The Lyrical Song of Lingran (Reborn)

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[Unhinged powerful minister × beautiful woman who breaks the deadlock] [Love and hate each other, marriage first and love later]

Blurb:

Song Qingzheng died on the eve of her divorce.

She did not die of illness or take her own life. Instead, she was caught up in the schemes of her hypocritical, heartless in-laws and pierced through the heart by an arrow.

Jiang Yu, the treacherous minister who held the court in his grip, smiled as he asked her before his execution, "Is it worth dying for someone so 'devoted'?"

She answered with her blood, dying with her eyes open.

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When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the moment when her birth charts had just been matched and her family was about to send her into the Marquis's residence, a den of tigers.

The relatives who had treated her as a pawn in her previous life still wanted to control her.

But she was no longer a pawn who obediently did as she was told.

Beneath the palace walls, she found Jiang Yu, still a young man then.

This future traitor had already staked everything he had.

As Prince Jin closed in, she made one move that brought the fatal game back to life.

"You made the wrong move."

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When her family sent her into the inner palace as a "study companion," she went willingly.

The Crown Prince fell for her, and the emperor took notice of her. Everyone thought this was the story of a lonely girl climbing to the top.

Only Jiang Yu trapped her in the shadows, his eyes filled with hatred. "Who gave you permission to use that face to tempt him?!"

He spread rumors with his own hands, ruining her path to marrying into the imperial family and destroying his own reputation as a loyal servant who protected the throne.

She saw the fear buried deep in his eyes and accepted the marriage contract.

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It was just a pawn, and a convenient alliance.

That was what Jiang Yu thought when he married her.

She was his ally, so of course he should protect her.

That was what he thought as he sheltered her from every storm.

But later, after their vengeance was complete, he and she withdrew to live in the countryside.

He never dared ask whether she regretted the game he had personally drawn her into.

#She is a pawn, and also the player who breaks the game herself#

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine is clear-headed; the hero is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Both are sexually inexperienced.

2. This is not a conventional power fantasy. The early plot focuses on household struggles, while the political schemes unfold in the middle. The ending is happy.

3. There is a small ensemble cast, and the protagonists are not perfect.

4. The setting is fictional. Please do not compare it to real history.

5. The romance and plot develop together. The political schemes serve the plot, and the plot serves the romance. There is both sweetness and angst.

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P.S. The blurb was revised on November 5, 2025.

Theme: My fate is mine to decide. I need no borrowed wind.