The Seductress Didn't Mean to Flirt and Then Die

Male Lead's Perspective:

Zuo Yuan, reborn and back for revenge, swore that in this life he would kill first the lewd princess who had broken his legs and humiliated him in his previous life.

But he discovered that this lewd princess had started making midnight offerings and repenting for her wicked deeds. Whenever he fell into hardship, she would secretly lend him a hand.

But...! Fortunately, he had been reborn. He wouldn't be so easily deceived by a woman full of tricks.

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Female Lead's Perspective:

Princess Yinfu woke from a dream and unexpectedly discovered that she was the villainess in a storybook. She was licentious, greedy, and lustful, and would eventually die at the hands of the little beggar she had taken in and raised.

It turned out the handsome little beggar before her was the remnant of the previous dynasty, hunted by her father, the emperor. He was the chosen one, the protagonist of the storybook, and would one day bring down the Great Jin dynasty.

Yinfu looked at Zuo Yuan, whose leg she had just broken and whom she was about to have a doctor amputate...

It turned out that characters in the storybook could never escape their fated destinies. But if a villain sincerely repented, secretly helped the protagonist without being found out, and met the storybook's prescribed ending, then after completing the storyline, she could change her fate and live freely in a corner of the world.

So, in the dead of night, Yinfu carried a pile of gold ingots and candles to a side hall and secretly burned them as offerings to the previous dynasty's imperial family, weeping bitterly as she repented.

She threatened the palace's best imperial physician at knifepoint, forcing him to disguise himself as a quack from the countryside and treat Zuo Yuan's leg.

When Zuo Yuan was at the end of his rope, she anonymously and generously gave him money.

Even when Zuo Yuan used her to obtain military power, married her, and then treated her as a human medicine pot to save the woman he loved, Yinfu still cheerfully drank a huge vat of herbal medicine every day without batting an eye, then cut herself to draw blood. Everyone watching was horrified.

Zuo Yuan stared at the empty medicine vat, far larger than her frail body, as it rolled across the floor. Irritated, he clenched his fists.

At last, the moment came for the villainess to fulfill her destined role.

Yinfu dressed herself elegantly in advance and arrived at the city gate with a beaming smile.

At the last moment, Zuo Yuan regretted it. Covered in blood and wielding his halberd, he killed anyone in his way and stood before the city gate to stop her.

But Yinfu still leapt down.

P.S. The female lead discovers by chance that she is a character in a storybook. She does not transmigrate into a book.

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Upcoming: My Love-Brained Wife Wants a Divorce

Blurb: Pei Lujie was the most important person in Qi Yangyang's heart, her whole life.

Not only did the entire Duke's household know it, but so did her aunt. Pei Lujie had known it all along, too.

Qi Yangyang knew that if her aunt weren't Pei Lujie's stepmother, and if the Duke of Yingguo didn't feel indebted to her aunt, an orphan like her from a fallen family would never have been able to marry Pei Lujie.

It didn't matter if Pei Lujie was sick of her or cold toward her. They had a long life ahead of them, and all he needed to do was accept her love.

In the five years since she married him, she had coaxed him into taking every dose of medicine.

As a boy, he had served as the Crown Prince's double and lived in a mass grave in Qiangbei. He was afraid of the cold, the dark, and being alone. So Qi Yangyang found every excuse to stick by him. On summer nights, she took him to catch fireflies. In winter, no matter how fierce the snowstorm was when he left work, a little yellow umbrella was always waiting for him beneath the archway.

When the Pei army was short of funds, she used the dowry her parents had left her to help them.

She thought that loving someone meant not keeping score, and even that it didn't matter how much they loved her in return.

Everyone believed Qi Yangyang could love Pei Lujie for a lifetime, and Qi Yangyang herself believed it, too.

But one day, Qi Yangyang suddenly remembered that the young man who had risked his life to save her in Qiangbei all those years ago might not have been Pei Lujie.

And then everything began to spiral out of control.

