In her previous life, Feng Qiniang unwittingly caught the eye of Prince Yu, the capital's most notorious libertine.
Terrified, she claimed to be the legitimate daughter of the Feng family. Before long, Prince Yu sent a matchmaker to the Fengs to ask for her hand.
She thought she had escaped disaster, but her stepmother married her off to Prince Yu's household as a dowry concubine for her legitimate elder sister.
On his wedding night, Prince Yu left his bride behind and went to Qiniang's courtyard. Only then did she learn that he was the one who had arranged for her to become a concubine.
She resented and hated him for it, but he only 'favored' and 'took' her all the more.
From then on, Feng Qiniang became a thorn in the side of every concubine in Prince Yu's household, and a thorn in her elder sister's flesh.
She guarded against every danger, yet in the end she died in childbirth, taking her baby with her.
As she lay dying, she seemed to see Prince Yu rushing to her bedside, grief-stricken.
She thought she must have been mistaken. After all, he had 'favored' her to get revenge and 'taken' her to humiliate her. How could her death possibly make him grieve?
Reborn, Feng Qiniang had no intention of repeating the past, nor did she want anything more to do with Prince Yu. Yet wherever she went, she kept 'bumping into' him.
Since she couldn't avoid him, she decided to pick a husband and marry as quickly as possible.
As she embroidered her wedding dress by lamplight, he suddenly broke into her bedchamber in the middle of the night. She hurriedly grabbed her embroidery scissors to defend herself, but he took her hand and plunged the scissors straight into his heart.
"Since you're going to marry, why not dye your wedding dress with my heart's blood?" he rasped.
"Are you insane?"
"I'd rather you kill me first than watch you marry someone else." His soulful eyes were full of madness.
Only later did she learn that from the moment she died in front of him in her previous life, he had been afflicted with a madness no one could cure.
To Prince Yu, consumed by madness, the empire could be his bride price, and the whole world could be his funeral offering.
The male lead's blurb
After Feng Jin died in their previous life, Ji Xuan held her corpse and turned gray overnight, consumed by regret.
When he discovered that nearly every concubine in his household had played a part in her death, he flew into a rage, personally executed them all, then set fire to the entire inner residence.
Then he climbed into the coffin with her in his arms, ordered it nailed shut from the outside, and went to sleep beneath the earth beside her.
Reborn, Ji Xuan had three wishes: first, to marry A Jin properly and make her Princess Yu; second, to cherish her in the palm of his hand for the rest of their lives; third, to die before she did.
But before he could fulfill those three wishes, he fell into an abyss of no return. He had meant to push her far away, but she reached out and pulled him from the depths.
1. An ethereal jade-carving beauty × a dangerously mad, beautiful, tragic man. One-on-one romance, both leads have no previous partners.
2. In her previous life, the legitimate elder sister was in love with the male lead and went along with the mistake to marry him.
3. The leads are not perfect. They will grow, so please don't read if that's not for you.
Modern romance The Little Witch of His, please add it to your collection.
Jing Xi was shopping at the mall on the weekend when she unexpectedly saw her school bully boyfriend crouched on the ground, putting new shoes on the school's new fairy-like transfer student.
Furious, she spotted a bespectacled businessman working on his laptop in a nearby cafe, rushed over, snapped his computer shut, and ordered, "I'll give you a million. Be my boyfriend."
The businessman took off his gold-rimmed glasses and glanced at her lazily. "If you don't take your hand off my computer, I guarantee you'll be bankrupt before you can come up with that million."
Only then did Jing Xi recognize the man before her: Shen Dongming, the great demon king no one in Yancheng dared offend.
Seeing that Shen Dongming was a hundred times more handsome than he looked in the news, Jing Xi immediately decided to let her school bully and his little fairy be. She was going to win over this great demon king instead.
Jing Xi tried every possible way to pursue Shen Dongming, until he got so fed up with her pestering that he told her to get into Yan University before coming to see him again.
Jing Xi had no choice but to buckle down and prepare for the college entrance exams. When her acceptance letter from Yan University arrived, she went to find Shen Dongming in high spirits, only to see a sultry, enchanting woman clinging to him.
Heartbroken, she decided to devote herself to scientific research and stay away from this man who never kept his word.
A few years later, at a tech investment conference, Shen Dongming saw the little witch who had once pursued him relentlessly. She was wearing a lab coat and professionally presenting her project to investors. Suddenly, he thought she looked far sexier than she had in the short skirts she used to wear to tempt him.
The next day, a huge bouquet of bright red roses arrived at the lab. Under her colleagues' curious, gossipy glances, Jing Xi looked at the name on the card and said coolly, "Oh, they were sent by a dog."
Someone who breaks their word is a puppy. A shameless old man hoping to get back together is an old dog.
Theme: Look at things from different perspectives
There are a lot of chapters about the past life, but no matter how you look at it, they are whitewashing the fact that the male protagonist was not that bad to the female protagonist in his previous life. To put it bluntly, the reason he made the heroine his concubine in his previous life was because he didn't like her that much. The hero himself was notorious, so how could he still expect the heroine to wipe his eyes with a steel ball to see through him? As a reader, I would rather see the male protagonist make changes in this life and pursue his wife until the finale. (It's just a personal wish, not a guide to writing.)
