The Princess's Consort Turned Dark After Being Jilted

Princess Li Tongzhi, the Ninth Princess, is shy and easily embarrassed. But before her coming-of-age ceremony, she gathers her courage and asks her future husband, He Fengying, to break off their engagement.

She lowers her head, trying to hide the tears she can't stop shedding, and fails to notice the dark emotions roiling in the eyes of the young Marquis He.

He gently wipes away her tears and softly coaxes her, asking if someone has bullied her.

Li Tongzhi cries pitifully but bites her lower lip, refusing to explain.

How can she tell him that a year ago, when they became engaged, she had a prophetic dream that he would fall deeply in love with his cousin?

She had asked her elder sister to investigate, and his cousin wasn't the beauty from her dream. But then a case of switched-at-birth daughters came to light, and the true daughter who returned to the He household was the very woman He Fengying had loved in her dream.

She begins having nightmares every night. She dreams that she resorts to any means necessary to keep them apart, and that the eyes that are always so tender look at her with nothing but disgust.

Li Tongzhi doesn't want to become so awful, nor does she want him to despise her. She frees herself and him, choosing to break off the engagement and become a stranger who might occasionally hear news of him. So she begs her elder sister to draw up a letter ending the engagement and send it to him.

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He Fengying follows in his father's footsteps and becomes the leader of the royal family's personal pack of attack dogs. He throws away one bloodstained pair of gloves after another, and every official trembles wherever he goes.

Only in front of Li Tongzhi does he keep wearing the gentle mask she likes, restraining his possessiveness and carefully hiding everything about himself that he cannot show the light of day.

But the young girl he watched over as she grew up suddenly insists on breaking off their engagement. At last, he turns dark.

[An alternate setting. All details are fictional and serve the story, so please don't scrutinize them.]

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Coming soon: The Silly Beauty Enters the Infinite Worlds

After Yu Yue enters her personal space in the infinite worlds, the System sees her intelligence score of 5 and wonders if the rating scale has been changed to a ten-point system.

The lovely young woman curls up obediently in her chair, eyes brimming with tears as she asks in a trembling voice for the System to talk to her. Otherwise, she will be all alone in the dark space and get scared.

The System looks at her exquisite, beautiful face, unable to bring itself to speak harshly. It thinks that she's only a little slow on the uptake. Since she's willing to follow its guidance, keeping her alive shouldn't be a problem.

Right, first turn on the lights. It can't scare her into crying.

*

But in the infinite worlds, the people and the things that aren't people are all crafty, and they fool Yu Yue until she's completely bewildered.

In the beginner level, the twin serial killers both claim to be her lover.

The situation spirals out of control. The two sides face off, forcing her to make a final choice about whom to trust, and dangerously warning her that choosing wrong will have dire consequences.

No matter whom she chooses, she will be wrong. The one she abandons will cruelly kill her.

The System is frantic, but it can't interfere at this critical moment.

Then it sees the frightened beauty, tears glistening in her eyes, take both men's hands and timidly ask, "If I choose both, can that count as the right answer...?"

A murderous glint appears in the twins' eyes, but it's directed at each other, not her. If only one of them is left, could he have her love all to himself?

*

After successfully leaving the beginner level, the System decides to assign her reliable teammates in the next world.

But her teammate doesn't like her and is mean to her.

Fortunately, Yu Yue draws a good card. One kiss from her will max out a teammate's affection for her.

The beauty sneaks into her teammate's room at night to kiss him. But she trips beside the bed and only manages to kiss his chin. The card doesn't take effect and is wasted.

The System comforts Yu Yue, whose knee hurts from the fall, and tells her to go back first. Secretly, it resolves to draw cards only from the under-18 pool from now on.

Yu Yue sobs as she gets up to leave, but her teammate, who had been pretending to sleep, grabs her wrist. "You kissed the wrong spot and think you can run?"

Coming soon: The Tyrant Lets Her Do as She Pleases

When Li Miaomiao wakes up, she has lost all her memories.

Someone hands her a dance costume and a long sword. She primps in front of a mirror, pleased with herself, and realizes that the beauty reflected there, with her lovely face and slender waist, is a righteous woman who is to dance for the tyrant and seize the chance to assassinate him.

The assassination goes unusually smoothly. Perhaps the tyrant is enamored with her beauty, for he lets the armed dancer approach him at will.

But Li Miaomiao is a fool. She accidentally steps on her skirt, drops her sword, and faints after bumping into the tyrant's solid chest.

Before losing consciousness, she looks at his face, so close to hers, and thinks, He's so handsome. Why does he have to be a bad person?

When Li Miaomiao wakes again, she has become the tyrant's favorite concubine, the only consort in his harem.

The ten-year-old crown prince, with a terrible temper, barges in and angrily tries to chase her away.

She listens to him scold her, her fingers itching. Unable to resist, she pinches a bit of baby fat on his cheek and slips a piece of malt candy into his mouth. "You're so cute."

The crown prince runs off, his face red.

The tyrant lets the little assassin, whose every attempt on his life has failed, do whatever she pleases, giving her everything she asks for. Li Miaomiao starts to fall for him.

She nestles in his arms, wraps her arms around his neck, and pouts. "Could you stop being a tyrant? I want to be with a good emperor."

The tyrant's eyes silently fill with tears.

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Before seizing the throne, Sheng Shiyan once made a grand promise to the little dancer he loved: to create peace and prosperity and become a great ruler.

But on the eve of her being welcomed as his empress, she fell into a coma from an unknown illness, as if she were dead, leaving behind only their son, who had yet to reach his first birthday.

He was given the chance to awaken her, at the cost of becoming a tyrant.

Ten years later, at last, she wakes.

Theme: Trust is essential in love.