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A poor scholar, Xu Ke, carrying a modern soul, travels through time and space. With five thousand taels of silver as betrothal gifts, he marries Yingchun, a concubine-born daughter of the Jia family. On the journey back from the wedding, the county magistrate’s deputy makes trouble, and disgruntled commoners block the road crying out for justice. Xu Ke publicly settles the case, and with just a few words exposes the false accusation. Everything begins with this first challenge from the county magistrate’s deputy on the way back from the wedding procession.

In the future, death is forbidden. Everyone can be revived through a spell known as “Resurrection.”

—And then I died.

For reasons unknown, I was brought back to life with Resurrection inside a mysterious prison. The prison was filled with every kind of torture device imaginable. Every day, I was tortured to death by those instruments, only to be revived again and forced to endure the torment all over again.

And I was not the only one.

The prison held countless others just like me. Some of them had already suffered there for thousands of years. We could neither live nor die in peace, forever denied rest.

…I have to find a way to escape.

Female-to-male transmigration, marriage plot, 1v1 romance. The editor only allowed it in the BG (boy-girl) category. Not great at writing plot—only good at writing improper things and niche preferences. If you're not the target audience, please don’t click! Xiao Huaijin transmigrated overnight and became the illegitimate son of a Duke’s household—a man this time. His father did not love him, and he had no mother to rely on. Yet he had high standards and fell for Pei Jingyuan, the breathtakingly beautiful and elegant daughter of the Assistant Minister of Personnel—a woman who was originally engaged to his legitimate elder brother. Fortunately for him, luck was on his side. Three days before the wedding, his elder brother died, and he was “left with no choice” but to take his place and marry her. He always knew that Pei Jingyuan still held feelings for his deceased brother in her heart, but it didn’t matter. As long as she stayed by his side, whether or not she gave him her heart was irrelevant. When Pei Jingyuan learned that her fiancé had died, yet she still had to marry into the Xiao family, her heart turned to ashes. But only after marrying Xiao Huaijin did she come to understand what true love really was. Xiao Huaijin whispered softly by her ear: “If you truly find me unbearable, you may think of me as him instead.” Pei Jingyuan: “…”

Qin Zheng, a modern infrastructure engineer, transmigrates into the body of a Crown Princess. However, instead of a life of luxury or palace intrigue, she wakes up to a collapsing empire. As the enemy breaches the gates, a eunuch hands her a length of white silk, advising her to "die with dignity." To buy time and avoid forced suicide, Qin Zheng rushes to the bedside of her dying husband, the Crown Prince, and puts on an Oscar-worthy performance of a grieving wife. Chu Chengji, the legendary founding emperor of the Great Chu Dynasty, was a man who spent his life on the battlefield and died young without an heir. Upon opening his eyes, he finds himself reincarnated into the body of his own descendant—a useless Crown Prince presiding over the fall of the empire he built. Furious that his descendants squandered his legacy, he decides to rebuild his kingdom from scratch. As for the "fragile" wife weeping at his bedside? He is unimpressed: “Women will only slow down the speed of my restoration!” The Founding Emperor spends every night knocking on the Empress’s door: "Zheng'er, can I come back to the room to sleep now?" When military funds run dry, the Crown Prince turns around and loots his own ancestral tombs. He hands the funeral treasures to his wife to fund the army, leaving Qin Zheng wondering: Is my husband’s brain broken, or is he just a tactical genius? Wen Yu, the most celebrated noble beauty of the capital, sees her world shatter when her family falls and her country collapses. While fleeing to seek help from her fiancé, she is forced into the company of a crude "thug" named Xiao Li. Born in a brothel and infamous for his violence, Xiao Li is everything the refined Wen Yu despises. Despite their mutual hatred, Xiao Li carries her on his back through a rainy night with broken bones, risking his life to escort her six hundred miles to safety. On the eve of her wedding to another man, he breaks into her room, soaked by rain, and begs: "Don't marry that Prince. I will restore the Liang Kingdom for you. I will avenge your clan." Wen Yu’s response is cold and pragmatic: "I want soldiers and power. Do you have them?" Years later, a new power—Northern Wei—sweeps through the central plains. The Prince who Wen Yu married surrenders and offers her as a gift to the Wei Emperor. The man who dismounts from the horse is none other than Xiao Li. He uses a blood-stained sword to lift her chin and asks chillingly: "Wen Yu, what kind of trash did you end up marrying?" The world thinks he hates her, but behind closed doors, he is a trapped beast. Even after chaining her with gold, he presses his forehead against hers with a fragile, desperate look: "I have the soldiers now. I have the power. Will you marry me?"

Jiang Zhiwan had never been the “good child” in Pei Jinghuai’s eyes. Although Pei Jinghuai indulged her occasional willfulness, allowed her to linger in his study late at night, and pitied the flashes of vulnerability in her eyes, every night after he fell asleep, the girl who timidly called him “Uncle Pei” during the day would quietly sneak into his room and curl up in his arms with devotion. Sometimes, she would do things even more daring. Jiang Zhiwan pressed her face against his chest, the corners of her lips curving into a satisfied yet obsessive smile. Until faint red marks appeared on her neck, until she softly announced that she wanted to move out, using the most innocent tone to stab at his deepest hidden pain. “Uncle, you’re getting old.” His usual composure finally shattered. In a burst of anger, Pei Jinghuai crossed the greatest line of his life, pulling the twenty-year-old girl onto his lap and punishing her with strikes from his palm, each one carrying complicated emotions. The sharp sounds echoed through the room, mixed with her restrained gasps and his heated breathing. At that moment, something between them completely collapsed. That night, when her soft body pressed close to him once again, Pei Jinghuai’s breathing lost control for the first time because of her. “Jiang Zhiwan, tell me… how long has this been going on?” The girl in his arms lifted her face. Moonlight illuminated the burning madness in her eyes, no longer hidden at all. There had never been innocence or timidity in her gaze. “Did you really not know? Uncle Pei… weren’t you enjoying it too?”

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Smack—
An Muning hurled his phone away.

“Knows this?”
He doesn’t know anything about it!

【Since you only like zombies and have no interest in me, hugging should be fine, right?】
【Since you’re not into me anyway, one kiss shouldn’t matter, right?】
【Since you don’t have feelings for me, sleeping together should be fine too, right?】

In the middle of the night, he woke up and turned to look at the woman sleeping soundly beside him.

“…Wait. Were you grooming me into falling for you this whole time?!”