Before her fiancé brought home the woman who had saved his life, Pei Yinshan fell into the water and had a dream.
She dreamed that her usually gentle, proper fiancé, who never overstepped his bounds, showed the woman who had saved him all kinds of concern, treating her with tender, flirtatious affection. He even planned to take her as a concubine before the wedding and told Pei Yinshan to behave herself.
When Pei Yinshan was so furious she fell gravely ill, her fiancé didn't come to see her. Instead, her sworn enemy, whose mouth never had a kind word to say, stormed in with bloodshot eyes and held her corpse as he died for love of her.
She had almost been fooled!
Pei Yinshan woke up in a cold sweat. She pretended to shed a couple of tears, then immediately dumped her fiancé, cursed out the shameless woman, and started treating her sworn enemy more kindly...
Oh, right. There was also the stable boy she'd stepped on in her dream. He had held a grudge and, after rising to power as a minister, had singled her out for revenge when she fell ill. Pei Yinshan deliberately went around to the back courtyard, fixed a cold smile on the stable boy she'd just picked up, and kicked him hard twice.
So what if she'd stepped on him? She'd do it again! This time, she would take back everything that belonged to her!
But why were things going differently from her dream?
Her fiancé, who had brought the woman home, seemed to have lost his mind. He was no longer the pure and proper man he had been. Even after she slapped him, he only stroked her hand, still wearing the mark of her palm on his face, and smiled as he drew close enough for their breaths to mingle.
Her sworn enemy, who was supposed to love her desperately, started avoiding her when she called him "big brother." He cursed at her in frustration, saying she was crazy, then slipped into her courtyard in the middle of the night, swallowing his anger as he warned her to quit while she was ahead and stop treating him like a dog.
And that woman who had saved her fiancé? She got scolded every day without saying a word. Then Pei Yinshan turned around and found the shameless woman had been taken away and made the new emperor. The first thing she did upon returning to the palace was arrange a marriage for the Pei family.
Pei Yinshan felt the sky come crashing down.
The night she trembled and tried to run away, someone in the dim alley clapped a hand over her mouth and nose. Before Pei Yinshan could pass out, voices from both sides grabbed hold of her at once: "Pei Yinshan" and "Shanshan, where are you going?"
A torch lit up every face.
Without a word, several faces turned toward Pei Yinshan, who had fallen in a disheveled heap and was still dazzling to behold. Their gazes were dark and inscrutable as they jostled to coax some sign of favoritism from her.
Pei Yinshan, we'll let your games slide. But tonight, who will you choose?
* Pei Yinshan, hurry up and say it! You only tried something new and fooled around outside, just a little detour. They're all just hotels; I'm your home, I'm your husband. Say it, hurry up and say it!
* Frail, short-tempered, foolish villainess x men who would gladly let her walk all over them
* Original blurb screenshot dated 2025.5.19
* Featuring a high concentration of intense rivalry and men fighting over the heroine
Message: Seize the chance to change.