This novel is awaiting review and approval. There's a chance it will launch once the outline is complete. The author is currently updating Not Supposed to Feel This Way, a double-rebirth novel.
Fake villainess, real drama queen and stunning beauty vs. deceptively sweet, secretly dark, unhinged loyal dog. 1v1, both are virgins, happy ending.
"I'll strike you with the most painful blow at the very moment you love me most."
/Excerpt/
In the first year of Yonglong, Prince Yan, Shen Su, raised an army in rebellion. His forces swept through the land, reaching the capital on the night of the emperor and empress's wedding.
That night, Dezhong, who had been on the throne for barely a month, died suddenly of illness.
The new empress also died by Shen Su's sword that same day.
Zheng Niao was that unfortunate new empress.
Before Shen Su's sword cut her throat, the transmigration System explained: "The male lead loved you so much, but you toyed with his feelings and abandoned him. How could he vent his hatred without stabbing you?"
Zheng Niao calmly closed her eyes, thinking: As long as I can get home safely, I wouldn't mind a single sword wound, even a thousand arrows piercing my heart.
/Main Story/
Zheng Niao is a top-tier star, renowned in the entertainment industry for her acting and beauty. Her life had gone smoothly for twenty-four years. Just when she was one step away from becoming an award-winning actress, a huge studio light came crashing down and smashed her wonderful life to pieces.
She fell into a coma, and her soul was whisked away by a half-baked transmigration System.
The System saw her exceptional professional skills and tried to send her soul into a melodramatic novel as a supporting female character, where she would repair the plot that the original character had derailed.
Zheng Niao spent nearly half a year drifting through nothingness with the System. Once she knew the original plot, her soul was sent into the novel.
From the start, Zheng Niao was trapped in icy lake water. She had no golden finger, no life-saving talisman, only the harsh mission requirements left by the System.
She had to fix the plot within three years: first win the male lead's heart, then betray him, and finally become the villainess who dies young, leaving a lasting impression on the male lead, Shen Su.
Soon, someone rescued her as she hovered on the brink of death. The first person she saw when she opened her eyes was the drenched young Shen Su.
She didn't know why he was there, but she was sure Shen Su wasn't her savior. Because of the original character's antics, the two were at each other's throats and had never fallen in love as teenagers, as they did in the original plot.
This was Zheng Niao's chance to change everything.
So, for the mission and to get home, she resolutely threw herself into the young man's arms and said tearfully, "So it was you who saved me."
Everyone who had rushed over to rescue her saw the scene. Rumors of their romance soon spread across the capital. Zheng Niao pressed her advantage, pushed for marriage, and turned her former rival into her new husband.
On their wedding day, Shen Su didn't say a word. He spent half the night sleeping on the floor with a cold expression, then swept out as soon as dawn broke.
Zheng Niao merely leaned against her silk pillow and smiled faintly at the young man's angry retreating figure.
A marriage that turns into love: she knew this plot well.
Unfortunately, the plot didn't stop at a marriage that turns into love.
So later, when Shen Su was defeated and demoted, and begged Zheng Niao to wait another year for him, she hesitated for a moment but didn't look back.
She had to go home.
1. This is a fictional historical setting, mixing invented details with researched ones. The System plays only a small role, serving as an assistant.
2. Content notes: The heroine is self-interested, while the hero is love-struck. Much of the story features the hero's unrequited love for the heroine and puts him through considerable anguish.
3. The first half features a marriage that turns into love; the second half features possessive pursuit. Includes past-life and present-life themes, as well as a supporting character who is reborn.
Theme: When one's will is upright, evil cannot take root.
