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 Cayena slowly opened her eyes.
 ‘I’m really back.’
 Lying on the bed, she thought about this chaotic situation.
 Cayena was the villainess of the novel, ‘The Lady of the Black Rose’.
 ‘That’s right, it’s a novel.’
 However, the situation was not as simple as that.
 In the novel, she acted as a proper villainess and, as befitting of such a role, was killed by her crazy husband.
 In her second life, she was born in the Republic of Korea. Of course, she didn’t remember her life as Cayena, but she had happened to read a novel called ‘The Lady of the Black Rose’. In that novel, Cayena was portrayed as a foolish and wicked character.
 Actually, most of the characters were like that. All characters except the heroine were socially powerful but insane.
 Rezef was a sociopath; Heinrich was mad with power; and Bayel—was he even human?
 Among them, Raphael, the male lead, seemed to be the most normal, but he also had some mental problems.
 ‘The novel was about how all the characters were influenced by the heroine.’
 The original heroine, Olivia, was a living stabilizer that filled the characters’ deficiencies.
 Cayena was driven by her jealousy and tried to poison Olivia.
 But even though she was the villainess, Cayena alone wasn’t evil enough to actually kill her.
 Rather, she was used like a marionette by her tyrannic younger brother.
 Rezef wanted to get control of Olivia, so he controlled Cayena to poison her.
 It seemed to be successful.
 But Bayel, the powerful magician and the owner of the Black Rose Garden, gave Olivia his power and revived her.
 That was why the title of the novel was ‘The Lady of the Black Rose’.
 Afterwards, the story predictably punished the wicked characters.
 However, as the reader, she wasn’t impressed by the narratives of the main characters.
 Rather, she was drawn to the life of the villainess, Cayena. The reason she was so concerned about her story, though, turned out to be because it was her previous life.
 ‘To think that I was the villainess of the novel.’
 For some reason, she had returned to Cayena’s life. More than that, it was also when she was only 19 years old, before she came of age.
 ‘I probably died, right?’
 She only knew the person who stabbed her by his face.
 She remembered that there was a scandal at the company—the man had been having an affair. He had to turn over the project he was working on because of that.
 ‘That’s already just a life gone by.’
 She may have lost many things, but it had been a wretched life.
 The woman had been competent. She was more than competent enough to be usable, and more than enough to pose a threat to others.
 Executive Director Kim had coaxed her to follow his commands and controlled her. It was just like Cayena’s life.
 ‘How did I return as Cayena?’
 She had been abandoned by Rezef and married—sold—to Viscount Gillian. Then, in the end, she was gruesomely murdered by her insane husband.
 Suddenly, she realized why she was in this condition.
 ‘This is when I drank the poison.’
 Not too long ago, she was at a banquet when she drank some alcohol and began spitting up blood. The Grand Hall had echoed with screams and cries.
 “Of all things…”
 Why did she have to return to this time, when her body was still sick?
 “Have you woken up?”
 The maid who was stationed in the room approached her.
 The maid wiped her face with a wet towel and arranged her hair, as if it was only natural to do so.
 It was bizarre. She had nearly died, but the state of her beauty was still more important.
 However, she only closed her eyes, having no power to stop the maid and no reason to do so.
 “I’ll begin wiping down your body.”
 Her ladies-in-waiting began to wash her body and change her into new clothes, and Cayena lost herself in her thoughts.
 Rezef was a terrible tyrant, a poor ruler, and as his older sister, Cayena matched him in her viciousness.
 They were not born good in the first place.
 He was cruel, impatient, and impudent. Cayena’s ruin was not knowing that he would be the same to her, too.
 Rezef, her younger brother.
 ‘You never thought of me as family.’
 Cayena had been thoroughly abandoned.
 “Bring me a mirror.”
 A lady-in-waiting lifted a large mirror and placed it in front of her.
 With her blue eyes, she looked at herself in the mirror and brushed the cheek of her reflection.
 ‘How terribly beautiful.’
 The novel had repeatedly described Cayena’s beauty to the point of exhaustion.
 Looking at herself, though, she thought that this sort of beauty was almost a talent.
 ‘But in the end, this beautiful form will only be used as the emperor’s doll.’
 This was the extent of Cayena’s current value.
 Motionless, she glanced at her lemon-colored hair in the mirror.
 ‘Will things be all right if I don’t live as a villainess in the future?’
 No. She was still a princess of the Empire.
 As long as her children were viable successors to the throne, she would be subject to constant check for the rest of her life.
 ‘Right now, I don’t have any power.’
 All she had was this terribly beautiful face.
 She knew that its value was no better than a rare white tiger.
