His Highness Wins Them Over with Cowardice

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[Character Setup] A rakish, dissolute former crown prince x a tall, cold female swordswoman

[An earnest, playful blurb]

Phoenix Prince Zhao Changji is one of Chang'an's most notorious young wastrels. After years of carefree debauchery, he never expected to fall into Fu Chabai's hands.

The woman has a stunningly beautiful but icy face, and she is always wielding either a long whip or a sword. She snaps back at him at the slightest disagreement, and starts a fight at the next...

Unable to win an argument or a fight against her, Zhao Changji is miserable. Crying, throwing a tantrum, and threatening to hang himself don't earn him even the slightest sympathy from Fu Chabai. He is so furious he gets up in the middle of the night to drink.

Fu Chabai appears from nowhere and reminds him, "A pot of wine costs two qian of silver. Your Highness, remember to pay your bill."

Zhao Changji grits his teeth. Whose princely residence is this, anyway?

Seeing his indignation, Fu Chabai draws the long whip from her waist, ready to fight. But then the drunken man says, "Xiaobai, you weren't like this before..."

Not only is he drunk, he's pretending to be mad and takes her hand, forcibly pushing the whip back into place at her waist.

Fu Chabai scoffs. "What was I like before?"

"Before..." The Phoenix Prince hiccups. Starlight glimmers in his peach-blossom eyes, making Fu Chabai lose focus for a moment.

He complains pitifully, "You used to hit and scold me too, but you cared for me and loved me in your heart. Now all you want is to torment me, inside and out!"

Fu Chabai pulls his paw away. "You're imagining things." She turns around, then says, "I'll forgive your wine bill."

[Reading Guide]

1. Pure fantasy, a jumble of ideas, no historical research required.

2. It may feel like the heroine is stronger than the hero, but trust our heroine. Her whip will spur him to improve.

3. The hero is timid and flirtatious for a reason. He has a physical disability and is half-blind for a reason, too. Whether he gets better depends on the heroine's mood.

4. There is a deep divide between the heroine and hero, but this has a happy ending.

[Upcoming Stories]

Flourishing Blossoms (next novel, a sweet danmei story; skip it if it's not your thing)

The Great Merchant (the one after that, the legendary life of a female merchant amid the turmoil of a chaotic age)

[Upcoming Story Blurb]

The Great Merchant (the blurb may change, but the broad outline will stay the same)

She is Anuhua, a flower born in a war-torn land, the daughter of the lowest-ranking military prostitute in Hedan City.

She is also the little girl who belongs to Old Ma in Peishui Town, an abandoned child left on the frontier by a noble of the Xiaoguo Kingdom.

Anuhua always wants to hold on to everything she has, but strangely, she can never keep a thing. So she prays to Heaven: if you won't give me the warmth of human kindness, then give me cold coins instead.

She learns to scheme, to compete, to look out for herself. Little by little, in this turbulent age, she takes hold of the means to survive, only to see it all vanish in the blink of an eye... Anuhua thinks: if that's how it is, then money isn't enough. She wants the power to shape this chaotic world!

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Theme: Face hardship and danger without fear, and charge ahead to achieve your goals. Women, too, should be self-reliant.