Your Highness, Time for Cuddles Again

When the late emperor died, the imperial city became a bloodbath, and only then was Emperor Jia able to ascend the throne. From that day on, everyone knew him as a tyrant.

The day Xie Jueyi was first brought into the palace, the emperor's younger sister, the seventeenth princess, blocked her path. With unrestrained delight in her eyes, she smiled at Xie Jueyi in a teasing manner. "You really are a beauty. I'm quite jealous of my brother's good fortune."

Only she would dare say such outrageous things in the imperial city. It seemed the rumors were true: Emperor Jia doted on her without limit, Xie Jueyi thought in a daze.

But before entering the palace, she had never imagined that in the years to come, the person who visited her palace most often would not be the emperor, but the seventeenth princess, Zhao Shizuo.

When Prince Qin usurped the throne and news came of Emperor Jia's death, Xie Jueyi used every connection she had to help Zhao Shizuo escape through a secret passage.

"Go! Once you leave, never come back! People outside will take you where you need to go. Whether you marry and have children or live freely on your own, just remember: you are no longer the seventeenth princess. Whatever happens in this imperial city has nothing to do with you!"

Zhao Shizuo glanced at her, laughed, then turned and disappeared into the passage.

Someone beside her couldn't help saying, "She left so decisively without even asking what would happen to you, Your Highness. Even if the tenderness she showed you all those years was genuine, this is still enough to chill anyone's heart."

On the night Prince Qin was about to enter her palace, Zhao Shizuo, who should have already left, suddenly burst in wearing black. The sword she held casually scraped against the ground, leaving a trail of blood. When Xie Jueyi looked over, Zhao Shizuo lifted her eyes and smiled brilliantly at her.

Emperor Jia, risen from the dead, stood silently outside the door.

Only then did they learn that the one who had slaughtered the imperial city all those years ago was not Emperor Jia, but his younger sister, the seventeenth princess, Zhao Shizuo.

The current empress dowager has shut herself away in the Buddhist hall and never leaves. Every year, Emperor Jia pays tribute to Buddha and distributes charity, but in truth, he does it all for her.

"Don't tell me you're going to pray and abstain from meat for me day and night, too?"

"Why bother with vegetarian food or prayers? If you go to hell, I'll go with you."

--- Coming soon: "Sis, Can I Get Your WeChat?" ---

Yu Qing transmigrated into a cannon-fodder female character in a melodramatic body-double novel. Her total appearances in the whole book amounted to fewer than a thousand characters. After living in the book for years, she'd almost forgotten about it.

Then one day, a few troublemaking friends dragged her to a bar, where she casually rescued one of her younger brother's female classmates.

Only afterward did she realize that this was supposed to be the first meeting between the male and female leads.

In the original story, the heroine, working part-time at the bar, is taken advantage of by someone pretending to be drunk. The people around them egg him on and watch, but no one speaks up for her.

Just as the heroine gives in to despair, the hero steps out of the shadows and restrains the person harassing her. He looks down at her face, so similar to his first love, and says in a cold voice, "From now on, you're with me."

The heroine quickly nods and agrees, then leaves the bar with the hero, beginning her life as a stand-in.

Yu Qing happens to arrive just as the hero says those words. Leaning against the second-floor railing, she taps the metal with her phone. "That's not how you fleece someone. Besides..."

Her voice trails off as she meets the girl's gaze below, then she gives a soft laugh. "She's underage."

In Jiang Wan's senior year of high school, a tall, handsome transfer student from a wealthy family joined her class. At first sight, she fell for him... his older sister!

To get close to her classmate's sister, she sneaks into the bar the woman often visits, but unexpectedly gets cornered by a group of drunks. The person she likes is standing on the second floor, speaking up for her and even smiling at her!

The older sister says, "Picking on a kid isn't very nice, is it?"

Almost at the same time, Jiang Wan hears a man's voice: "System, if I win Yu Qing over, will I get a reward too?"

In that instant, as Jiang Wan looks at that so-called male lead, only one thought remains in her mind: she wants him dead!

On the night of Yu He's graduation dinner, he calls his own older sister and asks her to pick him up from the restaurant.

After eating and drinking his fill and having a great time, he steadies himself against the wall as he heads outside, pulling out his phone to ask whether Yu Qing has arrived. As soon as he dials, he hears a familiar ringtone from around the corner ahead.

His face lights up, and he hurries over. "Sis, " His voice cuts off.

Around the corner, Yu Qing is pinned against the wall, with someone tugging at her collar and kissing her.

Yu He stands there in shock. The next moment, he closes his eyes and falls backward.

He must be drunk and dreaming. Otherwise, how could he see his class monitor forcing a kiss on his own older sister? Hahahaha...

// Before she turns eighteen, there won't be any mutual romance. Our Wan is just crushing on her alone.

// The original male lead is no good, but Qingqing is the real boss (said jokingly).

Theme: No matter what you face, be self-reliant, stand on your own, and never give up!