The Crown Prince's Guide to Self-Preservation

[Notice: I’ve worked things out with my editor. This will go VIP on June 8, starting from Chapter 26. If you’ve already read it, please don’t buy it again! Red envelopes will be dropped on the day it goes VIP. Sending love, sending love.]

Blurb One: Ever since recovering from a serious illness at the age of six, Jing Qizhen has had a strange intuition. Thanks to it, Jing Qizhen has imperial favor in one hand and a trusted minister in the other, spending every day handling all kinds of court affairs, from earthquakes in Jiangnan to droughts in Jiangbei. And all those men and women, stop getting in the way! This princess is busy ascending the throne and leading the people to prosperity. I have no time for romance!

Who could have guessed? A woman was actually willing to give up her entire dowry for me? Hmm, fine. It’s not that I’m materialistic, it’s just that she’s offering so much.

Blurb Two: Her father is a cabinet minister who rose from humble beginnings, her mother is the daughter of a maritime merchant with a dowry worth a million, and she has two devoted older brothers. For the first dozen or so years of her life, Qu Ying was everything the young ladies of Qizhou dreamed of becoming.

Who could have guessed that after arriving in Xuandu, she would fall for the Crown Prince, the man everyone in the city wanted to marry? Well, if that’s how it is, let’s each show what we can do and see whose methods are better!

The onlookers were all waiting to see her cast aside after she’d served her purpose, and rejected by the emperor. Instead, she ended up wearing the phoenix coronet and robes, beloved and honored for the rest of her life, becoming everything men and women throughout Great Qi dreamed of being.

Everyone is welcome to check out my new novel, a System-era story set in a matriarchal world, Hand Myself Over to Live Off My Husband: The country gives me someone to lean on!

Theme: Don’t let power dictate your feelings. Love and power can coexist.