Vermilion Bird

[A revised version under the same title is now out: After Transmigrating, I Seduced and Abandoned the Beautiful Emperor Again. You can read this one as a second playthrough, and the revised version as a third. Aside from the names, the characters and story are completely different.]

The Vermilion Bird, one of the Four Celestial Spirits, is associated with the Li trigram and represents fire in the south.

When King Xuan renamed her in her previous life, he meant to keep her trapped in the palm of his hand like a sparrow. He never expected that his most outstanding attack dog would dare to run away after getting her revenge, before he could ascend the throne.

In the end, she became the ruler of all the forces in the South Sea, enjoyed a life of freedom, and then transmigrated back to the past.

The King Xuan she meets again is perfect and frail. All the flaws she'd once picked on are gone, so she can use him and toss him aside without a second thought.

She's a little tempted.

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After being reborn, King Xuan begins laying his plans, all for the reunion fifteen years in the future.

He refuses to marry young on the grounds of his poor health, remains chaste, and waits to bring her home and spoil her into a caged bird that can no longer fly, so they can grow old together.

He never imagined that the weapon he'd personally molded into a heartless blade, more fragile than colored glass and sharper than black iron, would make him spend the rest of his previous life regretting night and day that he'd let her go so easily. He wanted to clip her wings, lock her away, and treasure his Vermilion Bird in secret.

And yet she has arrived in the new world where he has planned everything.

This time, you won't escape.

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[Previously: Fateful mishaps, no escape even with wings, living in a drunken haze, unable to eat or sleep, love unreturned, unbearable pain, walking corpses, each going their own way.

This story: Transmigration and rebirth, passion burning hot, sharing a bed but dreaming different dreams. Who will come out on top?]

#A powerful heroine who transmigrated back x a reborn villainous big shot#

#The original young heroine x her early-deceased former husband, who survived this life thanks to the butterfly effect#

A few things to know before reading:

1. In her previous life, the heroine moved on from the male lead and reached even greater heights in her career. She's definitely more experienced than him.

2. The male lead is powerful and high-ranking. After being reborn, he remains chaste and refuses marriage on the grounds of poor health, waiting fifteen years in a humble home for the heroine to appear (or so he claims). His back courtyard is waist-high with weeds, but in his previous life, he met the heroine too late.

3. The original title didn't meet the requirements, so I changed it to this one temporarily. I'll change it again if I think of a better title.

Theme: Independent women should be strong and love themselves