Has My Tyrant Husband Been Unmasked Today?

In the fourth year after taking over the family business, Xie Wan finds herself a live-in husband to prevent her relatives from taking advantage of her as the family’s sole heir.

The man is handsome, with refined features and an elegant, easygoing air. He has a gentle temperament and good character.

At least, he’s nothing like the new emperor, who is volatile, cruel, and feared by all, yet hated just as fiercely. On her return from a business trip, she passes through three cities where people have tried to assassinate the emperor.

The only slight drawback is that he looks frail. But he’s so clingy that she can barely get out of bed in the morning on two out of every three days.

She can live with that. While investigating her father’s past, she gets caught up in a political struggle, is framed, and has no choice but to flee. He never leaves her side. He joins her in becoming an outlaw and helps her devise plans.

Then a prince raises an army, and the country descends into chaos. Xie Wan is surrounded by a massive army outside a city.

Someone arrives at the head of an army, fighting through the bloodshed and tearing into the enemy ranks. Beneath the cold armor is a familiar yet unfamiliar handsome face.

The elite force, fierce as tigers, calls him “Your Majesty.”

Xie Wan spends two seconds recalling all the things she’s said.

Oh, right. That tyrant isn’t human. If he hadn’t slaughtered the court officials, corrupt ministers wouldn’t be running the government and driving the people to revolt.

And while drunk, she’d said that if she ever toppled the tyrant and became empress, she would make him her empress...

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Xiao Yan has spent half his life without family to rely on. Everything he has, he fought and clawed his way to, with blood on his hands.

The one exception was when he borrowed another man’s identity to escape an assassination attempt, got mistaken for a family’s live-in husband, and ended up with a wife.

She is clever and resilient, with a playful side. A flower that blooms proudly in the wind, even at the edge of an abyss.

He has guarded her carefully all this time, never letting her see his madness. Then one day, the one exception ran away...

Here’s a sweet historical romance I have coming soon. Feel free to check it out if you’re interested~

"Spring Hidden in the Brocade Hall"

Blurb:

Spring comes to Kaifeng in March, and a junior clerk named Mu Jintang joins the prefectural office.

He’s fair-skinned and handsome, with a lovely way of speaking. It doesn’t take long for him to become the favorite young man of all the neighborhood aunties.

No one knows that three secrets are hidden behind his smiling eyes:

First, he got the job through connections, without taking the exam.

Second, his identity is fake. He is actually a young woman from a modest family in the capital region, named Mu Jintang.

Third, her brother has gone missing, and she wants to investigate a case involving stolen military pay that was the last matter he dealt with before disappearing.

She takes care to keep her secret, especially from her colleague Zhao Yunqi, who shares her room.

But she doesn’t know that Zhao Yunqi, a cold and sharp-tongued man who seems to dislike her, has three secrets of his own:

First, he got the job through connections, without taking the exam.

Second, his identity is fake. He’s actually the emperor’s nephew, son of the eldest princess, and a young marquis named Qi Yunzhao.

Third, he’s acting on the emperor’s secret orders to investigate the case of stolen military pay, which was officially closed last year...

He’s been keeping an eye on his roommate Mu Jintang for just that reason. Then he acquires a fourth secret:

Lately, he keeps dreaming that he and Mu Jintang are together under the bed curtains. He might, possibly, perhaps, be into men.

Theme: Find tenderness at the bottom of the abyss