The Delicate Young Lady and the Mad Dog Prince

Upcoming novel: Has the Princess Written a Divorce Letter Today?

Blurb:

Yan Guyu is the daughter of the prime minister, stunningly beautiful, and blessed with an excellent birth chart.

One day, she overhears that the empress once switched the child newly born to Consort Shu in order to seize the throne, then sent the child to a gladiator arena. That night, she dreams that the prince ascends the throne and slaughters everyone in the imperial capital.

Her father was involved in what happened back then, so to protect the family, he sends her to the new emperor.

By day, the young man is an exalted emperor. At night, he seems afraid of the cold and darkness, insisting on holding her to fall asleep. He likes whispering dark things in her ear.

"You know, rabid dogs love biting people's necks."

"Everyone in this bedchamber except us is a vengeful ghost I've killed. Before long, you'll become one too."

"If you keep looking like you're half-dead, I'll let all the guards outside come in and watch."

If she doesn't respond, he torments her.

After entering the palace, she watches the young man use his cruel methods to torment people every day. Her headaches grow increasingly severe, and before long, she dies.

When Yan Guyu wakes up, she's drenched in cold sweat. She hurries to the gladiator arena. She knows she has the ability to foresee the future. There's still a year before the events in her dream, so she can still brainwash him in time.

The young man has just been tortured. He's covered in blood and in a pitiful state. She feels conflicted, but can somewhat understand what he did in her dream.

With the empress in the way, she can't rescue him. All she can do is pay to have him brought out to play with her every day, putting on a show of ten parts sincerity with only five parts true, all so she can make him repay the favor later.

Lu Jingze:

He was abandoned by his birth mother, who despised him, then sold into a gladiator arena. Because he looked like the real prince, he was made to serve as a substitute.

Day after day, he came close to death, gritting his teeth and fighting to stay alive. Until one day, she gently blew on the side of his face that had been branded, then put the candy in her hand into his mouth.

The days she spent looking after him were the only sweet memories in his dark, twisted past.

"Try to be more careful from now on. If you get hurt again, I'll worry about you." "Don't hide. I like this half of your face too." "If you think you're dirty, then let me cleanse you, okay?"

From then on, she became the one who held his heart.

He was unfit to belong in this world. Afraid he wasn't worthy of her, he took the identity of the real prince and rose to the very top. But in the end, as soon as he won her promise, she went off and married someone else.

On the day she married another man, he stormed into the bridal chamber, handed her a bloodstained sword, then pressed his chest against its tip and inched closer, smiling as he said, "I told you, only when you come near me will I willingly be your dog."

* Both are virgins, one-on-one

* The character relationships are a little melodramatic. The male lead will stop at nothing to achieve his goals, so proceed with caution if that bothers you.

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Upcoming novel: Has the Princess Written a Divorce Letter Today?

Princess Pei Ziqu of Jinling is the only princess in the palace. Since childhood, the emperor has doted on her and her older brothers have cherished her. She's never suffered the slightest grievance.

Xue Yi is the newly named third-place winner of the imperial examinations, a reserved and upright young man. Pei Ziqu fell for him at first sight as a child.

Later, the two get caught up in an accident through a series of misunderstandings, and the emperor has no choice but to issue an edict ordering them to marry.

After the wedding, Pei Ziqu knows she's in the wrong, so she tries hard to learn how to cook and make soup, show respect to her elders, and find every possible way to bring them closer. But Xue Yi remains cold and distant.

A year later, a pretty young woman appears. Only then does Pei Ziqu realize that Xue Yi has a beloved woman in his heart. He speaks gently to her and repeatedly takes her side.

When trouble arises for the third time, Pei Ziqu finally understands. She stops putting up with it. When Xue Yi takes the initiative to share her bed, she writes a divorce letter and throws it in his face. "Xue Yi, who do you think you are? I don't want you anymore."

Xue Yi rose to fame as a young man. He is talented and proud, but was framed and forced by the imperial family to become a princess's consort. Pei Ziqu also treated him as a substitute for Ji Chen, so he has long kept his resentment bottled up.

He knows he's only a substitute, so he addresses her as his liege every day and gives her whatever she wants, except his heart. But when that divorce letter is actually thrown in his face, his heart panics.

She tries every trick to seduce him, so he thinks his body is responding. In reality, it's his heart.

A few days later, the neighbors are all saying that Princess Jinling is recruiting male favorites, and there are so many young men of talent and beauty signing up that they could circle the city thirteen times.

When Xue Yi reaches the princess's residence, he finds Pei Ziqu surrounded by a crowd of handsome men. They bring her tea and water, play the zither and recite poetry, all vying to make her happy. The scene is lively in the extreme.

At that moment, Xue Yi feels as if something in his chest is about to explode.

Theme: Even in adversity, pursue the light.