She Is a Prostitute

Reader advisory: 1. This is written in first person. Read with caution if that's not your thing. 2. Liang Mingsheng is intersex. She has an Adam's apple, cannot bear children, and does not menstruate. She identifies as a woman. 3. This story is melodramatic: the leads love each other so desperately that they can't live without each other. Please avoid it if that's not for you.

~*~*~*~*~*~[She Is a Courtesan]~*~*~*~*~*

One is the only daughter of the powerful chancellor, while the other is a courtesan famed throughout the pleasure quarters. Their vastly different lives cross because of a scandalous act.

She is the chancellor's only daughter, the future Crown Princess, and the future empress of the Liushang Kingdom. She is Li Liuqing.

She is a courtesan famed throughout the pleasure quarters, a flower of the underworld blooming from the dust, a monster who is neither man nor woman. She is Liang Mingsheng.

Because of one scandalous act, Li Liuqing is humiliated in public by Liang Mingsheng, and the two become enemies. Whenever Liang Mingsheng performs, Li Liuqing books out the entire venue, but never goes to watch.

Li Liuqing wants to ruin Liang Mingsheng's livelihood, but Liang Mingsheng insists on clinging to her.

Li Liuqing wants to become Crown Princess, but Liang Mingsheng insists on seducing her.

By the time Li Liuqing wants out, she realizes she has fallen too deep to pull herself free.

If she can't escape, then she may as well give in, forsaking wealth and power to become Liang Mingsheng's wife.

A cunning, calculating courtesan who dotes on her lover x a lively young lady, gentle on the outside but strong-willed within

Theme: Everyone deserves to be loved.