The Survivalist Couple Turned the Capital Upside Down Again Today

[Please add my new novel, After Becoming the Cold Regent's Savior, to your reading list!]

Zhao Jin transmigrates into the body of the legitimate daughter of the Dingyuan Marquis's household.

The good news: she's the real daughter, her family is loving, and there's no fake daughter causing trouble.

The bad news: the moment she opens her eyes, she's at the scene of her family's massacre, and her enemy is there to finish her off.

Then she is reborn. She thinks that after keeping her whole family out of trouble for eighteen years and avoiding the date of their massacre in her previous life, she can finally relax. But then fate takes a turn at a palace banquet.

An imperial decree of marriage lands on her, and she has to raise a child as ordered.

And the man she's supposed to marry is her sworn enemy!

Everyone says that Xue Shuo, the Idle Prince's son, is the capital's number-one hooligan. He had every chance to rise to the top, but somehow managed to squander every advantage.

If he and the capital's most notorious villainess have to live under the same roof, one of them will surely end up dead or wounded.

The whole capital disapproves of this match, including the two people involved.

On their wedding night, they stare at the nuptial wine in their hands.

Zhao Jin: Trying to poison me? I'll send you, you short-lived wretch, to the afterlife first!

Xue Shuo: What a vicious woman. Let's see who comes out on top!

They are ready to take each other on, but their plans are thrown off by a five-year-old young princess.

Whenever they try to trip each other up,

the little princess pleads, "Other people's daddies and mommies sleep beside their babies. Can we all sleep together too?"

The little princess: "Other people's daddies and mommies cuddle, too."

Zhao Jin: No!

Xue Shuo: Don't even think about it!

The little princess's eyes fill with tears.

The two dare not disobey the imperial decree, so they grit their teeth, hug each other, and force out hostile smiles.

The whole capital feels sorry for the little princess, who ended up with such unreliable parents.

Little do they know,

Zhao Jin is a mastermind. She acts like a villainess, but secretly leads her family to make a fortune without drawing attention.

Xue Shuo acts like a spoiled wastrel, but secretly builds the strongest force in the land.

As they spend time together, they discover that everything the other had done was to stay alive, and that they have the same enemy.

They go from trying to expose each other, to covering for one another, to fighting back side by side, turning the whole capital upside down with perfect teamwork.

The little matchmaker beams with satisfaction as she watches her father cling to her mother. Her mother looks disgusted, but doesn't push him away. The little princess sighs:

"The parents I picked are the best in the world! They're perfect for each other!"

[Reader's Guide]

1. The setting is entirely fictional, with plenty of creative liberties.

2. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending.

The blurb has been screenshotted.

Below is the blurb for After Becoming the Cold Regent's Savior:

Jiang Zhiqiao transmigrates as an orphan raised in her maternal family's home.

Her fiancé may not have long to live, but she doesn't mind. Being a nominal heir's wife with no real responsibilities sounds fine, as long as she has food and clothes for the rest of her life. She also makes backup plans, keeping a low profile and a mysterious air while quietly making money.

At a palace banquet on the eve of her wedding, the emperor inexplicably makes her a county lady, and the empress dowager gifts her a thousand taels of gold.

She hasn't done a thing, yet riches are falling from the sky?

Life in ancient times isn't so bad after all.

She never imagined she would have anything to do with the all-powerful Regent.

Until he steals her bridal sedan on her wedding day.

Jiang Zhiqiao has seen him kill people without batting an eye, his blade rising and falling without mercy.

She spends every day on edge, until one dark and windy night she climbs over the wall to escape, only to run right into him.

She glances at the bloodied head on the ground, and tears stream down her face uncontrollably.

"I won't dare do it again..."

He doesn't do anything to her. From then on, though, he keeps her right under his nose, watching her every moment...

This Regent is graceful and striking, slim when dressed and all abs when undressed, but cold and strange in temperament. He provides her with the best food and clothes and grants her every request, but refuses to share her bed. He even asks whether she wants the new top scholar, the man the Grand Princess herself couldn't have.

Jiang Zhiqiao: I thought I was your princess consort?

Chu Jingrong: You don't have to be.

Jiang Zhiqiao: ???

She racks her brains, but can't figure out what on earth this man is after.

Chu Jingrong has never forgotten the coldest winter many years ago, when he was starving to death and a little girl gave him a steaming bowl of noodles.

Now he has won countless military honors, made his name across the land, and become the Regent who assists the new emperor.

When he learns that his savior's life isn't going as she wished, of course he must repay her kindness.

He will personally change her fate and ensure she enjoys a life of wealth and honor.

He gets her status through the emperor, gives her wealth through the empress dowager, and sends worthy men her way.

Later, he changes his mind about that last part.

Theme: Love life, live toward the light, and create happiness with your own hands