 ‘Beauty is not true power.’
 That was the reality that Rezef had taught her.
 She had personally experienced how her power was merely a mirage, and it could be stripped from her any time he wished.
 ‘I’m glad that I at least came back to a point before it was too late.’
 Their father, the Emperor, was still alive. This meant that there was still a way to contain Rezef.
 ‘But there’s not much time left before Rezef takes the throne.’
 Cayena needed to find a place to escape Rezef.
 ‘The only way to achieve that is to get married.’
 Of course, she couldn’t marry someone like the insane Viscount Gillian.
 ‘How can I run away while deceiving Rezef’s eyes?’
 She didn’t want to live as a princess any more. Even so, she couldn’t run away without a plan.
 ‘Marriage…’
 Cayena, from the moment she opened her eyes, didn’t have the time to get angry or hesitate because of the situation.
 The palace was filled with schemes and tricks.
 She had returned to a poisoned body, and it had been like an alarm; her consciousness was immediately put on edge.
 ‘I need someone who will help me.’
 If she wanted to influence Rezef, she needed someone to move on her behalf.
 However, all the people around her were placed there by Rezef.
 Cayena’s eyes looked at all of her ladies-in-waiting, one after the other. They were all unimportant characters.
 Then, her gaze settled on one place. It was Vera, the senior lady-in-waiting.
 Cayena remembered that in the past, it was Vera who was in charge around here.
 Vera was also one of Rezef’s people. In other words, Cayena’s cute younger brother was controlling her even before she reached her age of majority.
 She knew that she was already in Rezef’s hands, a dancing marionette.
 ‘There isn’t anyone here that isn’t one of Rezef’s people, anyway.’
 She recalled how frequently Vera showed up in the novel.
 It could be useful to bring Vera over to her side.
 Cayena asked Vera where Rezef was. “What about Rezef?”
 “I believe that His Highness has been working since early in the morning to investigate your attempted assassination.”
 Vera looked at Cayena and added, “This is a major incident. I’ve heard that he has managed to narrow down the suspect list quite considerably. His Highness will never forgive the one who has harmed you.”
 Many eyes were following Prince Rezef, who was greatly angered that someone dared to poison the imperial family.
 “I see,” Cayena answered gravely.
 Vera handed over the wet towel and bucket to the maid next to her and glanced at the princess.
 Cayena leaned back on the cushion with a faraway stare and a bluish complexion.
 Her calm expression was very much unlike her usual self.
 ‘I had expected that she would hit me, at the least.’
 Cayena was not poisoned in her room, but rather at the party.
 However, considering Cayena’s personality, it had been likely that she would have still beat her innocent ladies-in-waiting, saying that they had not supported her.
 But Cayena did not cry out to summon Rezef to her or ask about what he was doing.
 ‘Was she that shocked?’
 Cayena didn’t look shocked or scared.
 It would be a little strange to say that she was acting this way because she was hurt, but Vera had no other way to explain the situation.
 Vera couldn’t help but feel that a storm was brewing.
 Her mind was filled with speculation.
 “Vera.”
 Cayena called out to Vera somewhat kindly.
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 Cayena, the Imperial Princess, was known as the most beautiful woman in the Empire. She was a woman who knew nothing but evil and luxury.
 However, she was destined for ruin: she would be used as a chess piece by her younger brother to secure his throne and killed by her crazy husband.
 “I’ll make you the Emperor.”
 “… Sister, are you referring to me?”
 “In exchange, give me freedom.”
 She had to change things before she became that Cayena.
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 Shake your fist, Miffy chick wants to forge ahead! 
 The end of the world? Beautiful boy? Catch up with a bad year, but have a good harvest. 
 There are many types of beautiful men, which one is my true love? 
 Or are all the beautiful men of all colors in the bag? 
 Oh, cover your face! All kinds of ambiguous, repeated flesh and blood, really not what I want! 
 It’s wrong to be beautiful and to show mercy everywhere! 
 It’s hardest to accept a beautiful boy!
 This article is NP, please do not enter.
 Author custom tags: strong women, past and present, portable space, one woman and many men, rebirth 
 Reader’s impression: NP (40), refreshment (8), nourishment (5)
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 Once I’ve become Immortal, then my attempt to conquer the world shall begin.
 I, Zhong Shan, in order establish a supreme heavenly dynasty, must marshal all the luck that I can gather to cleanse my own karma. Then I will have the strength to fight heaven itself, create a new world, and live forever.
 First: Fate
 Second: Luck
 Third: Feng Shui
 Four: Cultivate Inner Virtue.
 Five: Fame
 To gain eternal life.
