The Princess Keeps a Hostage Prince in Her Gilded Cage

Pre-release novel: Call Me Big Brother

Blurb:

Liang Ying had a dream. In it, she was a princess of a fallen kingdom, forcibly abducted on the run and taken to the Kingdom of Huaiyue, where she became a caged bird in its imperial palace.

When she woke with a start, she thought it over carefully. The man in her dream was the young hostage prince she'd met the day before.

"You threw yourself at me!"

"You were playing hard to get!"

"You took advantage of me!"

The bold young man in real life was utterly different from the cold prince in her dream. Perfect. He'd successfully caught her attention.

The next day, an imperial edict made Yuan Qianxiao Liang Ying's study companion.

On the day he arrived, Yuan Qianxiao was furious. "Princess Seven, what exactly do you want?"

She leaned close to his ear and said in a coquettish voice, "I want you to let me do whatever I want with you."

"There's something wrong with your head."

"If you refuse, you'll have to keep being my study companion and behave yourself. In a year, I'll ask Father Emperor to let you return to Huaiyue. So, one last time: do you agree or not?"

Yuan Qianxiao: "..." What choice did he have?

By day, he was bold and she was composed. The two acted like strangers.

By night, she used everything Aunt Baizhi had taught her on him. His restrained, stubbornly defiant appearance put her in a wonderful mood.

A gentleman knows when to yield, but later, when she went too far, he could no longer hold back his desire. He rolled over, seized the upper hand, and pinned her down.

"It doesn't have to be one year. I'll accept a lifetime. Who wants to play games with you? I want the real thing."

A fake, aloof beauty x a truly bold and uninhibited man

Blurb for Call Me Big Brother:

When she was seven, Qu Lingxi's father died in battle and her mother followed him in death. Left an orphan with no one to rely on, she was adopted as a sworn daughter by the former prime minister.

The former prime minister had a noble young master in his household, gifted and distinguished. On the day she arrived, he looked at her coldly. "Call me big brother."

"...Big brother," she murmured timidly.

Eight years later, Qu Lingxi had become the most beautiful woman in Yezhou. Suitors coming to the Song residence would soon wear a path through its doorway. On the night of her fifteenth birthday, Song Qijing came to her room.

She lowered her head and deliberately put on an ingratiating look. "Big brother." In truth, she hated him, because beneath his handsome exterior lurked a demon.

"Keep pretending. I like watching you put on an act." He sat down, his gaze dark, and tapped the spot beside him again and again. "Come here. I'll give you a birthday present."

From then on, he came to her room whenever he had the chance.

A year later, Song Qijing passed the highest imperial examination and went to the capital to serve as an official. A few days later, Qu Lingxi married someone else.

She had thought she could finally escape him, but her husband ran into trouble while taking up a post in the capital. With no one around willing to help, she had no choice but to ask him.

When they met again, Song Qijing sat on the bed, his face full of mockery. "Dear little sister, I thought you'd forgotten about me."

"...Big brother, please let him go." Her face was flushed. She had just been crying.

"That's not enough. Call me again." He watched her with interest and said softly, "After all, I'm insatiable."

Premise: You have to fight for your own happiness.