Everyday Life After Switching Bodies With a Tyrant

Luan Zhezhe transmigrated into a book, becoming an insignificant, thoroughly neglected noble consort in the tyrant's harem, the very tyrant who was replaced by the protagonist of a rise-to-power story.

She had never even seen the emperor since entering the palace, and life was miserable. Fortunately, the new emperor was benevolent. After ascending the throne, he released all the former emperor's consorts from the palace. Thinking of that, Luan Zhezhe decided she could probably endure things a little longer.

But after enduring for a while, one day Luan Zhezhe woke up to find that she and the young tyrant had switched bodies.

Luan Zhezhe was terrified. She feared the protagonist of the rise-to-power story would mistake her for the tyrant and kill her. While she fretted over how to switch back with the tyrant...

The chief eunuch came rushing in, saying that Noble Consort Luan had suddenly gone mad in Yuxiang Palace, and asking what to do.

Noble Consort Luan? Yuxiang Palace?

Wasn't that her?!

Panicking, she ran toward her own chambers without even putting on her shoes.

When she got there, the hall was a complete mess. The young tyrant, now in her body, was smashing her favorite candlestick.

Luan Zhezhe rushed over and grabbed the young tyrant around the waist. "Don't smash it, don't smash it!"

It was the only candlestick in her palace. If it broke, she wouldn't have another.

The young tyrant was probably frightened by being stuck in her body too. Even when she hugged him, he didn't struggle. He only looked at her with red-rimmed eyes.

Seeing herself pale and red-eyed, Luan Zhezhe's heart ached. So this was how miserable she looked!

To calm the young tyrant down, she rubbed his back and gently soothed him. "It's all right, it's all right..."

After a whole day without food and a morning spent throwing a fit, the young tyrant finally ran out of strength and fainted, falling right into her arms while she was in the tyrant's body.

Of course, she didn't let go. She held on tight.

The palace staff were stunned. The Emperor, the Emperor had never been interested in women!

Luan Zhezhe didn't notice. Still clutching herself, she shouted, "Send for the imperial physician!"

She only had to endure for a few more years before she could leave the palace. She couldn't let anything happen to herself.

She had no idea that after she comforted and hugged herself and shouted for help, the palace staff began looking at "Noble Consort Luan" differently.

Now back in her own body, Luan Zhezhe couldn't care less about any of that. She was afraid the young tyrant would kill her to silence her.

But, little by little, she noticed...

All the candlesticks in her palace had been replaced with new ones.

All her furniture, bedding, and other belongings had been replaced at some point, too.

Even the meals were prepared to suit her tastes...

At first she was surprised. She watched quietly, and when no one gave her trouble and the palace staff grew more and more respectful, she was baffled.

Luan Zhezhe: ???

**

The next time they switched bodies, Luan Zhezhe, now the tyrant, sent all kinds of good things to her own palace, claiming she was "afraid the Emperor might be treated poorly."

After they switched a few times, her standing in the palace grew higher and higher. Not only was she promoted, she also became the famous "favorite consort."

Luan Zhezhe was quite pleased. She planned to save up some traveling money so she could live a quiet life of her own after leaving the palace.

Before she had finished making plans, the senior eunuch came over with a smile and said the Emperor had invited her to dinner.

Luan Zhezhe didn't want to go, but had no choice.

She nervously dined with the young tyrant. Just as she was about to take her leave, he suddenly said, "It's late. Ah Zhe, stay the night and attend me."

Luan Zhezhe: ?!!!

**

Chu Shuo could read minds. He had never trusted anyone since childhood, and was therefore always treated like a monster. After ascending the throne, being able to easily hear what others were thinking made him even more volatile and irritable.

He knew that many people cursed him as a tyrant in their hearts, but he still couldn't stop himself from being cruel.

Then one day, he and the little noble consort from Yuxiang Palace switched bodies, and suddenly his world went quiet.

In the noble consort's body, he couldn't hear those hateful voices. He even wanted to stay that way forever.

