Beauty's Makeup

Blurb: [My upcoming novel, Graceful Beauty, is looking for bookmarks]

Something unusual happened in the capital recently: Second Young Miss Rong of the powerful Chancellor Rong's household asked to end her engagement to the Crown Prince.

Everyone knows that the Chancellor's second daughter is the apple of her family's eye, a peerless beauty and the most beautiful woman in the capital.

Promised to the Crown Prince at birth, she was the envy of all.

When the aristocratic clans heard the news, they all sighed on behalf of the Chancellor's second daughter.

But no one expected that when the emperor abdicated, he would pass the throne to Chu Yi, Prince of Qi'an, a man of mercurial temperament and ruthless cruelty.

Still less did they expect that, not long after ascending the throne, the new emperor would make the Chancellor's second daughter his empress.

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When the Rong household first called off the engagement, all the former "good sisters" came to offer their sympathies. Rong Qingqing replied with just one sentence: "I don't want to be empress."

Chu Yi, Prince of Qi'an, happened to overhear her and fell silent.

Later, after the new emperor ascended the throne, he delayed taking up his position. Chancellor Rong went to the palace in the middle of the night to ask why.

Chu Yi glanced at him coolly. "If I ascend the throne, there'll be no empress for me. In that case, I might as well give it up."

That night, Chancellor Rong told his daughter about it. Without a second thought, Qingqing went straight to the palace. When she came back, her hair was half undone and her cheeks were flushed.

The next day, an imperial decree naming her empress was issued.

#So Much for Not Wanting to Be Empress#

#The Realm Is No Match for a Beauty's Makeup#

[Reading Guide]:

1. Past and present lives. The reason for the broken engagement is revealed in the story, with clues planted along the way.

2. The male lead loves the female lead in both lives. No harem.

3. Sweet romance, fictional dynasty, a mishmash of history.

4. This story has many fictional elements, so please don't scrutinize it for historical accuracy.

5. Started in 2020 and completed in March 2021.

--My upcoming novel, I Am the Tyrant's White Moonlight, is looking for bookmarks--

Blurb: Meng Wan, the eldest legitimate daughter of the Prince Regent's household, is peerlessly beautiful and renowned throughout Chang'an. Before she even came of age, prospective suitors had already worn a path to her door.

But her father proved useless and incurred the emperor's suspicion, forcing the family to leave the capital temporarily to avoid trouble.

Just after arriving in Jiangnan, Meng Wan happened to pick up an extraordinarily handsome young man.

Not only was the young man as beautiful as a painting, he was also sweet, considerate, and perfectly suited to her tastes.

Then one day, Meng Wan had a dream. It turned out she was merely a cannon-fodder side character in a book, and the young man she'd picked up was the original male lead. Unable to win her love, he would turn evil and eventually give her a cup of poisoned wine.

And their life together beneath the warm hibiscus curtains would be quite passionate.

Meng Wan: "..."

Is there any point in letting this story continue?

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After agonizing for several days, Meng Wan decided that staying alive mattered most, and deliberately began distancing herself from the boy she'd raised from childhood.

One day, snow and rain swirled through the air.

The young man stood by her bed, holding a bloodied blade. His voice was cold, his expression innocent. "Older Sister, you've been ignoring me lately. Have you started to hate me?"

As he spoke, the blade gleamed brightly.

Meng Wan immediately cowered and blurted out, "No."

[Black-bellied wolf-dog male lead x fake gentle, truly ridiculous female lead]

Contemporary novel, The Genius Scholar, is looking for bookmarks

Title: The Genius Scholar

Blurb: [Science whiz, dream-chasing girl x genius scholar, cocky boy]

Ever since the four families in T City formed an alliance, all kinds of strange things have been happening.

The strangest was that Jing Han, the only daughter of the Jing family, and Yun Xi, the young master of the Yun family, both won first prize in the International Mathematical Olympiad and were admitted directly to the top-scoring class at T City No. 1 High School before taking the high school entrance exam.

When they first met--

Jing Han walked up to the boy with a book of olympiad problems, trying to contain her excitement as she asked, "Hey, I heard you came first in last year's International Mathematical Olympiad. How do you usually study math?"

The boy yawned lazily. "No idea. I just glanced at the test and somehow got first place."

Jing Han was speechless.

Later--

As soon as the bell rang, Yun Xi chased after the girl with his test paper. "Jing Han, I don't understand the proof of the Lagrange mean value theorem in the last question of this joint exam. Could you teach me?"

Jing Han sneered. "You don't understand it, yet you got a perfect score?"

The boy paused, then said, "Next time, I'll let you get a perfect score."

#Olympiad Math Brought Them Together, Perfect Scores Sealed Their Love#

#A Scholar's Romance#

Theme: Believe in true love. There is love in this world