Reborn as the Paranoid Villain's Early-Dying Ex-Wife

[A gentle, healing older top with a maxed-out survival instinct x a cold, obsessive younger queen]. Next up: "I'm Done Being the Heroine of This Historical Romance." Qiao Yuexi worked herself to death from overtime. When she opened her eyes, she had transmigrated into an old-fashioned historical novel she'd read before, becoming the doomed ex-wife of the story's biggest villain. The villain, Sheng Wu, was born into a prestigious family and held a position beyond compare. But when her household fell overnight, she was rescued on the way to exile by her ex-wife. Her ex was a hypocrite. They had agreed to take what they each needed, but on their wedding night, she tried to forcefully mark Sheng Wu. When she failed, she turned on her. Thus began Sheng Wu's two-year nightmare. Driven to the brink, Sheng Wu turned completely evil. She spent two years lying low and earning her trust, then drugged her with a paralytic powder, cut her to pieces, and turned her into a human swine. She announced her death to the world, inherited her wife's title, and plotted her way to the highest ranks of power. That year, even the snow in the capital could not cover the heaps of white bones. When Qiao Yuexi arrived, the red hibiscus curtains swayed around the wedding bed, and the candlelight illuminated the villain's peerlessly gorgeous face. Her mother-in-law had forced her to take a drug because she refused to consummate the marriage. Bracing herself against the bed, blood at her lips even brighter than her lipstick, Sheng Wu stared at Qiao Yuexi with a chilling voice. "Come closer." Qiao Yuexi, with her survival instinct at full throttle, dropped to her knees before her and grabbed her hand, eyes brimming with tears. "My beloved wife, let me cure your poison!" ** Sheng Wu had suffered her entire previous life. Her whole family was falsely accused and sent into exile. A fallen noblewoman with despicable methods became her wife and tormented her without end, doing everything she could to drain her of any value. Sheng Wu endured it all, destroyed her enemies, and fought her way into the imperial court to clear her family's name, only to learn that her mother's family had died on the road to exile. With no heart left, Sheng Wu turned the capital upside down. People called her cruel and tyrannical, and her hands were stained with countless lives. In the end, the righteous hero and heroine captured her, and she died alone. When she awoke, she planned to pretend to cooperate, avoid provoking her wife, and make a new plan later. But that vicious, wicked woman gently wiped the blood from Sheng Wu's lips, then used a handkerchief to dry her tears and softly said: "There, don't be afraid. No one will ever bully you again." Sheng Wu knew Qiao Yuexi had a pretty face but no brains, and was cruel by nature. She coldly watched her put on an act. But when her mother-in-law bullied and beat her, Qiao Yuexi lashed back on her behalf. Before long, she had moved them out of the family home. When their enemies watched them like hungry wolves, Qiao Yuexi opened a clinic to earn money, upheld the empty title, and even treated Sheng Wu's swollen, red hands in winter. When Sheng Wu had a high fever and pursuers closed in, Qiao Yuexi stayed by her side, carried her for miles, took up a weapon, and faced life and death with her. With Qiao Yuexi's help, Sheng Wu cleared her family's name early, saved her mother's relatives, and ascended the throne to become an empress. As Qiao Yuexi watched the plot veer further and further off course, she realized that the one turned into a human swine in this life was actually the male lead, whom the villain had originally loved! Afraid of meeting an early death, Qiao Yuexi quietly packed up and ran away when Sheng Wu was enthroned. That day, the Imperial Guards searched every inch of the city and finally brought Qiao Yuexi back, quelling the empress's towering fury. That night, the beautiful woman with black hair and red lips nestled in her arms in the bath. Her eyes shimmered, her expression unreadable. Only when the corners of her eyes turned damp and red did her voice begin to tremble, but even then she clung tightly to Qiao Yuexi. Qiao Yuexi was the road Sheng Wu traveled to return home, the stars above her head, and an unfailing light. [Qianyuan = Alpha, Kunze = Omega, Zhongyong = Beta. This story has ABO elements, but no pregnancy or children in the main