I Won't Be the Crown Princess Again

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"An obsessive, cold, eccentric, yet pure-hearted male lead VS a gentle but resilient female lead"

When the hare is dead, the hound is cooked. In her previous life, Shen Qiu helped Huo Xing climb from rock bottom to the top, only for him to push her from Jianzhang Palace and leave her disabled.

She lay sick in bed as her family crumbled. Her family's blood debts became nothing more than seasoning for Huo Xing and his childhood sweetheart's loving romance.

Even when she died, she was left with a reputation for jealousy and coldheartedness.

"Narrow-minded and obsessive." "Unfit to be empress."

Reborn, Shen Qiu thought over everything that had happened in her previous life and decided to accept that blame.

So when the bastard pulled the same old trick, arranging a chance encounter so rumors would spread about the two of them,

Shen Qiu turned on her heel and quickly climbed into another carriage.

Fu Yingci: ???

According to the rumors, Fu Yingci was unruly, gloomy, and outrageously arrogant. Everyone except His Majesty had been impeached by him in a memorial.

The entire court both feared and hated him, burning incense every day and praying that Fu Yingci would die young.

Everyone feared him, but Shen Qiu didn't.

Compared to those sanctimonious people who threw away their hunting dogs once the hares were dead, mentally unstable Fu Yingci seemed incredibly precious.

He shielded her from covetous people with ulterior motives.

She helped him impeach them day after day, escalating their attacks.

Feints, secret investigations, perfectly in sync.

The incense at the temples grew ever more plentiful. The officials hated the two of them so much their teeth ached, declaring that Fu Yingci and Shen Qiu were made for each other: a pair of lunatics!

Fu Yingci nudged the person beside him. "Look. Fear has twisted them beyond recognition. We're not the crazy ones!"

Shen Qiu turned her head. Begonia petals fell like snow. The man beside her was handsome, his smile faint. Suddenly, she remembered how in her previous life he had been falsely accused of sleeping with a consort, and the history books had branded him immoral, obsessive, and twisted.

She reached out and took his hand. "Mm, you're absolutely right!"

She had seen his proud, unyielding spirit, his humility and integrity, his refusal to bend.

He called her his light. To Shen Qiu, Fu Yingci was an even more precious salvation in her dark, muddy world.

Peeping at Her

A brilliant, unhinged older brother * A willful, untamed beauty of a younger sister

Wei Hanyu had skin like snow and the beauty of a flower. Unruly by nature, she ignored her brother's objections, secretly exchanged tokens with Shen Jingzhi, and agreed to marry him after he passed the metropolitan examination.

Later, Shen Jingzhi passed the palace examination and ranked among the top scholars. The very next day, he dumped Wei Hanyu and accepted the emperor's offer of marriage.

Wei Hanyu went riding to clear her head, got drenched in a storm, and came down with a high fever that night.

In a daze, she seemed to see her older brother sitting by her bed, his face cold.

Wei Hanyu knew Wei Hanzhang had never liked her. He had once scolded her for shamelessly lowering herself by choosing Shen Jingzhi. She had refused to listen, stubbornly insisted on marrying Shen Jingzhi, and made the whole city gossip.

Now Shen Jingzhi was about to marry someone else, and Wei Hanyu had become a laughingstock.

Ashamed and full of regret, she squeezed her eyes shut, unwilling to look at Wei Hanzhang's sneering, self-satisfied face.

Wei Hanzhang sneered at her. "I told you long ago that Shen Jingzhi approached you with an ulterior motive from the start. Do you think he could like a woman as lacking in self-respect as you? He only did it to spite me."

Wei Hanyu opened her eyes angrily. "You don't have to come here to mock me. Whoever I marry from now on is none of your concern, Brother."

Wei Hanzhang stared at her misty, stubborn eyes, his gaze suddenly turning dark.

"Wei Hanyu, who do you want to marry? Who could you marry?"

"You have never been allowed to decide your own marriage."

Outsiders said Wei Hanzhang was the epitome of grace and refinement. Only Wei Hanyu knew how dark and despicable he was. Otherwise, why would he have arranged several matches for her, only to hide her away in a private villa and keep her in his bed?

*The leads are not blood-related, and the romance only begins after their sibling relationship ends.

Theme: Be strong, independent, loving, and respectful toward yourself.