Marrying the Imperial Uncle

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Blurb:

1. The Protector General is framed, and overnight, Ruan Mi, once the most beautiful woman in the capital and born to a prominent family, becomes an orphan.

Even her childhood sweetheart, the illegitimate son of Prince Jing, to whom she was betrothed, avoids her.

Ruan Mi stares at the vermilion gates of Prince Jing's residence, then turns and walks straight into the torrential rain.

On Changqing Street, where rain pours in sheets, there are hardly any pedestrians. A splendid carriage emerges from the shadows, splashes through the rain, and stops beside her.

The curtains rise, revealing a man with a striking bearing and refined features. A gentle smile plays on his lips as he says tenderly, "Marry me, and I'll help you get even."

She has no idea how deeply this young regent is obsessed with her. To her, he seems like a deity descended from heaven, and, as if in a trance, she takes his hand.

Only after she enters the Prince Regent's residence and accidentally stumbles into the hidden room in his study does she discover just how much this man loves her. For ten whole years, he has loved her silently, never daring to let her know for fear she would grow to dislike him.

2. Everyone in the capital knows that Pei Zhen, the regent, is an untouchable beauty on a mountaintop, beyond anyone's reach.

But no one knows that every day, as he watches Ruan Mi smile at someone else, it feels as though a knife is carving up his heart. Yet he dares not appear before her or disturb her enjoyment, afraid that even the slightest thing might upset her.

Until one day, he gets his chance.

Highlights:

1. A sweet, gentle beauty whose engagement is broken off vs. an untouchable beauty who descends from his lofty perch for love.

(The story opens with the untouchable beauty descending from his lofty perch for love.)

2. The setting is entirely fictional, with plenty of original worldbuilding. One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins, and there is an eight-year age gap.

3. All supporting characters serve to develop the leads' relationship. A sweet little romance.

4. The secondary couple features a scumbag chasing his ex after losing her.

Blurb for Black Lotus Rises to Power [Quick Transmigration]:

Shu Yu, the highest-ranking member of the demon race, secretly practices a forbidden art. Unexpectedly, a heavenly tribulation strikes, blasting her body to ashes.

By chance, she encounters an ownerless Black Lotus System and becomes a ruthless, capricious villainess in name and in deed, traveling through different worlds to win over men with obsessive personalities.

As someone born into the demon race, Shu Yu has no interest in winning over men. But playing the villain? That's right up her alley!

(Completed) World One: A handsome illegitimate son who steals her entire fortune for his idealized love, then throws her into the black market to be flayed and tortured.

World Two: An Alpha entertainment industry's top-tier star who ruins her reputation and scatters compromising photos everywhere for his own sake.

World Three: A cold-hearted jewelry mogul who treats her as a stand-in for the person who loves him, all so he can secretly switch them.

World Four: A ruthless young lord who abandons his long-promised fiancée, tramples her into the dust, and sets his sights on the Noble Consort.

To gather the fortune needed to revive her body and avenge the original host, she puts her heart and soul into playing the Black Lotus. But what's with these men? Their characters fall apart faster with each new world!

What a decline in public morals! Men these days have no restraint!

Highlights: 1. All male leads are virgins; scumbags will be ground to dust.

2. The heroine is not truly kind and pure. This is a revenge story about punishing scumbags.

Theme: Leave darkness behind to embrace the light.