My Mother Is the Villain’s Beloved, and I’m Reborn to Help Her Find a Better Match!

[Reunion after years apart + rekindled love + devoted hero, flawed heroine + mostly sweet, with a little angst]

The great upheaval had only just ended. Chen Zhaozhao, whose father had died when she was young, traveled to the capital with her mother to seek out relatives.

After a bout of high fever, Chen Zhaozhao fell into a dream. She saw her mother being violated by bandits in the future, then dying in despair.

Though adopted by someone else, she grew twisted and ill-tempered after losing both parents. Arrogant and unruly, she eventually provoked the wrath of the people and died horribly in the wilderness.

When Chen Zhaozhao woke, she realized she was nothing but a vicious supporting female character in a storybook, whose only purpose was to sabotage the romance between the hero and heroine.

Determined to prevent her mother and herself from dying horribly, she scrambled to seek help from the story's great villain, the Prince of Zhenbei.

But who could have imagined that her mother was the woman the Prince of Zhenbei had loved for years?

And so Chen Zhaozhao gained a powerful stepfather who could turn the world upside down, a highly skilled and fiercely protective elder brother, and a brilliant uncle who hid a razor-sharp mind behind his smile.

Duan Qingmo lost her mother at birth, her father in her youth, and her husband after just five years of marriage. Widowed and alone, her daughter was the only reason she kept living.

Just as the rebellion across the land had finally been put down, people began coveting her. Her family fortune was wiped out, and she had no choice but to take her daughter to the capital to seek relatives.

But on the way, she met the old love she had once cruelly abandoned.

And that man had since become the all-powerful Prince of Zhenbei…