After Transmigrating Nine Times, I Won Over the Villain

[Clever, stunning transmigrator heroine x pure-hearted, scheming grassland overlord]

[Blurb]

He Lan Yuan, a university student majoring in history, had just finished making up an entire graduation thesis about the founding emperor of the Great Zhou when she accidentally transmigrated.

The good news: She had transmigrated into the Great Zhou she'd been researching.

The bad news: She hadn't landed in the Central Plains. She had appeared in the Xiongnu royal court.

A passing Xiongnu army captured her.

The Xiongnu man at its head had a high nose and deep-set eyes, and was peerlessly handsome. Calling himself Prince Lie, he ordered her to bow.

He Lan Yuan trembled with fear.

Could this be the very man who would use whistling arrows to murder his father, unify the Western Regions, invade the Central Plains, besiege the founding emperor of Great Zhou at Yinshan, and create the Xiongnu Empire spanning Europe and Asia: the future Xiongnu king, Huyan Lie?

If he hadn't been soft-hearted and persuaded by his principal wife, the Grand Consort, to let his enemy go, the entire history of Great Zhou would have been rewritten.

He chased, she fled. He Lan Yuan and Huyan Lie traded wits and blows.

After she finally managed to transmigrate back to the modern world, she discovered that her thesis had been sent back for revisions, and she had no hope of graduating.

When she checked the historical records again, she found that the emperor had attacked the Xiongnu, been surrounded, and killed. The Central Plains had once more splintered into chaos, and the Great Zhou had perished after only one generation.

It was because the Xiongnu king Huyan Lie had never married, so there was no Grand Consort to persuade him to release the founding emperor of Great Zhou.

He Lan Yuan was near tears. She transmigrated back again and used every trick she had to set history back on its proper course.

But she noticed that Huyan Lie's gaze toward her was gradually changing...

Until, with hundreds of thousands of troops before him, Huyan Lie, the iron-blooded ruler and overlord of the grasslands, knelt before her on one knee in the Han manner and said:

"I offer ten thousand head of cattle and sheep and ten frontier cities as your bride-price. I will marry no one but you, my Grand Consort, for the rest of my life."

He Lan Yuan: ???

Wait, was she the Grand Consort who had extended the Great Zhou dynasty by four hundred years?

On his campaign south, the Xiongnu king Huyan Lie came across a beautiful Han woman who claimed she could see the future and often vanished into thin air.

At first,

Huyan Lie paid her no mind:

Just a Han woman. A few petty tricks, nothing to fear.

Then,

Huyan Lie grabbed her hand, eyes bloodshot, voice low and hoarse:

How many more times are you going to disappear?

Later,

The Xiongnu generals: The Chanyu is wise. We have the emperor of the Central Plains surrounded. It won't be long before we conquer the Han and unify the Central Plains.

Huyan Lie: My wife said to let the emperor go.

The generals: ?!!!

Later still,

Huyan Lie issued orders himself:

My wife likes silk from the Han lands. Open a trade route through the Western Regions for her.

My wife likes tea from the Han lands. Trade our heavenly horses for it with the Great Zhou.

My wife likes...

Until Huyan Lie frowned as he flipped through the historical records she had collected, gritting his teeth:

Since you like that old emperor's story so much, why don't I head south again and bring him back just for you to study?

#He conquers the world while she conquers him

#An ambitious conqueror who bows to no one but her

[One-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads' first love, equal focus on plot and romance]

Theme: All under heaven, one family.