My Lady Longs for Me to Rebel Every Day (Both Reborn)

Nangrong Jun was born into wealth and should have lived a life free of worry, but her entire family was slaughtered.

After being reborn, she resolves to find herself a powerful backer. After much thought, she sets her sights on the most shameless man in Lin'an.

Who could have guessed that Chu Xuan, arrogant and free-spirited, a good-for-nothing mocked for tarnishing the Chu family's good name, would later raise a rebellion, storm the capital, behead the foolish emperor, and crown himself?

After going to great lengths to marry into the Chu family, Nangrong Jun sits back and waits to ride her husband's success.

A month after the wedding, she realizes something is wrong.

The Chu Xuan she imagined was using his playboy image as a cover while secretly recruiting talented people, raising troops, and setting his sights on the capital. But her husband spends his days wandering the streets with her, and seems intent on dragging her into bed at every opportunity.

At this rate, when will he ever become emperor?

Nangrong Jun tentatively brings up the situation in the capital. Chu Xuan knows every detail of the old emperor's scandalous exploits, from making a dog his consort to carousing night after night.

She hints that troubled times are coming and he should make preparations, but he says he'll take her to the flower-boat market tomorrow.

Nangrong Jun is stunned. Could it be that the man she married really is a wastrel?

In his previous life, Chu Xuan spent half his life working diligently to start a rebellion, only to wind up dying young.

After being reborn, he decides to give up trying.

Whatever turmoil may sweep through the imperial capital, this time around he's here to enjoy a life of leisure.

While Chu Xuan is busy indulging himself, he notices a young woman who keeps appearing around him.

She drops handkerchiefs, gives him pastries, and pretends their meetings are accidental. Her intentions are clumsy and obvious.

She's rather cute in her own way.

Moved by her sincere affection, Chu Xuan reluctantly agrees to marry her.

Their married life is as happy and fulfilling as he could have hoped. Just as Chu Xuan thinks they will go on like this forever, his quiet and refined wife suddenly hands him a letter of separation.

"You have been kind to me, my lord, but my ambition is to sit in the empress's palace. Since we want different things, we should part on good terms."

Chu Xuan: "?!"

He is shocked into understanding that Nangrong Jun did not marry him because she was deeply in love with him.

She only wanted to be the empress!

Chu Xuan grits his teeth and tears up the separation letter.

Fine. It's just a rebellion, right?

He'll do it!

Later.

Chu Xuan skips court for three days, and Nangrong Jun quietly packs her belongings.

Chu Xuan meets his colleagues for wine and music, while Nangrong Jun tells her maid about the famous rebel leader who's been making headlines lately.

Chu Xuan lies flat at home, and Nangrong Jun takes out paper and pen to write... only for him to scoop her up and carry her to bed.

A man's voice grits in her ear, "My dear, I'll rebel, I'll rebel, all right?"

Reading Guide:

1. The male and female leads have only been with each other in both their lives.

2. The dynasty is fictional. I don't know much about Jiangnan, and most of it comes from what I've seen online, so please don't take it as a depiction of reality (begging.jpg).

3. There's a little bit of political intrigue.

4. The female lead has a slight tendency to be adored by everyone. Neither lead is perfect. If that's not your thing, please don't read.

The following are upcoming stories:

My Brother Can Be a Simp, I'll Marry a Beggar

Blurb:

Only after Ruan Yuchun dies does she learn that her brother is the devoted male second lead in a storybook. Not only does he go blind and lose a leg for the female lead, he also gets his entire family executed for her.

In the ending, the female lead, overcome with guilt toward her brother, dons the phoenix robe and enjoys a lifetime of favor and glory.

Meanwhile, the Ruan family is destroyed, its ancestral line wiped out.

After being reborn, Ruan Yuchun watches her brother about to head down the road to ruin once again. Biting her lip, she takes the little beggar she just rescued and declares to her brother:

"Brother, he saved my life, and I have no way to repay him. I've decided to marry him."

"We should get married next month and have a child within a year."

"Brother, his family has had only one son for three generations. I can't have just one child. We need at least five, so you'll have to help raise them."

Ruan Yuheng, nearly driven to vomit blood by his own sister, glares red-eyed and roars, "I absolutely will not agree!"

Ruan Yuchun: "If you don't agree, I'll elope with him."

Ruan Yuheng: "!!!!"

Overwhelmed by the trouble she's causing, Ruan Yuheng has no time to pay attention to the female lead. He successfully avoids the plotline where he goes blind and loses a leg, and Ruan Yuchun breathes a sigh of relief. She secretly prepares a stack of banknotes, planning to send the "little beggar" out of the capital.

But when she sees a mass of black-clad people kneeling before the "little beggar," Ruan Yuchun falls silent.

Only then does she realize that the tool she'd casually picked up to provoke her brother may not be such a simple person after all.

Ruan Yuchun loses her nerve and immediately cuts ties with him.

But the "little beggar" won't let her go. He grabs her wrist with one hand, secretly draws a knife with the other, and asks with a calm smile, "A-Chun, are you going to abandon me after seducing me?"

Seeing the treasured blade gleam in the sunlight, Ruan Yuchun is so frightened she nearly loses her soul: "..."

After Failing to Redeem the Villain

Blurb:

In the popular xianxia novel The Nine Realms, there is a villain beloved by readers, Duan Jianglan.

He had a miserable childhood and suffered countless hardships. After finally managing to join a cultivation sect, he puts on an air of refined warmth, but inside he is already twisted, obsessive, and dark. Because the female lead once helped him in his hour of need, he treats her as the moon in the sky and a flower in the mist.

His eventual sacrifice for the female lead brought readers to tears, and earned him countless fans.

Sang Lujin was one of them.

After transmigrating into a book, Sang Lujin tries to change Duan Jianglan's fate by shamelessly sticking close to him and showing him kindness again and again.

Duan Jianglan wants rare treasures, so she goes to find them.

Duan Jianglan wants magical artifacts and secret techniques, so she hands them over.

Duan Jianglan wants power and status, so she does everything she can to help him.

Sang Lujin thinks that if she treats him sincerely, she can change his fate sooner or later.

Unfortunately, she isn't the female lead, and the villain is still a villain.

There isn't even a choice between her and the female lead. Just because Sang Lujin gets in Duan Jianglan's way, he sends her to the forbidden realm of the underworld.

On the brink of death, Sang Lujin gives a scornful laugh.

She doesn't have the fate of a female lead in a redemption story, but she has the heart of one. Conceited and overconfident, she has only herself to blame for ending up like this.

As Sang Lujin waits to die, a figure approaches her.

In her unfocused eyes, a young man in white, stained with blood and looking battered, still carries an elegant and noble air as clear as the moon after rain.

It's her nemesis, Ye Zhenxi.

Sang Lujin assumes Ye Zhenxi has come to laugh at her, but, to her surprise, the young man gazes at her for a long time, then lifts her onto his back and carries her step by step to his home, where he treats her wounds and finds medicine.

Ye Zhenxi isn't exactly kind, but thanks to his help, Sang Lujin's injuries gradually improve.

She assumes Ye Zhenxi is willing to let her stay only because they know each other. But one day, Sang Lujin is injured and can't sleep because of the pain.

Half asleep, she hears the young man open the door and enter, spending his spiritual energy to heal her.

He sits beside her bed for a long time. His clear, cool voice sounds both resentful and angry. "I told you Duan Jianglan was a venomous snake, but you wouldn't believe me. Sang Lujin, can you see me now?"

Sang Lujin is stunned. Huh?

I thought we were enemies, but he's secretly in love with me?!

Theme: Refuse to lie flat, and rise to the top.