Wasn't My Beloved Consort Supposed to Be a Sickly Beauty?

[Blurb 3, January 15, 2022. Updates at midnight every night. The novel will be available to purchase on April 16. After that, at least three chapters and aiming for six per week. Thanks for all your support, darlings, mwah~]

Jiang Anyan was a tyrant: arrogant, capricious, and especially fond of beautiful people, with a particular weakness for handsome men.

He heard that the Great General's second son was strikingly beautiful, delicate and frail, and always looked sickly and in need of care. So he had the young man forcibly brought into the palace, then promptly ignored him.

Yet after that, Jiang Anyan kept running into the second son in all sorts of situations.

Sometimes they happened to cross paths in the imperial garden. The second son, his own hands red from the cold, would still give Jiang Anyan his only cloak.

Other times they would meet on a palace walkway. Though gravely ill, the second son would force himself to stay awake and go to the imperial kitchen to make Jiang Anyan something to eat.

Without realizing it, Jiang Anyan gradually let down his guard. The quiet, unassuming second son soon became the only favored consort in the harem.

Who could have guessed that once he became the favored consort, the seemingly frail young man would reveal his commanding presence? His sword dance took the capital by storm.

He also kept his cool in a crisis and saved the emperor, and fought assassins even more fiercely than Jiang Anyan did.

Anyone who wanted to pick a fight with Jiang Anyan had better consider whether their life was tougher than the second son's sword.

Jiang Anyan: "...I thought my beloved consort was supposed to be delicate and frail?"

Yu Yiming, the second son, smiled as he drew Jiang Anyan into his arms. His voice was gentle. "Whether I'm delicate and frail, Your Majesty will have to find out for yourself."

Rumor had it that Jiang Anyan was a tyrant cursed with ill fortune, and anyone who got close to him would meet a terrible end.

The young men forcibly brought into the palace lived in fear every day, dreading the moment he might take a whim to visit the harem.

Only Yu Yiming gazed from afar at Jiang Anyan's solitary figure and gently closed his hand around the little jade seal he held.

His king deserved to go down in history and be revered by all the people.

An unpredictable tyrant uke x a scheming seme who only pretends to be sickly

[Reader's Guide]

1. As is customary, this is a one-on-one romance. The uke has never slept with anyone before.

2. A sweet romance between evenly matched leads! There's a reason the uke became a tyrant. The seme isn't truly sickly either, he just naturally looks a bit unwell, haha.

3. Very little court politics, so be warned that the emperor has a lot of free time.

4. I'm only writing the story I want to tell. I don't accept writing advice, and please don't nitpick the logic too much! Be warned, the plot is a bit of a mess because I'm terrible at plotting. If it's not your thing, just quietly move on.

---§Next historical novel§---

Title: The Flirtatious Beauty, But He Flirted with the Wrong Person

In a nutshell: He flirted with everyone, and sooner or later, it was bound to backfire.

Blurb:

Shen Weixu transmigrated into a book and unexpectedly became bound to a System, which told him he had to win over the protagonist in the book to survive.

But before the System could tell him who the protagonist was, it broke down halfway through and began repairing itself.

Using the plot fragments the System had given him, Shen Weixu found the pitiful, helpless protagonist, who was constantly bullied.

He played to his greatest strength, his knack for charming people. He gave the protagonist warmth and taught him to read, write, ride, and shoot, easily earning his trust.

Seven years later, on the day the protagonist blushed and gathered the courage to confess his feelings,

The System finished repairing itself and told Shen Weixu he'd won over the wrong person.

He had mistaken Pei Zhiyao, the biggest villain in the book, for the protagonist. Pei Zhiyao was still harmless at the time, and had yet to wreak havoc at court.

Shen Weixu: ...There are so many expletives I want to say right now.

A law-abiding citizen, Shen Weixu resigned himself to his fate. He coldly rejected the confession, packed up, and ran off that very day to find the real protagonist and cozy up to him.

After that, the villain followed the original story's path, passed the imperial examinations, and completed his descent into darkness.

So why did his descent into darkness seem to be heading in such a strange direction...?

In a dim alley on a dark and windy night,

Pei Zhiyao, the newly appointed chancellor with power over the court, caught Shen Weixu by the hand and pinned him against the wall, smiling with gentle, harmless sweetness.

"Big brother, I've caught you."

A flirtatious beauty uke who values his life above all else x a devoted, possessive seme, innocent at first and a scheming flirt later

Theme: Life doesn't always go as we wish, but we should always do our best to fight for what we want.