The Reborn Villainess Starts a Rebellion

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Ming Changying lost her father when she was young and followed her mother to seek refuge with her maternal grandfather's family. Instead, they seized her family's property and nearly sent her off to be abused by an old eunuch.

After finally escaping by faking her death, she fell into Prince An's hands. To survive, she had no choice but to assume the alias Qinghe and become a shadowy strategist.

She gave up her dignity, conscience, and name, and trod over countless corpses to help Prince An win the empire. Yet in the end, she could not secure even a way to survive for herself. She died without a whole body, left on display in the middle of the city.

Reborn at sixteen, Ming Changying finally understood.

Why make wedding clothes for wolves when she could scheme to claim the empire for herself?

So the reborn villainess concealed all the dark cunning and scheming in her heart, donned the guise of a graceful and virtuous young woman, and became the celebrated beauty of Shengjing. She successfully maneuvered herself into marrying the only son of Duke Zhu, the young general renowned as a demon and asura.

She would simply wait until she had smoothly taken over the Duke's household's power and connections, then get rid of her husband in name only.

But just as her plan was beginning to take shape and she was preparing to make her move, he clamped a hand around her wrist and called her by the alias she had used in her previous life: Qinghe...

Reader advisory:

1. Couple: a seemingly gentle and talented young woman who is actually a ruthless, ambitious schemer X a seemingly fierce general who is actually upright and innocent.

2. Both are reborn. A couple who are at odds, and their relationship is very much for show at first.

3. Please don't offer writing advice. You don't need to tell me if you're dropping the story. Wishing everyone a happy life!

Theme: Only after breaking free of the cage do you realize how vast the world is.