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[Please add this delicious upcoming story to your collection: After Swapping Souls with a Powerful Bigwig. A rational, checked-out transmigrator x her arrogant, hypercompetitive husband]

# After Assassinating the Grand Secretary, I Became His One True Love

# The Grand Secretary Is Always Waiting for Me to Kill Him

# At first, she only wanted his life. Later, he insisted on having her.

[Blurb]

When it comes to assassinating the Grand Secretary, the hardest part is this: don't let him fall in love with you.

Otherwise, no matter how many times you're reborn, you won't get away.

Especially when he's a clearheaded madman.

In the tenth year of the Great Zhou, Grand Secretary Pei Chuo held the court in his grasp and committed every evil imaginable. The corrupt official had one weakness: he was a womanizer who collected women from Jiangnan like a hobby.

Yan Huaiqing was alluring and bewitching, the perfect blade for killing a corrupt official. With just one glance, Pei Chuo took a liking to her and made her his mistress.

That night, Huaiqing leaned languidly in Pei Chuo's arms, her eyes alluring. Hidden in her bracelet was a poison that could kill with a single strike. “My lord, would you like to have me...”

Pei Chuo replied coldly, “No.”

“...?”

Huaiqing: The intelligence was wrong. Pei Chuo isn't interested in women!

Pei Chuo killed her with his own hands.

Fortunately, the workings of fate are impossible to predict, and Huaiqing was reborn.

In her second life, Pei Chuo changed in a strange way.

At the funeral hall of the Pei family's eldest master, the lights flickered. Pei Chuo's voice was hazy. “Yanyan, tell me, who is your husband?”

“...”

“It's me!” Pei Chuo was merciless in tormenting her.

In her third life, he held her hand and drove a dagger into his own chest. “Yanyan, let's count this stab as my betrothal gift, all right?”

“You're insane...”

“Then call it a dowry?”

“...”

*

I defy cause and effect and ask no questions about beginnings or endings. I cross mountains and rivers, waiting as countless ships pass, all to see you, with the moon in your heart becoming full and you growing into the person you love.

First life: Beautiful female assassin x calculating, sinister statesman

Second life: Frail but resilient widowed sister-in-law x dark, jealous, unhinged younger brother-in-law

Third life: Ambitious princess royal x Grand Secretary who refuses to relinquish power

Reader's guide:

1. The hero is thirty when he appears, and the heroine is twenty. They are ten years apart. Some details of the premise have changed slightly.

2. One-on-one romance, happy ending. There will be three volumes of love and conflict. They never swap souls or bodies in any of the three lives!

3. This story is different from my previous works and may be a little longer, though not that long.

Upcoming story: After Swapping Souls with a Powerful Bigwig

Blurb: Gu Nianchen was a front-line research grunt. After dying from overwork, she transmigrated into the body of Song Guan, the founding ancestor of scientific research.

She never imagined she would become a woman in a man's body.

Even worse, Song Guan had spent his life in misery. He lost his father when he was young, repeatedly failed the imperial examinations as an adult, and married a notorious shrew. The couple had been at odds for years.

And then things got worse. He lost his mother in middle age, his son in old age, and ended up impoverished, with his country destroyed and his family gone.

Yet even after failing the examinations, this man never abandoned his lofty ambitions. Carrying a medicine satchel, he traveled across the land, observing the lives of the rich and the toil of farmers, recording the crafts and tools of every trade. He poured his heart and soul into his work and ultimately completed the remarkable book The New Canon of Engineering.

He left his name in history, and later generations hailed him as “the forefather of ancient scientists.”

Gu Nianchen respected and admired Song Guan, but the thought of living the hard life he had lived filled her with dread.

So she planned to live differently. If she couldn't pass the imperial examinations, she simply wouldn't take them. She wouldn't marry a shrew, either. She would become a merchant, make a fortune, travel comfortably from country to country, collect the skills of every trade, and write books about what she learned.

But before she could put her grand plan into action, her cousin Tang Hao, who was staying at home to recover, summoned a huge group of Daoist priests and neighbors. With accusations dripping from her words, she cried, “What kind of demon are you? You've taken my body, and now you want to ruin my imperial examination?”

Gu Nianchen: “...!”

A powerful bigwig's soul had transmigrated into the shrew!

Later, after their souls returned to their proper bodies, Song Guan wore flowers in his hair and drank wine, all to make Nianchen smile.

“Whether I am your wife or your husband, when have I ever cared? As long as it's you, everything is wonderful.”

Theme: Cherish the present