 To obtain fame, one must establish a heavenly dynasty and amass the luck of the world!
 To cultivate inner virtue, one must establish holy sites and accumulate an immeasurable amount of merit!
 To cultivate Feng Shui one must learn to communicate between yin and yang and control the powers of heaven and earth!
 To cultivate luck! To cultivate fate!
 Ask the whole world, who can have eternal life!
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 Thirty years ago, Chu Xiaxing was a well-known and talented young female director.
 Thirty years later, Chu Xiaxing was still unmarried, temperamental, and hard-core an elderly woman.
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 She spent her life practicing her dream of being a director, received countless major awards, and left a big legacy in the history of filmmaking, but was alone in her final years, and even her funeral was organized by her niece.
 By chance, Chu Xiaxing had possessed the popular actress embroiled with scandal, Chu Xiaxin, who slit her wrists, and took over the bad life of the other person.
 ※ 
 On the set, the director repeatedly berated and made things difficult for Chu Xiaxin, who had joined the group at the expense of funding, accused the other party of poor acting skills, yet the director suffered a brazen rebuke.
 Chu Xiaxing: Nonsense, obviously it’ s you who cannot direct the scene.
 Director (sneer): If you can, why don’t you do it? You can be the director!
 Chu Xiaxing: Alright.
 Director: ???
 The scandal-troublesome actress Chu Xiaxin suddenly announced that she had changed her career to become a director, instantly shocking the entire world internet!What’s even more frightening is that …… she filmed pretty damn good? Actually crushed a bunch of veteran directors!
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 After she wakes up from being reborn, she becomes the little pitiful girl who is sent into a mental hospital by her biological elder brothers. Her biological elder brothers only dote on the fake young miss, the ‘younger sister’ who is switched at birth. She despises her in any possible way. So, Pei Yunge makes trouble and deals with the fake young miss, waiting for them to tell her to scram. However, the brothers’ attitudes are extremely strange. 
 President Qin sneers. “My younger sister destroyed a shop? Buy the entire mall for my younger sister to trash!” 
 Best Actor Qin raises an eyebrow. “She sent herself to the casting couch? What am I then, dead?” 
 God Qin’s expression is dark. “You repeatedly played tricks and bullied Ge’er. Did you think I was blind?” 
 Pei Yunge: “?” 
 #Scum brothers have days when they’re abnormal too# 
 … 
 After returning to eight years ago, before the Qin family goes bankrupt, the brothers only cares about their biological younger sister that died so terribly because of them. So what if she is talentless and stupid? She remains the apple of their eye, one they swear to protect and love! Just as the brothers take determined steps and find Pei Yunge… 
 “My Yunyun got first place in the world championship again. What a good girl.” The refined and dignified man smiles charmingly. 
 After her real identity is exposed, she is seethes with rage. She grabs the man and bites him. “Don’t even think about humoring me home.” 
 The three biological brothers: “?” 
 #What is with this strange development and wild man# 
 [Doted on by everyone + Identity Reveal] [An extremely cool and foxy boss and a President wolf in sheep’s clothing]
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 Ye Zhou, after graduating from college, mixed up with a small supervisor, and rarely did something good, but caught up with the car accident highlights. When he woke up, he returned to the countryside in the 1990s, surrounded by four walls and a house of superb relatives. Ye Zhou expressed tears running, who did he provoke?
 Pan Xiangdong, the prince of the Beijing crown prince, the commander of the special forces sharp knife unit, the youngest lieutenant colonel in the history of the Chinese nation, left the unit temporarily for a mistake in the mission, but encountered a pit cargo leaf boat when he visited the old man, and he went further on the road of his wife Farther away.
 “Well, you still owe me two hundred dollars …”
 Ye Zhou held a pot of orchids and looked helplessly at the old man in front of him.
 “What two hundred yuan? Go … Go east, drop off!”
 An old bandit grabbed a potted plant, turned around holding the beloved orchid, and Pan Xiangdong standing side by side pretended to be strict: “Please!”
 “Please buy a woolen yarn. Your family is fucking bandits?”
 Ye Qian, who hadn’t paid for a pot of orchids, decisively vented his unhappiness on Pan Xiangdong. Grandma, it was only after he had spent eight lives that he would mold with the bandit grandchildren.
 The space-time background of this article is purely fictitious. Please do not check with anyone in reality. !!
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 Shi Jin once read a book. It was supposed to be about satisfying the desire for vengeance.
 The main character, also named Shi Jin, was the sixth son of his harem-novel-protagonist-like father. All was well—while his father was alive. But after his death, Shi Jin’s five elder half-brothers tormented him, eventually leading to his death. The protagonist was reborn, determined to take revenge, and… the novel was discontinued.
