Has My Lady Tried to Kill Me in Secret Today?

The novel next door, Beauty Xi, is now underway. Come take a look, everyone~

Blurb:

On the night before Yun Ni is to marry the Regent, her aunt by marriage, who has always been close to her, dabs at her tears with a handkerchief and clasps her hand, giving her repeated instructions: "The emperor is young. It is a pity that the princess must shoulder this burden. When the time is right, you must kill that traitor who bears another surname with your own hands!"

Yun Ni holds a jade ruyi, her heart pounding. She can hardly believe she is truly going to marry Rong Yu, yet she answers with a faint smile: "Rest assured, Your Highness."

Everyone knows the Regent and the Chancellor's daughter grew up together as childhood sweethearts. He forced the princess to marry him simply to secure his power.

Yun Ni knows he has someone else in his heart, but she cannot help inching closer to him, then closer still.

On their wedding day, Yun Ni replaces the wine in the pot with peach blossom wine she brewed herself. Rong Yu takes a small sip, then sweeps out of the room.

Yun Ni: He really does hate me.

The Regent: This wine... The princess really did mean to assassinate me.

After the wedding, Yun Ni carries a bowl of ginseng soup out of the kitchen, which looks as if it has been through a war. The Regent frowns, guessing from experience that the soup is probably poisoned. But he cannot bear to waste something Yun Ni made with her own hands, so he drinks it all in one go.

Then he spends the entire night on the toilet.

Yun Ni, unaware of what happened: He's sleeping in his study again. He really is sulking.

The Regent, drained from a night of diarrhea: My wife really can't stand me.

---Coming Soon: The Tool Character Supporting Actress After the Happy Ending---

Jiang Li's position as Crown Princess was snatched away.

At her coming-of-age ceremony, the Crown Prince, to whom she was engaged, appeared before everyone carrying an unconscious woman in plain clothes. He said that the woman had saved his life.

After that, things started getting strange.

The woman who had saved the Crown Prince was full of unprecedented ideas. She not only foresaw several natural disasters, earning the emperor's favor, but also became the subject of rumors among the common folk that she was a goddess descended to earth.

The Crown Prince, who had grown up with Jiang Li, insisted on breaking off their engagement, saying Ning Shu'er wanted only one person for her whole life. The empress, who had long regarded Jiang Li as her future daughter-in-law, also made it clear in no uncertain terms that she should know her place and give up the position of Crown Princess to Ning Shu'er. Even the Empress Dowager, who had doted on her since childhood, talked about Ning Shu'er all day long, and returned every bowl of soup Jiang Li sent without so much as touching it.

The Empress Dowager was the only elder she had who was almost like family, and the Crown Prince was the husband chosen for her long ago. Even if there were no Ning Shu'er now, there would be a Wang Shu'er or a Li Shu'er later. So Jiang Li decided to follow the Empress Dowager's advice and enter the Eastern Palace alongside Ning Shu'er.

It was only on the day the decree came ordering her to marry into a foreign land that Jiang Li understood what the Crown Prince and Ning Shu'er had done to escape their engagement.

Red candles flickered as the man rumored to be a demon from the enemy kingdom lifted the roughly stitched bridal veil. He raised a hand and gripped her chin, his tone impossible to read. "I hear your Qi kingdom has a goddess reincarnate?"

"How do you compare?"

---Coming Soon: Beauty Xi---

The Prince of Qin is poisoned by a strange toxin and loses his memories, imagining Ming Xi to be his wife, whom he met when young and loved deeply.

Who is Ming Xi? She is merely a life the Prince of Qin happened to save from a ruined, desolate city years ago. The noblewomen in the capital tease that the prince has taken in a cat or dog to amuse himself.

Now this orphan girl has leapt up to become the Princess of Qin. The prince dotes on her, sharing her bed every night and wishing he could keep her by his side at every moment. The noblewomen in the capital, who were waiting to see her make a fool of herself, grind their teeth in frustration.

Later, when the Prince of Qin recovers from the lingering poison, the Imperial Tutor's daughter comes to visit. They stroll side by side through the garden, and beneath a gentle breeze, the man reaches out to pluck a fallen blossom from her hair, his smile full of indulgence.

In that moment, Ming Xi finally understands what the physician had said in fragments behind the screen that day: "She may bear some resemblance to the person in His Highness's heart."

Ming Xi acts at once. She leaves behind a letter and departs for Jiangnan.

When the letter is delivered to the Prince of Qin, the Imperial Tutor's daughter says gently, "Perhaps she thinks she has repaid her debt and wants to cut ties for good."

The Prince of Qin glances at it once, then tosses the letter into the brazier.

Cut ties for good? Dream on.

A few points to highlight:

1. This is probably a sweet little story about two people secretly loving each other while each thinks the other hates them (?)

2. The beloveds they each think of as their white moonlight are both fake.

3. The author is a novice at political scheming, so please lower your expectations for that aspect.

4. It may be a little old-fashioned.

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