The Mad Dog Is Hard to Tame

"Also known as Dawn at the Palace Gate"

Song Langxing was born a noble princess, with a golden spoon in her mouth. Her father was the dynasty's only prince of a different surname, and her mother was the emperor's sworn younger sister.

Before she had even come of age, she'd learned to drink and fight. With a gang of followers at her back, she'd shout at any injustice she came across. People called her the lawless little tyrant.

A little shadow always followed this little tyrant around. The boy was as fair and delicate as a porcelain doll, and spoke endlessly of poetry and literature. His refined manner was the polar opposite of Song Langxing's temperament. Yet everyone said he was the princess's child bridegroom, destined to marry her and join her household when they grew up.

But only Song Langxing knew that what Xiao Yuxie wanted was not to be her husband, but the ruler of the world.

The boy's true identity was the emperor's posthumous son, who had been lost among the common folk.

Song Langxing would never forget:

In her previous life, Xiao Yuxie wanted to reclaim his birthright and seize the throne. On their wedding night, he killed her parents, then locked her away and forced her to smile at him day after day.

Only after she was reborn did she discover that she was merely a disposable character in a book, whose only purpose was to be a stepping stone on the male lead's path to power.

But even knowing that fate was set, she still refused to accept it!

How could she endure the slaughter of her family?

In this life, she locked Xiao Yuxie in a lightless room and made him practice martial arts day after day. She broke his leg bones so he would never be able to stand straight again.

She made Xiao Yuxie kneel, fed him poisonous parasites, and treated him like a dog.

Song Langxing's long whip lashed viciously across the dog's back.

She refused to believe in fate!

If a treacherous wolf could never be tamed, then she would train him into a heartless, emotionless, bloodless blade, one that would obey its master's every command.

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In both his lifetimes, the person Xiao Yuxie had wronged most was Song Langxing.

He couldn't tell her that he'd transmigrated into a book.

Much less could he reveal that there was a System inside him.

He had to complete the System's missions to return home.

No matter how cruel and cold the System's tasks were.

Even though he knew he shouldn't do it, even though it was horribly wrong.

Xiao Yuxie believed himself to be an unforgivable sinner. Day and night, he knelt before the Buddha and repented.

Until Song Langxing's blood stained his hands, and he finally returned to reality.

He'd thought it would be a release, but when he opened his eyes to a glittering world in ruins, he realized it was an endless abyss.

Transmigrating into the book a second time, he knelt at her feet.

He no longer prayed to the gods or Buddha. He begged only her.

① A strong heroine, not a delicate damsel. She can drink, fight, lead troops, make poison, rebel, and tame the male lead.

② The male lead will call the heroine "Master."

③ Cover art credit: [Shuimo Danqing-ZDC]

Theme: Women should be strong.