After I Saved the Hostage Prince from an Enemy Kingdom

[Next up: Reborn, I Won't Pick Up a Mad Dog. Blurbs for Records of Failed Attempts to Save the Villain and The Gods Don't Love Me are below. Please add them to your to-read list!]

[This novel will be completed and become a paid title on October 29. If you've already read it, please don't read it again!]

Blurb:

After her elder brother left, Rong Qingyue understood the heavy burden of protecting her country. As a woman, she trained in martial arts under a great general, then headed for the battlefield, where life and death were left to fate. Every day, she lived as if she might die the next.

Years later, Rong Qingyue prepared to lay down her armor and return to the capital to investigate certain matters. Before taking off her armor, she did one thing:

At the site of the fighting between the two sides, she accepted the hostage sent by Nan Qi to sue for peace.

This hostage reminded her greatly of her elder brother.

Sharing a military tent with him, she watched him sit alone and helpless. Her hands brushed over his sightless eyes as she said, "Don't be afraid. I'll protect you here."

At first, she only wanted to keep him alive so he could return home safely one day. Later, she realized that, to him, his own country was more like hell.

At first, she carefully taught him as if he were her younger brother. Then, at some point, things changed between them.

The day Li Xu removed his blindfold and could see again, Rong Qingyue met his eyes, as gentle as spring water. As if possessed, she said, "Yan Huai, I have a game of strategy whose outcome, life or death, is unclear. Do you dare to enter it?"

He answered without hesitation: "If it is Your Highness's game, I will enter."

Beloved third princess x frail seventh prince

Content warnings:

1. Set in an imagined historical world. Please don't scrutinize the historical accuracy.

2. Both are sexually inexperienced; one-on-one romance; happy ending.

3. The male lead's eyesight will recover.

4. The romance between the leads is a minor storyline, and the male lead has little presence early on. Readers who are devoted to the male lead, please don't read.

6. Read or leave as you please. Getting along peacefully is what matters most.

7. The title and blurb may be changed at any time.

8. Some parts of the blurb may appear in an extra chapter, though that's not certain.

Blurb revised on 2020.12.17 / character names revised for the second time on 2023.8.16 / blurb revised on September 7 and 11, 2023 / blurb revised on February 22, 2024

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A completed novel by a friend: After Transmigrating into a Book, I Decisively Broke Up with the Male Lead, by Lin Qingchi

Li Xuhuai endured mockery and contempt from childhood. He went from being a prince who had killed countless people and thought nothing of the law to a ruler whom everyone feared and obeyed.

Yet there was only one humiliation in his life: the woman the current empress had forcibly foisted upon him.

Many years later, he could never have imagined that this woman would become the one regret of his life.

In the book, the original owner was given by imperial decree in marriage to the unloved second prince.

Who could have guessed that overnight, this ignored prince would ascend the throne?

The world said she was lucky. Only Xi Suilan knew how ruthless and violent he was. The Xi family was a tool he used to seize power, and deposing the empress was how he established his authority.

Who could have guessed that the new emperor's first sword would be pointed at his own empress?

As she languished in the imperial prison, the young general known as the God of Slaughter entered the palace alone and surrendered his military command.

Xi Suilan seemed to catch the scent of plum blossoms, a fragrance mingled with blood and tears.

After abruptly transmigrating into a book, she was determined to openly reject the marriage. The world was vast, and Xi Suilan refused to believe there was no place where she could make a life for herself.

At the palace banquet, before Xi Suilan had finished making her excuse for refusing the marriage, a clear, cool voice hastily cut in. The young general, drinking alone, spoke up: "The person you love... is me."

[Blurb for the next novel, Reborn, I Won't Pick Up a Mad Dog]

Yuan Mingshu's greatest regret in this life was that, on a day when heavy snow covered the ground and froze people to death, she brought Jiang Cizui back to the princess's residence. He had been buried beneath the thick white snow on a chaotic street and was on the brink of death.

She had been the cherished daughter of her father, mother, and elder brother, the Duanhe Princess of the prosperous and brilliant Xuan Kingdom. Because of this one person, her country fell and her family was destroyed.

Jiang Cizui imprisoned her and kept her confined, making his childhood sweetheart and beloved humiliate her every day. In the end, she watched helplessly as her last remaining family member died with a blade through the heart, just one step away from her, trying to save her.

The last vestige of her affection for Jiang Cizui was utterly extinguished. With nothing left to hold her back, Yuan Mingshu chose to take everyone who had shamed, insulted, and harmed her down with her.

No one was going to get through this life unscathed.

But at the instant the knife sank into his heart, she thought back over her life. In the end, her hand trembled, and Jiang Cizui survived.

Forget it. He had lost the person he loved. His life would be miserable enough.

Yuan Mingshu closed her eyes, carrying a slight regret with her.

*

When she opened her eyes again, she was back on the day she had saved Jiang Cizui.

The first thing she did after waking was order someone to throw Jiang Cizui, who had only just regained a little awareness, out of the residence.

Someone asked her: "Didn't you go to such lengths to save him? Why leave him to fend for himself now?"

She lowered her eyes to the hem of her skirt, which someone had grabbed, and sneered. "The snow was blinding that day. I was blind and mistook a devil for an immortal. That was my mistake."

As the guards came to drag him away, she heard Jiang Cizui, who could barely breathe in, call out, "A Shu."

Yuan Mingshu said plainly, "Throw him out!"

She was not a kind person. She didn't know what had clouded her judgment before, but she had let kindness get the better of her once. This time, she would unleash her wicked side to keep her family safe. Anyone who dared provoke her would die.

Reader's guide

* A reborn female lead who rediscovers her hidden mad streak x a male lead who is still mad after being reborn, regrets his actions, and humbly begs for forgiveness, but has no chance

* A story about the leads competing to see who is more deranged

* Both are reborn, and neither is a good person

* He pursues his wife to the crematorium, but fails to win her back

* An imagined setting, with the logic following the plot. Please don't scrutinize it.

Theme: Women, too, can be heroes