Pei Ying is a delicate little beauty, a cannon-fodder character too frail to lift a finger.
One night, drunk, she seduces the Crown Prince. But the one who shares her bed turns out to be the Crown Prince's twin brother.
Born under an ill omen, the younger twin has been hidden away in the Eastern Palace, unknown to all.
Pei Ying is so furious she could spit blood.
She persuades her treacherous father to silence him, but the pair are equally inept and repeatedly fail.
After all that, she finally gets her wish and marries into the Eastern Palace.
On her wedding night, she's trying to figure out how to cover up the fact that she has already lost her virginity.
As they lie close together, the Crown Prince says, "Guess who I am."
"Guess right, and there's a reward."
Pei Ying's face turns deathly pale.
She bursts into tears, unable to help herself. It's over. This time, it's really over!
Imperial twins are an ill omen said to bring chaos to the realm.
Chen Minzhong can only hide in the depths of the Eastern Palace, where sunlight never reaches.
After an accident, he takes his brother's place.
His disguise is so perfect that even his own mother cannot tell them apart. Only one girl can.
She's beautiful and delicate, as sweet as white sugar, melting the instant you taste it.
He cannot stop her from becoming a beautiful, haunting obsession that spreads without restraint...
All the noblewomen in the city hope the Crown Prince will throw Pei Ying out of the Eastern Palace.
Instead, they see her emerge leaning against the wall, a bundle on her back as she tries to flee.
The Crown Prince pins her wrist down. No longer the same bright and noble man as before, he is cruel and domineering.
"Weren't you so forward the first time you met me?"
Both leads are virgins; a sweet story of marriage first, love later, focused on romance.
Twin Crown Prince x sweet, soft-headed beauty. The heroine thinks she's a schemer, but she's really just a pampered little thing.
--- Spring Light Stains the Fingers ---
In her previous life, Jiang Lian was a pampered, high-maintenance little beauty. After her family fell on hard times, she was sold to the foolish young master as his concubine.
The young master was tall and handsome, with a face as radiant as jade, but he was a great, dim-witted dog with nothing but brute strength.
Every time he stared at her with those innocent, clear, utterly foolish eyes,
Jiang Lian would cry and threaten to kill herself. She didn't want to bear a whole litter of little fools for this big idiot!
She looked down on the young master and secretly bullied him whenever he wasn't quite right in the head.
She'd pinch his legs under the pretense of massaging them, smugly make him wash her feet, and trick him into losing his allowance to her...
She never expected that once the young master regained his senses, he would remember all her cruel tricks and repay her a hundredfold in bed.
Later, she accidentally fell into the water and died a miserable death.
But then she returned to age sixteen, just as she was using the young master as a stool. She immediately jumped off in fright and tried to sweet-talk him.
"Puppy, Big Sister loves you most..."
*
Jiang Lian figures that once her family is back on its feet, she'll trick him into giving her the deed to her life contract.
She knows what he's really like. How could she get tangled up with a madman?
That night, her carriage rolls away in a cloud of dust. She doesn't spare a glance for the young master, who is crying behind her.
*
The young master, Lu Yan, was born proud and arrogant, and is exceptionally good at scheming and manipulating people. He's a vicious, ruthless madman, a living King of Hell who has his sights set on the throne.
But after a head injury, all he can do when he sees people is blush and smile sweetly.
When he returns to normal, the first thing he does is ruin Jiang Lian's wedding.
The Imperial Guards surround the residence so thoroughly that no one can get in or out, and the guests flee in terror.
He steps over the chaos, his phoenix eyes cold, his unfamiliar expression sinister and unruly, a mocking smile on his lips.
He forces the groom to swallow the life contract she'd signed, one mouthful at a time.
That night, as the young girl sobs in fear, Lu Yan presses one hand to her neck and repeats over and over with wicked delight:
"Puppy loves Big Sister most too..."
--- The New Emperor and the Nightingale ---
On the day her kingdom falls, Princess Minghe goes from an exalted noblewoman to a forced spoil of war.
At a glance, she recognizes the traitor at the head of the army as her childhood friend, the one she once broke off her engagement with.
Cao Yanzhu is triumphant, handsome, and reckless. He steps over her royal brother's back, while the officials kneel in terror, all of them mere insects.
The young man crawled through blood to the top. The White-Robed God of War, a man who never takes no for an answer, came back to kill for this very day.
Everything in the capital now belongs to him.
Including her.
Remembering how spoiled she'd been, he pats her damp back and chuckles.
"Little phoenix, you still ended up in my hands."
*
The new emperor announces to the world that Princess Minghe is dead.
No one knows that in the emperor's bedchamber, a silent, beautiful palace maid serves him day and night, her slender waist bewitching.
Her mother once handed Minghe a white silk cord. "If you don't want to become a plaything, hang yourself."
Minghe chooses another way to live. Even if her brother surrendered without a shred of dignity, she will kill him with her own hands.
The new emperor wipes the blood from his palm and carelessly smears it across her face, then suddenly yanks her hair.
"I'll give you only three chances to assassinate me. If you fail, you'll give me a child."
*
When she's humiliated until her face burns, Minghe often recalls an afternoon when she was ten and heard a eunuch speaking sarcastically outside.
"How could a pheasant be worthy of a phoenix? Who do you think you are, imagining that our princess would want you?"
Cao Yanzhu, the future traitor and cold-blooded killer, was being held down and mocked by her people.
Minghe only regrets that she'd shouted, "Enough!"
Instead of, "Chop him into pieces and feed him to the dogs!"
Theme: Treat people sincerely, and happiness will come to you.
The one who gets tempted first loses. There should be more sincerity between people. Although I hope that idiot Xiao Jiang's dream is a parallel world, and he will really dote on Niu Niu, my reason tells me that this is impossible, and the way he attracts Niu Niu is too much! So stupid, so stupid, so stupid!! Drink Meng Po soup and reincarnate and meet a girl you like each other~
It turned out to be just a childhood silhouette, which made me feel even more confused. When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be a parallel world of Jiang Jiang.
I don't know why I feel alienated when calling my lover "X" in other ancient Chinese novels, but every time I see Xiao Chen calling the heroine "Pei", I get so excited! There is an ascetic beauty! Who knows? Woohoo!!!!
The word "irrigate" is really used very well...
Wow, His Highness's heart is: What's the use of being sober and restrained all day long!! (Bushi)
In fact, Zhuzhu and Feng Gouzi have many similarities. The biggest difference between them is that one has a male protagonist aura and the other does not. If beads had a halo, it would be another story
Woohoo, I really want to see a parallel world
The writing is very good, but the plot is a bit incoherent.
Ginger ginger! Ginger ginger! Ginger ginger! Anyway, I really like Jiang Jiang!
Why wasn't the ending of the former prince revealed?