The Jade Table: Reborn

[My Neighbor's novel, How Did the Gentle Saintly Man Turn Evil?, is now available!]

Tsundere, unhinged princess x gentle, devoted male lead

Blurb:

Wei Jie never considered herself a good person.

In her previous life, she was the lofty Princess Yong'an. She devised strategies and schemed relentlessly to help her younger brother ascend the throne, never realizing that people had long since grown wary of her.

The first thing her brother did after securing his position was convict and exile her, accusing her of undermining the court and conspiring with the Duke of Wei's household to rebel.

She had once lived in luxury and extravagance, but when she died, the only person who gathered her remains was a low-ranking eunuch.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to ten years earlier...

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The Seventh Prince realized that his imperial elder sister seemed different from usual.

She no longer granted his every wish, and treated him with aloof indifference.

He felt as if he had lost something, but then noticed that the man already chosen to be his sister's husband, who had always been unruffled and as cool as an immortal toward his dear A-Jie, was now standing dazed outside her residence.

And she hadn't even cracked the door open!

Later...

He accidentally caught sight of the court's new rising star, once the talk of the capital, kneeling on one knee in Wei Jie's bedchamber, intently helping her put on an embroidered shoe.

Little scene:

The first important thing Wei Jie did after being reborn was find Qi Zikun, the man who had gathered her remains in her previous life.

A misty drizzle fell, and the spring air was bitterly cold.

The dignified princess lifted her skirt and stood at the boundary between light and darkness, on the muddy ground. With a delicate fingertip, fine as a bamboo shoot, she lightly pointed at him and asked:

“Would you be willing to come with me?”

At the time, Qi Zikun was carrying a blood feud and had just entered the palace in search of a way to survive.

He thought that following the most domineering Princess Yong'an in all of Great Jin would surely bring him some hardship.

He was fully prepared, but never expected that the capricious princess would only toy with him.

Day and night, at her side, she toyed with him in every way.

It was even more tormenting than physical hardship...

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One day, the emperor decreed that Princess Yong'an marry Qi Zikun, a rising star in the Censorate whom he favored.

The former little eunuch had long since become a different man, but the way he looked at her was still as devout as ever.

That night, the moonlight was hazy.

The princess asked, “How does one love oneself?”

Qi Zikun replied gently, “I may not know how to love myself, but I love you, Your Highness.”

A few things to know before reading:

1. This is not a revenge wish-fulfillment story. Romance is the focus, with the plot in a supporting role. The side characters will have to grovel for forgiveness.

2. One-on-one romance, both leads have no prior sexual experience.

3. The male lead was a eunuch in his previous life, but not in this one.

4. Set in a fictional world. No historical research, so please don't nitpick.

5. Please see the author's note at the end of Chapter 1 for content warnings.

Upcoming novel, The Villainess in an Old-School Campus Novel Falls for the Saintly Second Male Lead. Blurb:

Rich heiress Zhu Mo suddenly gained the ability to hear her deskmate's thoughts, and learned in shock that:

Her deskmate had transmigrated into a book.

Her aloof childhood friend was the obsessive male lead.

The new transfer student was the sunny female lead.

She was the vicious villainess in this old-school campus novel. Deeply in love with the male lead and jealous of the female lead, she kidnapped her, and was naturally punished by law in the end.

After learning that the male lead was obsessive, Zhu Mo swiftly lost interest in him.

Because she and Lu Yinfei were cut from the same cloth.

They looked glamorous on the outside, but were dark and miserable inside.

Zhu Mo even began to envy Lu Yinfei, the male lead, for getting to be saved by the female lead, whose warmth and kindness shone like the sun.

So when the female lead first entered the classroom and the only empty seat was next to the male lead, Zhu Mo stepped forward

Her deskmate was horrified: [Aaaah, girl!!! Is the villainess making her move already?!]

Zhu Mo grabbed the female lead's wrist. “Xu Shitong, you can sit with me.”

Her deskmate: [? Then where am I supposed to sit?]

When the impoverished female lead was mocked and bullied by the male lead's supporters at the elite school, her deskmate saw Zhu Mo walk over with a cold expression

The bully smirked. “Zhu Mo's here. Xu Shitong is done for!”

Her deskmate: [Lu Yinfei, you obsessive freak, hurry up and save your wife!!]

Zhu Mo shoved the bully aside and pulled the female lead behind her. “Xu Shitong is mine.”

Her deskmate and the bully: ???

Zhu Mo kept acting out of character under her deskmate's suspicious gaze, until the female lead invited her home to study and she met the female lead's older brother

The second male lead in the book.

A saintly man, even gentler and kinder than the female lead.

Zhu Mo suddenly understood: She really was the book's unscrupulous, vicious villainess.

Only, she used all her underhanded tricks on this second male lead, who was still gentle with her.

...It was only later that Zhu Mo learned that even a saintly man could snap after being bullied too much.

Theme: Love yourself before you love someone else