After Bewitching the Emperor, She Revealed Her Identity (Reborn)

[So much has happened this year. My family had to go into the hospital, and my own health hasn't been great, which led to this novel being on hiatus for far too long. I've come back now, but after such a long break, I just can't recapture how I felt when I was writing it. I don't want to rush to an ending or leave everyone waiting with the story stuck, so I'm very sorry to say that I'll be removing the paywall for now. Later, I'll reorganize the outline and clarify the direction of the story. One day, I'll resume updates and fill in the gaps. I bow again in apology!]

Coming soon: A Guide to Marrying a Princess and When the Aloof Imperial Brother Breaks His Vows. Please add them to your reading lists!

Synopsis:

# Outwardly a sweet, innocent flower, inwardly a clever and scheming concubine-born daughter VS an emperor who seems refined and gentle but is a wolf in sheep's clothing

# The leads both pretend to be harmless while hiding their true intentions

[Each other's White Moonlight] [Pursuit After the Breakup]

In her previous life, Yan Chengbi spent five years working her way up from a concubine to a secondary consort in the prince's household. She never expected Prince Qin's rebellion to fail and leave her dead without a whole body.

Reborn, she dodged, fled, and fought back, but still couldn't escape the fate of being sent to the prince's household again.

Either she would erupt from her silence, or she would perish in it.

At her close friend's signal, she spotted the young emperor high on his dais, handsome as a jade statue. Wearing his crown and dragon robe, he was the ruler of all under heaven, and her target.

Her beauty had brought about her death in her last life. This time, she would use it to put herself in mortal danger and find a way to survive.

Since childhood, Yuan Qiji had often dreamed of an unfamiliar young woman who would lower her head and tenderly call him "Big Brother."

Whenever he woke, he could never remember her face. Only the chill and desolation of his empty room remained.

Until he met Yan Chengbi in a shadowy bamboo grove.

The young woman wept sorrowfully. "Your Majesty, save me."

Her clothes were soaked, her dark hair tumbling loose. She looked like a beautiful spirit from a supernatural tale.

Amid the delicate fragrance of lotus blossoms, his heart fluttered at the thought of seeing such a beautiful girl cry.

Back then, she had shyly said, "Your Majesty may call me A Bi."

At the time, he thought she was the purest and kindest woman in the world.

Until he saw her kill a villain with her own hands, wearing a familiar face twisted by a ruthlessness he had never known.

When he investigated further, the reports his spies presented were filled with one piece of "evidence" after another that she had schemed to deceive the emperor.

Even the closeness between them from the very beginning had been part of her long-laid plans.

The spies thought the person who had deceived the emperor would surely be sentenced to death. But after a long silence, the emperor ordered all the evidence burned.

He had planned never to see her again. But when they met once more, she immediately burst into tears and pleaded, "A Bi doesn't want to die. Please have mercy on me."

Her face overlapped with the one he had seen in his dreams for more than a decade. In a low voice, he said, "I said you would live. Who dares make you die?"

In the end, he could not let her go.

1. Real revenge and real face-slapping. The heroine is genuinely scheming and only wants to use the hero to seize power. The hero is completely lovestruck and pursues her after the breakup.

2. The dynasty is fictional, very much so. It's a mishmash of different eras.

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[Beautiful, passionate eldest princess] [Young, scheming general with the heart of a mad dog]

# The hero submits to the heroine, an age-gap romance where she raises a younger puppy-like boy

# The second and third male leads pursue her after the breakup

Li Xiaoxiao, a white-collar professional from the twenty-first century, transmigrates into the body of Li Fengxue, Princess Zhaoping of Great Wei. Unfortunately, the princess is in a terrible position. Emperor Wei has ten daughters and one son. Although Zhaoping is the eldest, she was born to a lowly palace maid and has lived a miserable life.

Faced with wicked servants and palace intrigue, the newly arrived Li Xiaoxiao rubs her hands together, brimming with confidence. "I've spent years navigating office politics. When it comes to scheming, I've never lost."

But as she keeps fighting her way through one thing after another, how does she end up with three consorts?

In the fifteenth year of Wanlong, Emperor Wei fell gravely ill and issued an edict marrying Princess Zhaoping to Ren Lin, son of the powerful chancellor Ren Quefei.

Zhaoping didn't love Ren Lin, and he had a beloved of his own. The two agreed not to interfere in each other's lives.

Five years later, they divorced as agreed. She remained an eldest princess, and he had a beloved wife and concubines by his side.

For her second marriage, she fulfilled her own wish and married Xue Jueqing, the man she had admired for years. She thought her hardships were finally over and they would be together at last, but on their wedding night, her beloved treated her coldly.

Under Great Wei law, anyone who married a princess could inherit a title but could not hold an official post.

Only then did Zhaoping realize that she had become an obstacle on his path to success. In the end, she had been the only one in love.

On the fifth day of their marriage, she went to the palace to meet the new emperor and ask to divorce her second consort.

The new emperor agreed, and Zhaoping returned home dejected.

Halfway there, a young man in red stopped her carriage. Radiant as peach blossoms, he smiled. "Xue Jueqing is blind to your charms, Auntie. Chengyu is young, has no desire for fame or fortune, and would gladly be your lover."

Zhaoping scolded him for being outrageous. The young man replied earnestly, "You may not want me now, Auntie, but you will someday. And if you still don't, Chengyu will wait for you all his life."

