[Please add my historical transmigration sweet romance, Married to a Brooding Powerful Minister Ten Years Later, to your reading list~]
Jiang Tian, an overworked office drone, stayed up all night reading a novel.
The book had a major villain named Xie Guiyuan, who held the powerful position of Director of the Seal, was unpredictable and cruel, and wielded authority over the entire court.
The hero and heroine joined forces to fight him for more than half the book. Without the protagonists' plot armor, they would have died at his hands long ago.
In the end, it was only because he made a mistake while practicing his martial arts that the hero managed to kill him with a single sword strike.
When she woke up, Jiang Tian had transmigrated into the book and become an unpopular seventeenth princess of the Jin Dynasty.
She racked her brains before finally figuring out which doomed side character she'd become, one who appeared for only a few chapters before dying.
The people were suffering, eunuchs held sway, and the foolish emperor, on a whim to reward Xie Guiyuan, had actually bestowed the original owner on him as a wife!
The original owner had despised him from the bottom of her heart for being a eunuch, deliberately provoked him, and publicly humiliated him. Xie Guiyuan's minions then killed her in a cruel fashion.
On the night of the wedding, red candles flickered.
Jiang Tian met Xie Guiyuan's sinister phoenix eyes, shivered, and forced out a smile.
"How about... we start by becoming friends?"
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After moping for just a few days, Jiang Tian pulled herself together.
She was going to bring out her 24/7 workhorse spirit and treat the Director of the Seal like a boss: ease his troubles, soothe his worries, and do her best to keep herself alive!
Once the hero killed him with a single sword strike, she could run away with his enormous fortune and spend the rest of her life eating well and living carefree~ Hehe~
But... why had the hero lost, the heroine surrendered, and the damn eunuch grown more vigorous by the day?
*
Xie Guiyuan had always known that his little princess wanted to escape him.
He was a lowly eunuch, unworthy of serving at her feet.
But so what?
Even if he had to shatter his bones and body, he would trap her in this gilded cage and be entwined with her for all eternity.
*An obsessive real eunuch X a clear-eyed little princess
*Cover background image authorized by Shu Lou Qu
Historical transmigration novel to follow: Married to a Brooding Powerful Minister Ten Years Later. Please add it to your reading list.
Blurb:
Eighteen-year-old Luo Yunshuang went up the mountain to pray for her grandmother, and in that short time, ten years had passed in the world below!
Her beloved grandmother had died, her loving mother had gone mad, and her former fiancé had married her half-sister...
Everything had changed.
She, the legitimate eldest daughter who had been "missing" for ten years, had become a burden the Luo family was eager to get rid of.
When she was out of options, He Ziqi proposed to her.
Eight years ago, He Ziqi was a top scholar famed throughout the land. Now he was a high-ranking official of the first rank, with great authority and a fearsome reputation.
People in the capital had all sorts of theories about why such a handsome, brilliant prodigy, now just twenty-nine, had yet to marry.
When Luo Yunshuang asked him, his peach-blossom eyes, which seemed to look at even dogs with affection, shimmered as he smiled. "You were always so kind to me back then, Miss Yun. Of course I should repay you."
Luo Yunshuang: ... You were a son of the He family who used to follow me around. Are you sure this is repayment and not revenge?
She knew how illustrious he was now, but she could still imagine how miserable life would be after marrying him.
Still, between the cannibalistic Luo household and He Ziqi, Luo Yunshuang resolutely chose the latter.
Yet the revenge she'd imagined never came. Instead, the feeling of being secretly coveted, infiltrated, and controlled grew increasingly unsettling...
He Ziqi even said he was getting old and needed an heir...
The first year Luo Yunshuang was missing.
He Ziqi thought: When I find her, I'll make everyone who hurt her regret ever being born.
The third year she was missing.
He Ziqi thought: If she can come back, I'll hold on to her tightly and never let go, even if I die.
The seventh year she was missing, with no hope of her return.
He Ziqi had no gods or Buddhas left to pray to. He could only make a cruel bargain with himself.
If she could come back, he would leave her world and never see her again.
In the tenth year, when he saw her, still eighteen and alive,
He Ziqi smiled.
He was clear-eyed enough to know that he was mad.
He would drag her into this hopeless, fruitless purgatory,
marking every part of her, inside and out, with the traces of his exclusive claim.
Theme: Lovers should open their hearts to each other