Damn, you wrote this article very well, but I always feel that there is something inconsistent. At first I had no idea where the plot was, but the writing and plot were both great. Only after reading this chapter did I realize that the awkward thing is that the male protagonist was less vigilant about the backyard in his previous life. He was not at all like the son of the Queen Mother, a palace fighting champion, but more like a silly boy raised in a harmonious and monogamous family. From these chapters, it seems that after consummating the marriage in the previous life, the male protagonist treated the female protagonist as his wife: he only favored the female protagonist and did not touch others. In the eyes of the male protagonist, the study room is a couple's little fun, a privilege given to the female protagonist (women in the backyard are not allowed to enter the prince's study at will). The male protagonist in his previous life seemed to be living in his own bubble world: we fell in love, others were just background, status was not important, and I only loved you anyway. He has completely forgotten that there are a group of widowed women in the backyard, and all of them have higher status than the heroine and have a stronger background (the main wife is the legitimate daughter, the concubine is the queen mother's betrothal, but the heroine has no background and is the lowest grade). And those women cannot take their anger out on the prince, they will definitely take it out on the heroine. In short, the women in the male protagonist's backyard in the previous life had both the ability and the motive to kill the female protagonist. This is logical, very straightforward, and there is no need to beat around the bush at all. However, the male protagonist did not expect this at all!!! The text states that after the death of the female protagonist in the previous life, the male protagonist discovered after investigation that it was the woman in the backyard who caused the death. This also shows how little vigilance the male protagonist had towards the backyard in the past few years. A man who grew up in the royal family watched his mother survive the palace battles and ascend to the position of Queen Mother. After getting married, he was not wary of the backyard at all. He was so naive that he thought that pampering the heroine alone could bring harmony to the backyard. This is really against the law. Of course, it's only chapter 35 now, and as I said, there are still many things to talk about in the past life. Although it is just a novel, I still hope that the characters' actions are complex with logic and personality. In fact, the male protagonist's previous life has laid the foundation for it. I am no longer as ruthless a man as I was before entering V. I hope that in the future, I can explain why the male protagonist did not prevent the women in the backyard from bullying the female protagonist in the past life (even if the sisters in the backyard appear to be very affectionate, the male protagonist should not be unprepared. If he is really so stupid and sweet, he will not seize the throne in this life. The fight for the throne will only be more cruel than the backyard fight).
It has to be said that the heroine pushed the fifth sister out first, and the whole series of events that followed felt like she was responsible for it. I feel like she has the biggest problem.
…So you go around abusing the heroine and asking the heroine to pull the hero out of the quagmire? If I were the heroine, no matter what the reason is, I don't want to hear it anymore…
… The character of the male protagonist in his previous life really makes me unable to like him. Whenever I mention the male protagonist in his previous life, I quickly jump over... With disgust in my eyes...
In this life, I know how to find a secret guard to protect the heroine. Why didn't I think of it in the previous life? This is like the male protagonist giving all his meat to the female protagonist, and then throwing the female protagonist into a pack of hungry wolves in the backyard, but not giving the female protagonist any protection. The pack of wolves in the backyard ate the heroine. Isn't this normal? Even the heroine thinks so, so in the past life, she felt that the favor from the male protagonist was revenge and insult (by doting on the female protagonist alone, the male protagonist achieves the purpose of letting other women bully the female protagonist without having to do anything himself). This would not be the case if the male protagonist was given the position of concubine in his previous life, or if the female protagonist was left with a few capable servants. In the heroine's previous life, even her maidservant was her sister's, and she was completely alone among the wolves in the backyard. I hope the author will do a good job of torturing men later. Did you know that Liang Han's mother once said that bullying concubines is the behavior of lower-class people? In the same way, in the ancient context, using a lowly status as a concubine to take revenge on a woman, and letting the woman be trapped in the backyard and bullied for the rest of her life, is really a very despicable method. I said before that the male protagonist didn't think of protecting the female protagonist. Only when I wrote this did I realize that it wasn't that he didn't think of it, but that this was his purpose in making the female protagonist his concubine: to make the female protagonist a bitch! My little wish: Please do a good job of torturing men. The male protagonist is a military commander. A little skin injury is not considered to be a torment. He must be tormented to the point of heartache. Only when the liver hurts can he relieve his anger! Hum hum
This male protagonist is so funny. Why did the female protagonist in the previous life live and die with him? He retaliated and humiliated the female protagonist as a concubine. He had a mouth but couldn't speak well. I really rolled my eyes at this male protagonist.
From the perspective of the female protagonist, the male protagonist looked like a villain in his previous life
If she admits her mistake, give her a favor and make her prosperous and wealthy in the backyard. Seeing this makes me feel a little bit sad. Have you made up your mind to let me be your concubine for the rest of your life? The concubine's children have to call someone else's mother. It's so heartbreaking for the male protagonist to do this. There is absolutely no thought of Xu Xutuzhi turning the heroine into a positive person (it's difficult or not, it's sad that the hero doesn't have this idea)
The female protagonist is quite pitiful. In her previous life, she worked as a concubine for the male protagonist and cannot hold herself up as a human being. Even if she gives birth to a child and cannot call her mother, the male protagonist will not be as humble as the female protagonist.