The Darling in the Palm of My Hand

[Pre-release: The Crown Prince Turned Dark After I Used and Abandoned Him. Click the author's column on the right to take a look!]

Story blurb:

Raised in the palm of her imperial uncle's hand, Commandery Princess Qingyang should have lived a life of pampered luxury. But she stumbled into a disastrous marriage with a scumbag. In a single day, the princess became a prisoner and died beneath a long blade.

Reborn, she tosses her former husband's betrothal gifts out of the princess's residence, sets vicious dogs on him and has them cripple his legs, then turns around and arranges to marry Chen Yi, a future powerful minister.

All because, in her previous life, Chen Yi gave her a proper burial and even shed tears for her as she lay dying.

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Everyone in the capital knows Chen Yi is mercurial and ruthless. He climbed over mountains of corpses to become a powerful minister.

The court's nobles avoid him like the plague.

But no one knows that he keeps a beloved woman in his heart. In his previous life, he gained power over the court for her sake, only to watch her marry someone else with joy in her heart. In the end, he could only swallow his feelings.

Later, remembering how it had torn his heart apart, he thought he might as well marry her first and bring her to his side.

Both leads are reborn, and they dote on each other.

Pre-release: The Crown Prince Turned Dark After I Used and Abandoned Him. Story blurb:

As Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace, Xie Tingzhi is as beautiful as an immortal, aloof and brooding by nature. He seems to have it all, but secretly harbors an illness of the heart that no one knows about.

He once loved a lowly palace maid with no family, no support, and nothing to rely on. What she did have was a grounded nature and a sweet tongue, and she was willing to share both hardship and happiness.

She stayed by his side for three years when he was at his lowest. But just as he finally became Crown Prince, she poisoned him, betrayed him, and fled the Eastern Palace, never to be seen again.

Xie Tingzhi lay unconscious for days as the poison took hold. The first thing he did when he woke was investigate Lu Wan's whereabouts. If he ever caught her, he would cut open her heart and see how many of the sweet words she'd spoken when their love was at its deepest had been true.

But six years later, when he saw her again, she was married, with a five-year-old daughter at her side.

Xie Tingzhi suppressed the menace in his eyes and slowly tightened his fingers around Lu Wan's slender, delicate neck. "Wan Niang, you've really come into your own."

Xie Tingzhi: "Whose child is she?"

*Forced love and possession

Theme: Strive for a better life