A Guide to Raising a Villain

Ongoing novel: Fragrant Captivity in the Golden Hall. Please add it to your reading list! The blurb is below this one.

Zhao Fuzhou transmigrated.

The System told her: [Help the male lead, Xu Wei, eliminate his rivals and ascend the throne, and you can return home.]

The male lead was aloof and sinister, cruel by nature, and treated human life as worthless. Just hearing his name was enough to stop children from crying at night.

Faced with such a difficult task, Zhao Fuzhou prepared herself for the worst.

When she first met him, he was still young. Though quiet and cold, he would still blush at the ears when he ate the chestnut cakes she offered him.

When she saw him again years later, he lifted his thin-lipped brows and greeted her gently, "It's been a long time." Zhao Fuzhou thought him more refined than anyone else.

Later, she helped him step by step to the throne. Her heart full of joy, she thought she could leave once her task was done.

But for some reason, on the night the new emperor ascended the throne, she was the only one summoned.

"Where do you think you're going?" In the resplendent palace hall, the eyes that had always seemed to smile were dark and cold.

On the imperial throne, the young woman was trapped in his arms, his hand holding her by the neck and gently stroking her skin.

The man's whisper beside her ear was like a blade, stealing her soul with every word.

"My strategist, where are you trying to run this time?"

In his previous life, Xu Wei had been wretched and obscure, while she had shone brilliantly.

They should never have crossed paths.

But that rainy day, in a narrow alley fragrant with pear blossoms, she reached out and rescued him from the mud.

He had been no more than a tiny speck, a floating weed in the current. From that moment on...

He began to hope for more.

Clever and brave heroine x scheming male lead

A steadfast one-on-one romance!

Guaranteed sweet romance!

The male lead is raised by the heroine in the early chapters, and regains his memories later on.

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Ongoing novel: Fragrant Captivity in the Golden Hall

Feng Yu was reborn as an inconspicuous concubine-born daughter beneath the imperial city.

She heard that the Seventh Prince had ascended the throne with the people's full support.

She also heard that the new emperor's first act was to posthumously honor his adoptive elder sister as the Grand Princess Shengde. He overruled all objections to move her into the imperial mausoleum and bury her beside him, and had her memorial tablet brought to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to be worshipped day and night.

Everyone said the emperor must be obsessed with his adoptive sister.

But Feng Yu, the person in question, knew he must hate her deeply.

She had been the one to save him, the one to comfort him, and the one who abandoned him after he had come to rely on her completely.

How could Feng Yu dare show her face before him again? She wished she could hide at the ends of the earth and have nothing more to do with him.

Who could have guessed that they would meet again beside the Golden Fragrance Pool?

Dressed in imperial yellow, he caught her chin in his broad hand and tilted her face up. His presence was heavy, and the clear gaze he once had was gone. "You look very much like someone I once knew."

Her birth father sold her off for his own glory, and she was bound and made into a pawn meant to save her family.

In the dim golden light of a warm, fragrant bedchamber, she cowered in a corner. Someone lifted the curtain and clasped her slender ankle in a broad hand, his voice cold and dangerous:

"Elder Sister, you really... made Me search for you."

Feng Yu looked ready to burst into tears, unable to move.

It was all punishment for having betrayed him.

Theme: Keep your feet on the ground and devote yourself wholeheartedly to one thing.