After Returning from the Land of Women

The capital's elite have two new rumors going around.

First, the frail young daughter of the Ye family, Ye Wenxue, took a fall. After she woke up, she started working out like crazy. She tied sandbags to her feet and power-walked eight kilometers, and could carry bottled water up ten flights of stairs without stopping for breath.

Second, the useless young master of the Xie family, Xie Yuan, got into a car accident. After being discharged, he began cultivating his character. Suddenly, he was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and spent every day at home composing poetry and playing music.

Xie Yuan had a secret.

After the car accident left him unconscious, his soul possessed a man in a matriarchal dynasty for ten years. He ended up in a brothel, where he was forced to learn music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. Later, Third Princess Ye Wenxue bought his contract, and the two held a wedding.

Unexpectedly, on their wedding night, a fire suddenly broke out in the residence. He was accidentally burned to death, and then transmigrated back!

Xie Yuan's parents arranged a marriage between him and the frail young daughter of the Ye family. The more he looked at her, the more familiar she seemed.

Xie Yuan: "You look so familiar, like my wife from a past life."

Ye Wenxue: "Funny, you look like my late husband."

Here's a preview of my upcoming story, The Tyrant Is Bound to the Tragic Heroine System

Shen Zhao transmigrated into a book.

The good news: she's the heroine.

The bad news: it's a novel that puts its heroine through endless torment.

The heroine accidentally saves the unconscious male lead by the roadside, then goes through every kind of ridiculous, old-fashioned angst plot. She gets slapped, whipped, loses her memory and becomes a substitute, gets pregnant by accident and miscarries, and is constantly humiliated by various villainesses. In the end, she chooses to forgive the male lead and gives him a happy ending.

But Shen Zhao refuses to pick up some stray man by the roadside. She puts the male lead, the source of all evil, in a sack and sells him to a brothel as a male courtesan.

The ridiculous plot is nipped in the bud before it can even begin.

Just as she thinks she's finally out of danger, the tyrant, a mere background character in the original story, suddenly comes knocking.

Rumor has it that the tyrant Xiao Yu is cruel by nature and kills without blinking. His gaze is menacing, yet the first thing he says is, "Hit me."

Shen Zhao: "?"

At the same time, a System notification rings in her ear:

[Your Majesty, you're playing the role of the tragic heroine now. You shouldn't be so fierce. You should be tearful and fragile!]

Xiao Yu laughs in exasperation. "Didn't you say the task was just to get her to slap me?"

The System declares righteously: [No, you have to get slapped while breathing hard, blushing, and tearing up!]

Shen Zhao: "Wait, is this System even legit?"

At a banquet in the imperial palace, a new task suddenly appears behind Xiao Yu: [Plot Two: Take your whipping. Have the heroine, Shen Zhao, whip you fifty times in public. Fail, and you'll cough up blood and die.]

Shen Zhao, who is busy wolfing down a chicken leg: "?"

What, she has to whip the tyrant?

Xiao Yu's expression shifts between dark and light. After a long silence, he says, "Someone bring me a whip."

The ministers present all think he's about to lose his temper, and no one dares make a sound.

But Xiao Yu personally hands Shen Zhao the whip, then turns around and bares his back.

The senior ministers are in an uproar, their eyes nearly popping out of their heads.

From then on, a rumor spreads through the palace: the tyrant has an unspeakable special proclivity.

Later, Xiao Yu toys with Shen Zhao's hand and asks with a knowing smile, "You ruined my reputation. How are you going to make it up to me?"

Shen Zhao cups his face and pushes him down onto the bed with a grin. "Your reputation was already ruined. Don't blame me. Come on, your next plotline is pregnancy."

Reader's guide:

1. A goofy, sweet little story.

2. A cunning, lazy heroine who seems harmless on the outside x a beautiful, strong, and tragic tyrant.

3. The bonus chapters include the male lead giving birth. Their daughter will inherit the throne.

Theme: The strength of women in the new era.