You Came, and I Made My Move

Currently updating: The Tyrant's Favorite (Reborn)

Cold, sweet, scheming old fox x gentle, pure little bunny

An older man takes a young wife; the white lotus turns into a black lotus.

Completed danmei novel: Where the Clouds Are Deepest, Republican era, happy ending.

Devoted, lovesick top x scheming queen bottom

A thousand miles between Beijing and Shanghai, two thousand years of time. Even after being swept through the river of time, I still remember you.

My friend Shanshan Is a Tree: Beauty and Bones (Reborn). Only after she was reborn did she learn that the Crown Prince had loved her in both her lives.

My friend Tou Ni Yi Mugua: After Being Raised by a Dragon. Human and demon, past and present lives. For the rest of the road, I only want to walk it with you.

Story blurb:

In the seventh year of Changzhi, Yi Shu, the legitimate daughter of a general's household, was ordered to enter the palace as empress. She was anxious, but had no way out. Less than a month later, the emperor died. His final decree elevated Right Chancellor Jiang Ziyi to regent. With the new emperor still a child, the officials feared the regent would monopolize power, so they specially requested that the Empress Dowager rule from behind the curtain.

Yi Shu had been raised in the inner courtyard since childhood. How could she know how to govern a country?

Thrust into court, she was completely at a loss. She gritted her teeth and made up her mind: she would learn!

As the ancients said: A hen does not crow at dawn. When a hen crows at dawn, the household is doomed.

Yi Shu refused to believe it!

This is the story of a political novice who rises to become a great power and, along the way, wins the heart of the regent.

Bold, decisive female politician x gentle, sincere regent

Content notes:

1. Slow burn, with a heroine who grows over time; limited heroine POV.

2. A serious story with smart characters and a plot-focused narrative.

3. Mutual pining, happy ending.

The Tyrant's Favorite (Reborn)

Sui Yi was born beautiful, and her father was an official in the capital. Though his rank was modest, her God-given beauty meant that even without any scheming, she could find a suitable husband and live a happy life.

But then disaster struck her family. Her father was executed for corruption, and she was forced into service at a weaving workshop, laboring day after day in unbearable misery.

Her father died tragically in prison. Before she could learn the truth, she too was killed. Someone had wanted her dead, and there was more to her father's crime than met the eye.

In the palace at Chang'an, behind gauzy curtains, the emperor, rumored to be as cold as autumn frost, sat on a couch and smiled. “You're a pretty girl. How about becoming a consort?” Reborn, Sui Yi felt her heart tremble. Her chance had finally come.

She might not be good at scheming, but she was beautiful. The most revered man in the land had reached out to her of his own accord. Why should she refuse?

The beauty lowered her head, but kept her eyes on the emperor. Her lovely gaze seemed to hook him, making it impossible to look away.

“Your Majesty, please be gentle with me.”

Pairing: cold-faced, sweet-hearted old fox x gentle, scheming little bunny

Where the Clouds Are Deepest

Since ancient times, famous generals have been like beauties: no one wants to see them grow old.

In the sixteenth year of Jianyuan, Grand General Lin Quan died in battle. Emperor Jiang Shi led his officials out of the city to welcome Lin Quan's coffin back to the capital. Heartbroken and weeping blood, he lost interest in governing and took to his sickbed. People said that lovesickness had made him ill, beyond the help of medicine.

When they parted, a thousand years had passed before they met again.

Shanghai French Concession, 1920.

A bustling world of foreign concessions, bright lights and wild nights.

Zhou Shixiang walked into the Vienna Dance Hall. The first person he saw was Lin Heming, raising a cup of tea. In the shifting light, that profile, despondent yet unruly, gradually merged with the person he'd yearned for day and night.

Theme: Support the leadership of the Party