Please add my upcoming novel, After Giving Up on Saving the Villain [Both Reborn], to your collection! Its blurb follows this novel’s synopsis, with a direct link in the announcement below.
[Marriage first, love later; redemption story]
[Unknowingly flirtatious, sunny girl × Scheming, deranged, hopelessly lovestruck man]
There’s an old saying: don’t get involved in other people’s business. Clearly, Si Yanmo never listened.
In her previous life, she was falsely accused of being a witch and died. After finally being reborn, she was even given a golden finger for making money: fortune-telling.
But she just had to go and divine a death omen for Prince Qin, Zhou Yanqing, the unlucky man who brought disaster wherever he went. Now the Devil himself was after her.
The man even brought a marriage contract before the emperor and asked to marry her.
Si Yanmo: Is he really trying to marry me? He’s trying to kill me to silence me!
And in the scheming way where he gives me a title so he can kill me without a hitch!
So after their wedding, she put her silver tongue to work and talked him into getting her a job in the “system.”
Si Yanmo was convinced that if she worked hard and climbed high enough, his knife wouldn’t be able to reach her!
But on the very day they’d agreed to divorce,
he stopped her as she tried to run away with her bags packed, his eyes bloodshot and his voice trembling:
“Don’t go.”
“Don’t you like puppies? I can be one, too.”
???
When did I turn the Calamity Star into a puppy?
Zhou Yanqing was abandoned by his father as a child, and his mother didn’t love him either. The only person who treated him well, his master, died because of him.
He became Prince Qin, feared by everyone, a god of slaughter in the eyes of the world, weighed down by terrible sins.
At night, he would dream of his master, who would say to his younger self:
“The Goddess is benevolent. She will surely lead you out of this sea of suffering...”
But those words never came true.
Until the day he became a rebel, trying to overthrow a tyrannical regime beneath the city gates.
Blood seeped from the wounds on his body, and his vision was blurred.
Then the sound of silver bells came from the crowd, like the bells from the opera he’d heard as a child, announcing the Goddess’s entrance.
Zhou Yanqing looked up. There was no Goddess there,
only a blue-green figure riding toward him, sweeping aside the spears that came crashing down.
“Master, my sins are too great. The gods won’t save me, but my wife will...”
Bonus scene:
When Si Yanmo climbed what she thought was the peak of her career, becoming Prince Qin’s diviner,
she realized that even more people wanted to kill her.
“I thought I was supposed to get the ‘everyone adores me’ storyline!”
Waaah, it’s too high up here.
I’d better climb back down. Then only one person will want to kill me!
Reader’s guide:
1. Both leads are each other’s first and only, one-on-one romance, happy ending.
2. The romance and plot are evenly split. More plot early on, then lots of sweetness later (especially after Chapter 33).
3. Set in an imaginary world created by the author, loosely inspired by the Shang and Zhou periods (but mostly made up).
The relationship between the countries can be compared to that between the Zhou king and the feudal states.
4. Includes supporting characters in BL and GL relationships. Please don’t read if that bothers you. They won’t be interested in the main couple, and only appear in a few minor side plots.
Upcoming novel:
[Sunny girl who is laid-back but resilient and proud × Sickly, impossibly cool, deranged, hopelessly lovestruck man]
The peaceful life Song Zhimiao had long sought was shattered after she picked up that villainous demon god.
She gave him her whole heart, searched for herbs for him, and broke the curse on his heart. In return, on their wedding day, he offered up her spiritual bones as a sacrifice to resurrect the Goddess.
As her soul tore apart, she looked at him through the Goddess’s body.
He wore his wedding clothes, his expression indifferent, deaf to her pleas.
And the artifact used to exchange their souls was one she had forged together with him.
When she opened her eyes again, Song Zhimiao was back on the day she saved him.
Something calling itself the “Villain Self-Rescue System” came to her, and she learned that she was merely a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a wish-fulfillment novel. Because of her extraordinary bones, she was destined to become a vessel for resurrecting the Goddess.
And her husband, in that novel, was one of the Goddess’s admirers.
Song Zhimiao looked at the injured man before her, the same cold detachment as his reflected in her eyes.
A man like that? She didn’t want him!
After being reborn, Song Zhimiao had only one goal: protect her peaceful life.
With help from the System, she broke the contract, removed her spiritual bones, and destroyed the artifact, hoping to have nothing more to do with gods or demons.
But Shi Lian began acting strangely.
The coldhearted man from her previous life now stubbornly followed her around. He cooked for her, took a knife for her, and stayed up all night watching over her with bloodshot eyes when she was hurt, asking whether she was in pain...
Song Zhimiao only found it ridiculous. What was he doing, pretending to be devoted?
She wasn’t the fool she had been in her previous life anymore.
Until the scene played out again:
The altar, the Goddess, the exact same setting.
She was bound in place by an invisible force, watching the cultivators slowly approach her.
She closed her eyes.
Of course this life wouldn’t be any different.
But then she heard flesh being pierced.
When she opened her eyes, the tip of a sword was protruding from the Goddess’s chest.
And Shi Lian was holding the hilt...
He staggered and fell to his knees before her, his face deathly pale, blood seeping from the corner of his mouth. He carefully reached out, as though afraid of shattering something, and caressed her cheek.
“Miaomiao,” he said, his voice so hoarse it nearly broke. “This time, I won’t let anyone hurt you.”
“Not even me.”
[Male lead’s perspective]
The first thing Shi Lian did after being reborn was track down the person scheming behind the scenes and cut them into a thousand pieces.
The second was to make by hand the wedding dress his wife had spent half a month embroidering day and night in her previous life, imagining what she would look like wearing it again.
He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes. Looking at his beloved soaking up the sun with a kitten in the courtyard, he stepped outside and tucked a golden hairpin into her bun.
“My dear, let’s go to the market later and pick out things for the wedding...”
Reader’s guide:
* One-on-one romance, both leads are each other’s first and only, happy ending.
* The male lead is not a scumbag. The main couple had a misunderstanding in their previous life. A bittersweet, everyday story about rekindling a relationship.
Theme: Reject superstition and believe in science
"Zhou Yanqing's itinerary to the Qin Dynasty" gave the author a big clue~ Back.
"At this Lantern Festival Palace Banquet, she is going to sit..." This is a big bug for the author~ She's going to do it.
[Glasses] Isn't the baby my sister gave birth to a girl? Why did you become a boy?