The Villainess Accidentally Wins Over the Villain

Sharp-tongued, fearless Eldest Princess X love-struck villainous minister

[Pre-release novel, The Empress Consort Rules the Six Palaces, please add it to your collection~]

Blurb

Eldest Princess Luo Changyu spent her whole life scheming and plotting. At long last, she ascended the throne, only to find that before she could enjoy even a single day, or even take her seat, rebels stormed the palace and ordered her beheaded. And so she died a tragic death.

Reborn, she unexpectedly learned that her world was nothing more than a storybook. Everything in it existed to set the stage for the protagonist, Gu Chichen, and the woman he loved, Chu Qingyue, to chase after each other. Since everything was fated, Luo Changyu decided to take it easy and stop trying. But her nature wouldn't let her sit back and do nothing. Even if she couldn't beat her enemy, the one who had killed her, she certainly wouldn't let him have his way.

So Luo Changyu ordered the future rebel of the Gu family to be summoned to the palace, planning to find an excuse to punish him. If she couldn't kill him, she could at least soothe her anger. Everything should have gone according to plan, but she had no idea that the Gu family had concealed another son from the outside world, one who shared the same name.

The first time, she placed a bowl of poison in front of the man and ordered him to drink it, wanting to see what made someone favored by the so-called Mandate of Heaven different.

The second time, she shoved a bow into his hands and pointed at a withered branch in the distance. "I hear Young Master Gu is excellent at archery. Come on, shoot that leaf off the tree for me."

Staring at the completely bare tree, Gu Chichen: "..."

Another time...

Gu Chichen had taken someone else's place in the palace. At first, when Luo Changyu tried to frame and provoke him, he frowned, finding the woman unbearable and annoying.

After half a month together, he remained unmoved by the "kindness" Luo Changyu occasionally showed him, still recoiling from her with undisguised distaste. Yet whenever the woman's silver-bell laughter rang out, his ears would sometimes flush red in spite of himself. And whenever Luo Changyu approached another man and accepted his gifts, he would turn away with a stony face, his heart inexplicably troubled.

Faced with all these strange reactions, Gu Chichen pressed his lips together, unable to understand why he was acting this way. Until one day, outside the palace hall, he saw Luo Changyu laughing brightly with someone else.

A young man with flushed cheeks stood inside the hall. Gu Chichen didn't know what he said, but he saw the Eldest Princess, who usually spoke to him coldly, break into a radiant smile and then put a hand on the young man's shoulder.

The taut string in Gu Chichen's mind snapped completely apart. He strolled inside as if nothing were wrong, his fingertips digging into his flesh until blood began to seep out.

Before long, strange things began happening in the palace and the capital. Valuables kept disappearing from the heavily guarded Golden Throne Hall. The palace attendants stared in bewilderment at the gift records, whose entries didn't add up, unable to figure out what had gone wrong.

One young lord merely went out to admire flowers and came home covered in injuries. Another went boating and accidentally fell in the water. Someone was trampled by a horse while playing ball, and another was drenched in soup while eating at a restaurant...

One strange incident after another piled up. Surely evil spirits were at work. For a while, young lords across the capital were so alarmed that none dared go out casually.

Little Scene

One day in the imperial garden, everyone saw the Eldest Princess furiously raise her hand and slap the newly ascendant young lord of the Gu family!

Everyone bowed in terror, expecting a bloodbath, but the young lord, usually so ruthless, didn't go on a killing spree as he had in the past. He merely lowered his head in silence and accepted the scolding directed at him.

The palace attendants wondered if he had changed his ways. Then they saw a scene that left them stunned: the ruthless young lord crouched in front of their Eldest Princess, quietly pleading for something, and then scooped her up in his arms and carried her back into the hall!

Everyone: !!! What on earth had they missed?!!!!

Reading guide: Both leads are virgins, one-on-one, happy ending.

The male lead's impersonation will be exposed later.

[Pre-release blurb]:

Amnesiac beauty X ruthless new emperor

After marrying into the Ningbo Marquis household, Zhao Yunyi managed its affairs with proper care and never made a single mistake over the course of two years. Yet her in-laws still despised her, and she and her husband were little more than a couple in name.

For the old madam of the marquis household's birthday banquet, a family that had upheld propriety for a hundred years chose to drug their own daughter-in-law, all to secure a promising future for their strategist.

The banquet was lively and splendid. In the garden corridor, servants' shouts rang out one after another as they gave chase. Zhao Yunyi stumbled forward, fleeing in a panic, and crashed into someone's arms.

That night, hairpins and ornaments lay scattered across the floor, and the red wedding curtains swayed.

After one reckless night, the Ningbo Marquis household lost a young madam, while the imperial palace gained a favored consort.

Zhao Yunyi entered the palace, only to be poisoned and lose her memory.

When she woke, her personal maid told her that she was a consort in the imperial palace. But because she was beautiful and had no power or influence, others had envied and persecuted her.

After hearing all this, Zhao Yunyi looked at the breathtakingly beautiful face in the bronze mirror, then glanced at the empty room and her wrinkled sleeping robe.

She slammed a hand on the table and rose to her feet. She was only a favored consort, so what? She'd fight for the title! Otherwise, wouldn't she be wasting a face as peerlessly beautiful as hers?

The emperor hurried over and saw the beauty, acting completely unlike herself, flutter into his arms like a butterfly, tears falling one after another.

The new emperor had just learned that Zhao Yunyi had lost her memory, but now he had a warm, fragrant beauty in his arms. As she wept to him, his fingers curled slightly. After a moment, he wiped away the tear spilling from the corner of her eye. "...It's my fault. Ah Yun, you've suffered."

Ling Yu had climbed to the throne over the corpses of his father and brothers. He had locked away his heart from a young age, until one day, while traveling, he encountered a woman among the common people.

The beauty smiled brightly, a vivid begonia tucked beside her temple. Her gaze shone like the sun as she burst into his view. He sent someone to learn about her and discovered that she was the new bride of the Ningbo Marquis household.

That night, the Imperial Physician was urgently summoned to the Palace of Heavenly Purity. The emperor had suddenly developed insomnia. Despite prescribing numerous remedies, his condition showed no improvement whatsoever.

Everyone was frantic with worry.

The newly arrived Lady Zhao used some unknown method to make the emperor's condition improve dramatically in just half a day.

Everyone in the palace was amazed. It wasn't until they watched the beauty's consort rank rise again and again that they finally understood.

Reading guide: 1. Both leads are virgins, one-on-one.

2. The powerful male lead bows his head; the heroine regains her memory later, and the second male lead faces a long road to win her back.

Theme: The breeze will come of its own accord