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"Pei Lujie only looks like a man as clear and bright as the moon and a gentle breeze. Inside, he's sinister, obsessive, insanely jealous, and utterly dark."

"And you are the only reason he can keep up that beautiful facade."

"You just walked away after making such a dramatic show of how you couldn't live without him. How could he possibly take that?"

"Pei Lujie is going to die. Aren't you afraid he'll take you with him before he does?"

"It's strange. When I loved him, I could love him with abandon and ignore everything else. I stood in the snow with an umbrella over him and got chilblains all over my hands. I was afraid of the dark myself, yet I still gathered my courage to teach him to catch fireflies. Even when he spoke to me coldly and mocked me, I was happy to put up with it, and never got tired of it. But now, even standing beside him for a little while makes my skin crawl."

#Once a love-brained girl realizes she's in love with the wrong person, not even eight horses can drag her back. #

Upcoming 1: Taming the Wolf

After a palace coup in the Southern Kingdom, the imperial city ran red with blood. Princess Xiangfu, once the most adored beauty in the Southern Kingdom, was ordered captured.

Her maid had been shot full of holes while trying to save her. Xiangfu fled to the Blackwater Forest, the lawless land on the border between the Southern and Northern Kingdoms.

The rebels, unaware of the danger, pursued her into the forest. Deep among the leaves, pairs of green beast eyes glinted with murderous intent.

The rebels were torn to pieces. The little princess trembled as she poked her head out from the pile of corpses.

The wolf king was a young werewolf wearing animal skins and fangs, with a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes.

"I... I'm afraid of pain... Please don't kill me... Will you?" the little princess begged through her tears. "I want to live. I'll do anything..."

The werewolf tilted his head as if he understood.

He carried the little princess back to his den and made her his wife.

Later, desperate to get away from him, the princess plotted with her royal brother to kill him. They couldn't. She tried to run, but he always found her, no matter where she went. Then she decided she might as well die in front of him...

The year the princess "died," the young wolf king wandered alone every night beneath the mulberry tree she had loved to climb. He wailed in grief until his tears ran red, and the waning moon was stained crimson.

He didn't know that she had climbed the mulberry tree only to get away from him.

Later, the Northern Kingdom defeated the Southern Kingdom. To save her homeland, Princess Xiangfu sacrificed her own happiness and went north to become a concubine.

The mysterious new ruler of the Northern Kingdom had reportedly been brought back from a neighboring country by the old king only a few years earlier.

The cold new ruler stood before Princess Xiangfu, dressed in a dancing costume. His long fingers turned white as he gripped her chin and forced it up.

That handsome, nightmarish face appeared before Xiangfu once more.

"After you died, do you know how many mulberry trees I planted for you? And now you tell me you never died? Hmm?"

Upcoming 2: The Dark Moonlight Can't Escape

Pei Jin was the pampered legitimate daughter of the Marquis's household, spoiled into being willful and overbearing from a young age. She couldn't stand Ming Yu, who had been raised by a concubine.

When Ming Yu entered the household when she was nine, she threw a tantrum and insisted he drink her foot-washing water before she would let him in.

Ming Yu drank it without a word.

She gave beggars the tuition money he'd earned with great difficulty carrying sandbags. She tore the books he treasured page by page into paper dolls.

She joined her friends in making fun of his legs.

Whenever she was in a bad mood, she made him kneel for her and serve as a footstool.

One day, little Pei Jin had a dream: fragments of a life, hazy and unreal.

In the dream, she had grown up and learned that she had taken someone else's place.

Ming Yu was the brilliant heir of the Marquis's household, while she was only the illegitimate child of a mistress and some other man, a bastard used to extort the marquis.

Worse still, when her birth father tried to marry her off to an old county magistrate as his second wife, she set her sights on her former cousin. She got drunk and went into the wrong room, then forgot the whole thing afterward. On the day she married her cousin, her husband was killed in the palace. Before the red wedding candles could be replaced with white mourning candles, Zhong Mingyu came to her bridal chamber.

