Upcoming novel, "Spoiling My Foolish Empress": a sweet romance!
Upcoming novel, "The Little Drama Queen's Guide to Chasing Her Love": another sweet romance!
Blurb:
Li Yu transmigrates, and the moment she opens her eyes, she's told she's here for a political marriage, with two princes waiting for her to choose one!
The Sixth Prince lives in extravagant excess, treats human lives like weeds, and has lost count of how many concubines and bedchamber attendants have died in his residence.
The Crown Prince is refined and aloof, and has never had a concubine in his residence.
Li Yu: The choice is obvious. Do I really need to pick?
On her first day at the Crown Prince's residence, the seemingly refined and polite Crown Prince grabs her by the throat.
Prying at his iron grip, Li Yu looks at him in horror. "I-I am a princess of the Great Liang..."
His eyes brim with bloodthirsty menace, and he gives a cold smile. "So what?"
Li Yu suddenly remembers another rumor she'd heard: after the Empress died, the Crown Prince became moody and bloodthirsty.
She realizes she'd been fooled by most of the rumors. He's a madman who kills without blinking.
To stay alive, she keeps his secret to herself.
To keep her marriage from becoming a tragedy, she gathers her courage and proposes a marriage alliance to the Crown Prince.
Her body trembles slightly, and her reddened eyes brim with tears, but she keeps her voice steady, forcing herself to stay calm.
"I am willing to enter into an agreement with Your Highness. When you ascend the throne, we will each marry whomever we wish, without interfering in each other's lives."
The Crown Prince smiles, refined and approving. "Good!"
After moving into the Crown Prince's residence, Li Yu brews wine herself to win over its master...
The fumes make her dizzy, and the alcohol gives her courage. She loops her arms around his neck and holds the wine to his lips.
"Your Highness, try some. What do you think of my wine?"
The steward of the Crown Prince's residence sees the princess clinging to the Crown Prince and, afraid that he'll throttle her without warning, hurries to intervene. But the Crown Prince opens his mouth, drinks the wine, picks up the princess, and strides away.
The steward looks up at the sky. "Did the sun rise in the west today?"
Li Mingxuan ascends to the highest position in the realm...
Before the phoenix-curtained bed, Li Yu, dressed in a phoenix robe and holding a small bundle she'd packed, stares at him in disbelief.
"You promised that once you became emperor, you'd give me a divorce."
Li Mingxuan narrows his eyes, a hint of madness in his smile. He reaches out and grips her small chin, forcing her to meet his gaze.
"The Crown Prince made that promise, but I am the Emperor. For the rest of your life, you can only be my Empress."
A delicate, pampered princess who loves wine like life itself x a possessive Crown Prince who loves clothes like life itself
The setting is entirely fictional, with a fictional history.
Upcoming novel blurb:
The only daughter of the Prime Minister is so beautiful, it's enough to make the gods jealous. Too bad, they say she's a little silly.
When the city falls, a hand stained with the blood of her kin and reeking of iron clamps tightly around Su Wanyue's fragile, slender neck, forcing the Prime Minister, who has led his men in defending the palace gates, to retreat. No one can stop him from climbing to the very peak of power.
Inside the palace...
The new Emperor grips Su Wanyue's delicate chin and looks at her coldly and viciously. "How do you think your father will feel, watching you be tortured to death?"
Tears cling to her lashes, ready to fall, as her terrified, trembling eyes meet his. "Father will be heartbroken."
She can't let Father be heartbroken!
Trembling all over, she presses her lips together and offers the new Emperor her sugar figurine, trying to please him.
Su Wanyue: "Y-Your Majesty, have some candy."
The new Emperor raises an eyebrow and accepts the sugar figurine...
At midnight, dark clouds fill the sky. With her black hair half loose over her snow-white robe, Su Wanyue holds a bowl of red noodles and stares at the new Emperor with bloodshot eyes.
In a tearful voice, she says, "Hap-py~ birth-day~ Your Majesty~."
The new Emperor's hand shakes as he reads memorials, and a blob of ink ruins one of them...
When the weather turns cold, the new Emperor notices that his bedding always smells of powder.
The next day, he catches a little fool who's crawled into his bed to warm it for him...
After living in the palace for a few months, Su Wanyue is worrying about how to please Emperor Xuanwen when someone tells her a way and tricks her into going to the pond, then pushes her in.
As she sinks and rises in the water, she sees a familiar figure swimming toward her like an arrow loosed from a bow.
Once ashore, he clutches her tightly and kisses her forehead with near-reverence. "They're all dead. No one will ever hurt you again."
Emperor Xuanwen's mother was a palace maid who never received a title, even before her death, and spent her life pining after the late Emperor's words of love.
So he doesn't believe true love exists. But after tasting the sweetness of candy and seeing her smile time and again, he can no longer bear the days he once spent alone.
"I love Yue'er. Will you stay by my side forever, Yue'er?"
A pampered, warmhearted, willful silly Empress x a cruel, vengeful Emperor Xuanwen
Announcement: This novel will be entering VIP serialization on Sunday, September 19. Thank you all for your support. I hope you'll continue to support my future novels, too.
Theme: Don't complain, because life always has a surprise waiting for you around the corner