The Princess Has a New Love (Both Reborn)

[The Chase to Win Her Back | A Battlefield of Male Rivals]

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In her previous life, Song Zhilan was the most notorious princess in the imperial capital.

To force the young Marquis of the Xie family to marry her, she dismissed her entertainers and spent several days in intimate company with him in her bedchamber, winning an imperial edict in return.

On the day she married into the Xie family, Song Zhilan hid her face behind a round fan and stole glances at the handsome man she loved, her heart full of hope.

Even after years of his coldness, she still wanted to make it up to him. Though proud and unyielding, she was willing to wash her hands and cook for him.

Over the course of ten years, they had helped each other through hard times and shared moments of passionate intimacy. Song Zhilan thought he must have grown to like her, at least a little.

But the first order Xie Yujin gave after taking power was to confine her.

As the palace gates slowly closed, Xie Yujin stood in the snow and said to her:

"We will never meet again in this life."

*

When the emperor's younger sister suddenly died, everyone suspected that Chancellor Xie was responsible.

Xie Yujin had always thought he hated Song Zhilan.

But on the night she died, he personally arranged her features and laid out her remains. He sat alone all night, then died of a broken heart.

When he opened his eyes, he had returned to the year Song Zhilan had forced him to marry her.

He began appearing before her on purpose, his long hair tied up beneath a crown, wearing the clothes she liked best.

He thought Song Zhilan would dismiss her entertainers again for his sake, plead for an imperial edict before the throne, and treat him with the same tenderness and thoughtfulness as in his previous life.

Instead, she ignored him again and again.

He could only watch as she fussed over other men and showered them with care.

At a palace banquet, he went to great lengths to finally get her to look at him properly.

"I hear the second son of the Xie family is peerlessly handsome, a paragon among men. Which one is he?"

Someone worried Song Zhilan might take an interest and insist on having him.

Xie Yujin's hand tightened unconsciously around his teacup, his back stiffening.

Then Song Zhilan smiled softly.

"He's nothing special."

"Don't be jealous." She turned to the handsome young man beside her and smiled as she coaxed him. "You're the one I love most. Is that all right?"

Update time: 11:00 p.m. (Updates according to the rankings before signing, daily updates afterward.)

* Both leads are reborn + the hero desperately tries to win her back + a battlefield of handsome male supporting characters

* The heroine will ascend the throne

* Both leads are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one, happy ending

Content warning: Includes lots of melodramatic tropes

-- Coming Soon: Forbidden Between Three --

[Brothers Compete for Her + Reconciliation After a Breakup]

On the night of her first year of college, Ning Nanjia opened her eyes in Gu Lin's bed. A hazy white light showed beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows. A quiet drizzle fell, and damp, gloomy daylight filtered into the cloyingly intimate air.

The Ning and Gu families had been close for generations, with business partnerships spanning the country.

The Gu family's eldest son, Gu Lin, was mature and steady, ruthless and decisive in business. Before he turned thirty, he had built his own business empire. The second son, Gu Zheng, was an irresponsible, carefree playboy with a stunning face that had drawn countless admirers since his school days.

But Ning Nanjia wasn't one of them.

As the only daughter of the Ning family, she was proud and haughty, and had never faced any real hardship in her life.

Until today.

When Gu Lin woke, he pulled her round, fair shoulder toward him and kissed her fiercely. He had gotten a taste of her and could never get enough.

Ning Nanjia wrapped her arms around his neck.

And concealed the paternity test report she had obtained with the Gu brothers' father.

[The probability of a biological relationship is 99.99%.]

-

Gu Zheng knew that the man Ning Nanjia loved was his older brother.

From childhood to adulthood, whenever Gu Lin was around, her gaze never once fell on him.

He only ever argued with her because he wanted her to look his way.

Everyone said they were sworn enemies. In truth, he wished he could die beneath Ning Nanjia.

Unfortunately, it was only in his dreams that he could end up in bed with her.

Then one day, that dream came true.

Later, Gu Zheng returned home and heard Ning Nanjia's trembling voice coming from the room of his usually composed, self-controlled older brother.

Reading Guide:

1. The hero, second male lead, and heroine are not related by blood, nor are they registered in the same household.

2. The heroine will sleep with Gu Lin and Gu Zheng at different times. The relationships are one-on-one in each phase.

-- Coming Soon: My Aloof Consort Was My Cauldron in My Past Life. Please Add It to Your Favorites --

Blurb:

Yun Fu was born to a noble station, the beloved pearl of the current emperor.

But the stories she wrote herself and hid by her pillow concealed a secret she could hardly bring herself to admit, one she had to suppress by taking medicine every day.

