After the Eldest Princess Is Reborn, Everyone Gets Their Comeuppance

■ A prince-gets-everyone's-love, all-male harem, chaotic romance, multi-partner story. The princess is the pursuer.

■ A proud, arrogant princess who loves to show off, with a harem that leaves no one unscathed. Every supporting character is hopelessly in love with the heroine, and Xie Jinsi is the one with the strongest feelings.

Everything you would expect will be there. Also, both the consort and the general are women disguised as men. The general only discovers the truth in this life. The details are spoilers.

Blurb:

Princess Huai Ji was executed with a cup of poisoned wine. The one who personally offered her the poison was the consort she had once doted on.

Outside the palace's golden hall, all the men who had once bowed at her feet now bent their heads in submission, celebrating the new emperor's ascension. Only her lifelong rival, Xie Jinsi, commander of the Imperial Guard, stormed the palace on the night the rebels breached the city.

As she lay dying, Huai Ji saw Xie Jinsi gouge out the new emperor's eyes to make an eternal lamp, tear down the ancestral temple to build her coffin, and finally place the coveted jade seal in her gradually cooling palm.

Holding her body, Xie Jinsi told the world:

"The realm Your Highness rejected, I will grind to dust for her."

When Huai Ji opened her eyes again, she was at her coming-of-age banquet.

She only wanted to be a peacock, living however she pleased. She casually tore up the marriage contract with her former consort, wanting nothing more than to stay away from all these sources of trouble.

But she soon realized that something about the whole world was strange.

It seemed she wasn't the only one who had returned with memories of her past life.

Those who had once betrayed her were now acting as if they had gone mad.

The aloof artist wrapped chains around her ankles, begging her for a kiss. The haughty noblewoman undid her robes, begging to compose an erotic poem on her body.

Most absurd of all, her former consort, whose engagement she had broken, had now shed her official robes and returned to her female form. She knelt in the snow for a glimpse of Huai Ji:

"Your Highness, please... look at me again."

Only Xie Jinsi silently picked up the scraps of the marriage contract from the ground.

Huai Ji raised an eyebrow and teased her. "General, are you jealous?"

Xie Jinsi looked up. Her gaze was calm, yet burning. She handed the scraps back to Huai Ji, her voice low.

"No. Your Highness didn't tear it up enough."

She paused, then spoke one word at a time, as if stating a truth:

"Every marriage contract brought before you should end up like this. Anyone who dares ask for your hand will die without a whole corpse."

"This boundless power, this mountain of corpses and sea of blood, was all built by me to make a stage for you. Your Highness, all you need to do is step onto it and be even more spoiled."

Theme: A proud, arrogant princess who loves to show off, yum yum.