The Princess Consort Courts Her Favor Every Day

[A princess who's warm on the outside and cool on the inside, devoted to her father and brothers X a restrained, secretly passionate general whose love comes true]

Also known as "The Princess Only Sleeps with Her Consort," "The Princess Dotes on Her Consort," and "The Consort's Deep Devotion"

[The Princess's Point of View]

Ha Zhao, the emperor's most beloved princess, is tormented by nightmares. All she wants for the rest of her life is to fulfill her wish and then sleep forever.

But then the emperor arranges her marriage, bestowing upon her the peerless great general as an ornament to complete her perfection.

To achieve her wish, the princess has no choice but to accept the marriage, though not without some reluctance.

On their wedding night, the princess calmly gripped her consort's chin and kissed him, determined to find out what he tasted like.

After that night, the great general, who had always seemed utterly free of desire, appeared to become a different person.

He forced the wealth he'd accumulated through years of military service into the princess's residence, then knelt before her and spoke with startling frankness.

Very well, then.

So the princess gently rejected her consort's advances, then continued to have him attend her at night.

Yet he became deeply devoted to her and showered her with attention every day.

On the verge of death from poison, the princess, who had long since made peace with death, smiled and prepared to leave this world. But when she saw his tearful, loving eyes, her heart suddenly felt as if it had been cut by a knife, and she couldn't say another word.

[The Consort's Point of View]

A debt of gratitude for saving your life must be repaid with your own.

At a banquet in the Hibiscus Garden, the battle-hardened great general received the emperor's order to find a pet for the pampered princess. He couldn't help thinking it was absurd.

Then a beauty in splendid clothes appeared gracefully amid drifting apricot blossoms and fragrant peonies, and took the missing cat from his arms.

Only then did the general realize that the person he loved was this most cherished of princesses.

An arranged marriage brought joy from the heavens.

His wild elation had barely subsided when he saw her weeping.

Unable to bear seeing the princess so distressed, he could only force himself to refuse the marriage first.

After the wedding, now that he was her consort, what was wrong with putting in a little extra effort?

And so the consort gradually came to spend his days and nights attending to the princess.

In the moments he stole from his busy schedule, he wielded the spear the princess had given him and kept slaying the villains who coveted her.

Notes:

1. No tragic love, no contrived drama. They are each other's only love, and it has a happy ending.

2. The female lead always maintains the upper hand.

3. A loving royal family.

4. The setting draws on the Tang dynasty.

Original title: A Perfect Finishing Touch

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[Socially anxious, lazy beauty X cold, overachieving sword cultivator]

The immortal realm has an office called the Ascension Management Bureau, which oversees the fate of cultivators ascending from the three thousand worlds.

Xue Ying is the bureau's mascot, spending her days eating, drinking, and sleeping.

One day, the sovereign strolled over and said he was sending her to the lower realm for a trial.

Xue Ying trembled, her face clearly saying no.

Then the sovereign smiled and tossed her into the Great World of Cangling.

Cultivators were everywhere, spiritual energy was inedible, and socially anxious, food-loving Xue Ying was on the verge of tears.

Sobbing, she pulled out the jade slip the sovereign had given her and, with trembling hands, snagged a handsome cultivator passing by.

Wait, why did this cultivator look more and more familiar?

Xue Ying was aghast.

Wasn't this her stubborn old rock?

Her heart bloomed with joy, and she clung to him without a second thought.

-

Xie Changying was the most driven prodigy and sword cultivator of the Xuanying Immortal Sect, having reached the Void Refinement stage in just a hundred years.

Who would have thought he'd one day end up at the mercy of a Foundation Establishment demon cultivator?

Wrapped in blood vines, Xie Changying stared coldly at her, imagining a hundred different ways she could die.

But when she cut her index finger and blood welled up, his heart inexplicably skipped a beat.

The next moment, her sweet blood slid down his throat.

Xie Changying was so furious he fainted, unaware that the true essence binding him had loosened ever so slightly.

-

Xue Ying clung to her rock while carrying out the sovereign's instructions, falling in love without realizing it.

Xie Changying despised her in his heart while winning himself over, sinking into love without realizing it.

Later, when the Cangling Realm faced destruction, Xue Ying took her original form to hold back the catastrophe.

Blood-red demon vines danced wildly across the sky, but her bloodlust spiraled out of control, threatening to destroy both her body and soul

The blood-red haze dispersed. Heaven and earth fell silent.

The cold, ruthless sword cultivator knelt among the corpses and picked up a purple flower bud.

A scatterbrain and a sourpuss are made for each other. Happy ending.

Theme: Good deeds are rewarded.