Just as the medicine was about to lose its effect, Yun Fu had a dream.

She dreamed she was the reincarnation of an immortal, a once-in-a-generation prodigy of the Acacia Sect in her past life. Her partner had been the foremost cultivator of the Heartless Path, the exceptionally handsome and aloof Xie Changhen.

But she had a hidden affliction, and Xie Changhen was cool and restrained. Every time they cultivated together, she was left unsatisfied.

Over the years, Yun Fu eventually went into cultivation deviation and refined Xie Changhen into a cultivation cauldron without love or desire, whose only purpose was to please her.

To save her life, the sect elders sent her into the cycle of reincarnation, hoping she would cultivate herself and mend her ways.

Yun Fu didn't take the dream seriously after waking.

Until one day.

The eldest legitimate son of the Xie Chancellor's household returned to the capital and appeared on the polo grounds. Rumor had it he possessed an outstanding face but was an idiot.

Yun Fu was so startled that she dropped her handkerchief.

This Xie Changhen looked exactly like the cultivation cauldron in her dream.

--

No one understood why Princess Yongning chose Xie Changhen as her consort.

But only Yun Fu knew just how much this man suited her tastes.

Xie Changhen wasn't an idiot. He simply only listened to her.

From then on, each day at the princess's residence unfolded just like one of Yun Fu's stories, with her and Xie Changhen playing the roles she had written.

At last, she was living the blissful life she had longed for in both her past and present lives.

But as time went on, Yun Fu noticed that the stories seemed to be changing. She thought she must have remembered them wrong, never realizing that every time Xie Changhen acted out one of them, his eyes grew a little clearer.

She was immersed in pleasure, and in doing so, awakened his hidden desires and made him addicted to her.

One day, Yun Miaofu lay exhausted in a sealed, airless cellar, planning to rest for a while and regain her strength. But her consort didn't stop as the story dictated. Instead, he forcefully lifted her leg and kissed his way up.

"The secret room is your favorite. Why not enjoy it a little longer?"

At last, she realized something was wrong.

Reading Guide:

1. The heroine will make the hero do things with absolutely no limits, just to please herself.

2. There won't be a chase-to-win-him-back storyline, but she'll have to endure some of the hardships she likes. (Shh.)

3. At heart, this is a sweet little romance. I'll add it to my upcoming list once I've saved up enough advance chapters.

-- Historical Romance Coming Soon: Hiding My Love in Winter [Blurb to Be Revised + Romance After an Arranged Marriage] --

Jiang Minghui, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Jing'an, loved fishing. She had soft, snowy skin and a voluptuous, captivating beauty.

At the emperor's flower-and-fishing banquet, the young ladies leaned against the branches to admire the young men, but Jiang Minghui alone had come fully prepared to fish in earnest.

When her brother invited talented young men to drink on a painted boat, and countless curious gazes turned her way, she was still fishing.

At last, her family had managed to arrange a marriage for Jiang Minghui, but she fished up a romance novel about a man's mistress instead.

The hero of the book was her betrothed, Song Yuan. The story said he had coerced a fallen noblewoman into becoming his mistress, and that he had only become engaged to his fiancee to cover up the scandal.

The heroine desperately tried to flee, but Song Yuan refused to let her go. They went through a torturous romance before finally living happily ever after.

And Jiang Minghui was the unfortunate fiancee who served to fuel their relationship. Once the mistress's family was exonerated, she would be cast aside, her reputation in ruins.

Furious, Jiang Minghui jerked up her fishing rod. After breaking off the engagement, she set her sights on Xie Yanhua, heir to the Duke of Chengguo, hoping to marry into a family that wouldn't interfere with her fishing.

Xie Yanhua lost his father and older brother when he was young. At six, he was sent to Jiangnan to study under a renowned teacher. At seventeen, he broke with convention and came first in both the civil and military examinations.

Rumor had it he was cold by nature, with no interest in worldly pleasures.

But the book said:

"Xie Yanhua stands nine feet and one inch tall, is peerlessly handsome, and keeps himself pure. He is devoted to his family and dotes on his wife. If you are choosing a husband, he is undoubtedly the best candidate in the capital. Don't let him pass you by."

The book even knew the exact height of the aloof Xie heir, down to the inch. What a miraculous tome!

Jiang Minghui quickly picked out the useful details:

Her mother-in-law stayed home to pray to Buddha, her husband would be away earning money, and there were no sisters-in-law to cause trouble.

A husband like this was hard to find anywhere in the world!

So what if he was a tough catch? She'd just cast her fishing hook straight into his mouth!