story.] Next up: "I'm Done Being the Heroine of This Historical Romance." [Gentle, obsessive, and scheming princess vs. a dramatic, delicate, and flirtatious legitimate daughter. A character awakens vs. transmigration into a book.] Ji Lanyin had drifted through eighteen years of life in a daze. While dozing at the Hundred Flowers Banquet, she suddenly learned in a dream that she was supposedly the heroine of an "angst-filled romance." In half a cup of tea's time, she would accidentally slip into a pond in her own princess residence and be rescued by Gu Xuan, the heir to Prince Wuan, whom she had admired since childhood. They would be forced into an engagement. After their marriage, Gu Xuan would bring a concubine into the household. At her instigation, he would beat and insult Ji Lanyin at every turn, make her kneel in the snow, and even cut flesh from her body and drain her blood to cure the concubine when she fell ill. In the end, Ji Lanyin would waste away and fake her death. After her "death," Gu Xuan would regret everything and show himself to be deeply in love. When he later discovered where she had fled, he would travel thousands of miles to confess his feelings, and she would lower her guard and reconcile with him. A strange voice by her ear shouted, "Follow the script and get a happy ending with him! Follow the script and get a happy ending with him!" Ji Lanyin didn't believe it. She pretended to slip, and the next moment, the neglected legitimate daughter of the Xie family leaped after her as if possessed. When Ji Lanyin struggled to breathe, the girl pressed her lips to hers. Ji Lanyin: "???" * Ji Lanyin didn't like Xie Ling'an. She didn't like her misty eyes, her willowy, fragile manner, or the way she sweetly called her "big sister." Xie Ling'an was the "flirtatious schemer" from the dream, the concubine who loved to sow discord and wanted to drink Ji Lanyin's heart's blood. While admiring plum blossoms in the snow, Gu Xuan tried to drape his cloak over her, but Xie Ling'an got it dirty. The young woman gazed at Ji Lanyin with anxious, dewy eyes, yet still held her cold fingertips and breathed warm air over them to warm them up. At a crab feast in the palace, Xie Ling'an squeezed between Ji Lanyin and Gu Xuan as they chatted, then raised her little face and offered her peeled, snowy-white crab meat. "This lowly subject is useless and can only do little things. I would never let this food dirty the princess's hands." With her father suppressing her and her mother making things difficult, Ji Lanyin felt low. In the dead of night, Xie Ling'an even dared to climb into her bed, run her fingers through Ji Lanyin's hair, sing to her, and ease her worries. Ji Lanyin: "This is what they call a flirtatious schemer?" Such a good thing should belong to her. * "My Heart Is Secret" is a historical angst romance. Its heroine, Ji Lanyin, has the title of princess but is foolishly lovesick. Because of a marriage contract, she is wed to the male lead, and from then on suffers both emotional and physical abuse. The male lead's beloved is a scheming flirt. She resents the heroine for taking the principal wife's place, leaving her to enter the household as a concubine. She incites the male lead to abuse the heroine for over a hundred chapters, then fakes an illness to make him cut flesh from the heroine and drain her blood. After the heroine fakes her death, the male lead goes through a series of regretful gestures and wins her back. The two of them torment the female antagonist to death. The whole thing is dripping with melodramatic, formulaic tropes. Xie Ling'an finished reading the story and cursed it out loud. When she woke up the next day, she had transmigrated into the role of the flirtatious female antagonist. Xie Ling'an: "..." It's fine. I know how to play a flirtatious schemer. She sabotaged the leads' dates, threw a tantrum whenever they met, and after a series of moves, finally severed their romance until not a shred remained. Xie Ling'an packed her things and prepared to flee in the middle of the night. That night, Princess Lanyin leaned against a couch with one shoulder bare. Her warm breath brushed past Xie Ling'an's ear. "Ling'an is so good at climbing into my bed. Why are you crying tonight?" #How did the heroine of a romance end up liking women? Is there no justice? # #I played the flirt, but the one I flirted with was the heroine. # Theme: Trust is mutual. Sincerity deserves sincerity.