Captivating Beauty (Transmigrate into a Book)

[My new novel, After I Took a Fancy to the Aloof Young Lord, He Actually Said Yes, is now out. Click through to my profile to find it!] Blurb: Chu Yuan transmigrates into the body of a princess. Burdened with the original host's reputation for being frivolous, she is forced to marry off to the most terrifying man in the entire book: Qi Zhan, the young lord of a neighboring kingdom. Qi Zhan is gloomy and ruthless, with an intensely possessive nature. Chu Yuan remembers that in the book, the original host married Qi Zhan, then had an affair with someone else, and he promptly cut her down. Qi Zhan caressed Chu Yuan's cheek, smiling faintly. "I heard the Minister of Rites gave Yuan Yuan a pearl hairpin?" Chu Yuan's voice was as soft as a thread. "I... I already threw it away." Qi Zhan: "Good girl." [Gloomy, ruthless, intensely possessive male lead x charming, sweet, healing female lead] After I Took a Fancy to the Aloof Young Lord, He Actually Said Yes is now out. Timid, adorable little pervert x chaste, untouchable beauty forced to fall from grace Meng Yinghuai, heir to the Northern Zhou, is devastatingly beautiful, like snow atop a lofty peak that no one can reach. As the young lord's wife, forced upon him by others, Qu Ning also thinks the two of them are just playing their parts, with no real feelings involved. But Qu Ning harbors a wildly improper secret: Night after night, as she watches her husband's distant profile in the lamplight, a man who won't even let her touch his fingertips, she secretly drags him into the forbidden pages of her steamy bodice-ripper fantasies. She thinks this secret will never see the light of day. Until the day they are returning from a trip. The man who has always seemed untouchable is breathing unsteadily, his dark lashes damp. Qu Ning spots a chain in the corner of the carriage... As if possessed, she reaches out and murmurs, "C-could I tie you up?" After a long, dead silence, the young lord lowers his lashes. "...As you wish." . At first, Meng Yinghuai considers her a minor nuisance caught up in his affairs and pays no mind to their marriage. But the way she stays by his side is not what he expected. She rarely asks him for anything. Each night, she simply carries over a little round stool and sits where he can see her whenever he looks down. He is used to solitude, yet one day, while reviewing documents, he unconsciously lights the candle on the far side. Behind him, the "little pervert" hugs a storybook, pretending to read while openly sneaking glances at him. He has never liked overly sweet things, but when the girl sidles up to him, he casually offers her a peeled segment of sweet mandarin. Meng Yinghuai once thought that whenever he turned around, she would be there. Until an old acquaintance returns after a long absence, and Qu Ning throws herself into that person's arms, weeping uncontrollably. The jade ring on his finger shatters. He quietly pulls her back to his side. The young man in the sunlight lifts his eyes, his gaze settling leisurely on Meng Yinghuai. He smiles sweetly. "I'm only giving my older sister a hug. Surely you can't be that petty, brother-in-law." Meng Yinghuai gently wipes the blood from his fingers and smiles with remarkable warmth. "Of course not." That night, the moonlight is still and cold. Meng Yinghuai opens the hidden compartment in her dressing case and lays out all the evidence of her misdeeds before her. He pats the desk piled high with paperwork and beckons her over. "Zhaozhao, come here." ◎ Strict on the surface, indulgent in private ◎ Married first, love later | Mutual surrender in body and soul | The untouchable beauty falls from his pedestal | Jealousy | Chastity undone | Losing control Theme: A sweet, healing romance