Beauty Is a Curse

This novel is complete. Finished on August 23. Thank you for your support.

Coming soon: Seven Marriages to the Demon Lord (hzc), and Don’t Run, Darling (sweet romance). Their blurbs are at the end.

To steal military secrets, a princess becomes a slave.

Born to a life of luxury, she is stranded in the frostbitten north.

For the supreme interests of Jin, anyone can be sacrificed.

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Her mother was lowborn, so her father looked down on her. Her elder brother died unjustly, and she was left with a mountain of infamy.

The sixth prince of Northern Yan endured humiliation from childhood, but that year he met the little sun of his life.

He didn’t know she had come to steal his heart. Once he had given her all his trust, she would make him a traitor to Yan.

On the day Yan fell to Jin, he went to find her and saw her laughing and chatting happily with another man.

“Your Highness, your brilliant schemes have kept His Majesty wrapped around your little finger. I’m in awe.”

The little sun who had once been as gentle as water had become the noble princess of Jin. She hooked a finger beneath the man’s chin. “He’s the one with the most obvious weakness, so naturally, I started with him.”

The sixth prince had always hated betrayal most of all.

The lovesick man has gone mad. The city is stained with blood. The princess’s disguise is exposed, and she is locked away in a gilded cage.

Yan Shenli stood in the shadows, dressed in white, a golden chain fastened around her wrist.

“Rou’er, you mustn’t smile at other men.”

A beautiful madwoman and a sickly young man

Both are virgins. Happy ending.

Both leads are scheming and ruthless, each more unhinged than the other.

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Seven Marriages to the Demon Lord (Revenge and Redemption)

A demon lord prince who plays both sides of the law × a kind, pure, resilient little weed

Before, Luo Yaoyao defied her family and insisted on staying with the demon lord Jun Yan after saving him in the mountains.

When the demon lord was unhappy, she cheered him up with cute antics. When he was injured, she cared for him day and night. When he said he wanted something to eat, she cooked it for him herself. When he said he liked the jade pendant she had worn since childhood, she gave it to him without hesitation...

When the demon lord was hunted by his enemies, she took a sword for him and fell into a coma with severe injuries. After she recovered, she continued looking after him while he was sick. She thought they would spend their lives together, until one day she saw him celebrating his wedding night with another woman.

He was handsome and distinguished; she was shy and demure. He fed her by hand and told her that he had kept Luo Yaoyao around all this time only because her heart’s blood could cure her illness.

Furious and disappointed after learning the “truth,” Luo Yaoyao stormed off to plot her revenge. Two years later, she heard that the demon lord’s wife had vanished without a trace, while he had posted wanted notices all over the city, searching for an ordinary woman he had used and deceived three years before...

Luo Yaoyao smiled as she looked at the notices throughout the city, knowing her chance for revenge had come. She pretended to be captured and said she was willing to make up with him, but their wedding had to take place in the mountains where they first met. Jun Yan smiled and said that as long as she was willing to marry him, he would agree to anything.

Later, everyone in the city learned that the demon lord prince, who had connections everywhere and could bend the world to his will, had failed to marry an ordinary woman seven times...

First marriage: Luo Yaoyao pretended to agree to marry him. The bride disappeared on the wedding night, and the demon lord fell off a cliff while trying to find her.

Second marriage: On their wedding day, she fed him poison and left without looking back.

Third marriage: She stabbed him in the chest with the dagger he had given her as a token of their love. As rain poured down, he fell to the ground in agony and watched her walk away...

Fourth marriage: Her childhood sweetheart appeared to steal her away. She turned and threw herself into his arms in front of Jun Yan, and together they plotted against him and left him badly wounded.

Fifth marriage: He lifted the red veil, only to find that the bride underneath wasn’t her. He searched like a madman for three days and nights before finally collapsing.

Sixth marriage: Terrified of what she might do, he personally drove her wedding carriage. But the horses pulling it had already been drugged and were out of control. They dragged the two of them over a cliff. She pushed him away and left him behind, severely injured.

Seventh marriage: Right in front of him, she fell from the city wall in her red wedding dress.

He ran toward her, but no matter how he tried, he couldn’t catch her falling body. It felt as if he had lost the whole world. He broke down in heart-wrenching sobs and plunged into hell...

P.S.

1. The heroine fakes her death to get revenge on the hero during their seventh marriage. She doesn’t really die.

2. Both are virgins. The hero is truly put through the wringer, with 90% of the angst focused on him.

Don’t Run, Darling

Ming Yueyao was merely a lowly palace maid serving at the emperor’s side. A sudden fire took her life, but after death, she was reborn in the body of Shuang Chenbi, the emperor’s favorite consort.

This is bad!

Because she gradually discovers that the emperor, Gu Ziyou, only pretends to dote on Shuang Chenbi. Many of the things he does that he’d rather keep secret are carried out under the guise of his affection for her.

It’s exploitation, not affection. One day, she overhears the emperor talking to someone and learns that when the time comes, “she” will definitely be sacrificed.

Ming Yueyao hugs herself, trembling.

Why did she have to become Consort Ying?

She knows Gu Ziyou is a cold-blooded, ruthless emperor. Whatever she does now, he’ll let her get away with it under the pretext of spoiling her. So...

She really doesn’t want to sit around and wait to die. With nowhere left to turn, she gradually comes up with a daring plan: secretly assassinate the emperor!

Hmph, he’s no good anyway. She’ll be doing the people a favor.

She puts a slow-acting poison in his teacup and waits for him to be poisoned day after day.

Then one day, he suddenly collapses. Thinking the poison has finally taken effect, she tiptoes over to check if he’s breathing.

To her surprise, the emperor, lying unconscious on the floor, suddenly reaches out and grabs her!

She’s scared half to death, but before she can escape, she hears him lying on the floor and weakly calling, “Yaoyao...”

[The Male Lead’s Perspective]

Gu Ziyou never told anyone that a little palace maid had made her home in his heart.

He has only just ascended the throne and has little power or influence. He doesn’t dare reveal who he loves, so first he has to use a woman to create the illusion that she is greatly favored, making it easier for him to act.

So he chooses Consort Ying, Shuang Chenbi.

At first, everything proceeds as planned. Then one day, the Zichen Hall catches fire, the little palace maid disappears, and Shuang Chenbi’s personality changes completely.

The Consort Ying who used to enjoy the emperor’s favor without a second thought and throw her weight around suddenly seems to have lost her intelligence. She becomes timid and fearful, and keeps avoiding him.

That day, he pretends to be unconscious to lure her over, then seizes the chance to grab her.

That clumsy little fool, with skills like that, actually thinks she can poison me?

He secretly plays cat and mouse with her...

Yaoyao seems a little braver today.

Hmm, Yaoyao didn’t come to kill me today, either?

Yaoyao, I’m really starting to lose patience...

P.S.

1. Both are virgins. Happy ending. (The male lead has a certain degree of mysophobia. In the beginning, when he visits his consorts at night, he simply drugs them.)

2. A scheming, domineering emperor × a naturally airheaded, sweet little palace maid (who later becomes a favored consort)

3. Coercive courtship / the emperor’s obsessive love / doting on his wife / cat and mouse

Blurb written on May 27, 2024

Theme: Treat others with sincerity