Chapter 1: Transmigrated as the Hot Pot Beauty
Lin Xueyi stood in the lake pavilion and stared at the crowd before her in horror. Her throat still felt painfully tight, as if the soft potatoes that had choked her to death were still stuck there.
"Prince Rui1! His Highness Prince Rui isn’t breathing!" The eunuch’s panicked cry echoed across the lake.
Without wasting a second, he rushed forward, dragged Rong Shuyan’s body to the shore, and pressed both hands against his chest. Again and again, he pushed down with all his strength, desperately trying to bring him back, but his attempt wasn’t enough.
Rong Shuyan’s face was growing paler with every passing moment. The warmth was leaving his skin, and his body seemed frighteningly still, as though his soul had already slipped away.
"Someone! Call Physician Liu at once!" The eunuch’s voice shook with fear, and he suddenly turned toward Lin Xueyi. "And take Princess Consort Rui back to her room. She looks shocked."
His eyes turned cold the moment they landed on Lin Xueyi. Just a while ago, he had been watching the couples from afar. He had seen everything clearly and knew without a doubt that the Princess Consort had pushed the Sixth Prince’s wheelchair into the freezing lake.
"We need to warm His Highness’s body," Eunuch Shen said quickly. "Take him back to his chamber."
Several servants immediately stepped forward and carefully lifted Rong Shuyan from the ground.
As they carried him away, Lin Xueyi immediately grabbed her hair and screamed silently. The servants who had been about to escort her back to her room stopped and stared at her in surprise. None of them understood why the Princess Consort looked as though she was on the verge of losing her mind.
"Why does she suddenly look so sad like that?"
"Are you sure she’s not just acting? The tears... I can’t even see any tears in her eyes!"
"True. True. She’s probably pretending."
"I think so too."
The servants exchanged glances, their expressions filled with suspicion. After all, everyone in Prince Rui’s Manor knew how much the Princess Consort disliked their master.
Ever since the wedding, she had never once treated Prince Rui kindly. She refused to dine with him, refused to accompany him to banquets, and even refused to push his wheelchair unless absolutely necessary.
More than once, she had even spoken harshly to him in front of the servants and now she wanted them to believe she was worried? Who would believe that?
On the other side, Lin Xueyi was too busy having a mental breakdown to care about what they thought.
Heaven!
Good Heavens!
What kind of bad luck is this?! This had to be a dream!
Just a little while ago, she had been an unemployed woman wasting her free time by leaving bad reviews on online novels. Now, she had somehow transmigrated into one of those very novels.
Of all the books she could have ended up in, which one was it again? Lin Xueyi froze for a moment before the answer came to her.
Oh, right! This was The Rise of the Sixth Prince.
When she remembered that, Lin Xueyi dropped to the wooden floor.
She smacked the floor several times and let out a silent scream, grieving for her terrible fate. Out of all the novels she could have entered, she had ended up inside one that was filled with tragedy from Chapter 1 all the way to Chapter 706.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, she had transmigrated into one of the dumbest villains in the entire story.
"Oh, look at her. She’s mourning her husband as if he’s already dead!"
"Are you sure she’s crying? She might be laughing instead!"
Lin Xueyi wanted to cry even harder because the character she had possessed was truly the definition of a beauty with the heart of a snake and a scorpion.
The original Lin Xueyi had been so furious about being married off to the disabled prince instead of the Crown Prince that she had become obsessed with getting rid of Rong Shuyan.
At first, she simply treated him as if he didn’t exist. She ignored him whenever possible, and whenever they happened to meet, she spoke to him with nothing but coldness and disdain.
Rong Shuyan, who had long been used to such treatment from his own imperial family, chose to endure it without complaint, but everything changed when he discovered that "Lin Xueyi" had actually tried to kill him and that was the moment he stopped showing mercy.
In the original story, he secretly ordered two assassins to deal with her and the way she died... Lin Xueyi felt chills run down her spine just thinking about it.
If the timeline was correct, those assassins would come for her in the middle of the night. They would kidnap her, drag her deep into the forest, and throw her into a giant pot of boiling water.
By the time they were finished, there would be nothing left of her body. Whatever remained would be abandoned in the wilderness and left for wild animals to eat.
The scene had been so horrifying that readers talked about it for months. That was also why the fans had given her a nickname; "The Hot Pot Beauty."
She liked eating hot pot, but she definitely didn’t want to become one!
"Princess Consort, it’s getting colder out here. Why don’t we go back to your chamber?" one of the servants finally said. "Imperial Physician Liu is very skilled. I’m sure Prince Rui will be alright."
Instead of feeling comforted, Lin Xueyi curled up tighter on the cool wooden floor.
She was definitely going to be cooked into a human hot pot.
No, no, no! She didn’t want to become a hot pot!
"I don’t want to go back to my room!" she suddenly cried as she jumped to her feet, making the servants flinch in surprise.
"Ah, why?" a servant asked cautiously. "Princess Consort, do you want to throw stones at the fish in the lake again?"
Her eyes were full of pity when she pleaded, "Please, Princess Consort. The fish have already suffered enough since yesterday. Please don’t make their lives any harder."
Lin Xueyi stared at the servant in horror. "What? No! I want to kneel outside my husband’s bedroom!"