The Lady Is Not What She Seems

[My next novel, If You Weren't So Good-Looking, is now out!]

Everyone in the capital knows that Miss Liu is gentle, charming, and well-read. When the eldest daughter failed to make it into the palace selection, the noble ladies all tried their hardest to marry their useless sons to the second legitimate daughter. But no one expected an imperial edict to betroth Second Miss Liu to the newly crowned top scholar.

On their wedding night, Second Miss Liu smiled sweetly at the top scholar, and he thought she was just as the rumors had described.

A few days into their marriage, the top scholar discovered that Second Miss Liu loved to sleep in. He thought it was cute, since she was young.

A little over a month later, he discovered that Second Miss Liu loved reading all kinds of romance stories, from love between men and women to love between men. He figured she was simply curious about romance because she had married him so young, and he cherished her all the more.

A month later, he discovered that Second Miss Liu not only loved romance stories, but also loved hearing all the capital's gossip. He came up with another excuse: she was young, after all, so it was only natural that she was interested in the world outside.

A few more months passed, and the top scholar realized that Second Miss Liu had a childhood sweetheart who was deeply in love with his wife. Listening to the two of them inside, joining forces to badmouth him, the top scholar thought, Wanwan, I've run out of excuses.

Second Miss Liu had spent more than a decade pretending to be gentle and polite, fooling everyone. Yet within a few months, she had let her mask slip in front of the top scholar. When her childhood friend came back, she couldn't help complaining to him about her husband. She was just getting into it when the door opened.

A gentle, refined gentleman on the outside, an innocent young man inside x a gracious, gentle mistress of the household in public, a carefree little flirt in private

Note: The male lead is only an innocent young man around the female lead.

La la la, here's the blurb for my next novel!

Yan Chu is a guard serving Princess Yuanhe. There's nothing particularly special about him, except that he has an exceptionally handsome face!!

After spending so much time with him, Yuanhe can't help secretly developing feelings for him.

A young girl's first love is hard to hide. One little slip, and the Noble Consort discovers it. After a stern warning, Yuanhe is at a loss over the handsome man who is always in front of her.

How can she keep him safe?

Just then, the Crown Prince is heading to the borderlands for military training, so Yuanhe simply sends Yan Chu to join him.

Worried that Yan Chu won't adjust to life in the army, she repeatedly asks her royal brother to take good care of him.

The handsome man, suddenly sent off to the army, finally realizes that she's cutting all ties with him.

Furious, he resolves to win military merit and rise through the ranks, all to get revenge on the heartless woman in the capital.

When he returns to the capital, he hears that the heartless woman is claiming to be ill and refusing visitors.

What kind of illness can you get in the middle of summer? Heat rash, perhaps?

Fuming, the handsome man immediately orders someone to prepare flour, then shows off his skills by making a whole steamer of cakes to send to the princess's residence.

The steward gets the news and comes over, trembling. "General, did you put poison in them?"

Staring at the packet of medicine powder on the table, the handsome man snaps, "I forgot this time. I'll definitely use it next time!"

Later, the handsome man catches a litter of tiger cubs in the wild and, with great interest, picks out the liveliest one with the sleekest fur.

The steward thinks: It's over. If the general sends this thing to the princess, it might scratch her face to pieces. He nervously plans to pack up and go home tonight, before the emperor comes to raid his house in the middle of the night.

Then he sees the handsome man glowering as he pulls out the cub's claws, tames it for half a month until the tiger is reduced to a sickly kitten, locks it in an iron cage secured with three locks, and sends it to the princess's residence.

When their relationship has started to thaw a little, the handsome man happens to learn that the cakes were thrown out and the tiger cub was given to the Fifth Prince.

The handsome man: Fine. I've decided to stop taking the gentle approach with you.

Basically, it's a story about a handsome man who thinks, You don't like me, you wasted my sincere feelings, I'm going to get back at you, but secretly I can't help going soft.

Theme: Life is full of surprises