His innocence unsettled her, and Zhaoping hastily ordered her servants to drive away.

A year later, Princess Zhaoping married once more. Both her former consorts fell ill, while her young new consort strode through the streets with a flower in his hair, radiant with joy at finally getting his wish.

Qi Chengyu had loved Li Fengxue for ten years. At last, at sixteen, he became her consort. He lived for Li Fengxue, and one day he would die for her, too.

Synopsis 2

A rumor suddenly spread through the capital: Although Princess Zhaoping was usually gentle and kind, she was rather reckless and jealous when it came to men.

The once-famous Young General Qi was confined to her residence day after day, and had not attended court for nearly half a month.

When Zhaoping heard the rumor, she laughed coldly and dug her pretty, long nails into the person beside her. "Am I the one keeping you prisoner?"

Seeing the golden chain around her slender ankle, Qi Chengyu hurriedly shook his head.

Zhaoping asked again, "Am I jealous?"

Remembering that he had ruined the marriages between her and both her former consorts, Qi Chengyu lowered his head to her shoulder and said softly, "Chengyu is the jealous one, so please, Princess... take pity on me."

Remembering his maddening ways, Zhaoping sighed at the sky. A puppy turning into an obsessive lover: be careful when raising one!

Reading guide:

1. Not a harem story. One-on-one, happy ending, mostly lighthearted. The heroine's soul transmigrates into her younger self, and they grow up together, so there is no emotional replacement.

2. The leads are not related by blood. The heroine is five years older. The hero pursues her, and he is genuinely obsessive and devoted to her.

3. The two former consorts, a sharp-tongued playboy and his love rival, and a cool, detached top scholar, realize their feelings too late. The author will be merciless to them.

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Coming soon: When the Aloof Imperial Brother Breaks His Vows. Please add it to your reading list!

# Beautiful, spoiled, hypocritical fake princess VS compassionate on the surface, demon-hearted true crown prince

[Her blood-red lips brimmed with venomous resentment as she greedily kissed his clean, pale face, tempting the devout Buddhist to fall with her into the depths of hell.]

Mingzhu was the most honored legitimate princess in the Wei palace. Her father was the most virtuous emperor in Great Wei's history, and her mother was his first wife, Empress Xiao.

Though haughty and willful by nature, she was also much admired for her exquisite beauty. All she had to do was wait until her fifteenth birthday to marry the man she loved.

But a Buddhist ritual in the rear palace brought the monk Lingsu of Sheng'an Temple into everyone's view. His face, so similar to Emperor Wei's when he was young, sent shockwaves through the court.

The deposed consort Chen revealed the truth behind the case of the false imperial bloodline. Lingsu was the true crown prince, and Mingzhu was a false princess.

The names Wei Mingzhu and Cui Mingzhu differed by just one character, yet the change made the empress despise her, her sisters look down on her, and her birth mother die a tragic death in the palace to protect her.

From a princess to the daughter of a lowly palace maid, she endured countless hardships. Seeds of hatred and darkness took root in her heart.

With a sidelong glance, she smiled sweetly as she toyed with a flower, turning her revenge on the monk Lingsu, who refused to return to the palace.

At eight years old, Feng Qiuyan traveled to Jiangnan with his adoptive parents to visit relatives. Bandits ambushed them, killing and robbing. All thirty-eight members of the Feng family, except him, were slaughtered.

Qiuyan survived thanks to his martial arts skills. Gravely wounded and unconscious, he was rescued by a noble benefactor.

From then on, the world lost the commoner Feng Qiuyan and gained the monk Lingsu.

Ten years later, Lingsu, the revered monk of Sheng'an Temple, traveled to Jiangnan to teach Buddhist doctrine. On the way, he was abducted by a notorious bandit gang.

When the local prefect hurried to the scene with his men, he discovered the bandits' hideout had been massacred, and Lingsu, unconscious, was the sole survivor.

The young monk had a handsome, refined face and an air of sacred serenity. When he awoke to the scene, he bore no grudge and recited a prayer for the dead for the water bandits.

No one noticed the coldness in his downcast eyes.

Lingsu had thought he would spend his life serving the Buddha to atone for taking lives. Even learning that he was of imperial blood had never shaken his resolve.

Until one day, a delicate young woman threw herself into his arms, weeping like a flower in the rain. "Imperial Brother, Mingzhu has wronged you."

Her familiar fragrance reminded him of the coquettish voice he had heard years ago: "Give him some money and take him to a clinic. Make sure he doesn't die."

So she was someone from his past. It was a pity she no longer remembered him.

He lowered his head and asked softly, "Mingzhu?"

As his voice fell, his hand tightened around her waist.

Mingzhu nodded under his gaze, which seemed to see through everything. She had no idea that from then on, she had fallen into his hands and would never escape.

Lingsu often wondered how a woman like Mingzhu could be so cruel, drawing him in and then flitting away to the arms of another man.

But if she was cruel, he was no good person either.

If he couldn't keep her by remaining a Buddhist monk, then he would take the supreme throne and keep her by his side forever.

She liked being revered, so he would make her the most honored woman in the world.

Reading guide: Both leads have no prior sexual partners. The heroine is a little villain, and the hero is a complete lunatic. Possessive romance. It might be sweet, maybe!

# Revenge story

# Forbidden romance

Theme: Loving yourself comes first