After I Transmigrated, I Took Over the Female Lead's Harem

A pampered, timid, drama-loving young lady villainess and the cool, aloof, arrogant, scheming female lead (the empress)

Female-lead POV, with a preference for the receiving partner

In the thirty-third year of Dayin, the emperor and empress married. Meng Yanqing gave birth, and Hua Zhaoyue died tragically. A month later, the new emperor died under mysterious circumstances, the empress disappeared, and space-time collapsed.

[Second timeline begins, transmigration]

Hua Zhaoyue transmigrated and became a notorious good-for-nothing villainess, despised by everyone and the talk of teahouses throughout Lidu City. With all her memories of this timeline, naturally everything should go smoothly for her. So she has only three goals here: get close to the female lead, cling to a powerful patron, and win herself a handsome man!

The female lead, Meng Yanqing, is publicly known as an orphan raised by the Hua family and a celebrated Lidu City beauty and scholar, skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. She is also stunningly beautiful. A renowned empress for the ages, she is brilliant and meticulous, and the unattainable dream girl of countless young talents.

Hua Zhaoyue knows all this, and her life is in the hands of this legendary empress. So she embarks on the path to reform, abandoning her old arrogant and overbearing ways. She no longer bullies men or forces herself on women, and instead spends her days plotting how to win the female lead over.

But just when she thinks she's succeeded and that everything will go smoothly from now on, she discovers that the female lead always finds new ways to torment her.

Meng: "The water's gone cold..."

Hua: "???"

Wasn't that freshly brewed hot tea? How could it be cold?

Though she was a hundred thousand times unwilling, she still hurried to brew a fresh pot.

Meng: "It's too hot."

Hua: ...I've had enough! I'm done serving you!

So, on a dark and stormy night, Hua Zhaoyue packed her secret stash of money and escaped over the wall.

Meng Yanqing had no idea what had gotten into Hua Zhaoyue. She'd merely bumped her head, and before she had even fully recovered, she had people bring her back to Lidu from the countryside. She had also completely changed her old ways and was so good to Meng Yanqing that she practically clung to her...

At first, Meng Yanqing assumed the villainess had simply found a new way to humiliate her. She never expected it to be entirely different from what she'd imagined. To please her, Hua Zhaoyue had no limits and was even willing to use her beauty. They were both women, so in theory it was improper. But Meng Yanqing found it quite appealing. Everyone loves beauty, after all. Hua Zhaoyue was beautiful, and Meng Yanqing had known that since childhood.

It's just that being too beautiful isn't good either. Hua Zhaoyue flirts with people everywhere she goes, and it gives Meng Yanqing a real headache!

Theme: A guide to turning the tables and saving yourself