The Marquis Says He Knows He Was Wrong

[The blurb for the upcoming novel The Emperor's Regrets is below. Thanks for your support, mwah~]

Blurb:

Shen Yu, Marquis of Changze, was handsome and famous from a young age.

Countless noblewomen in the capital fell for him.

Chu Langhua was one of them, and she was confident Shen Yu would marry her.

She and Shen Yu had been childhood sweethearts. Who else could possibly make a better match for him?

After turning fifteen, she went to the palace and asked her uncle to arrange a marriage for her.

One day, the emperor tactfully offered Shen Yu a marriage arrangement.

Shen Yu smiled. He said that Chu Langhua was unruly and had no respect for proper conduct, and wasn't worthy of his two fiefs, Yong'an and Yongzhou.

"Besides..."

Shen Yu grew serious and paused.

"I already have someone in mind to be the Princess of Yong'an. She is the second daughter of the Chen family of Jingzhao. She is gentle and composed, gracious and courteous, and has much of my late mother's bearing..."

Behind the beaded curtain and gauzy screen, Chu Langhua listened to Shen Yu praise another woman, word by word.

She snapped the silk fan she'd been playing with.

-

At some point, Shen Yu, Marquis of Changze, stopped seeing the little shadow who used to follow him around.

At first, he was pleased, thinking that Princess Baoqing had finally grown up and stopped pestering him.

Later, at a palace banquet, he saw a beautiful woman whose dignified, proper appearance seemed oddly familiar.

But Shen Yu didn't dare acknowledge her. He only heard the emperor call her "Baoqing" again and again.

The charming girl who had once pouted and played coy with him beside a peach-blossom stream in spring had grown into a woman.

Shen Yu's heart stirred, yet he never expected to see the dignified princess, so poised in public, acting sweet and coy with someone in private among the plum trees covered in white snow.

He clearly heard the woman call out, "Seventh Brother..."

That was His Highness Prince Chen, the emperor's seventh son, who had just returned from the northwestern stronghold of Ningzhou.

A piece of Shen Yu's heart went empty.

He had never imagined that the one special person meant for him alone would be Chu Langhua.

But the one and only time his heart had ever stirred left Shen Yu battered and broken.

Only when he finally gathered his beloved into his arms, cherishing her with all his heart, did he learn that Heaven had shown him favor:

The beautiful woman had once loved him, too.

-Upcoming historical romance, The Emperor's Regrets-

"Your Majesty, the emperor has taken a new consort."

"Has he not taken enough women into the palace over the years?"

"But... but this time, the woman he has taken is a daughter of the Su family..."

He had long since forgotten his promise never to take another consort. And this time, he had gone even further, bringing the very person who had murdered her family before her eyes.

On this day,

Even though the emperor repeatedly ordered them to, no one in Heqing Palace could forget how badly the empress lost her composure on the day Consort Su entered the palace.

The emperor rose from his panic and seized the blade in her hand. Blood streamed down as he lowered his brows, his expression impossible to read.

"After all these years, Empress, you are still as reckless and brazen as ever."

*

Lu Wanrou was reborn on her wedding night with Rong Chengyun.

This time, he still wanted to exploit her maternal grandfather's influence, and, as always, liked to pretend to be deeply in love.

At their first meeting after her rebirth,

Lu Wanrou dismissed the maids, leaving only a wooden basin in the hall. She rested her jade feet on Rong Chengyun's body. As she watched his gentle smile falter, her red lips parted:

"It's cold. My feet are cold, too."

Rong Chengyun understood what she meant. He lowered his head and fell silent for a moment, then wrapped his long fingers around her ankle. No matter how unwilling and disgusted he felt, he still had to ask her gently and kindly:

"Is the water temperature comfortable?"

*

Later, he willingly bowed before her, only for her to kick him away.

How could Rong Chengyun not go mad?

Theme: Cherish the present as you go, for the scenery along the road is beautiful.