Being the Madam’s Dog

[Unconventional rebirth | Two deranged leads, older sister and younger man | One woman, two men, and a love-triangle showdown]

Zhou Chenye, the Grand Tutor's legitimate grandson, is obsessive, cold-blooded, gloomy, and unwell. Every woman in the city fears him.

Only Li Rong is possessed by a strange fixation.

Every time she sleeps with her husband, she falls into a ridiculous dream involving Zhou Chenye.

He must be so strikingly handsome that he has bewitched her.

Li Rong tries every way she can think of to calm her mind and cool her passions, but she still can't escape the bizarre situation of being entangled with two men one after the other.

Luckily, she's excellent at pretending. No matter how wild her dreams are, she wakes up calm and collected, carrying on with her daily routine as usual.

Even when she runs into Zhou Chenye, she acts as if her heart is as still as water, not even sparing him a proper glance.

Until Zhou Chenye starts visiting her residence again and again, and even traps her in a corner. "Madam, you left something at my house."

Calmly, he raises his hand. In his broad palm lies a woman's undergarment.

It's the very one she wore last night! Wasn't it all a dream?

Li Rong is briefly flustered, but quickly regains her composure. "Silence! How can you be sure this belongs to me?"

Zhou Chenye presses closer, whispering in her ear: "Next time you come into my dreams, you don't have to wear this."

Li Rong is utterly confused. She has never sleepwalked, and can't figure out what's going on. But things only grow stranger.

One day, she wakes from a dream to find her husband sitting at her bedside, coldly staring at her clothes. "I never wear black. A Rong, whose men's nightclothes are you wearing?"

Li Rong looks down and breaks into a cold sweat.

Her home... no, her own body has started bearing Zhou Chenye's things too!

No, she absolutely won't allow her life to change.

If these extra complications have become a threat, then she'll just have to cut them out completely.

When she dreams again, she plunges a dagger into Zhou Chenye's chest without so much as blinking.

Blood spills from his chest, but Zhou Chenye actually smiles. "You only drop your guard with me. How is that not a sign of favoritism?"

[Reader's Guide]

- A calm madwoman heroine vs. a possessive, deranged lover on the side and a seemingly gentle but dark-hearted husband

- The heroine isn't delicate. She can go mad and fight back. She appears patient but is actually ruthless, and slaps people at the slightest provocation. She truly deserves the title of Princess of Palm-Strikes.

- Both leads are deranged. Without the heroine, the male lead's breathing would be meaningless.

- The female lead and all the male leads are sexually inexperienced.

- Plenty of chapters in the bank. It will never go on hiatus or be abandoned.

- Blurb written on August 7, 2025

Coming soon from the same author's page: Her and the Two Brothers (title may change). It's delicious, come take it home! Here's the blurb:

Luo Baiyu is the most favored yin-yang diviner at the Imperial Bureau of Astronomy. She's forthright, literate, and skilled in combat, but her fate is extraordinary: two stars, one auspicious and one baleful, govern her destiny. Her life will bring either great joy or great sorrow.

After she comes of age, her master casts a divination and tells her to find two people herself.

One is her destined partner, who has the power to save the fate of the dynasty.

The other is her destined nemesis, who will pierce her heart with an arrow.

But the Imperial Bureau of Astronomy can only determine who they are, not which fate belongs to which person.

With a blade on her back, she ventures into the world and finally finds the two people her master predicted amid the vast sea of humanity:

A pair of young, handsome twins.

The elder brother, Xu Xingzhou, becomes a bandit and rules the mountain, a notorious robber chief who strikes terror into people's hearts.

The younger brother, Xu Lilan, is refined and successful, a promising young investigating censor in the dynasty.

Apart from their differing temperaments, they look almost exactly alike. The only difference is a small mole on the younger brother's left earlobe.

This makes things easy.

A bandit and a court official: it's obvious which one is evil and which is good.

Following her master's instructions, Luo Baiyu agrees to marry Xu Lilan, then secretly heads up the mountain with her greatsword.

She's going to kill her nemesis with her own hands.

But although Xu Xingzhou is irreverent in word and deed, he's very perceptive and not easy to deal with.

Luo Baiyu spends half a year sparring with him before finally bringing down his bandit stronghold.

The mountain wind is especially cold that night. She sheathes her blade, erects a grave marker for him with her own hands, then turns around and heads down the mountain to marry Xu Lilan.

In the middle of their wedding night, she vaguely feels that the mole on her husband's earlobe is gone, and his manner shifts between gentle and domineering.

Full of doubts, she goes up the mountain the next day and digs up Xu Xingzhou's grave.

Sure enough, beneath the lonely grave and the packed earth, only an empty coffin remains...

Reader's Guide:

1. Both brothers are male leads, and all parties are sexually inexperienced. The heroine later has two partners.

2. A forthright, brave woman with a blade on her back x identical twins who keep switching identities.

3. No fantasy powers. The heroine's master knows divination.

4. The plot and romance are about evenly split. The male leads' names may change.

Theme: Be true to yourself.