I Picked Up a Crown Prince as My Servant

Her Shoulders Uphold the Mountains and Rivers is currently being serialized. Check it out in my profile, and please add it to your collection!

Blurb:

One day, Jin Mingjiao was out admiring the mountains and rivers when she came across a young man covered in wounds and dressed in rags. She took him home and looked after him at her estate. What she never expected was that the boy she'd picked up was the Crown Prince.

Before he regained his memories, the handsome young man was pure and adorable, the perfect puppy-like boy. He was determined to repay Jin Mingjiao for saving him by serving as her attendant. He poured tea, carried the kettle, and fanned her, taking care with every little detail. Even Jin Mingjiao couldn't help praising him: “Wonderful!”

After regaining his memories, the cruel and ruthless Crown Prince Ye Mu thought of how she'd ordered him around in the past few days. His expression darkened, and he tightened his grip on the knife in his hand as he walked over to Jin Mingjiao.

Then he obediently peeled a pear and asked her eagerly,

“Is it sweet?”

“Sweet!”

--

Rumor has it that the Crown Prince is doted on, blessed with a smooth life, and holds terrifying power. Even the emperor has to yield to him. In other people's eyes, he's a villain who has done countless evil deeds and loves killing. No one dares come within three paces of him.

Later, he disappeared. Everyone at court was overjoyed, hoping that the “murderous demon” would die out there.

Then one day, Ye Mu sauntered into the court, flipping a small knife in his hand.

“Well, I hear you've all been hoping I'd die!”

“Ah, no, no! Your Highness is a great blessing to the nation!”

“How could that be? I've been worrying about your safety every moment, Your Highness...”

The officials fawned over him with remarkable skill. The emperor on the throne flushed, then paled, then flushed again, before finally saying, “You're back.”

Later, the officials witnessed a wonder the likes of which the world had never seen.

The Crown Prince, whom ordinary people would back away from three paces, was being cornered by a woman at the foot of the imperial city wall. She scolded him, “So you've got long legs, huh? Feeling bold, are you? You dare go this far without telling your family?”

And the Crown Prince actually lowered his head and admitted he'd been wrong.

--

1. The Crown Prince is more than just the Crown Prince. He has another identity.

2. This world is more complicated than it seems.

A story about a (fake) sweet puppy boy turning into a (real) wolfish young man.

The Crown Prince is fierce and difficult, while the young lady is sweet and pure.

--

Blurb for Her Shoulders Uphold the Mountains and Rivers:

As the only princess of Southern Yan, Ying Yun spent the first fourteen years of her life as the apple of her parents' eyes.

Apart from one shameful secret longing, her life was smooth and worry-free.

Then she met a young man, battered and bruised by the water's edge.

A month together felt like ten years. Overjoyed, she told her parents, “I've found my Prince Consort!” But she never imagined that it was all part of a massive conspiracy.

On the day the Northern Liang army stormed the capital of Southern Yan, the young man finally shed his mask of kindness.

He seized her by the hand and held her face, forcing her to “admire” the Southern Yan imperial palace engulfed in flames. Beneath the thick, sky-filling smoke, her parents and brother screamed helplessly before turning to charcoal.

His voice was like that of a demon from hell: “Little Princess, from now on, you're all alone.”

He didn't kill her. Instead, he told her to “prepare well” for her wedding, intending to present her to one of his ministers as a grand gift from the emperor who had united the two kingdoms.

On her wedding night, Ying Yun wore the bridal gown she'd once dreamed of wearing as a young girl.

The front hall rang with laughter and the clinking of wine cups. Inside the bridal chamber, the bride Ying Yun's palms were covered in bloody marks.

With red-rimmed eyes, she demanded of the Northern Liang emperor, who had come to mock her, “Why did you destroy my capital and murder my family?”

The new emperor only sneered. His eyes held both amusement and a trace of tenderness. “Little Princess, have you been in your gilded cage for too long?”

Furious, Ying Yun took out the golden hairpin she'd hidden and struck him with all her strength.

When she awoke, the river of time had carried her back to before she met the Northern Liang prince. She thought perhaps even Heaven pitied her.

So she took up a blade and kept it by her side every day, determined to kill her enemy with her own hands, uncover the conspiracy, and stop Southern Yan from falling again.

--

Chang Li isn't really called Chang Li. That's just an alias.

He has no surname either. He only remembers that his mother called him Qiong Ning.

It wasn't until much later that he learned his surname was Wen.

He spent his youth in a single courtyard and once believed the sky was square, until one day a masked man made a deal with him.

“If you succeed, I'll set you free.”

“Can I go anywhere I want?”

“Of course.”

Lured into an unfamiliar journey, he came into contact with the princess of Southern Yan. But the supposed deal was nothing but a deception. The masked man had never intended to let him win.

He thought he'd had no family left when his mother died. Later, when he saw the princess die, he finally understood: he had killed the last member of his family himself.

Completed works: The Cinnabar Mole of the Heir Apparent and After Being Reborn, I Married the Enemy General. Check out my profile!

Theme: Even the lowest point in life can become a chance to rise again, so it's all the more important to hold on through the hardest times