I Mistook a Mad Villain for a Target to Win Over

Ning Xi was transported into an erotic novel with one mission: win over Shen Yi, the cold, chaste regent who held power over the court.

The good news: She was the "adopted daughter" raised in Shen Yi's household, giving her the perfect opportunity to get close to him.

The bad news: Shen Yi seemed like an untouchable beauty who had no interest in women.

To complete her mission, Ning Xi had no choice but to "disregard all propriety."

In the first month of trying to seduce him, she smiled at him. He told her to mind her manners.

In the second month, she tugged at his arm. He told her not to push her luck.

In the third month, she kissed him and was punished by being made to copy out "The Rules of Human Relations."

In the fourth month, the System came online to correct an error and told her she had entered the wrong book.

It turned out she had read a derivative fanfic, but been transported into the original novel. The person she was supposed to win over wasn't Shen Yi at all, but the male lead, her childhood sweetheart, who already loved her.

In the original novel, Shen Yi was as elegant as a jade tree and as radiant as the moon. In truth, he was ruthless to the core, would murder the emperor and seize the throne, and later send his bargain "daughter" to a neighboring kingdom as a bride in a political marriage.

Ning Xi: "..."

She fled a thousand miles away overnight and promptly latched onto the male lead.

But on the night she arrived, exhausted from her journey and waiting to meet him, the city filled with armored soldiers, their weapons glinting coldly, and the courtyard gate was kicked open.

Shen Yi stood at the steps, his black court robes soaked through by the night rain.

Seeing her hiding behind another man, he gave a disappointed little smile. "Didn't you want to be the regent's consort?"

"Come kiss me. Or he dies. Choose."

He was smiling, but the smile never reached his eyes. Ning Xi thought she was done for.

Through the countless nights after she was dragged back, she anxiously awaited the revenge, punishment, or political marriage to a neighboring kingdom she expected.

Until the following spring, when the new emperor Shen Yi ascended the throne. The former adopted daughter of the prince's household became Empress of Dayong overnight. In the Phoenix Hall, candlelight flickered and the bed curtains hung low.

The man clasped her hand and slowly pressed it against the jade belt at his waist. "Undo it."

Ning Xi: "..."

Only after experiencing the real "erotic plot" did Ning Xi realize just how much depraved desire Shen Yi had been suppressing.

You said you loved me. Couldn't you at least love me sincerely?

A powerful man brought low | A silly sweetheart wins over an untouchable beauty | An unhinged man finally stops holding back

[Reader's Guide]

1. The male and female leads are not related by blood or law. She is simply the daughter of a benefactor who was taken in and raised in his household. They have a five-year age gap.

2. A fictional setting, both leads' first time, happy ending. A sweet romance, with the heroine pursuing the hero at first and the hero acting aloof, then the hero pursuing the heroine later. Some mild coercion. (More to add if I think of anything.)

Theme: Live happily