Butterflies in Dreams [Redemption]

The next novel will be How Are You Supposed to Win Me Over? The blurb is below.

Zheng Xiangyi has the ability to control dreams. After learning that her former online boyfriend comes from a powerful family, she decides to approach him in his dreams.

To her surprise, her "ex's" dreams are empty.

Zheng Xiangyi seduces her "ex" in his dream. The young man's breathing quickens as she teases him with her fingertips.

She calls out her ex's name, not noticing the young man secretly clench his fist.

Later, Zheng Xiangyi learns that the dreams she's been entering all along belong to Tao Shi'an, a blind boy.

She entered the wrong dream.

The blind boy is her ex's younger brother. He's from a wealthy family, handsome, gentle and considerate, and he's already fallen for her.

Zheng Xiangyi doesn't feel guilty. On the contrary, she's delighted.

"This makes him even easier to fool."

Tao Shi'an is blind. He can't see the birthmark on her face, or the heart she hides behind her smile.

2

Zheng Xiangyi has been deceiving Tao Shi'an for his love and money all along.

Tao Shi'an is gentle and restrained. When he learns the truth, he willingly gives in for love.

He's truly a kind and good person. He still presents her with his sincere heart and tells her:

I know everything. I don't blame you.

When your mother agrees, we'll get married.

Zheng Xiangyi refuses and asks to break up.

In the depths of winter, as snow falls thickly, Tao Shi'an stubbornly holds on to her and refuses to let go. His eyes red, he asks her again and again why.

"You're disabled, a burden. You can't compare to your brother."

"To me, you're a replacement for your brother."

She walks into the snow, then can't help looking back halfway down the road.

The boy is like a white shadow, bereft of his soul.

Zheng Xiangyi grits her teeth and runs away.

Her supernatural power has its limits.

If Zheng Xiangyi gets together with Tao Shi'an, she won't be able to enter his dreams.

He will never again be able to see the whole world in his dreams.

She wants to keep being his eyes in his dreams. That's more important than her love.

3

Four years later, Tao Shi'an's band stirs up a new sensation in the entertainment world. His worth hasn't diminished because of his disability. Instead, he and his face are both hailed as "miracles of the 21st century."

New Year's Eve.

When Tao Shi'an's flawless face appears on the giant screen, she appears in the fans' phone cameras too, tiny among them. They can never be together again.

But the next day, she's locked inside a villa. In the dim light, Zheng Xiangyi meets a pair of tearful eyes.

Only then does she see the despair and madness in his heart.

"Xiao Yi, even if you only think of me as your brother... Please, don't leave me..."

The next novel will be: How Are You Supposed to Win Me Over?

[Bold, clueless village girl * stoic imperial grandson bearing humiliation]

Shen Pengpeng transmigrates into a book, becoming the impoverished male lead's plain, long-suffering wife in a male-oriented novel.

In the original story, the male lead wins her over for the generous mission rewards, then dumps her as soon as he rises to prominence.

Looking at the dilapidated house, Shen Pengpeng is tempted.

The mission involves her, so why shouldn't she get the rewards?

She rushes to the back mountain, where a scholar pursued by assassins lies on the ground, seemingly at death's door. She kicks a black-clad assassin flying and carries the scholar away.

To get the plot moving and claim her reward as soon as possible, she takes the initiative and helps him "win her over."

The scholar pretends to be aloof and reserved. Shen Pengpeng helpfully reminds him, "I like passionate men. Acting like this won't win me over."

When Shen Pengpeng falls ill, a village scholar comes to visit, but the scholar blocks him.

She says solemnly, "I know you're jealous, but remember, I don't like narrow-minded men."

The scholar takes forever to make his next move, so late at night Shen Pengpeng sneaks into his room and pins him down on the bed. "You just need to sleep with me, right? I'll help you!"

Only after a night of passion does Shen Pengpeng realize she's mistaken him for someone else.

It turns out that the man she forced herself on isn't the male lead scholar at all, but the Emperor's eldest grandson.

That look in his eyes wasn't an act. He really wanted to kill her!

Once she realizes the truth, Shen Pengpeng runs away.

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Li Yan is ambushed while investigating a case and flees to the mountains, only to be kidnapped and dragged home by a strange young woman.

At first, he thinks she's a spy sent by his enemies.

Later, he realizes he'd given her too much credit.

He's never met a woman like her.

Flirtatious, stupid, and full of herself.

To secretly investigate the truth behind his father's murder, he's forced to hide here under a false identity. But she keeps teasing him, even going so far as to lay hands on him.

Once he returns to the capital, he'll make her pay and bring her to justice!

But when they meet again, she's laughing brightly with another man at her side.

Li Yan finds the sight inexplicably grating.

She took his virtue, and now she dares look at another man?

[Bonus Scene]

Shen Pengpeng comes to the capital and happens upon the Emperor's eldest grandson on an outing.

Surrounded by attendants, he gives her an indifferent glance over the prostrating crowd, as if he doesn't know her.

But that night, an "unexpected guest" arrives at her home.

He grips the hand she held with another man that day, presses it against the jade belt at his waist, and says hoarsely, "Don't you like passionate men?"

"...I can be even more passionate than him."

Theme: Love makes people brave