The Reborn Regent Won Me Over by Fair Means and Foul

● Forbidden romance + pure love + fated rivals ● All-female cast ● Updates follow the rankings before VIP status, then daily updates afterward. Hiatuses if needed. After transmigrating into the body of a princess of a fallen kingdom, Xie Yu wakes to find the rebels already storming the capital. She packs her things and immediately decides to flee the palace. On the road, she spots a sickly young woman standing motionless in the street, as though frozen with fear. The woman is tall and slender, her face pale and bloodless, looking as if a breeze could knock her over. The rebels are searching the city, the people are fleeing, and thugs are taking advantage of the chaos. It is far too dangerous. At this moment of war and disorder, Xie Yu hesitates, then reaches out and takes the woman's hand. "Come with me. I'll get you out." Xie Yu moves quickly. The woman wears an unreadable expression as she stumbles along behind her, pulled along by the hand. Half an hour later, the rebels find them anyway. Flames blaze across the city. The rebels ride in on horseback, their gleaming armor towering over them. Despair fills Xie Yu. She lowers her voice and says, "When the time comes, we'll split up. I'll draw their attention." As soon as she finishes speaking, she sees the rebel at the head of the group raise a hand and salute the person behind her. "Commander, your subordinate failed to capture the Third Princess, who was trying to escape." Commander? The rebel commander known as the Evil Ghost? Xie Yu stares blankly, then slowly turns to look at the person behind her. The sickly woman's eyes are dark and deep. She is refined and elegant. Firelight is reflected in her eyes as she raises the hand clasped with Xie Yu's. "No need to search. The Third Princess is right here." * Xie Yu offends Shen Changyin, commander of the rebel army, and is sent back to the palace to await her death. She lives in terror, expecting Shen Changyin, known as the Evil Ghost, to order her execution. But after waiting and waiting, no poisoned wine arrives. Instead, she receives a marriage contract. Shen Changyin wants Xie Yu to marry her. Xie Yu: Huh? * In her previous life, Shen Changyin was harmed by the Xie imperial clan and forced to marry the doomed Third Princess, Xie Yu, becoming a widow. Later, she was abandoned by everyone and died a cruel death. Reborn, she raises an army in rebellion, determined to send every member of the Xie family to hell. But that day, on a firelit street, Xie Yu, dressed in red, clearly did not know her, yet still grabbed her and tried to flee with her. The wife she had never met in her previous life, the one who died young, is alive now. Shen Changyin narrows her eyes slightly, suddenly finding this all very interesting. CP: The cool, frail, iron-hearted, powerful and scheming older woman, the one who likes to fish for affection: the bottom VS The straightforward younger woman with boundless energy who likes to lie flat, but is forced by the bottom to become emperor: the top ● The following are highlighted upcoming works ● Upcoming work 1: "I'm the Scum Top of the Restricted-Fiction Heroines" ● Blurb: Bian Xun transmigrates into a so-called reverse-harem novel that is actually a dark story of physical and emotional abuse. The original story's reverse-harem protagonist, Bai Luling, is a beautiful and captivating actress, a poor girl who works hard to make something of herself and is famous for her aloof, untouchable image. No one knows that she suffers from a sex addiction and can only suppress it with medication. Bai Luling hides it desperately, afraid that exposure would destroy her career and her life. But the secret is discovered by the perverted scum tops. From then on, she is physically and emotionally abused and forced into relationships by those scum tops, the privileged elite. Even so, she keeps working hard and refuses to give up. But one of the scum tops eventually exposes her illness and countless photos, leaving her humiliated by everyone and costing her career. The original author loves writing scenes where the heroine is dragged into bed in despair, her physical cravings intertwining with her emotional numbness, forever unable to resist the scum tops. * But Bian Xun is not any of the scum tops in the original story. She's just the heir to a wealthy family who barely matters to the plot. She could play the cannon-fodder top, but she doesn't want to. She only wants to run her business honestly and quietly be a successful CEO and a dream girl to women who love women. Then, before the story begins, the System comes to her and says: According to the original plot, one day after the ending, the heroine will wake up and realize in horror that she has had such disgusting relationships with so many people. The fragile flower will transform into a beautiful, powerful, tragic figure and take cruel revenge on every scum top. Bian Xun applauds. "That sounds great." "Why are you telling me this?" Because after taking revenge, the heroine feels she is filthy and drowns herself in a lake, causing the world to be destroyed. Now the plot has returned to the beginning, before any of it has happened, and the System wants Bian Xun to change the ending and save the world. The System not only requires her to take the place of the worst sugar mommy top and follow the plot. Because the heroine detests multiple-partner relationships, it also requires Bian Xun to complete all the major plot points originally assigned to the various scum tops, all by herself, without changing the story. Bian Xun, a model citizen and conscientious CEO, trembles