After the Gloomy Crown Prince Took Me Back to the Palace

Please add "The Doting Heir's Daily Pursuit of His Wife" to your collection! The blurb is at the very bottom.

Please add the modern fluffy romance "I Liked You From the Start" to your collection, too!

Blurb for This Novel:

Yin Shuang accidentally saves the Crown Prince of the Ji Kingdom, a man who could well be called a "jinx." In public, the jinx is all smiles, but in private he's dangerously unhinged. He can't stand anyone saying a single bad thing about him, and when he first wakes up, injured, he tries to choke her.

After he returns to the palace,

he seems like a different person. He treats her wonderfully, even bringing in dancers and tutors to teach her martial arts, singing, dancing, etiquette, poetry, and painting...

She almost falls into the trap of his tenderness.

Until one conversation makes Yin Shuang gradually realize that Chun Yan is only interested in her looks. He's grooming her merely to send her to the Second Prince, Chun Chengyang, as a pawn, so she can help him kill his brother.

If it's the price of staying alive, so be it.

At fourteen, Yin Shuang becomes famous for a painting that spreads through the capital like a ringing bell, turning her into the dream girl of countless young men.

Everything has been going according to Chun Yan's plan.

Somewhere along the way, he begins to give in to Yin Shuang more and more. When the time comes to send her to the Second Prince, he hesitates.

When he sees Yin Shuang acting like a couple with the Second Prince, just as he wanted, he finds the sight unbearable. He has a powerful urge to hide her away.

At the Second Prince's birthday banquet, Yin Shuang and Chun Chengyang interact beautifully. Like the hero and heroine in a storybook, one dances while the other accompanies her on an instrument. They look remarkably well suited, and, damn it, perfectly in sync.

Watching them perform together, everyone is moved to tears: Your Highness, the Crown Prince, please just let them be together.

Chun Yan: ???

Why does he look like the other man?

Without another word, he takes the young woman back to his bedchamber and pins her against the door, warning her dangerously: "I warn you, stay away from him."

The young woman blinks her innocent, harmless eyes and timidly pulls her hand back. "Wasn't it Your Highness who told me to get close to him?"

Chun Yan: "..."

The words come back to hit him in the face.

His eyes narrow, and a bloodthirsty glint flashes in their dark depths. "I've changed my mind."

Reader's Guide:

1. Love grows over time. Both leads have no prior sexual partners. Happy ending.

2. This is a purely fictional setting.

"The Doting Heir's Daily Pursuit of His Wife"

When Min Xun first sees Hua Youquan, he is dressed in a striking red robe, sprawled boldly on the roof of a farmhouse. One hand props up his head, the other holds a flute, and his ink-black hair spills loose with his movement. He is languid and carefree, with a frivolous air in every gesture.

Min Xun thinks he's far too handsome. His seductive, enchanting peach-blossom eyes are prettier than a woman's.

She'd believe it if someone told her he'd run away from his wedding.

Across the crowd, their eyes meet, and Hua Youquan smiles at her.

From that day on, Hua Youquan comes up with one excuse after another to cling to her, claiming that this hurts today and that hurts tomorrow.

But she has devoted herself to medicinal herbs and pays no attention to anything else.

Gradually, she realizes...

Whenever she stays up late working on new prescriptions, he's there with her.

Whenever she goes up the mountain to gather herbs, he offers to carry her things.

When she falls ill and loses consciousness, he never leaves her side. He's always the first person she sees when she wakes up.

She's fallen for him, and she accepts it.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Min Xun gets drunk.

The next morning, the sudden sound of gongs and drums rings out beyond her door.

Hua Youquan sits astride a horse, dressed in a vivid, eye-catching red robe that makes him look like a bewitching, soul-stealing demon. His black hair flows freely behind him. He leans down slightly and parts his thin lips. "A Xun."

Just like the first time she saw him, his red clothes catch the eye.

Min Xun's eyelid twitches. "What are you..."

Hua Youquan answers expressionlessly: "Marrying you."

Before she can speak, she sees a document bearing her signature, stating that she agrees to marry him, complete with the government seal.

Min Xun: ???

Reader's Guide:

1. Fictional setting. Both leads have no prior sexual partners. Happy ending.

2. The male lead has no ulterior motive toward the female lead. He falls for her at first sight; she doesn't. She takes time to warm up.

Theme: Live life on your own terms, even in adversity