One day, Jiang Minghui nervously brushed a scented handkerchief over the heir's long fingers. The young heir's gaze remained as calm as ever, but his slender fingers gently brushed her palm. He casually hooked her handkerchief and slipped it into his sleeve.

Jiang Minghui: ?

After the wedding, the newlywed Jiang Minghui unexpectedly came across the familiar original manuscript of the story in the study.

Her eyelid twitched.

The handwriting on it was unmistakably Xie Yanhua's.

*A model of virtuous husbandhood, top scorer in both civil and military examinations, versus the pampered daughter who loves fishing

*Stoic, secretly passionate heir versus lively noblewoman

-- Modern Romance Coming Soon -- Dangerous Relations

Tang Li was seventeen when she met her prospective fiance's older brother.

At a party held at her family's villa, a man said to be born into one of Hong Kong's most powerful families leaned against a rockery, tall and long-legged, his posture relaxed.

Women with alluring figures jostled to light his cigarettes.

Through the swirling smoke, Jin Chenli raised his eyes. His handsome face was hidden in shadow, and his gaze met hers, cold and indifferent.

She calmly lowered her head and continued working on her exam paper.

--

Three years after they met.

Two weeks before her sophomore year began.

A typhoon had caused traffic restrictions across Hong Kong.

That night, the air currents swirled chaotically as violent sheets of rain battered the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Tang Li walked into Jin Chenli's private apartment wearing a man's bathrobe. Shivering from the cold, she picked up the warm milk on the table and took a sip. With the man behind her watching, she licked the milk from her lips. "What should I do? I think I just broke the bathroom light."

Jin Chenli watched her with his dark eyes for a moment, then stepped closer. His voice was low and suggestive beside her ear.

"The mirror's fogged up too. Want to get a bigger one?"

Word by word, he bit at the back of her neck. "Sister-in-law."

-- The Junior Sister Has Ascended Through Cybernetics --

Shi Mingnai was the last of the five members of her master-disciple group to ascend.

As she attempted to break through into the Heavenly Realm, her senior brothers and sisters, who had ascended before her, sent down one strange prediction after another.

"Come to Zone A at once and save us!"

"Master was taken away again. I'm heading out first, Senior Sister. Remember to come to 9--"

"Don't ascend! Don't ascend!"

"Little Mingnai, don't look for Master. Master left with a smile."

The messages made no sense.

Shi Mingnai memorized the strange symbols. Not long afterward, she stepped onto the heavenly ladder and underwent a cleansing of her meridians and marrow.

But the step that carried her across the boundary between life and death, across the heavenly way, came from a breakfast shop on the verge of going out of business.

The heavens were a bizarre, dazzling spectacle. Unfathomable creatures wandered everywhere, all kinds of people and demons ran rampant, and Buddhist cults preached from the tops of skyscrapers. A gigantic mechanical dancer bowed its head with a smile and tried to sell her the latest flavor of nutritional drink.

The young breakfast-shop owner leaned against the door. "Ascending at such a young age, only to be born in the scrap district. What a waste."

Shi Mingnai politely wrote out an IOU, sat down, and calmly finished six steamed buns.

Then she took up her sword and headed for the high-risk, Grade A contamination zone:

The Domain of Eternal Life.

--

Acid rain and neon lights never let up. Conglomerates and the Federation controlled the wills of cyborgs, and 99% of the wealth was concentrated in this dark forest.

At first, people thought the garbage district had produced yet another reckless Ascendant who would soon get herself killed. They mocked her with numb indifference and watched from the sidelines.

But later, the sword-bearing girl leaped from a helicopter, braving immense danger to descend upon the city like a savior. Amid the blare of police sirens, she set a group of "defective products" free.

From then on, behind every one of her wanted posters lay the silent prayers of millions.

-

As the young sect leader of Hengyang Sect, the foremost cultivation sect, Shi Mingnai had poured her heart and soul into vanquishing demons before ascending. She had only left once the people of the cultivation world were living in peace. She had thought that there would be no more suffering after she reached the upper realm.

She never expected it to be a world even more ravenous than the demons.

Then she'd bring her master, senior brothers, and senior sisters along and keep fighting!

Saving the world was practically her specialty.

Later, Shi Mingnai overpowered one terrorist after another and became the person with the highest bounty in the Federation.

"A criminal?" She bit into a strawberry-flavored nutrition bar, lazily watching the dazzling neon holographic projections flicker past outside. "I just want to give everyone a home."

"May all the poor in the world find shelter and rejoice. That is my path."

A fanatical idealist heroine willing to die for her cause versus a cyberpunk city of sin where capitalism has reached its extreme.

Theme: There is no true or false world.