The Grand Princess Is Up to No Good

[Please add my upcoming novel, Hot Pot in the Cold Palace, to your favorites! A short, cute, sweet story. The blurb is below. Don't miss it as you pass by~]

In her previous life, Xie Zhaoyu gave her life defending a city, only to be cruelly deceived and killed. With her dying breath, she swore that if she got another life, she would take revenge.

By a twist of fate, the people from her past appear before her once more. She keeps her promise and carefully lays her plans. While taking revenge, she also protects the son of a general, who looks just like the man she loves.

Later, she discovers he doesn't just look like him...

At first, Pei Yanjun thinks Xie Zhaoyu's damsel-saves-the-hero act is clumsy. He never expects this young woman to truly help him uncover the truth behind his father's death in battle, win back control of the army, and realize his ideals step by step.

That day on the battlefield, he runs his fingers over the flower of the other shore carved into his silver spear, and finally realizes how completely he has fallen for her clumsy act.

But whether in his past life or this one, he is happy to surrender to it.

A flower carved on the spear, you in my heart.

Those are the most moving words Pei Yanjun has said in either of his two lives.

One-on-one, both protagonists' first love, happy ending. A little angst in the middle, followed by lots of sweetness. Perhaps a story of one-sided salvation?

[The peerlessly beautiful princess: sometimes sweet, sometimes unhinged] X [The upright, warm-hearted son of a general: cold on the outside, warm on the inside]

The setting is loose, mixing court politics and the martial world, with some flimsy political scheming.

Not a rebirth story; includes past-life and present-life elements and a substitute trope.

The heroine is no saint.

The author is reliable and always finishes their stories. Feel free to say hello!

[Upcoming Novel Blurb]

One month after the new emperor ascends the throne, the empress is thrown into the cold palace and given a cup of poisoned wine, bringing her life to an abrupt end.

Before closing her eyes, Jiang Yue has one very simple final wish: to taste her mother's hot pot one more time. Perhaps her longing for the hot pot she never got to eat was so strong that when she opens her eyes again, Jiang Yue discovers that she has been reborn. The timing, however, couldn't be worse: it's the very first day she's been sent to the cold palace.

The misery of her previous life has taught Jiang Yue the importance of keeping her head down. Given another chance, she wants nothing to do with court politics or the battles in the imperial harem. She'd rather live a quiet, comfortable life in the cold palace and, most importantly, stay alive.

And so, people in the imperial harem often notice delicious aromas wafting out of the cold palace.

At first, they only attract a few stray cats. Then they draw in a few young palace maids.

And after that... they lure in the emperor too...

Later still, by the time the empress leaves the cold palace and takes her place on the throne again, she is already six months pregnant...

[A laid-back little empress] X [A devoted little emperor]

One-on-one, both protagonists' first love, happy ending.

A sweet story with no angst from start to finish. It won't be very long, so enjoy without worry.

Theme: The mountains and rivers are the edge on his silver spear, and also the faith that binds him and her.