After Failing to Win the Crown Prince (Forced Possession)

* Coercive romance, melodramatic revenge fantasy, and a groveling pursuit after the breakup

* Self-serving, scheming beauty x two-faced, unhinged crown prince

Blurb:

Su Xiangwan was lowborn, the least noteworthy daughter of the marquis's household. But Heaven had given her an exceptionally beautiful face.

She used to resent her striking looks, which only brought trouble. But the day her mother was bullied to death by her elder half-sister, she saw her father's indifference and suddenly understood what her face was good for.

She would use her ruinously beautiful face to seduce the crown prince, steal her half-sister's betrothed, take the dream of becoming empress from her, and shatter her father's ambitions to use marriage to climb to power. She would make everyone who had bullied her and her mother pay a terrible price.

From then on, Su Xiangwan set her sights on the crown prince.

When the crown prince caught a mild cold, she took a knife and stabbed herself in the chest. With a trembling hand, she offered him her blood and, in a voice as faint as a whisper, told him it was heart's blood needed as a medicinal ingredient.

When the crown prince encountered assassins, she seized the chance to step in and take an arrow for him. Her face pale, she nestled in his arms and murmured, "I only wish Your Highness a long and peaceful life."

Su Xiangwan thought she had surely captured the crown prince's heart. But her good fortune didn't last. Not long afterward, news came from the border that he had died in battle.

She immediately and coolly withdrew, then began looking for another powerful noble who could help her rise to the top.

*

As crown prince, Pei An had been expected to excel at everything since childhood. He never dared make the slightest mistake in his words or actions.

Then he met Su Xiangwan. She was lowborn and breathtakingly beautiful. She offered him a heart full of schemes, pretending that he was all she cared about and that she would even die for him, all in the hope of winning his favor and affection.

But Pei An had always felt that a lowborn schemer like her wasn't even fit to be the lowest-ranking concubine in his Eastern Palace.

Then, while feigning his death and preparing to raise an army and seize the throne, he unexpectedly heard that Su Xiangwan was engaged to his younger brother.

Pei An's heart clenched. The casual expression on his face turned dark and obsessively resentful.

Su Xiangwan, you've got some nerve!

*

That night, beneath the red wedding candles, Su Xiangwan sat alone in her room.

Her husband-to-be never came. Instead, the former crown prince arrived, clad in black armor and covered in blood.

Pei An smiled gently, but his eyes were ice-cold.

He leisurely tugged open the ties of Su Xiangwan's wedding dress, then bit hard into her earlobe. His calloused palm stroked the side of her neck, as if he might clamp down on it at any moment. In a low, husky voice, he said, "Didn't you say you'd rather die than not marry me, Wanwan? You've changed your mind now? Do you want to die?"

Blurb dated January 5, 2026

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine is self-serving, wicked, but has limits.

2. Includes coercive romance. The hero is gentle and refined early on, then becomes obsessive and unhinged, desperate for the heroine to love him.

3. The setting is a fictionalized Ming Dynasty, but it's full of invented details, so please don't nitpick.

4. The story uses a historical perspective, and both main and supporting characters have the limitations of their era.

5. One true pair.

Theme: Love yourself before loving someone else