Why Is the Eldest Princess Like That?

Black-lotus, truly unhinged heroine × closeted, easily flustered eldest princess

Blurb One:

One day, the emperor asked, “What is your relationship with that Miss Zhao?”

Miss Zhao, Zhao Xihe, is the orphaned daughter of a great general and Chu Yu’s new neighbor.

Chu Yu: “We’re just ordinary friends.”

No one knows that every night in her dreams, she pins Zhao Xihe beneath her, entangled with her through the long hours.

The woman is a picture of beauty, pearl earrings swaying gently in the breeze.

A tiny, vivid-red beauty mark by her ear haunts Chu Yu like a demon in her dreams, holding her captive.

After waking with a start, Chu Yu feels ashamed and remorseful. I’m such a terrible person!

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At the crown prince’s young daughter’s hundred-day celebration, Princess Kangle is nowhere to be found.

In the rock garden, the light and shadows are hazy, and a subtle fragrance drifts through the air.

Trembling in Zhao Xihe’s arms, Chu Yu presses her lips together and weakly tries to push away the audacious advances of the person behind her.

The dream and reality become one.

As Zhao Xihe laughs softly, Chu Yu suddenly understands. Grinding her teeth in fury, she vows to herself that she’ll kill this woman.

She’s made that threat countless times, but seasons have passed and the woman is still standing right before her, alive and well.

Her smile is captivating, her eyes beautiful. Her image is etched into Chu Yu’s heart.

The usually spoiled and domineering Princess Kangle suddenly finds herself flustered.

Blurb Two:

She is a dying woman. After spending most of her life rushing from one thing to the next, she wants someone to accompany her to hell.

She’ll choose the most noble little princess.

Reading Guide:

Both are each other’s first and only, happy ending, switch.

Completed novel in my collection, Crossing the Azure Clouds, a melodramatic xianxia story about coercive love:

1.

Fu Mingli is a lucky girl. At sixteen, she was brought to the Qingyun Sect, where she became the sect leader’s adopted daughter and favored disciple, and gained a beautiful older sister, too.

A prodigy from a young age, she makes a name for herself and lives a life that goes smoothly at every turn.

The only difficult thing is that she can never figure out what her cool and distant older sister, Shen Chan, is thinking.

Last night, Shen Chan was kissing and playfully teasing her. Today, Mingli is forbidden from going near her. By tomorrow, Shen Chan will be in her arms again, her hot breath mingling with her cool fragrance against Mingli’s neck.

Someone tells her that love is like that, unpredictable, and that her older sister is in love with her.

So Mingli wraps her arms around Shen Chan’s waist, pulls her into bed, and covers her with countless kisses.

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Mingli and Shen Chan’s happy days don’t last long.

Shen Chan stands before her in white, as if she were an immortal, but the cold sword in her hand points at Mingli’s chest.

Her usually composed voice trembles slightly. Mingli hears her say, one word at a time, “Fu Mingli, go die.”

The crowd roars, and the lightning tribulation draws near. Mingli says gently, “Sister, don’t be afraid.”

Mingli withstands three bolts of heavenly lightning. As she lies gravely wounded, Shen Chan breaks through and ascends. Only then does Mingli realize it was all a deception.

Mingli becomes a criminal of the immortal sects, hunted by thousands, while Shen Chan, the Qingyun Sect’s foremost disciple, personally sets up a formation to kill her.

Even as Mingli’s soul is destroyed, not a trace of emotion appears in Shen Chan’s cold eyes.

2.

Before she turned fifteen, Shen Chan was a prodigy admired by everyone, renowned far and wide, and feared by demons and evil spirits.

At fifteen, Shen Chan differentiated as a Kunze, and her cultivation stagnated from then on.

At twenty, a new prodigy, Fu Mingli, arrived at the Qingyun Sect. She was also Shen Chan’s younger sister in name.

At twenty-two, Shen Chan’s mother offered her up to curry favor with the sect’s prodigy. Fu Mingli permanently marked her, making her Fu Mingli’s secret furnace.

At twenty-two,

Shen Chan killed Fu Mingli.

3.

I loathe you. I resent you. I hate you.

That’s what Mingli heard Shen Chan say during their hysterical argument.

Every word dripped with blood.

But later,

Shen Chan, the one who had said she hated her, carried her through the silent moonlight, covered in blood, and said softly, “I’ll take you home.”

And when Mingli cowered away from her touch in terror, Shen Chan’s eyes reddened and she wept uncontrollably. “Mingli, you... don’t be afraid of me.”

Mingli wondered:

Has her sister started to love her?

Reading Guide:

Switch pairing. The younger sister is more dominant in the first half, and the older sister in the second half. Happy ending.

Many original settings. The heroine has no special powers. Kunze = omega, Qianyuan = alpha. Cultivation levels: Body Tempering, Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, and Nascent Soul.

Theme: Face yourself