After Accidentally Marking the Yandere Regent

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In her previous life, Lu Yunxiu was an unloved Beta princess. She spent half her life fighting to defend Dafeng, only to be betrayed by her Omega childhood sweetheart and fiancee upon her triumphant return. She survived the battlefield, only to die from a cup of poisoned wine.

All because her fiancee wanted to clear the way for the person she truly loved, and needed Lu Yunxiu dead.

After being reborn, Lu Yunxiu decides to lie low and play the part of an arrogant, dissolute rich girl, spending her days chasing pleasure while watching others work themselves to death. She intends to enjoy a shameless life.

But on a stormy night, her fiancee sets her up, and she presents as an Alpha. Her fiancee clings to her, insisting they spend a night together.

Lu Yunxiu is repulsed and forces herself to leave, but on the way she catches the intense, crisp scent of amber coming from a carriage. As if possessed, she pushes open the door and finds Xie Lingyun, the regent who never so much as cracks a smile at court, her cheeks flushed and her eyes hazy as she looks over.

The first thing out of her mouth is a coquettish plea: "...Help me."

Wait... How? Aren't you a real, bona fide cold-blooded Alpha?

But in the end, she spends a reckless night with the regent. When she wakes and sees the red marks her bite left on the back of the regent's neck, she can hardly believe it: the regent really is an Omega pretending to be an Alpha?

She wants to take responsibility, but one sentence from Xie Lingyun shuts down the thought: "I was out of my mind last night. Please don't take it to heart, Your Highness."

Lu Yunxiu mocks herself. Of course she's been rejected. But then Xie Lingyun adds, "Still, if Your Highness insists on taking responsibility, you may become my secret lover."

Lu Yunxiu: "...? Fine. You're bold. I like it."

And so their clandestine relationship begins.

At court, they are distant, even openly hostile adversaries. In private, they are intimate and consumed by passion. The regent has an insatiable appetite.

Later, with her wedding to her fiancee approaching, Lu Yunxiu suggests they end their affair. Xie Lingyun says nothing, but that night she nearly works Lu Yunxiu's back to the point of breaking.

After a period of rest, Xie Lingyun personally sends her niece, Lu Yunxiu's fiancee, to marry into a family beyond the frontier, never to return to court.

Lu Yunxiu is dumbfounded: That was your own niece!

Not only that, Xie Lingyun eliminates all of Lu Yunxiu's political enemies one by one, growing ever more powerful.

One night, in the throes of passion, Xie Lingyun says something utterly treasonous: "What if I help Your Highness ascend to the throne?"

Lu Yunxiu: "...?!"

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Xie Lingyun has been held to impossibly strict standards since childhood, never allowed to make a single misstep. Burdened with her family's expectations, she wears a mask every day.

The only one who could cheer her up was the little girl in the palace, who promised to marry her and stay together forever. But when she grew up, she forgot that promise.

It doesn't matter. Now Xie Lingyun has personally pushed her to the highest seat, trapped her on the dragon throne and fastened delicate chains around her, kissing her over and over: "Your Majesty, you belong to me forever."

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Only belatedly does Lu Yunxiu realize she's provoked a madwoman. Just as she is about to flee, she keeps dreaming of her previous life: Xie Lingyun, alone with silver hair, setting out a lamp bearing Lu Yunxiu's name. "Your Highness, I have avenged you... I would gladly trade the years I have left for your peace and happiness in your next life."

Theme: Learning to love and be loved as they grow closer to one another.