The White Lotus's Black-Hearted Handbook

Just before Tang Qinrou was to be hanged, fate brought her a dream. She discovered that every tragedy in her life had stemmed from her own choices.

As a young girl, she let an old shrew in her household take advantage of her out of misplaced loyalty to the past. As a result, her late mother's jewelry, including an important keepsake from her childhood sweetheart, was stolen and sold.

As she grew older, she kept a vicious servant in the household out of compassion. He assaulted her personal maid, Linlang, who was forced to give herself to him and came to hate Tang Qinrou from then on.

Later, when her grandmother, her only protector, passed away, Tang Qinrou was too weak to stand up for herself and was married off by her stepmother to an ailing, unloved prince.

Then a voice in the dream told her she had the chance to return to her youth, but she had to complete a task related to Fu Zheng. Otherwise, the ending would not change!

Tang Qinrou's vision went dark. She thought it might be better to just die.

Fu Zheng, the most powerful minister in all of Great Qian, was also the young emperor's tutor. He monopolized the government and ruthlessly eliminated his enemies. Blood flowed beneath the throne, and all under heaven submitted to him.

But even the most careful plans can have a flaw. He was assassinated. When he woke again, he found himself back in the Jingbei Marquis's residence, living as the eldest young master's page, dependent on others and at their mercy.

He had only to do it all over again. With his abilities, he could reclaim his place. But he noticed that the little white lotus of the Jingbei Marquis's residence had been acting strangely lately. In his previous life, she had avoided him at every turn. Now she was afraid of him, yet secretly helping him.

And with the purest, most flawless face in the world, she was doing all sorts of bad things. That was rather interesting, wasn't it?!

A sweet-looking but scheming heiress x a villainous powerbroker, a max-level player restarting with a new character

* The characters aren't truly good and pure; the synopsis is just for reference.

* Includes some household-intrigue scenes.

* This is a fictional setting, so please don't nitpick the historical details.

Theme: Hard work may fail, but without hard work, success is impossible.