Spring Enters the Gu

After three years of marriage, Shen Chiyu and her husband had always treated each other with respect. She thought they would spend the rest of their lives this way.

But lately, her husband had suddenly befriended a nobleman from the capital, inviting him to the residence for meals every day. During their meals, the man looked at Shen Chiyu strangely.

Then one day, after falling asleep at a banquet and waking up, she found a row of bite marks on the back of her neck. A chill ran through her: her husband hadn't touched her in half a year.

Even stranger, her husband, who'd always been cold and distant toward her, suddenly became warm and attentive. When she was about to divorce him, he even drugged her.

As her consciousness grew hazy, she stumbled into the man's arms. Snow drifted by as he bit her lip, yet said, "Between us, there's nothing but friendship."

Shen Chiyu returned to the capital, heartbroken. She heard that her old friend, Prince Qin, had come to visit, and was caught off guard by their reunion. She recognized him.

It turned out everything that had happened was a lie, and they fell out.

At the Empress Dowager's banquet, Shen Chiyu was set up by her ex-husband. Everyone knew that anyone caught in the trap would die, yet he rushed to her side. Before everyone's eyes, they became lovers, costing him the position of Crown Prince.

People mocked him: the dignified Prince Qin was marrying a twice-married woman, who'd previously been married to a good-for-nothing.

He drew her into his arms and grinned triumphantly. "Well, haven't we all been blind at some point? Now that she has me, she won't be blind again."

She, too, thought she'd finally seen clearly this time and wouldn't make another mistake. But in the end, he still schemed against her.

Outside the window, the spring breeze carried flowers and tapped at the glass. The fingers she used to prune the plants suddenly turned, and the shears sank deep into her flesh.

"What are you doing, Empress?" His face was pale, and the hand clutching the shears was slick with blood.

She smiled innocently. "Killing you."

Content warning: 1. The female lead isn't a virgin, the male lead is. 2. Happy ending.

------Upcoming novel: After I Got the God-Slaying Script, He Fell for Me------

Le Zhi transmigrates into a book, a novel titled The High Priest, becoming the villainess.

When she wakes up, she's holding a dagger, about to cut off her older sister's face and claim it for herself.

System: Take your sister's face and become the saintess.

Le Zhi: Ugh! Do you think this is a face mask or something?!

In the book, the original owner tries to use forbidden magic to change her face, but the male lead discovers her and stabs her to death. Afterward, her corpse is made into a puppet that kills people.

She doesn't want that kind of ending. She wants to go home!

System: Option one: kill Yiguang, the High Priest.

In the original book, the High Priest Yiguang is practically a god. His magic is so powerful that no human could possibly match it. How could a frail young woman like her, who can't even tie a chicken, kill a god?

System: Option two: win over the High Priest Yiguang and reach 100% affection.

Le Zhi looks at the huge birthmark on her face in the mirror and despairs.

After failing to win Yiguang over hundreds of times, being thrown into a pool of venomous insects, and having snakes and bugs crawl all over her, Le Zhi gives up!

She'll kill Yiguang! From then on, she trains hard in magic, determined to die alongside the man.

The day before she acts, she bathes, burns incense, and prays to the Moon Goddess. The moment she rises, someone pins her down on the altar.

His face is divine, and a bright red mole sits at the corner of his eye. "Why won't you look at me?"

Le Zhi's heart pounds as the God-Slaying Sword hidden in her sleeve stirs eagerly.

Then a wet warmth touches her lips.

Le Zhi is stunned. Why?

Yiguang, his expression serene and indifferent: "Thousands would gladly die for me, but you're the only one who dares to kill me!"

Le Zhi: Oh my god, I've run into a total pervert!

The next moment, he pulls her into his cold embrace and deepens the kiss.

Theme: You don't have to follow convention. You can give yourself freedom.