Dressed for the Last Time

My next book, My Mad Dog Has Someone He Loves, is coming soon. The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your favorites! It'll be launching soon.

Xie Diaofeng, heir to the Prince of Qin, is debauched and utterly useless. He keeps a whole courtyard full of beauties, with the Four Beauties, Chai, Zan, Huan, and Pei, being the most outstanding.

Even surrounded by beauties, he still isn't satisfied, and goes hunting for more with his dissolute friends.

In the filthy slave market, the high-and-mighty heir to the princely mansion lifts a slave's chin. "Not bad. I'll take her."

"Taken a liking to someone again, Your Highness?"

"I already have Chai, Zan, Huan, and Pei. How could I do without clothes to match them?"

Amid a chorus of agreement, Yan Nanxi is trampled into the mud and becomes a plaything in the libertine's inner court.

Once cleaned up, the slave is as beautiful as spring dawn, with eyes like autumn waters. She's even more stunning than Chai, Zan, Huan, and Pei.

Everyone praises the heir's discerning eye, and his reputation as a playboy grows even greater.

Yan Nanxi, whose plans have been thrown into disarray: ...

Since things have turned out this way, she might as well play along. She has no choice but to humor Xie Diao, so Yan Nanxi prepares a pile of plans to deal with this womanizer.

Then she doesn't use a single one?!

Someone tell her, can a playboy really sit unmoved among a courtyard full of beauties?

Can a playboy really be skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting?

Can a playboy really disguise himself in the middle of the night and go into battle?

Most importantly, can a playboy really overthrow a foolish emperor and take the throne?

The fallen phoenix returns to her branch, and the former playboy, now emperor, comes to ask for her hand.

Yan Nanxi commands a hundred thousand troops and politely refuses. "Your Majesty must be joking. I'm nothing but a pretty face, an empty shell meant to match your clothes."

Xie Diao bends down to place a flower in her hair. "King Yan must be joking. I clearly said I'd stay by your side for life and gladly marry into your family."

[This story is set in an imaginary world. Please don't nitpick the historical details.]

The story is complete!! Time to start preparing the next one!!

-- Blurb for My Mad Dog Has Someone He Loves --

Cold female lead x obsessive male lead

Everyone in the capital knows that Yan Zhi is a mad dog at the side of Princess Zhuangning, Zhao Guanjin.

For the person he has secretly loved for many years, Yan Zhi works himself to the bone, striving to rise above his station and escape that label.

But just as he gets what he wants and holds his beloved close, he sees his hard-hearted former mistress smiling sweetly at someone else.

At that moment, the thing he wants most isn't to wish them well or look away, but to tear apart the painfully intimate bond between them.

In that instant, Yan Zhi knows he'll never escape Zhao Guanjin's label.

But this time, he's perfectly happy with it.

Notes of a Mad Dog:

When Yan Zhi first crawled out of the mud, he saw someone as bright as the moon.

Not long afterward, Zhao Guanjin took him away. The others said that from then on, Zhao Guanjin would be his master.

He asked Zhao Guanjin how he should repay a kindness.

After thinking it over, Zhao Guanjin replied, "You should gain power and influence, then keep the person safe and comfortable by your side. That's the best way."

Only later did Yan Zhi realize that this was exactly how Zhao Guanjin had treated him.

But he had escaped the hothouse she had built for him.

Yan Zhi thought he regretted it.

If he turned back and his mistress didn't want him, then he'd hide her away. From then on, Yan Zhi would be the only one in Zhao Guanjin's eyes and heart.

Even if her heart were hard as iron, he would burn his name into it.

Theme: Do what you want to do, and everything will work out.