After the Otome Game Heroine Played with His Feelings and Dumped Him

After transmigrating into an otome game, Yu Zheng must follow a romance route and achieve a happy ending to clear the game and leave.

She's a commoner at an aristocratic academy, while all the romance targets are powerful young heirs at the school.

On the route with Young Master Huo, clearing the game requires not only that he remain devoted to her, but also that his family approve of their relationship.

Young Master Huo takes her home, where Yu Zheng meets his uncle, Huo Jin'an, head of the Huo family. At thirty, the man is like jade at the bottom of a deep pool, and the diamond ring on his ring finger gleams with a cold light.

Yu Zheng doesn't remember this cool hand once burning as it slid through her hair, or the passionate, lingering kisses they shared beneath the spring moon.

She has forgotten that she has transmigrated into this otome game world and looped through it many times, winning many hearts. She has forgotten that she once transmigrated to the wrong time and place, and abandoned the boy who truly loved her beneath the moonlight.

She doesn't know that the boy made her engagement ring with his own hands. She can't foresee that one day she'll see him again, here and now, right in front of her.

[Chaotic romantic battlefield]

[She thinks she has to work hard to win them over, but she's actually an unseen heartthrob]

[They don't remember the past at first, but they will later]

--Upcoming book: A Red Flower, Dew-Kissed and Fragrant--

During the Jing Dynasty, the imperial concubines competed for the emperor's favor and for sons, vying to adopt beautiful young girls and raise them at their knees.

These girls were called the concubines' "adopted daughters," but in reality, they were candidates for the emperor's harem.

As one such girl, Yu Ying was very anxious.

She looked at the emperor, who already had a whole harem, then at Prince Qinghe, who was being raised in the palace to "give the emperor an heir." Under the moonlight, she quietly took the young prince's hand.

After the emperor lost several sons in infancy, his ministers advised him to raise his nephew, Prince Qinghe Xiao Yu, in the palace, much as commoners took in a child to carry on the family line.

Xiao Yu entered the palace when he was young and met a girl his own age.

As they grew up together like childhood sweethearts, the girl gradually became a young woman. Xiao Yu secretly fell in love with her, but never forgot her identity.

She was supposed to be his uncle's woman.

--Upcoming book: Love Letters After Marriage--

[Heroine's POV]

At university, Yu Huan made a bet with someone that she would win over the aloof campus heartthrob Fu Shiyan, then dump him and watch him cry over her.

Yu Huan lost. She did manage to win Fu Shiyan over, but when she broke up with him, he remained calm and completely unruffled.

It turned out Fu Shiyan had known about her bet from the start. As soon as she began pursuing him, he had watched with indifference.

Yu Huan fled in embarrassment after graduation. Years later, when she met Fu Shiyan again, she was on a blind date, eager to get married so she could claim an inheritance.

Fu Shiyan sat at the next table and listened to her dinner date from beginning to end, his expression indifferent, just as it had been when she broke up with him.

Yu Huan thought it was a chance encounter and that she would never see him again, but the next day she ran into him outside her home. Fu Shiyan looked as if he hadn't slept all night. His voice was hoarse. "Weren't you in a hurry to get married?"

There was impatience and agitation between his brows. The second thing he said to her was, "Let's go to the civil affairs bureau."

Yu Huan didn't mind a sham marriage, even if her sham-marriage partner was an ex-boyfriend, but she had to tell him her circumstances before they married.

"I've been married once before." Yu Huan saw Fu Shiyan's expression stiffen. She paused, then continued, "And I have a child."

[Hero's POV]

At university, Fu Shiyan already knew Yu Huan was making a bet with someone when she approached him.

But later, when their relationship was sweet, he once thought Yu Huan would never say the words "Let's break up."

When he was young, his pride mattered more than anything. So when Yu Huan broke up with him at graduation, he agreed without a hint of emotion, as if he had never cared about her.

Back then, he thought Yu Huan was only a passing romance. But when longing gnawed at him and he could no longer find her, he slowly realized she was the love of his life, the one he could never move on from.

How could he let her go again, now that he had finally found her? It didn't matter if she didn't love him, or if she had an ex-husband and a child. He would never let her leave him again.

[Sham marriage with a child and a college ex]

[Everyday married life, with melodrama and warmth.]

Theme: Keep your heart turned toward the light and believe in true love