My Seven Lifetimes of Bad Karma with My Nemesis

[This story is for light reading and will be updated irregularly. Please enter with caution.] I died, poisoned by Gu Yun. He didn't fare any better. I stabbed him, and he collapsed beside me, his gaze full of resentment. As luck would have it, we fell in a rather unusual place: beneath a matrimonial tree. Earlier, Gu Yun had grabbed a red marriage cord from the tree while trying to catch me. Now it was tied around both our wrists. When we went to the underworld, King Yama told us that we'd be bound together for the next seven lifetimes, and wouldn't be free until the eighth. And so began our seven lifetimes of endless entanglement. First life: A celibate statesman vs. a widowed young empress dowager, as a proper gentleman falls to forbidden temptation. Second life: A concubine who took her stepsister's place vs. a dignified prince, with a melodramatic pregnancy-and-flight plot and a groveling redemption arc. Third life: An amnesiac immortal lord vs. a little demoness, as the lovesick immortal lord goes mad for love. Fourth life: A scheming emperor vs. a beautiful minister's wife, as a career-driven big shot takes her by force and locks her away. Fifth life: A princess of a fallen kingdom vs. a prince biding his time, with two sharp minds falling in love and fighting each other. Sixth life: A young general willingly becomes a proud princess's devoted servant. He really loves her. Seventh life: Childhood sweethearts who are sworn enemies. Oh, I forgot to mention: I never drank Meng Po's soup on the Bridge of Helplessness. In all seven lives, I made Gu Yun fall hopelessly for me, then dumped him and broke his heart, to avenge him poisoning me to death. But I never expected that this man I'd dumped in seven lifetimes would become my comeuppance in the eighth. Note: The heroine can bend without breaking, is highly self-interested, and isn't a good person. The blurb is written in first person, while the story itself is written in third person. ------------Also updating in my author page-------------- "Fragrance as Before" (An unyielding merchant's daughter vs. a refined, flirtatious official's son: a scheming, calculating, jealous master of sweet talk who is ruthless before rivals but meek before the heroine.) When Qi Jinxu first met Shan Yunhua, he thought she was manipulative and unconventional. He disliked everything about her. Later, he got a harsh lesson in face-slapping. . Shan Yunhua was an orphan. The Shan family had made tea for generations, but by her generation they had fallen into decline, and greedy relatives were trying to seize their estate. Her fiance, to whom she'd been betrothed since childhood, planned to make her a concubine instead of his wife. With a timid elder sister to support and a young brother to raise, Shan Yunhua kept a low profile and bided her time. She broke off her engagement, reclaimed the family fortune, built up her business, and used her superb tea-making skills to make the Shan family's tea trade flourish. By herself, she held up the entire family. She was clever and capable, bright and beautiful, with a stubborn and determined spirit beneath her petite, delicate appearance. As more and more admirers began gathering around her, Qi Jinxu started to feel uneasy. . Born into the distinguished Hou family, Qi Jinxu was brilliant and refined, hailed as a heaven-blessed genius. Yet no one could have imagined that such a dignified, charming man would fall for a merchant's daughter from Jiangnan. He couldn't have her, and it drove him mad. He became obsessed, and wanted nothing more than to die at Shan Yunhua's hands. (The heaven-blessed genius's face-slapping journey to win her back) . Blurb archived with screenshots (2024.01.16) Theme: Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil.