I'll Be a Slacker, Not a Workhorse [Ancient to Modern]

A salted-fish big shot who just wants to lie flat × a sharp-tongued young master with an overbearing possessive streak

The aloof beauty descends from her pedestal for love (the heroine is the beauty)

Good news: Her great revenge is complete, and she can retire and lie flat.

Bad news: The new emperor forcibly marries her and drives her to the edge of a cliff.

Good news: She jumps, but doesn't die.

Bad news: When she wakes up, she sees the new emperor's face again.

Good news: It's not the same person!

New world, new beginning. Yang Zhi is going to live well and lie flat.

Yang Zhi gradually settles into this world, and finds herself unable to stop thinking about the young man from the mountain.

He had such an irritating face, yet such a kind heart.

She doesn't regret leaving, or saying those hurtful things, because she truly wasn't right for him.

Yet one rainy night, when her emotions came crashing down, she unexpectedly ran into him again.

The man wore a sharp suit, nothing like the carefree, green young man from the mountain. Holding an umbrella to shield Yang Zhi from the storm, he crouched down and asked her in a low voice, "Do you remember me?"

Yang Zhi froze, then let the man reach out and wipe the rain from her face.

How could she not remember?

He went up the mountain to dig for mushrooms and came back with a woman.

After that, Gan Lu found himself inexplicably dreaming about her all the time.

In his hazy dreams, the woman held a sword in her left hand, blood splashing across her beautiful face.

The woman in his dreams was nothing like the one in real life: one was ruthless, the other gentle and harmless.

The strange thing was, he seemed to... like this mysterious woman.

The young master confessed his feelings for the first time and got a nice-guy card in return, while hastening Yang Zhi's departure from the mountain.

But that was all right. She couldn't get away.

No matter where she went, he would find her.

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"After Forcibly Taking the Top Scholar's Wife"

Everyone knew that the newly crowned top scholar and his wife were deeply devoted to each other.

He refused to marry a princess for her and gave up his path to success. She took a blade for him and died young.

Their tragic love became a sorrowful tale told throughout the capital.

Ji Yan, heir to the Prince of Chen.

Born to the imperial family and of noble status, he was a madman who enjoyed playing with people's hearts.

Most people bored him, until Ji Yan met Shen Xinyu.

Shen Xinyu came from a family of healers and was lowly as dust.

Though she was greedy for life and money, a thoroughly selfish person, she was still willing to risk her life to take a blade for someone else.

Ji Yan didn't understand, but he found it fascinating.

Soon, a small sedan chair was secretly carried into the Prince of Chen's residence, and from then on, Ji Yan had a woman by his side.

Those with an eye for such things noticed that she looked exactly like the dead top scholar's wife.

She was just a plaything, and Ji Yan had never cared about Shen Xinyu's feelings.

He thought of himself as keeping a delicate orchid.

Until one day, the woman tied Ji Yan up on a pleasure boat and forcefully made him drink a concoction that would render him infertile.

Shen Xinyu smiled faintly. "A sterilizing potion. I just invented it. Consider yourself lucky."

The woman's eyes sparkled, and she no longer acted meek and submissive.

Ji Yan felt his blood boil. The delicate orchid had turned out to be a thorny, poisonous vine. Nothing could excite him more.

"Mm, you should take that medicine. You're so delicate in bed. You'd never withstand the pain of childbirth."

Shen Xinyu: "..."

Maybe I should just kill him after all?

Theme: Study hard and live well