Transmigrated as a Hostage Prince in an Enemy State, and My Inner Thoughts Are Exposed from the Start

Ling Qi is an obsessive fan of unofficial history who believes every melodramatic plot twist in period dramas.

He once got into an online argument with researchers claiming to study official history, going back and forth for over two thousand posts until one of them angrily shot back:

"You'd understand if you lived in that world!"

Who would have thought that when Ling Qi opened his eyes, he really had transmigrated into the historically "renowned" Da Li Dynasty?

Watching Duke Anguo and the young emperor probe each other in court, Ling Qi slapped his thigh.

"And you still dare say I read unofficial history! This is obviously Duke Anguo carefully testing how much he matters to the young emperor. Duke Anguo loves him so painfully, but the young emperor will figure it out eventually."

The tense atmosphere vanished, and an eerie silence fell over the court.

The young emperor shuddered three times, as if struck by lightning. Duke Anguo went deathly pale and fainted on the spot.

Ling Qi said, "The young emperor really is a blockhead. Look, you've angered Duke Anguo so badly he's had a fit."

The assembled ministers: "..."

The good news: Ling Qi had transmigrated as a hostage sent over from the Southern Dynasty, and could enjoy the court's gossip up close every day.

The bad news: this character was the fragile pretty boy and the ancestor of all those angsty romance novels that countless people would later imitate. From dukes and ministers to peddlers and laborers, there were countless men with unclear relationships with him, and his life was in danger every moment.

After the original character's death, Da Li unified the realm. He had secretly passed messages to Chen, and was tortured to death as a result.

Ling Qi: "..."

Everyone in Da Li knew why the hostage from Qi had been sent to their country: to use his beauty to bewitch the newly enthroned emperor, sowing suspicion between ruler and ministers and driving them apart.

Then Qi would seize the opportunity to send in its troops and reclaim its lost territory.

But the young prince, convinced this plan was flawless, diligently carried out all kinds of schemes to divide Da Li every day.

For the sake of unifying the realm, they decided to play along.

They deliberately made it seem to him that Da Li was already in dire straits. When the time came, they would kill this enemy spy to inaugurate their campaign.

But the chance to send out their troops never came. Instead, they noticed that the emperor was looking at the young hostage rather strangely.

"I was only pretending to be bewitched by him. I know what I'm doing."

After the ministers failed to achieve anything, they turned their attention to Prince Jin, who had a history with Ling Qi.

But when Prince Jin heard that Ling Qi had spent the night in the emperor's palace, he didn't immediately advise the emperor against it. Instead, he was despondent for a long time.

The ministers were furious and submitted memorial after memorial. Was the foundation of Da Li going to be destroyed by this man?

But gradually, some people began to notice something was off.

"You... don't you think that whenever that hostage is around, both the emperor and Prince Jin become so reasonable? Even when they accidentally contradict the emperor, he just smiles at them and praises them for speaking frankly and daring to offer remonstrance."

Later, after Ling Qi completed the mission assigned to him by the System, he planned to reveal his identity and fake his death.

"Actually, I've been a spy all along! Over the years, I've leaked quite a few of Da Li's secrets to Chen."

The ministers: "Your Highness has had too much to drink. What a joke to make."

Ling Qi, who hadn't touched a drop: "..."

One-on-one pairing, happy ending, from universally disliked to universally adored, survival System

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After Transmigrating Into a Book, I Became the Factory Director's Lackey

A bold, talented adopted son and corrupt official top x a godfather Factory Director with severe childhood trauma bottom

Lu Yun woke up to discover he had transmigrated into a book.

He had become a corrupt official who was determined to climb the ladder and had even gone so far as to take the Eastern Depot's Factory Director as his godfather. Remembering that this man would later be skinned alive by the young emperor, Lu Yun broke into a cold sweat.

At that very moment, relying on his godfather's authority, he was abducting a young woman in broad daylight.

His head throbbed. He had obviously arrived at the worst possible time. He'd already taken a godfather, embezzled money, and done every bad thing the original character could do. It seemed that only death awaited him.

No, he had to turn the story around in these few short years. He could still hang on.

A servant reported, "My lord, the Censorate has impeached you again!"

Lu Yun suppressed his delight. Good, impeach me! Returning to the countryside to farm was better than being skinned alive. Thus, the household servants witnessed a strange sight: Lu Yun wore a worried expression whenever he was promoted, but ate several extra bowls of rice whenever he heard he had been demoted.

Later, in the depths of a gloomy dungeon, Lu Yun knelt with his back straight.

"Your Majesty, please give him back to me."

"Give me a reason."

"I love him."

Ning Chen was ruthless and vicious, a scourge of the age. The only reason he could reach such a high position was that he had the support of the emperor, who needed help even to sit on the throne. Everyone knew that once the old emperor died, Ning Chen's good days would be over. But no one knew that he had been forced down at the execution ground by the Imperial Guard, made to watch as more than a hundred heads from his entire clan rolled to the ground.

He was merely returning the favor in kind.

Lu Yun said, "Factory Director, stop now. If you keep this up, you'll die and become a great villain in countless movies and TV dramas, dragged out again and again to be flogged!"

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I Turned Out to Be the Villain Myself

Jiang Juncheng was a once-in-a-millennium cultivation prodigy across the entire cultivation world, and the most dependable senior sister of the entire Shaoyang Sect.

After taking charge of the sect, Jiang Juncheng worked diligently, determined to make the Shaoyang Sect bigger and stronger and restore its former glory.

She never expected that, on the eve of her tribulation, the true male lead of the book, Xie Yan, would kill her with a single sword thrust. Only after her death did she learn that she was the great villain who had oppressed the male lead at every turn and kept him from getting together with the female lead.

Jiang Juncheng spat out a mouthful of blood. She never imagined the male lead was following a good-for-nothing cultivation story.

The first time the male lead came up the mountain to seek a master, Jiang Juncheng could tell at a glance that he had no aptitude for cultivation whatsoever. She didn't even let him enter the mountain, ordering him to pack his things and go home.

The next time she saw him, he had gotten involved with her most beloved junior sister. But Jiang Juncheng keenly noticed that the spiritual energy within Xie Yan was abnormal, as if he were cultivating some forbidden art. To prevent turmoil from breaking out in the cultivation world in the future, Jiang Juncheng decisively acted and crippled Xie Yan's cultivation.

Until her dying day, Jiang Juncheng believed everything she did was right. Then she discovered the protagonist's halo around Xie Yan.

If she'd known Xie Yan had a protagonist's halo, she would have realized he could do whatever he wanted and still be fine. She'd have had to be out of her mind to provoke the male lead.

Unexpectedly, when Jiang Juncheng opened her eyes, she was back on the afternoon Xie Yan first climbed the mountain to seek a master.

Facing the youth, who was about to be dragged away and stared at her with bloodshot eyes, Jiang Juncheng decisively intervened. Ignoring the strange looks from her fellow disciples, she kept him there.

"But, Young Sect Leader, didn't you just say he had no aptitude for cultivation at all?"

Given a second life, Jiang Juncheng decided to treat the male lead well.

When Xie Yan was exposed for practicing a forbidden art, Jiang Juncheng turned a blind eye.

When Xie Yan got together with the junior sister who was always hanging around her, Jiang Juncheng sensibly stepped aside and gave them space to be alone.

Just as Jiang Juncheng was poring over dictionaries, trying to choose a name for the child of the male lead and her most beloved junior sister, she never expected Xie Yan to hear the news and immediately turn red-eyed.

Theme: Stay true to your original aspirations and bravely move forward!