The Ode of Changning (Reborn)

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[Coercive Love] [Childhood Sweethearts] [Rivalry for Her] [Chasing the Wife to the Crematorium]

Cool, proud beauty x lovesick, deranged prince

In her previous life, Chu Yao, Commandery Princess of Changning, took pride in her phoenix destiny. Cold and heartless, she cared only about becoming empress. She used love to tempt Wei Liyuan, making him fall deeply for her so he would become her blade.

She treated his wounds, argued with pedantic scholars on his behalf, met him every night at palace banquets, and took the initiative to bare herself for him...

But as she kept deceiving him, she discovered that his sincere, earnest expression had settled in her heart and would never leave. Everything reminded her of him.

From then on, she was lost in a haze, yearning for him day and night while doing everything she could to restrain her feelings. She couldn't love him. She could only become empress!

On the day she was made a consort, he knelt and begged for her love. She cruelly humiliated him.

"I was born with a phoenix destiny. How could I ever love a lowly prince like you?"

In the end, the imperial family fell, and Wei Liyuan raised an army and ascended the throne.

That night, as the palace burned, he stormed into her bedchamber with a sword, trapping her in his arms. He toyed with her hair and greedily breathed in the scent of her collarbone.

"Chu Yao, you can only be my empress."

She gained the title of empress, but lost her freedom. Confined to the Qiannian Hall all day, she was tormented by him every night.

At last, Chu Yao repented and took poison to end her life in atonement.

She awoke from the dream.

Reborn, remembering what she had done in her previous life, Chu Yao wants only to change her fate.

To hell with that so-called phoenix destiny!

As for him... After three years of torment, they owe each other nothing.

She avoids him at every turn and wants nothing more to do with him.

But she discovers that she can't escape him or keep her distance...

Yet whenever they're alone, he pins her against a wall and grabs her wrist, his eyes bloodshot, asking only one thing:

"Why are you avoiding me!"

Chu Yao can't understand it. She isn't trying to seduce him anymore, so why won't he leave her alone?

Until one time,

when they are lying in the same bed, she hears him murmur in her ear, "Chu Yao, you were mine in your previous life, and you're mine in this one too."

May you always know peace and joy, may you always be at peace and never forget me.

Next novel: Jade-Bound Delight

Female lead's perspective

Xie We Huan was born a beggar, yet she is the only woman in the Shang residence.

Everyone there says she is blessed, envying how she alone has won the favor of the cool, desireless Chancellor Shang.

She respects him and loves him, believing that with each passing day, she will eventually warm the man's heart.

Until the day Shang Lu personally sends her to the Crown Prince's residence.

The man's cold expression shatters all her hopes.

She was only a pawn, and Shang Lu was a stone that could never be warmed.

After entering the Crown Prince's residence, Xie We Huan uses every trick she knows to complete the task Shang Lu gave her, ultimately making the Crown Prince fall deeply in love with her.

For the first time, Xie We Huan, who has always been calculating, feels guilty. She even considers no longer serving Shang Lu.

If Shang Lu is a stone she can't warm, she'll find another one.

It's not as if she has to be with just one man.

Male lead's perspective

Shang Lu is the orphaned son of a Crown Prince of the previous dynasty. He lies in wait at the emperor's side, serving as chancellor as he plots to seize the throne. Power is all he cares about.

Ten years ago, he took in Xie We Huan and raised her at his side for the sake of his plans and his hatred. When she grew up, she lived up to his expectations, looking exactly like the late beloved of the Crown Prince.

So he decides to send her to the Crown Prince as a spy.

She's only a pawn. He can discard her if he wants.

With Xie We Huan no longer at his side, following him everywhere, his days grow colder. When he opens his eyes, he sees her; when he closes them, he sees her...

He tells himself it's nothing but idle distraction.

Until he sees Xie We Huan lying in the Crown Prince's arms, gazing at him with tender affection.

Her clothes have slipped, and faint red marks at her collarbone make her look alluring and bewitching.

He can no longer suppress the stirrings in his heart...

He decides to take her back with his own hands.

Reading guide:

1. Set in an alternate history.

2. The main couple are strictly monogamous, and both are virgins.

3. The female lead has come of age, and the male lead has reached adulthood.

4. The male lead's rebellion in his previous life conceals a greater mystery.

Theme: I decide my fate, not heaven.