My Lord, You Can Just Say You Like Me

Ye Qing Tang is the capital's number one beauty, though she's hopeless at music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. But she has a powerful father, so she still gets to marry Shen Li Chu, the ideal husband every young noblewoman in the capital dreams of.

What no one knows is that nearly a year into their marriage, Ye Qing Tang and Shen Li Chu still sleep separately. Every three days or so, Ye Qing Tang asks whether Shen Li Chu likes her, and every time, he says no.

Ye Qing Tang believes him, and Shen Li Chu thinks he's telling the truth.

Until one day, after falling into the water, Ye Qing Tang somehow ends up living in another world for a while before returning.

When she opens her eyes again, she sees Shen Li Chu keeping watch beside her bed. As the saying goes, the one by the water gets the moon first. Help me up! I can keep flirting. I'll get you sooner or later!

Shen Li Chu has always thought he doesn't like Ye Qing Tang, until one day he finally gets it... He remembers all those times he denied it. Is it too late to take it back now?

Life as a princess consort is too boring, so Ye Qing Tang takes up her old trade in her spare time and starts writing novels to get back at society. But later, she realizes that some of Shen Li Chu's behavior is awfully similar to the plot devices in her novels.

Ye Qing Tang: Husband, is it really appropriate to use the plot tricks I wrote to court me?

When Ye Qing Tang first returned, every time she saw Shen Li Chu, she thought that if she got the chance, she could kiss a man like him until he cried.

But later...

A lovestruck, shamelessly flirtatious, theatrical heroine x a cool, reserved, secretly flirtatious hero

P.S.:

This is just a simple, sweet romance. The main plot is them falling in love, and there's nothing else.

The blurb might give the wrong impression, so let me make this clear: the male lead is an honorable gentleman, gentle and attentive, and not a scumbag at all. This is not a groveling-to-win-her-back story!

Not set in a purely ancient world. It has a bit of the feel of early novels that blended ancient settings with wuxia. It's a fictional world, so don't overthink it.

Ongoing:

"The Female Emperor": A beautiful, proud, and gentle princess who can be ruthless x a loyal young guard who's strong but sweet and naive

Blurb: Growing up, the words I heard most often were, "If only Miao Miao had been born a prince."

At first, I didn't understand why my father and mother always looked so regretful when they said it. As I grew older, I learned that a princess cannot inherit the throne.

Some advocated for the eldest legitimate child, others for the most virtuous. I was the eldest daughter born to the empress, and in terms of ability, I was no less capable than my brothers. Yet simply because I was a girl, it seemed my fate had been decided from the start: glory in the first half of my life under my father's favor, then spend the rest of it at the mercy of my brothers.

Even as a child, I knew this was wrong. So what if I was a woman? I was my father's child just like the rest of them, and no worse than anyone else. Why was I destined from birth to be beneath others?

Later, I came to understand that I was not born inferior, nor was I less capable than men. It was simply the weight of centuries of custom, binding women in this world with countless chains.

I was not the one in the wrong. The fault lay in a tradition everyone had come to accept as normal.

Later, when I heard my father sigh with regret again, I merely smiled and said nothing. I believed that being a woman would never be something I regretted.

Huo Miao: "Born into the imperial family, I am destined to stand above all others and put the realm first. I cannot live like an ordinary woman, serving my husband and raising children, with my husband as my heaven. If you don't want this, I won't force you. From now on, we can treat each other as sovereign and subject, and I will grant you a life of wealth and honor. If you are willing to spend your life with me, I will never let you down."

Qiao Chang Sheng: "Your Highness must protect the realm, so I will protect Your Highness. All I wish for in this life is to remain by Your Highness's side."

Coming soon:

"The Chancellor Only Wants to Govern the Realm": A female chancellor who cares for the whole realm x a shameless emperor

Blurb: Huo Yuan has a goddess in his heart. The year he was ambushed while traveling, the goddess he adored descended from the heavens and saved his life. From then on, her beautiful, otherworldly silhouette was etched into his heart.

Huo Yuan also has a sworn enemy. Their feud began when his six-year-old rival snatched one of his milk candies. Huo Yuan failed to get it back and was even beaten until he cried. He was seven at the time.

Later, Huo Yuan ascended the throne, and his sworn enemy became chancellor. Huo Yuan knew his chance for revenge had come. From then on, he dumped every tedious, troublesome task on his rival.

Huo Yuan thinks his rival looks at him every day in court as if he's an idiot, but he doesn't care. He loves seeing his rival unable to stand him, yet powerless to do anything about it!

But later, Huo Yuan discovers that his sworn enemy is the goddess. At that moment, he feels as if the sky itself has fallen.

Huo Yuan curls up in his covers and lies awake all night. Before court the next morning, he finally makes a solemn decision: So what if she's my sworn enemy? It's just my bad luck!

Wen Wan is a chancellor, The Outcast and a million others. She should have a bright future ahead, but the idiot emperor above her is at odds with her and spends every day coming up with childish ways to torment her. If he weren't still a wise ruler, Wen Wan would have wanted to kill him long ago.

Until one day, the emperor announces in front of everyone that he wants her to enter the palace as his empress...

Huo Yuan: "You've always been better than me at everything, but there's one thing you can't beat me at in this life: my future beloved will definitely outshine yours."

Wen Wan: "Your Majesty is too modest. When it comes to shamelessness, you have long surpassed me. I admit defeat and take my hat off to you."

Theme: Face life with a positive attitude