This story is complete. Please add my upcoming story, White Moonlight, to your collection.
Chen Luan is the only legitimate daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo's household. Raised by the Old Madam from childhood, she was spoiled rotten and terribly pampered. When she first fell in love as a young girl, she spent years trailing after the sinister and ruthless Eighth Prince.
In the end, she was manipulated by her father's concubine and her illegitimate daughter. With a lavish bridal procession and a wedding dress red as fire, she entered the Eastern Palace instead.
The Crown Prince, Ji Xiao, has a penchant for men. He spends his days drinking and carousing with the Eastern Palace's advisers, ruling foolishly and immorally, and his hold on the position of heir is precarious. Chen Luan is worn out from constantly covering for him and managing his affairs, and her family considers her a discarded pawn.
The Eighth Prince, Ji Huan, takes the throne by force. On the night the Crown Prince is deposed, Chen Luan is sent to the new ruler's bedchamber. The man who has become the supreme sovereign wears a chillingly dark expression.
In one night of reckless passion, she loses her virtue.
The next day, she drinks the poisoned wine given to her by her half-sister and dies. As her body grows cold, she lies in the arms of the tyrannical king and feels his hands trembling violently.
When she is reborn, her marriage to the Crown Prince has already been arranged. With no other choice, she rushes in confusion to the prince's residence, tears beading at the corners of her eyes. The man's fingers are long and slender as he gently wipes away her tears, one by one, and asks, "Will you marry him or me?"
Ji Huan frowns, his expression cold, and coaxes her somewhat stiffly. "The prince's residence is quiet, and there are no women in the inner court. If you come here, you'll be in charge."
Chen Luan doesn't know that, after hearing her whisper that she'd marry him, the man spent over a month making plans day and night. Before her wedding, he ascended to the highest throne and rightfully seized the marriage intended for Ji Xiao.
1. Both leads are each other's one and only.
2. A sweet, pampering romance.
Here's my next upcoming sweet romance, White Moonlight. Please add it to your collection!
Blurb:
In the thirty-sixth year of Beicang, Yan Chu, King of Mobei, took control of the realm. He put the court in order, sent elite armies across the nations, and earned renown throughout the world, building an empire that would endure for generations. The only time he ever showed mercy was when he spared Yuan Huan, the former dynasty's Ninth Princess, and kept her in Qiongyu Tower. He let this white moonlight in his heart have her way in everything, allowing her to do whatever she pleased.
For the next four years, they argued countless times and said things that could never be taken back. Yuan Huan wore plain clothes and a silver hairpin every day. After their final argument, Yan Chu swept out, swearing in anger that he would never set foot in Qiongyu Tower again.
Having fallen out of favor, Yuan Huan became a pitiful girl anyone could bully. One day, a noblewoman visiting the palace shoved her, and she hit her head against a pillar and lost consciousness. When she woke, she had developed a strange illness. Not only had she forgotten every argument she'd had with Yan Chu, she also began remembering something good about him every day.
Little scene:
Yuan Huan hit her head and woke in the Hall of Mental Cultivation. The man's profile was as resolute as iron, his gaze deep. He was sure she would insult and mock him again.
But when the woman on the bed saw him, she didn't wear her usual look of disgust. Instead, tears welled in her eyes as she touched the bump on her forehead and complained to him that it hurt.
Her cry of pain made several veins stand out on the back of Yan Chu's hand.
He had seen this woman curse him with red eyes and tears on her cheeks, but he couldn't resist the way she blushed and peeked at him through her eyelashes.
And so, in less than two months, Yuan Huan rose to prominence once more, becoming an unspeakable presence in the imperial harem. She even made Emperor Yuanwu, a man who always kept his word, eat his words and spend every night in Qiongyu Tower.
Reader's guide: 1. A sweet romance, the kind that will give you a toothache.
2. Both leads are each other's one and only. Readers who insist on that can dive right in.
3. The heroine is the hero's white moonlight, the one he has always longed for but could never have.
Theme: Loving and being loved, growing together.