But later...

What Chu Shuo missed most wasn't being unable to hear those hateful voices.

It was that moment when Ah Zhe held him, stroked his forehead, and gently soothed him, saying everything was all right.

No one had ever been so gentle with him. For the first time, he felt possessive of someone.

He would keep her by his side for the rest of their lives.

Extra scene:

At first, Luan Zhezhe was rather afraid of the young tyrant. Then one day, he turned pale, clutched his stomach, and held out a hand to her. "Ah Zhe, my stomach hurts. Warm it for me..."

Luan Zhezhe, who had always suffered terribly from period cramps but was strangely pain-free this time: They switched bodies, and now he can take her cramps for her too?!

She didn't want to help him, but when she saw him gazing at her so pitifully and reaching out, her heart softened.

Later...

Luan Zhezhe looked at the pale young tyrant as he told her his stomach hurt and asked her to warm it. Her expression didn't change.

She had spent three years getting her health in order. Her cramps had been gone for ages, and now he was pretending just to get her to warm his stomach!

Besides, she hadn't even gotten her period this month!

Wait...

No period?

Thinking of one possibility, Luan Zhezhe: "…"

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Blurb:

Chen Xi transmigrates into a farming novel, becoming the foil whose sole purpose is to highlight the heroine's goodness and beauty.

In the original story, the heroine gets engaged to the male lead, a poor scholar from her village. They support each other, and he eventually comes first in the imperial examinations and rises to the position of chief minister, while she becomes the richest person in the empire. They have success in both love and career.

As for Chen Xi, the foil, the talented scholar she is engaged to suffers a sudden family calamity. He becomes impoverished and bedridden, with no medicine able to cure him. Not long after Chen Xi breaks off her engagement to the scholar, who has only a few days left to live, he dies. Branded a jinx who brings death to her husband, she receives no marriage proposals and dies of sorrow before turning twenty.

A perfectly clear contrast.

Just after Chen Xi transmigrates, the scholar whose engagement she has just broken off comes to see her.

Looking at the sickly young man before her, so pale he might vanish in a gust of wind, Chen Xi, who is also nothing but a plot device, suddenly feels sorry for this short-lived scholar.

Before she can say a word, the sickly young man coldly tosses all the tonics meant as compensation for breaking off the engagement at her feet.

Then he turns and leaves, as if even looking at her would sully him.

Chen Xi: "?" He's got quite a temper.

But Chen Xi doesn't care. She's done being the foil. She's going to focus on making money and building her career!

**

Chen Xi gives up the family's pastry business and stops competing with the heroine, switching to spicy foods instead. Business is booming.

With life going smoothly and her mood improving, she casually starts sharing food with the sickly young man, who is also just a plot device like her.

Unexpectedly, the sickly young man, who supposedly had only a few days to live, survives for one year, then two, then three. He grows into an elegant young man and comes first in the provincial examinations, earning the title of Provincial Graduate.

Meanwhile, Chen Xi's cooking makes her famous across the surrounding villages, and marriage proposals come one after another.

One day, Chen's parents finally find a husband-to-be they approve of for their daughter. Just as they are about to agree, the newly titled Provincial Graduate suddenly shows up at their door.

His expression is dark, and he clearly comes with ill intent. Chen Xi steps in front of her parents. Before she can speak, the young Provincial Graduate says gravely, "It's time to put my marriage to your daughter, Chen Xi, on the agenda."

Chen Xi: "?"

Chen Xi thinks he's mocking her for being blind to his charms. Frowning, she says, "My engagement to you was dissolved three years ago."

The young Provincial Graduate glances at her, takes out a yellowed piece of paper, and holds it out to her. "The marriage contract still exists, so the engagement remains valid."

Chen Xi: "???" He couldn't even stand to look at her, so why did he keep the marriage contract?!

...Only later does Chen Xi learn that he had run all the way to her house that day with the marriage contract, afraid that if he was too late, she would agree to marry someone else.

Theme: Everyone is the protagonist of their own life.