with anxiety. "What exactly are these major plot points?" The System replies, "The major plot points in restricted fiction are, of course..." Steamy scenes of a certain kind. In cars, basements, dressing rooms, hot springs, in countless settings and endlessly varied scenarios. Bian Xun's eyes roll back and she can hardly breathe. From then on, whenever another scum top tries something untoward, she has no choice but to hurry over. But it's not to rescue the panicked heroine. Instead, she gently closes the door behind her and takes her place. * Bian Xun believes the heroine must hate her. Until one day. In the morning, she uses her sugar mommy top identity to trap the heroine in a bedroom and force herself on her. At noon, secretly using her CEO identity, she lands the heroine a new audition and funds ten screenings of the heroine's new movie. At dusk, scum top number two drugs the heroine and traps her in a car. Bian Xun rushes over and expertly knocks the second scum top unconscious. She opens the car door. In the dim, suggestive light, the heroine's cheeks are as pink as snow, the corners of her eyes red. Her voice soft, she complains, "Why did you take so long? Hurry up." Bian Xun: "??? Is something wrong here?" * Bai Luling has known since childhood just how rotten people can be. With her extraordinary beauty, she has always had to endure disgusting advances, pretending to be a pure and aloof little flower. But the black sludge churning in her heart grows darker by the day. I want to kill them, dig out their eyes... Later, two people enter her life. One is the sugar mommy who forces her to sign a contract after a one-night stand. She's a spoiled rich kid who keeps Bai Luling trapped in a dim, decadent bedroom day after day, leaving the sheets in disarray as if she can never get enough. Even when she saves Bai Luling, all she can think about is that sort of thing. She even makes Bai Luling crave it, until she can't help responding in kind. But no matter how much pleasure she brings, Bai Luling still thinks the sugar mommy is vulgar and annoying. The other is a mysterious fan who silently helps whenever Bai Luling is at her most miserable, always trusts her when she's falsely accused, and gives her more money and opportunities than she could ever earn in a lifetime, yet never once asks to meet. Aside from leaving her a number she can call for help, this person leaves no trace, like a gentle breeze or a bright moon, leaving Bai Luling lost in thought. After asking around in every way she can, Bai Luling finally learns a little about this person: she comes from a good family, has a successful career, and is widely regarded as kind, upright, and noble. She's just about to get engaged. As long as she's doing well, that's enough. Bai Luling quietly puts her feelings away, afraid to hope for more. She's nothing but mud beneath the earth, fit only to wallow with someone like the sugar mommy. She shouldn't dream of reaching for a moonbeam. Until one day, she discovers that these two people are actually one and the same... #You humiliate me, save me, get close to me, lie to me, and still dare to get engaged to someone else?# CP: A truly upright and conservative woman who has to grit her teeth and perform all kinds of play, earning herself accusations of being a pervert and a freak: the hidden reverse-harem top VS A beautiful bottom who seems like a delicate, pitiful flower but is actually a ruthless, predatory black lotus with a sex addiction * Although it has xx, this is an unusual but sweet pure-love story, with both leads being inexperienced, one-on-one. The supporting characters' feelings for the top will become obsessive and somewhat twisted. ● Upcoming work 2: "Big Sis Has a Crush on a Dog" ● Blurb: The Dog has been in graduate school for a year. She has clever classmates, a promising young advisor, and a cool, aloof senior who is the best at everything she does. The senior is beautiful, talented, and from a wealthy family, the untouchable campus crush everyone adores. But the Dog is merely an unremarkable bottom-of-the-lab student. Every day, she ties her naturally curly hair into a fluffy, messy ponytail, wears thick black glasses, carries a huge backpack, and hurries across campus with two steamed buns in hand, like a ghost no one notices. Lots of people like the senior. No one likes the Dog. If she really were a dog, she'd probably be a gloomy, antisocial stray mutt that no one wanted. The Dog knows this. She doesn't care. * But one day, the university's confession board posts a picture and tags her. It's a photo of an anonymous love letter written to her. Cute stationery, elegant handwriting, heartfelt words, and a love hidden between the lines. The Dog is shocked. The Dog's friends are shocked. The Dog's advisor is shocked too. But the senior is perfectly calm. As if she hadn't written the letter herself. * The Dog decides to find her anonymous secret admirer. She has a secret: she actually cares. She hopes someone will like her. * The senior has a secret too. She's liked the Dog for a long time. In her bright life, where everything has gone smoothly, loving that person is a never-ending rainstorm. She doesn't want anyone, including the Dog, to know about her crush. Until one day. The fifteen love letters she'd written to the Dog are stolen and posted online. * The anonymous thief who submitted the letters has an even bigger secret. At first, she simply disliked the senior. Later, she began to like the Dog a little. My drab self only shines in your eyes. Only coughing, poverty, and love cannot be hidden in this world. Theme: Love makes people strong, and makes them soft.