From then on, the once-noble young lady became a plaything in a cage, and spent her whole life trapped inside it. Meanwhile, Zhong Mingyu made his way through countless hardships to the highest ranks of the court, and even the Marquis's household had to rely on him.

Little Pei Jin woke in a cold sweat. She hadn't understood much of the dream, but she vaguely realized that she had to treat Ming Yu well.

So their daily life changed. When Ming Yu knelt shirtless in her room to act as bait for mosquitoes, she would promptly bring him a stool and say with a beaming smile, "Brother, thank you for caring for me. Otherwise, the mosquitoes would have eaten me alive."

In winter, when Ming Yu warmed ice against his chest to melt it for her tea, she would frown and say earnestly, "Brother, you have to keep training like this. Then you'll be able to protect me in the future."

Ming Yu smiled, his dark eyes chilly.

Pei Jin thought she could make sure Ming Yu would leave her alone by treating him this way.

She didn't realize that once protecting someone becomes a habit, that's when it becomes truly frightening.

Later, even though grown-up Pei Jin no longer had to live in a cage, she still cried miserably. "Eldest Young Master, A Jin knows she was wrong!"

P.S. While the protagonists remain relatives, their relationship is familial. Romance only begins after they are no longer related.

Upcoming 3: After Losing Her Memory, Her Enemy Becomes Obsessed with Her

Su Xixi was the only daughter of the Duke of Ning's household and a famously aloof beauty in the capital.

After the Duke of Ning's household fell, Su Xixi caught her fiance cheating with her cousin. He bribed people to throw her into the wilderness, where she was meant to become a bandit's wife.

She was injured in a fall and lost her memory when she woke. Mistaking the bandit before her for the man she had written about in her journal as the one she had "pursued without success," she took him for the man she loved.

The man, forced to become a bandit, narrowed his eyes and scattered the poison he had prepared earlier. He stared at the young woman before him, who was boldly flirting with him and had completely forgotten who he was, his expression impossible to describe.

Unable to resist, Su Xixi reached out with her slender fingers and stroked his firm waist, her eyes shining.

The man stiffened, his expression turning grim. He pinched her smooth, tender chin between his thumb and forefinger, his rough thumb rubbing until it hurt. "You really don't remember me?"

"Of course I do. You're the big brother I've loved with every ounce of strength I've had in eight lifetimes, and still couldn't love enough." Forced to tilt her head back, she spoke with shining eyes.

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Everyone in the capital knew that the deposed Crown Prince, Li Yi, and the eldest daughter of the Duke's household, Su Xixi, had always been enemies.

They had disliked each other since childhood. When they grew up, they were forced into an arranged marriage, but Su Xixi broke off the engagement without regard for Li Yi's safety, leaving him isolated and helpless when he was framed and sent to prison.

Li Yi had wanted to kill her.

But she seemed to have forgotten their grudge and had even confessed her love to him.

"Li Yi, I think I really love you. Whenever I think of you, my heart aches, as if something heavy had struck it."

"Brother Yi, I think I'm sick. Whenever I see you, I can't stop wanting to kiss you. I must have lovesickness."

"I think I'm so fickle. I like you as a child, as a grown man, as the Crown Prince, and as a bandit. I like every version of you."

"When the mountains are leveled and heaven and earth unite, only then will I part from you."

At first, Li Yi was a little embarrassed. But at last, he fell for her, captivated by her endless declarations of love.

Just as he regained his identity as Crown Prince and prepared to marry her, she suddenly remembered everything.

So the reason her heart hurt whenever she thought of him was that he had once accidentally struck her in the chest while suppressing bandits!

And... and those mortifying things she'd said... Had she really said them?

Looking at the bridal sedan waiting at the door, Su Xixi steeled herself. She had to run. How could she face Li Yi now?

Later, the Crown Prince, tall and gallant in his bright red wedding robes, caught her with reddened eyes and pinned her in a corner. "So none of that was real??"

Theme: After the darkest night comes the dawn.