The Delicate Eldest Princess

Also known as The Eldest Princess Is a White Lotus. Please add it to your collection! (I edit the story and fix typos from time to time.) As the younger emperor's sister, the eldest princess is a delicate, soft-spoken young woman. Though her younger brother is a puppet emperor, the eldest princess is still showered with boundless favor. The eldest princess knows better than anyone how long the royal family's affection can last. If she wants to survive for the long term, she can only offer herself to the future regent, who will hold power over the entire court. The problem is, he looks down on a busty, empty-headed princess. What is she to do? A frail woman can only compete for favor, play little mind games, and coax a little pity from the lord with a sweet, coquettish voice. Just when Rong Jin thinks victory is in his grasp, he never expects... The eldest princess he looked down on is a caged bird who bites, and a parasitic vine that sucks blood. Lord Rong has badly miscalculated. The eldest princess lifts Rong Jin's chin and asks in the same sweet, coquettish voice, “Lord Rong, who are you calling busty and empty-headed?” Lord Rong, however much you looked down on the eldest princess back then, that's how many tears you'll shed now! 1. A genuinely tsundere, domineering regent x a seemingly innocent but actually scheming, delicate eldest princess 2. A little court intrigue, a little deception 3. The secondary couple supplies the sweet moments: sweet, sweet, sweet 4. Set in a fictional world. My knowledge is limited, and I'll do my best to keep any specialized details plausible. Please don't take them as fact. My next historical novel, now available to pre-save: The Fallen Empire's Empress Marries for the Third Time (Reborn). Please add it to your collection! In her previous life, Mu Tang married into the imperial palace for her family and became a lonely, unsupported empress, a mere ornament in the forbidden palace. Her whole life was one of solitude. The emperor did not love her, the empress dowager did not care for her, and her family was too busy with its own troubles to help. She was left alone to grow old in silence within the palace. Later, war broke out across the land and the court collapsed. The emperor fled with his beloved concubine and young son, abandoning Mu Tang. She took the young prince with her and wandered from place to place, until rebels surrounded them at a divine shrine on the outskirts of the capital. As empress, Mu Tang chose to die with her honor intact. She leapt from the shrine's top floor, holding the prince in her arms, leaving only a trail of crimson fragments behind. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the days before her marriage. In her previous life, Mu Tang had always listened to others and had never lived for herself. This time, she wanted to live for herself. But she could not defy the imperial decree, and Mu Tang still entered that cage to become empress. When the rebel army reached the city walls, Mu Tang climbed up, ready to leap to her death for the country once more. Unexpectedly, someone swept her into his arms. “Tangtang, don't jump!” Mu Tang looked back and saw that the man behind her was the rebel leader. Only then did Mu Tang remember that one of the main reasons the “rebels” had taken up arms was... the pain of having his wife stolen. Mu Tang: Who are you? Rebel leader: Be my empress. He added, “The founding empress.” Mu Tang had been empress three times in total across both her lives. This time, she would not be alone. Lu Jinghong had seen the empress three times. Each time, she looked unhappy. When his father first considered raising an army, he rebelled first. No one knew that what he wanted was not the throne, but the empress, the woman meant to reign over all under heaven. He wanted to keep her safe in his heart. He had never expected Mu Tang to choose to die with her honor intact, leaving him with blood-red nightmares that kept him awake night after night. He would trade the rest of his life for the chance to see Mu Tang again, no matter the cost. In this life, Lu Jinghong would tell her: the little madman you saved wants to make you his wife. Reader's Guide: 1. Both the female and male leads have been reborn. 2. Older woman-younger man romance, the last empress x the last prince, with no blood relation 3. Her previous life was miserable, so this time she'll get plenty of sweetness! Theme: The Great Zhao princess has strength.