The Black Lotus Stops Pretending After Being Reborn

Don't look!!!!

[Female lead: a writer who loves beautiful men, talks a big game, and writes lively tales of city life. Male lead: unbelievably handsome, extremely narcissistic, cunning, and devoted to spoiling his wife]

[Both are reborn]

In her previous life, Liu Wanwan was skilled at music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. She was the capital's most celebrated young woman, the legitimate daughter of the prime minister, and the most esteemed subject in the emperor's eyes after the Grand Princess.

People said, "The younger Miss Liu is destined to become empress one day. She won't marry the crown prince; whoever she marries will become the crown prince."

But the gifted young lady was blind to the truth. She chose the man she thought was her true love, and in the end, her entire family was executed.

Reborn one day, she finds herself back at the age when she has just started attending school. This time, Liu Wanwan has no intention of being the well-behaved girl everyone expects.

Are handsome men not pleasing to the eye? Does silver not smell wonderful? And of course, she will repay every grievance and avenge every wrong. Not one person who bullied her will get away.

She reinvents herself as the capital's most sought-after writer of tales of romance and intrigue, under the pen name Mian Ri.

Her writing is masterful, her prose dazzling, and her stories captivating. From the emperor's consorts to ordinary women, everyone is hooked.

At a palace banquet, she meets the Ninth Imperial Uncle, cool and aloof as the moon.

Without a second thought, she walks right up and takes his hand in front of the emperor, empress, and Prime Minister Liu, batting her eyelashes. "Oh my, handsome young man, why don't you come home with big sister? I'll take such good care of you~"

The man raises an eyebrow. This woman is rather interesting.

He pretends to be startled and covers his clothes, looking as if he might burst into tears at any moment. "In front of everyone, Miss, are you really going to act like a lecher and harass an innocent young man?"

Liu Wanwan: "..." You make it sound so embarrassing. Now I feel like I have to harass you.

Later, Liu Wanwan learns that this man is her Ninth Imperial Uncle from her previous life. After she died, he single-handedly overthrew the dynasty.

Holding her coffin, he climbed step by step to the palace at the very top.

The history books recorded: "Emperor Lingwu ruled for seven years, bringing order and peace to the realm and restoring a hundred neglected industries. Emperor Yuan died six years later."

Emperor Yuan was the man she married in her previous life.

He wielded his sword, taking the throne from his own nephew and the realm from his elder brother.

The blood dripping from his blade was proof that he had come too late.

He sat in the Phoenix Perch Palace where she had once lived, holding her coffin. All one hundred people in the palace had died by his sword.

Bodies littered the ground. Many wore expressions of terror, as if they had faced something truly horrifying before they died.

He gently caressed her coffin, his sorrow boundless. "Wanwan, I avenged you. Wait for me to come marry you."

A little bonus scene:

(1)

"My lord, Miss Liu has... has run off to flirt with handsome men again..."

The man in the study casually turned a page. "If she wants to run around, let her. I want to see whether there's anyone in this world more handsome than me."

The servant looked close to tears. "No, my lord, she... she went into a man's room!"

In the blink of an eye, the man who had been lounging in the study vanished, leaving behind a voice full of barely contained fury: "Woman, you'd better not let me catch you."

(2)

One day, the man received a book. After reading its contents, he hauled the woman, who was still lying in bed drooling, upright.

Pointing at a passage, he read aloud, "Slender jade-white hands, radiant beauty, red candles flickering softly, brocade robes slipping to the floor..."

Before he could finish, she clapped a hand over his mouth, then glanced around in a panic, looking guilty as a thief. "H-how can you read that out loud...?"

The handsome man said pointedly, "Didn't my dear wife write this? I think it's lovely. Besides... it was written especially for your little imperial uncle."

Liu Wanwan: "..." Oh, get over yourself.

Reader advisory:

1. The female lead simply likes pretty people. Whenever she sees someone handsome, she can't tear herself away, and she likes touching handsome men's hands. She's all talk, but nothing actually happens.

2. One-on-one romance, both leads have had no prior partners.

3. The author is sensitive and has no manners. Don't insult me, or I'll definitely insult you back.

4. "Imperial uncle" is just a form of address. The male and female leads are not related by blood.

Theme: Bloom where you are planted, and the butterflies will come