Ying Xu was born with an ethereal, otherworldly beauty—so exquisite it seemed untouched by the mortal world.
Yet her personality was completely mismatched with that immortal-looking face: greedy for wealth and status, vain, arrogant, and willful.
When they were young, Xie Jingchen had been closest to her. They grew up together as childhood sweethearts, innocent and inseparable. In the eyes of everyone in Jinling City, Ying Xu and Xie Jingchen were a golden couple, a match made in heaven.
No one expected that when Xie Jingchen went overnight from being the emperor’s most favored prince to becoming the King of Mobei—exiled to the barbarous wastelands of the northwest—Ying Xu would immediately turn cold and deny knowing him. Without the slightest hesitation or lingering attachment, she turned around and threw herself into the arms of the newly established crown prince.
Later, when hypocritical “good sisters” asked whether she truly felt no longing at all for Xie Jingchen, the radiant and beautiful young woman merely laughed lightly and said, as if it were only natural,
“He’s so useless—why would I like him? ”
At the end of her first year as empress, Ying Xu suddenly became bound to something calling itself a Cannon Fodder Counterattack System. A flat, mechanical voice droned endlessly in her mind:
【You are actually a character in a book. The male lead is your emperor husband, while the female lead is a lowly palace maid. As for you, you are the domineering, spoiled, imperious, troublemaking, vicious female supporting character. Relying on your status as the male lead’s lawful wife, you repeatedly harm the female lead, eventually earning the emperor’s disgust. You are deposed as empress and die miserably in the Cold Palace, your bones never even recovered.】
Ying Xu: ?
Upon hearing that the emperor dared to be unfaithful to her, Ying Xu was instantly consumed by rage. Just as she angrily ordered people to drag that little palace maid out—and as the emperor rushed over to protect his beloved—the palace was suddenly thrown into chaos.
—The King of Mobei, who had been exiled by the late emperor to the desolate northwest, raised an army and attacked back to Jinling City, intent on forcing the palace and seizing the throne.
Snow fell as a handsome young man in light armor, his body drenched in blood, strode calmly into Weiyang Palace, where both the emperor and empress were present. The murderous aura clinging to him terrified everyone in the hall; all feared that this cold-blooded King of Hell, who had slaughtered his way into the palace, would take their lives with the still-dripping blade in his hand.
Everyone—except the empress seated upon the throne, whose face was peerlessly beautiful.
Upon seeing Xie Jingchen, Ying Xu—usually so troublesome that people secretly cursed her as unbearably difficult—seemed even more petulant than usual. She commanded,
“Xie Jingchen, that pair of dogs bullied me. Kill them for me.”
That single sentence made the entire hall of palace attendants drop to their knees. Yet the once-wild youth who had entered with frost and snow could not help but smile. He knelt on one knee before her and responded gently in a low voice,
“All right. I’ll help Ah Xu vent her anger.”
Anyone who had ever insulted her or displeased her—he would let not a single one escape.
In her previous life, after Ying Xu decided to marry the new crown prince, Xie Jingchen went far away to the northwest. Believing that respecting her choice meant she would live well, he left without protest.
Five years later, however, he received news of Ying Xu’s death. The girl he cherished above all else—the one he worried might hurt her hand even when striking someone—had died in the second year after her marriage. And her husband, while her body was still cold, had already installed a new empress, with the entire nation celebrating.
After spending two days piecing together the truth behind Ying Xu’s death, Xie Jingchen did not hesitate. He raised his army and fought his way back to Jinling City. In the end, after personally killing the enemy who caused her death, he took his own life.
Yet unexpectedly, he opened his eyes again—having returned to two years earlier.
Back to… the moment when the woman who would kill Ying Xu had just appeared beside the emperor, and when the girl he loved was still alive and vibrant.
Thus, just like in his previous life, without the slightest hesitation, Xie Jingchen chose the same path once more: raising troops, attacking the capital, committing rebellion, and seizing the throne.
—Given a second chance, he would never again allow anyone the opportunity to harm Ying Xu.
A spoiled but never weak, always fiercely proud beauty × a loyal “guard dog” who remains unwaveringly devoted even after being abandoned by his master
[Highlight:] The female lead is not chaste; the male lead is chaste.
Content Tags: Perfect Match, Sweet Romance, Transmigration into a Book, Feel-Good Novel
Search Keywords: Protagonists: Ying Xu, Xie Jingchen | Supporting Characters: — | Others: —
