From the Start, I Became Fusu's Fiancée

Chu Yu, an overworked corporate drone, dies suddenly of a heart attack and transmigrates to the Warring States era, inhabiting the body of a stunningly beautiful princess of Chu. The good news: the princess is engaged to Fusu, the eldest son of the King of Qin. The bad news: he broke off the engagement a year ago. After her scummy father refuses to take her back, Chu Yu decides to make a cozy life for herself in Qin, watch the Six States crumble, and then, once her scummy father is captured, pelt him with rotten eggs. Hmph. So what if he's Prince Fusu? If he won't marry her, so be it. Otherwise, in a dozen years she'd either be left a widow or, even worse, chopped into pieces and used to fill a pit by his “immortalized” loser of a younger brother. But no one had ever told her that Prince Fusu was so, so handsome! A face like fine jade, eyes like bright stars, graceful and striking, as elegant as an orchid tree... Chu Yu's heart fluttered. Curled up under her blanket, she stared wide-eyed like a zombie bride. No, she couldn't let such a gentle, jade-like beauty stupidly draw his sword and kill himself! She decided to stop the tragedy at its source by approaching Prince Fusu herself, but Who in later generations started the rumor that he was gentle and refined? That is seriously misleading! Only his name is gentle. The man himself is clearly a sesame dumpling: sweet on the outside, scheming within. Still, he seems to be... pretty good to her. And perhaps even a little dependent on her. With love making her foolish, Chu Yu covered her burning, flushed cheeks. Well, so be it. Whoever you marry, you're still married, and not just anyone gets to be the First Emperor's daughter-in-law... But she has to find a way to extend the Qin dynasty's life, or she'll still end up as filler for a pit. First, she'll start by pouring out the elixir of the thirty-four-year-old King Zheng of Qin Chu Yu cheerfully settled on the first step of her plan. Reading Guide: 1. Romance-focused. The heroine has a golden finger (a cellphone), but not much else. 2. A parallel universe, not historically accurate. 3. Fusu is somewhat devious, but fundamentally upright and brave. In short, he's not a blindly loyal, obedient boy. If that bothers you, this isn't for you. 4. A similar story, My Mother Was Fusu's Mother from the Start, is complete. Please follow my upcoming novel, After I Played with the Crown Prince's Feelings and Dumped Him! Synopsis: Yu Zhi is the beautiful daughter of the Minister of State Affairs, famous throughout the capital. She was betrothed to the crown prince as a child. But then disaster struck. The crown prince fell from power and was sent to the border to fight the enemy, forbidden to return to the capital without an imperial decree. Her father switched his allegiance to the powerful Prince of Wei. To prove his loyalty, he helped Prince Wei bring down the crown prince's maternal family, sending the entire clan into exile, never to rise again. A year later, the emperor died. Prince Wei took the throne, and the crown prince returned at the head of an army of three hundred thousand. He bathed the palace in blood, slaughtered Prince Wei and all his advisers, and ascended the throne as the new emperor. The Yu family was sentenced to execution. In prison, Yu Zhi was roughly dragged out and brought to the palace, where she was forced to kneel at the new emperor's feet. The boy who had once been her childhood sweetheart looked at her with dark eyes, sinister fury flickering within. He lifted her chin and asked with contempt, “A Zhi, do you want to save your family?” He imprisoned her in the palace and treated her like a plaything, tormenting and humiliating her night after night. He used to love her sweet, guileless nature and flower-like smile. Now he found it even more delightful to see tears in her eyes as she swallowed her humiliation and tried to please him. Yu Zhi endured every indignity, doing all she could to please him. In the end, all she got was the day he placed the heads of her father and brothers in a box and presented it to her. “I've grown bored.” He ground the toe of his boot against her father's head, smiling with cold cruelty. His disdainful gaze made her seem like the lowest sort of prostitute. Yu Zhi lost all hope. That night, she stabbed herself in the neck with a hairpin and died, only to be reborn at fifteen, in the year she became engaged to the crown prince. Given a second life, Yu Zhi decides to stay away from that calamity. At a palace banquet, she pretends to be drunk and throws herself into Prince Qi's arms. Prince Qi is the late emperor's fifth son. He spends his days eating, drinking, having fun, and fighting crickets, with no interest in power. He will never be caught up in the future purge, making him the perfect person to seek refuge with. In a grove beneath the night sky, she brushes her cheek against the young man's chest. Her voice is soft and sweet, her shy gaze full of longing. “This young woman has admired Your Highness for a long time. I beg you to favor me.” “Oh?” A familiar voice came from above, deep and dignified, with an amused smile. “In that case, I naturally couldn't bear to refuse your kind offer.” It was him! Yu Zhi froze, then struggled frantically, but he covered her red lips without a word. That calamity, could she really not escape him, even in a second life? One-on-one, both leads have only been with each other. Both are reborn. The male lead was a bastard in his previous life, and he's... still a bastard in this one. Theme: Building a better Qin together