The Regent Prince Is So Irresistible

Ancient Romance Novel Coming Soon: The Fierce Beauty. Add it to your favorites! Blurb: Huo Qing is slender, graceful, and stunningly beautiful. After being offered to the emperor of the Central Plains as a prisoner of war, she discovers that she has begun dreaming of the future. In her dreams, every night a man whose face she can't see grips her waist and torments her, until she meets a tragic end. She doesn't want to die, so she has no choice but to ingratiate herself with the regent, who holds power over the court. Rumor has it that Regent Xie Lü has a woman in his heart, a cherished ideal. Huo Qing happens to resemble her in a few ways. Once he takes her under his protection, he keeps her at his estate in the outskirts of the capital, using her trip outside the palace to pray as an excuse. She knows Xie Lü sees her as nothing but a plaything, to be toyed with and amused at his whim. To stay alive, she puts up with it. Until she finally sees the man's face clearly in her dream. In the dream, the man has a sinister gaze, seizes power and becomes king, and slaughters countless people. Huo Qing is thunderstruck: ... Isn't this the very regent she's been so careful to please? In her fear, Huo Qing begs Xie Lü, "Your Highness, I want to return to the palace." But Xie Lü refuses. He grips her chin, his gaze terrifyingly cold. "Huo Qing, you're a plaything either way. What's the difference whose plaything you are? Until I'm tired of you, you aren't going anywhere." * Later, Huo Qing finds another patron. That day, flowers bloom in profusion in the imperial garden. Huo Qing touches Xie Lü's thin lips with her cinnabar-painted finger, her eyes smiling. "His Majesty builds me a grand tower, puts on a show for his ministers, grants me his exclusive favor in the imperial chambers, and honors me above all the women in the palace... Your Highness, there really is a difference in whose plaything one is." As he watches her walk away proudly, chin raised, Xie Lü stands where he is, jealousy tightening the veins on the back of his hand and reddening his eyes. *The cherished ideal is the heroine herself. One-on-one, both are virgins. *The most beautiful woman in the capital X a ruthless, obsessive regent Coming Soon: The Fierce Beauty. Add it to your favorites! Blurb: Shen Lingxian is the most beautiful woman in Great Wei, and the emperor's most beloved little princess. When she is fifteen, she finds a slave who has been bewitched by a gu, and he acknowledges Shen Lingxian as his master. By day, he is her arrogant weapon. At night, she bullies him until his face turns red, and he holds himself back with great restraint. Shen Lingxian never tires of it. Unfortunately, one day the gu worm disappears, and so does the slave. She is furious, and throws countless tantrums over it, but the slave vanishes without a trace. A year later, an urgent report arrives from the border. Under Qi's attack, more than a dozen cities in Great Wei fall one after another, and the nation is in peril. Only later do they learn that the invincible general of Qi has returned. * The day the capital is conquered, the walls of the princess's residence are ablaze. Shen Lingxian, disheveled, is surrounded by guards as she tries to flee. The God of War general wears silver armor and a white helmet. Beneath him, his steed raises its head and tosses its mane, snow-white hooves pounding. A gleaming, fearsome sword blocks her way. Shen Lingxian is forced to turn around, only to discover that the handsome, arrogant general on horseback is the very slave she once used as she pleased. The former slave's cold gaze sweeps over the guards beside her. Then he lifts her chin with his sword. "I want your princess." From then on, she is the bird in his cage and the pearl in his palm. Who could have imagined that the great general, who kills without batting an eye outside, would let her do as she pleases indoors, just like back then, blushing and restraining himself... Well, this time, he can't hold back. Theme: Even when mired in hardship, fight against fate and keep moving forward with optimism