 That day, Shi Jin almost spat blood and dropped the book into a shredder. The next day, he died in a car accident. Somehow, when he came to, he had transmigrated into a teenager, a youth also called Shi Jin.
 There was only one problem. His father had just died. His older brothers were about to torment him…
 Shi Jin: Let’s eliminate my brothers’ hatred, my goal is to keep my life!
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 He was the cold-blooded prince of the Jin country. Decisive and smart, he had looked down on the world with apathy and disdain.
 She was his Wang fei, a person who had saved him in the past, but even he wouldn’t look at her.
 When the fire raged and death claimed her, it was only then that she realized her existence was nothing but a joke from the beginning.
 She opened her eyes once more after spending two years as a roaming, vengeful ghost. In this lifetime, Ye Zhen promises that she will be a different person. With a slight smile, she will ruthlessly trample on those who had schemed against her and lied until her demise!
 Most importantly, she would let him experience the pain of an unrequited love; the bitterness of seeking something you cannot obtain!
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 The traitor Gu Mang returned to his home kingdom again. Everyone rejoiced in his banishment. It was said the one who hated him most was his closest friend – the cold and stoic Young Master Mo.
 A rumour: Young Master Mo prepared three hundred and sixty-five methods of torture to try on Gu Mang, enough to play with him for a year without repetition.
 But what’s the truth then?
 Well the truth is even more unspeakable–
 Mo Xi’s identity: the most abstinent commander of the empire.
 His relationship with the traitor Gu Mang: they’d slept together before.
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 Du Yun Xiu is a very gentle and kind person. He can throw away his chance to be successful in his career for a one-sided love that has no solution. He will stand up to a mafia boss for an actress he does not know.
 When the media exposes his se*ual orientation, to cover up for the other person, he does not utter a complaint, and he faces the discrimination all by himself, to the point it brings him down to the pitch of hell with no return.
 Even after he was dead, standing in front of his own grave, he still does not have any grudge against Xie Yi, he even takes Xie Yi as his motivation to urge himself to be more successful in his new life.
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 She was a 21st century’s forensic doctor. With her medical expertise, she uses her scalpels to save life and investigate the dead. Unfortunately, she transmigrated to the body of the unfavourable first daughter of Liu residence. At first sight, he looks handsome and charming; with his crotch erected underneath his half-naked body. She smiled and asked, “Have you been drugged, sir? A cure? One treatment costs two hundred taels.” He frowned dangerously as if to judge whether is she worth for him to give his body to her willingly. She quickly used her silver needles on seven acupuncture points and teasingly stared at his crotch. “Look, you calmed down immediately, aren’t I good?” The moment she finished her words, his member grew larger again. She got pinned down by this wretched prince, “I’ll give you four hundred taels, change another treatment method.” “F***!” She got unlucky, and that was how her son Liu XiaoLi got into her stomach.
 …… On a fateful day, Liu XiaoLi was refining his medicine-making skill. The little punk walked towards his mom……
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 This novel is also known as The Empire's Mr. Jun Is Playing The Villain Again 
 He is the sole heir to the Empire that can topple over the world, matchlessly noble and devilishly handsome. 
 She is Cinderella of the real world, abondoned by the groom at her wedding, mocked by her entourage. When she and her family were forced into a dead end, he swoops in to save her. 
 He said: “Marry me, I will pamper you, be a qualified husband and keep you safe”. 
 The second time he saves her, she said: “Mr Jun, I am willing. Will you still accept me?” 
 After her marriage, she takes revenge from her enemies. But he is distressed: “Are you hurt?” 
 She was spoilt beyond limits. Every night she was tossed left and right. She really felt like her waist would break. 
 “Mr. Jun, I want to rest” 
 Jun Mohan, as he unbuckles his belt, says: “Very good, we are going to sleep right away” 
 As the night passes, Feng Sujin felt like crying. She didn’t mean this type of sleeping. Jun Mohan softly says: “Don’t worry. Whatever you want, I can give it to you”
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 She became a surrogate mother in exchange for over a million yuan.
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 Six years later, he is still that arrogant and high-profile CEO. When she accidentally gets embroiled with him again – like a canary trapped in his cage, he closes in on her. “Woman, do you think you can escape from my clutches?!"
 However, he does not expect a little kid to interfere; the boy pompously points his little finger at him and warns, “Mu Yazhe, you’d better leave her alone! She's mine – this baby's woman!”
 The man is alarmed, simply because the little kid's facial features are identical to his...
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