The White Lotus Lady's Guide to Taming Her Husband [Western Fantasy]

[New story coming soon! I started writing on impulse, with no advance reservations. It's an entertainment-industry story titled Everyone Online Ships Our Divorced Vibe [Entertainment Industry]. I hope you'll add it to your collection and support it! The blurb is at the end.] Elizabeth of Lorin was the daughter of the late Earl of Pembroke and Princess Malena of Budo. After her family was destroyed, thanks to the accursed Salic Law, she had no legitimate claim to any of her father's property. In the end, she was even treated like a gift, generously given by Queen Justi of Baines to His Majesty Louis I, Emperor of the Powitan Empire. On her first day at the Powitan court, Elizabeth wore a black velvet Rococo gown with an expensive jeweled trim and a long train. "Your Majesty, I bring you greetings from the Baines Empire on behalf of your mother, Queen Justi." She bent at the waist and curtsied, carrying herself with impeccable poise and beauty. The Baines envoys were smug, convinced they could at least make Miss Elizabeth Louis I's lover in short order. The courtiers of the Powitan Empire, however, silently prayed for this naive and inexperienced Miss Elizabeth. She had just committed three of His Majesty's greatest taboos: (1) His Majesty detested beautiful women. (2) His Majesty detested women wearing black dresses. (3) His Majesty detested people drawing attention to his mother-son relationship with Queen Justi. No one knew that on the night before the Pope personally baptized and crowned him, the unpredictable young emperor on the gilded throne had dreamed in the Privy Council Chamber of the Temple of Light. In his dream was a woman in a black dress, with a face exactly like Elizabeth Neville's. The Elizabeth in his dream was nothing like the pure, innocent, sheltered young woman before him. The Elizabeth in his dream behaved like a devotee of the Goddess of Darkness. Like him, she had a thoroughly black heart. * A sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside noblewoman stranded in a foreign court and forced to climb the social ladder x an adorably contradictory emperor who thinks he's an evil dark overlord Advance release: Everyone Online Ships Our Divorced Vibe [Entertainment Industry], a modern-day romance. [Blurb] Mu Luoling made her debut at nineteen alongside Luo Wanzhou in the film Green Lime Lake, and for a time they were hailed as the best first-love couple on screen. They never worked together again over the next five years. At the Golden Antelope Awards ceremony one year, a GIF of the two of them together at the side of the stage quickly went viral and topped the trending topics. In it, Luo Wanzhou reached out to help Mu Luoling off the stage, his face expressionless, but Mu Luoling ignored him completely, lifting her skirt and walking right past him. The top-liked comment read: I'm dying. Why do they give me divorced vibes? Savvy netizens rushed to explain below: I think they dated back then, but broke up pretty quickly. Mu Luoling (horrified): ??? I didn't, I haven't, don't make things up. Netizens (starry-eyed): I want to see them forced to work together after breaking up! * Later, Mu Luoling and Luo Wanzhou co-starred in the film My Lover from My Youth. Netizens: These actors are so dedicated. They're acting opposite their ex, yet they can still create such heart-wrenching chemistry. Luo Wanzhou (expressionless): We're certainly good actors. But to correct you, she's not my ex. We're passionately in love right now. Mu Luoling (professional smile): Thanks. My boyfriend is way too clingy. I'm already thinking about breaking up with him. Everyone online thinks we're following a second-chance romance plot, but really, we're just two rookies with zero dating experience bickering like a pair of birds. * [The divorced-vibe trope came from something I saw while browsing online. But this story is not based on real people! Not based on real people!] [Excessively sweet] Theme: Work hard for the beautiful things in life.