The Villainess Reclaims Her Body and Rules the World

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Women who transmigrate usually arrive in ancient times with modern skills and ideas, strike it rich, gather a crowd of handsome men, and eventually live happily ever after with the chosen one. They truly have it all: fame and fortune.

Yan Qingqing isn't that blessed transmigrator. She's the cannon-fodder whose body was stolen and whose name was taken over by one.

Six years later, she finally regains her body, only to discover that the transmigrator's bizarre behavior has left her reputation in tatters.

Already married to the Crown Prince, she flirted with men everywhere, including men of high status. She was wanton and fickle.

She complained that Great Zhou didn't have something called an "air conditioner," and used huge amounts of ice in summer. Extravagant and decadent, she wasted the people's labor and wealth.

She invented things like soap and hot pot, then used her power as Crown Princess to force people to buy them, bullying businesses and engaging in coercive sales.

At twenty, Yan Qingqing had broken every family rule and become intolerable to the court officials.

The day she returned was also the day she was crowned Empress. Facing the ministers' interrogation, Yan Qingqing made a vow from on high: "Heaven and earth bear witness, and all may judge me. Let the sun, moon, and all creation watch and see whether I, Yan Qingqing, am worthy of ruling the realm as its mother!"

Perhaps she started out simply trying to stay alive, but Yan Qingqing gradually realized that Great Zhou was riddled with problems. She had no choice but to keep her identity hidden while fighting her way forward.

The transmigrator's lackeys rebel? Pretend to go along with them, get all the intelligence you can, then turn around and teach them a lesson.

Merchants cause trouble and the people have no salt? Use the transmigrator's notes and modern technology to get things moving.

Natural and man-made disasters leave the people homeless? Bring in potatoes, waterwheels, improved rice varieties, and more.

Before long, she even sparked a nationwide wave of scientific research, and agriculture and industry flourished.

The workforce can't keep pace with technological development? Liberate women's minds and gain half the population as workers.

With money, food, and good generals, why wait to unite the country? Bring even the enemy states that have been sworn foes for generations under their banner.

Upcoming novel: The True Black Lotus Refuses to Be Redeemed.

Xia Erran was mocking a poor scholar of upright character while eating a candied date when she choked on the pit and died. The entire capital celebrated for a month.

There was only one reason: Xia Erran was a thoroughly wicked black lotus.

She murdered her childhood friend and stole her token, then went to the Anyuan Marquis's household to claim kinship. When her friend's wet nurse escaped and came to expose her, Xia Erran had the entire woman's family killed.

She used the identity of the Anyuan Marquis's legitimate daughter to marry the Third Prince, then betrayed her husband and sold him out, getting the whole Anyuan Marquis household and the Third Prince executed.

Why, you ask, could such a vicious woman live in luxury and enjoy such high status while the people dared not speak out? Naturally, it was because Xia Erran married again, this time to the eldest prince, who had become the current Crown Prince. Marrying brothers in succession took her reputation to new heights.

This wicked woman actually got a chance to be reborn.

The usual plot would be: clear her name, spare her friend, make her own way and choose the right path, and avoid marrying twice by marrying her true soulmate directly?

But Xia Erran says: what a joke. A beautiful woman with no power or connections in a strictly class-based feudal society is most likely to end up in a brothel.

In her previous life, she was already rotten to the core. Her good husband wanted revenge for that friend, but didn't want to earn a reputation for breaking his word. Dying by choking was only two days earlier than she otherwise would have, so it wasn't a shame.

This time, she'll make sure she does a cleaner job. She won't leave her friend's wet nurse's six-year-old alive. She won't go soft on anyone in the Anyuan Marquis's household who helped her. She won't let the Third Prince grow powerful. Then there won't be rumors all over the streets.

She doesn't need to mend her ways, clear her name, or repent. If she can just silence everyone who knows the truth, she'll still be an innocent, good girl, won't she?

She'll repay everyone who tries to hurt her, twice over.

Theme: Set your values straight and learn to make proper use of the advantages you have.