The Princess Doesn't Dare Ship the Male and Female Leads

Also known as The Villainous Princess Doesn’t Want Her Country to Fall

Qin Yiyi transmigrated into a villainous princess in an old-fashioned novel.

She had every advantage, yet she fell hopelessly in love with the male lead and turned against him out of jealousy, opposing him at every turn. After he became emperor, she gave her life for her country and died a gruesome death.

At the age of ten, Qin Yiyi regained her memories and realized that the royal family wasn’t as foolish and tyrannical as the book claimed. She also discovered that the heroine was a miserable, pitiful love-struck fool. Was she really going to bring down her own country?

Having died young in her previous life, all she wanted this time was to live freely and joyfully. She didn’t want her country destroyed and her family dead. Before the heroine turned evil, she had to act first.

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In the palace, while the heroine was being neglected by the empress and tending to her wounds alone, Qin Yiyi went up to her with a pitiful look. “Fifth Sister, pay attention to me.”

Inside, she thought: Please don’t turn evil because you’re disappointed in your family. So many people love you, and I do too.

At a palace banquet, watching the hero and heroine exchange loving glances, Qin Yiyi leaned close and whispered, “Fifth Sister, look. That young noble is truly handsome, with the grace of an orchid and the elegance of jade.”

Inside, she thought: Find yourself someone decent. The male lead is nothing special, and he’s scheming to destroy our royal family.

At the Lantern Festival, the male lead, secretly a rebel, lavished attention and sweet words on the heroine.

Qin Yiyi said again, “Pay less attention to what he says and more to what he does.”

Inside, she thought: What a two-faced snake. He’s sweet-talking Fifth Sister while using her status to plot a rebellion.

Hearing her little sister’s thoughts, Qin Yizhen looked at the man before her with an increasingly cold gaze.

“Rather than let someone else take the throne, why not become emperor yourself, Elder Sister?”

Qin Yizhen: “???”

Ever since she started hearing her sixth sister’s thoughts, Qin Yiyi’s comments had often sounded strange, but on closer inspection, they made a lot of sense.

So everyone in the palace noticed that the spoiled sixth princess and the gloomy fifth princess had become inseparable, devoting themselves to their studies.

Looking at her father and brothers, who had no interest in ruling, and then at her elder sister, who had all the makings of a crown prince, Qin Yiyi nodded with satisfaction.

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Though Lu Jian was the second young master of the Marquis’s household, few knew he wasn’t truly a member of the Lu family. Even fewer knew that he was a sharp sword in the marquis’s hand, leaving no survivors wherever its edge struck.

He had thought he would spend his life repaying a debt of gratitude amid bloodshed and killing, but then the innocent little princess crashed into his life.

At their first meeting, he saw her ingratiating herself with her older half-sister from a position of privilege and sneered. It was nothing but charity from someone powerful to someone beneath her.

The next time he saw her, she was charming and sweet in front of her parents, her smile warm and lovely. Beside her, his own heart seemed hollow and dark, and he was overcome with shame. Suddenly, he wanted to drag her down into the abyss with him.

But out of that small debt of gratitude, he held back.

Who could have known that the innocent princess wasn’t pure-hearted at all? She actually wanted to use him. As they say, one good turn deserves another. Surely she couldn’t blame him for being cruel, could she?

[Extra Scene]

Qin Yiyi was deeply affected when she saw a mother and daughter suffer abuse from the husband’s family and die separated from each other. Tears welled in her eyes.

Lu Jian’s expression stayed unchanged, but his eyes were flustered. He clumsily wiped her tears, gathered enough evidence, and sent the scumbag husband straight to the authorities.

Qin Yizhen was also moved by the matter and fell into a bad mood.

The rebel male lead said, “Please don’t cry, Your Highness. This sort of thing is perfectly normal.”

Qin Yiyi thought: What a fool. He has zero emotional intelligence. That brute Lu Jian is better than him.

Qin Yizhen: “Get out!”

The rebel male lead: “???”

One-on-one romance, both leads sexually inexperienced, with plenty of original worldbuilding.

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The Wen family had been renowned for its books and learning for generations. Their second daughter, Wen Yunci, was refined, graceful, gentle, and virtuous. The Cao family had arranged her marriage before she even came of age.

While Wen Yunci was quietly waiting for her wedding, she unexpectedly became intimate with her fiancé ahead of time.

When she awoke and saw his regretful expression, she was just as anxious and uneasy.

Luckily, the wedding was fast approaching, and as her fiancé took even more careful care of her, she gradually put her mind at ease.

But in her dreams, an unfamiliar man’s husky voice would repeatedly ask, “Young Madam Cao, what was it like being with another man?”

At first, she thought she was having nightmares because she was too nervous. But later, every time she opened her eyes, she found the same cool, otherworldly face beside her pillow, and realized none of it was an illusion.

On the day she escaped, the supposed truth turned out to be the exact opposite, making her heartache all the more unbearable.

She stood silently beneath the vast sky and suddenly understood how important power was.

So when he chased after her, panic in his eyes but his voice cold as he said, “Wen Yunci, you can’t escape!” she meekly walked into the cage she had once hated.

She knew the most devastating revenge was to destroy everything someone else had worked so hard to obtain.

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At a young age, Liang Jichu had already risen to a high position and survived countless hidden attacks. He never expected to be brought down by a pair of engaged lovers.

They schemed against him and still expected to live happily ever after? What a ridiculous fantasy.

Did they really think all those praises calling him pure as jade were true?

He had never played the role of stealing someone else’s bride before. He might as well add a little color to his dull life.

On their wedding day, he went straight to their door. When someone demanded to know what it would take for him to spare the Cao family, he made his meaning clear. “The young madam is a beauty beyond compare. How about...”

Just as he expected, the Cao family ultimately abandoned her.

The moment he held her tightly in his arms after getting her back, his pounding heart told him he had lost himself in her dazzling beauty and could no longer pull away.

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Cao Yu knew his fiancée was stunningly beautiful. He had made the decision to give her away again and again.

Until that night, behind gauzy curtains, he watched with his own eyes as the high official everyone praised as pure as a lotus bent over her and unhesitatingly pressed the delicate hand Cao Yu had once held into the quilt, their fingers interlaced.

He swallowed the metallic taste in his mouth and reassured himself that once this day was over, he and Yunci would surely live together in harmony.

Only when the girl who had always treated him gently stabbed his chest with a long sword did he realize just how terribly wrong he had been.

Extra Scene:

Liang Jichu watched Wen Yunci point her sword at Cao Yu. No matter how remorseful Cao Yu was, she refused to forgive him.

Thinking of everything that had happened, Liang Jichu felt his heart turn cold. He completely forgot his original grand ambition to teach her a lesson. Even knowing she was using him, he still let her have her way in everything.

One day, words he had never imagined saying in his life slipped out of his mouth. “When will you agree to marry me? If you still don’t want to get married, you could at least give me the title of your lover, Minister Wen.”

Her lover? Wen Yunci rested her chin in her hand and thought it over. “Fine by me!”

She was only doing him a favor.

But the man who had once been so composed and restrained beamed with joy as if he’d found a priceless treasure.

Theme: Work hard for the life you want.