't last. The emperor abdicates, and Xiao Jianli ascends the throne.

Lin Haiyan prepares to pack her bags, resign from office, and retire to seclusion.

Everyone sighs: Lin Haiyan was the crown prince's sworn enemy for years. Now that the tiger has fallen to the plains, anyone can bully her! The Grand Tutor was once so powerful, and now she's fallen so low!

But Xiao Jianli wraps his arms around her, his reddened eyes tracing a lonely arc as he whispers in her ear, "You flirted with me, and now you want to run?"

Lin Haiyan: When did I flirt with you???

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Gu Wanyin is the empress of the Great Zhou dynasty. After using an iron fist to pacify the turbulent court, she accidentally transmigrates into the body of a minor actress in an entertainment-industry novel.

The original character is the heiress of the Gu Group, but nobody in her family cares for her. Her family also has a fake heiress who is doted on as the novel's heroine.

According to the original plot, the minor character struggles desperately to claim the family fortune, but is eventually thrown out, blacklisted by the company, and vanishes from sight.

Gu Wanyin: It's just one company. What's the big deal? The whole world once belonged to me.

The original character signed on for a dating reality show. The exorbitant cancellation penalty leaves Gu Wanyin no choice but to participate.

While the other guests feast, Gu Wanyin eats plain steamed buns for a whole week.

While the other guests enjoy romantic dates beneath the flowers and moonlight, Gu Wanyin splurges on a phone that costs five hundred yuan.

While the other guests fight to get on camera, Gu Wanyin sits aside with her script, memorizing her lines.

When the show airs, viewers aren't won over by its saccharine romance. Instead, they're moved by Gu Wanyin's hard-luck story.

1L: Oh my god, Gu Wanyin is at least a D-list actress. Why does she look even poorer than me?

2L: A wage slave through and through. Her heart is always full of the wage-slave spirit.

3L: If everyone donates a penny to Sister Yin, she won't have to eat instant noodles every day and can afford delivery whenever she wants.

At an antiques appraisal convention, Gu Wanyin smashes a gilt-bronze vase worth thirty million yuan on the spot.

Her rival: Well, that's that. Gu Wanyin will be stuck working for that lousy company for the rest of her life.

Amid the hubbub and heated discussion, the leading master of the appraisal world declares that the gilt-bronze vase is indeed a fake.

The master asks Gu Wanyin: This piece is so finely crafted that it's almost indistinguishable from the real thing. How did you know it was fake?

Gu Wanyin: Because... the real one was buried with me in my tomb.

Later, Gu Wanyin wins Best Actress for her superb performance.

As her fans celebrate, people dig up the history book of the year, The Life of Empress Zhaoming, which Gu Wanyin authored. Others find a video of her catching a criminal with her bare hands, her PhD diploma, and records of her anonymously donating cultural relics worth hundreds of millions to the National Museum...

Fans: Sister Yin, how many more surprises are you hiding from me?

Haters: Is it too late to become a fan now?

Reader's guide:

1. The fake heiress is a fan of the heroine, and they get along well. They won't fight over the family fortune.

2. The heroine's relatives will genuinely come to love and accept her later on.

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Shen Yun'an is a princess of the Song Kingdom, sent on a long journey to marry into the Zhao Kingdom.

According to the rumors, Emperor Xiao Yi of Zhao is volatile and extremely cruel.

Shen Yun'an plans to muddle through and spend the rest of her life as an idle empress.

The moment she sees Xiao Yi's face, Shen Yun'an is overjoyed. She personally makes pastries and presents them to him.

But Xiao Yi distributes them among the palace servants, repeatedly humiliates her, and doesn't set foot in the empress's chambers for the first two months of their marriage.

The people around her fan the flames, saying the empress is all show and has failed to win the emperor's favor.

Unable to hold back, Shen Yun'an deliberately puts on a fiery red dress and applies vivid lipstick before entering the imperial study to seduce him.

Seeing her like this, Xiao Yi thinks she looks just like the radiant, beautiful girl from years ago, the one who lives in his heart like a bright moon.

Xiao Yi suppresses his ragged breathing and presses his index finger against Shen Yun'an's red lips. His voice hoarse, he says, "Qingqing, be good. Don't speak."

After that day, Xiao Yi seems to treat Shen Yun'an a little better, sending her many beautiful clothes and dishes. The problem is, none of them are things she likes.

She doesn't like light-colored clothes, but all the clothes Xiao Yi sends are pink. She's allergic to fish, but most of the food he sends contains fish.

Shen Yun'an tactfully tells Xiao Yi what she likes.

Xiao Yi only replies coldly, "No, you like them."

Through Shen Yun'an's eyes, Xiao Yi sees the bright moon in his heart.

At some point, Xiao Yi returns from court to find no food prepared, no whispers by his ear, and not even a trace of Shen Yun'an.

Unable to find the empress anywhere, Xiao Yi is on the verge of losing his temper when he discovers she's actually left the palace... to welcome General Lu, who's just returned to the capital?

Xiao Yi realizes that ever since General Lu returned to the capital, Shen Yun'an hasn't looked at him once.

Unable to contain his panic, Xiao Yi pins Shen Yun'an against a wall. "Does the empress have no explanation for me?"

Shen Yun'an: "I'm sorry, Your Majesty. I mistook you for someone else before. Let's divorce."

Two years after the empress fakes her death and runs away, Xiao Yi runs into Shen Yun'an by chance. His eyes instantly redden. "Qingqing, I've missed you so much."

Shen Yun'an beams. "I'm sorry, and you are?"

Reader's note: The male lead's bright moon is the heroine, but the heroine's bright moon isn't the male lead. He has to win her back, and they're each other's one and only.

Theme: Learn to face hardship bravely and seek out the boundless light