After Being Forced to Get Close to the Chief Minister

The upcoming novel, The Empress Is Spoiled and Capricious Again, is open for favorites. Muah! The blurb is below the content warnings.

1. Zhou Yueyin is the legitimate daughter of a duke's household. She has been pampered since childhood by her loving parents, and has never suffered from illness or disaster.

But lately, her heart keeps hurting for no reason.

A senior monk at a temple tells her that the root of it all is the ruthless Chief Minister.

Only later does Zhou Yueyin discover that her illness is affected by the Chief Minister's mood. When he is unhappy, her heart feels as if it is being pierced by needles. Only when he is happy is she healthy.

But the Chief Minister seems unhappy every day.

With no other choice, Zhou Yueyin does everything she can to cheer him up.

2. No one has ever told Gu Zhi so plainly that they want him to be happy. Everyone in the world only wants him dead.

Gu Zhi can't help wanting to get close to her, hold her tight, and make her his.

But when he happily tells her that he wants to marry her, the smile vanishes from Zhou Yueyin's face.

She hesitates. She doesn't want him.

The usually hard-hearted Chief Minister's eyes turn red as he silently stares at Zhou Yueyin. After a long while, he finally says, "Liar."

The pastries she brought him were a lie.

Her efforts to cheer him up were a lie.

The person she wants to marry isn't him...

But it doesn't matter. He'll find a way to keep her by his side.

Zhou Yueyin lowers her eyes guiltily, unaware of the apocalyptic madness lurking in Gu Zhi's reddened eyes.

Content warnings: ◆The male lead is delusional. He goes crazy early on, then puts on an act later.

◆The male lead hurts unlucky people who aren't entirely innocent, and does so very cruelly [Important].

◆The male lead's actions are ultimately explained by his own twisted logic, not the author's.

◆This story falls into the category of kids playing house.

↓↓↓

Blurb for The Empress Is Spoiled and Capricious Again:

1. Jiang Miao is spoiled and capricious. There's nothing she can't get, only things she doesn't want. The Emperor indulges her, too, and nobody dares say a bad word about her.

Until she has a dream. In it, she's just a minor cannon-fodder character in a book, and in the end, she becomes a stepping stone that helps Lu Mingyan find true love. No matter how many times she struggles, she can't change her fate as a disposable character.

The dream feels so real and terrifying that Jiang Miao thinks it over seriously for a whole day. She decides to enjoy herself while she can, and make a tiny effort to struggle against her fate.

Jiang Miao becomes even more brazen and capricious.

She orders Lu Mingyan to warm her bed, then sends him away,

ruins a handkerchief that she suspects is a gift for Lu Mingyan's future true love,

wakes Lu Mingyan in the middle of the night to warm her stomach, and so on...

But Lu Mingyan still does everything for her without a single complaint, and only grows more doting.

As Jiang Miao gazes at the box of money hidden in the back courtyard, she begins to question her life.

2. Lu Mingyan ascended the throne as a young man. He is decisive, steady, and restrained, a capable emperor, except that he loses his reason where Jiang Miao is concerned.

Jiang Miao is arrogant and overbearing because he spoils her.

Jiang Miao is delicate and willful because he indulges her.

But lately, Jiang Miao has been secretly doing all sorts of baffling things, like deliberately ruining a handkerchief she gave him before, and digging a hole in the courtyard to hide money...?

Lu Mingyan originally didn't want to spoil her fun, but he happens to stumble upon her and has no choice but to pretend he doesn't know and ask, "Miaomiao, what are you doing?"

Jiang Miao: ...?

Theme: If you make an effort, you'll get something in return.