The Beauty Is Hard to Escape

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Please add my upcoming historical romance, The Bodhisattva Raised in the Eastern Palace, to your reading list. The blurb is in my author profile.

Blurb:

[Possessive Pursuit] [Fallen Beauty and Mad Minister]

In her previous life, Ming Shu’s family was destroyed, and she was reduced to a government courtesan and sent to the residence of Lu Yanqing, the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet.

Once immensely privileged, she swallowed her pride and tried to please him, hoping to win a little protection. But he was cruel and cold-hearted by nature, and let her waste away in misery, left to fend for herself.

Then, one night when they were both drunk, they spent the night together. Ming Shu awakened Lu Yanqing’s passions, and from then on, he could no longer stop himself.

Yet he did not learn until she died that the man she had always loved was someone else.

From then on, a cinnabar mole that could never be erased remained in his heart.

Reborn, he did everything he could to possess her, resorting to any means necessary to keep her by his side.

She loved the bright and noble, so he tried to lay down his blade and become a good man.

But in the end, she still ran away and chose a new husband for herself.

*

On the day of Ming Shu’s wedding, elite soldiers surrounded the bridal chamber.

The man she had hidden from for so long approached slowly, his whole body radiating murderous fury and his eyes brimming with hatred.

He gripped her hand so tightly he could have crushed her bones. He wanted nothing more than to break her in two, but when he met her clear, shining gaze, the words on his lips turned into, "What exactly is wrong with me? Tell me."

*

The night was deep, and candlelight flickered. Red silk bound Ming Shu’s slender ankles. Lu Yanqing held her pale neck and kissed away the tear at the corner of her eye.

"A Yao."

He leaned close to her ear, his gaze dark, his eyes brimming with barely contained madness. "Now you can’t escape."

#He imprisoned her in both lifetimes, yet in the end, he was the one who became firmly bound.

Content warnings:

* The heroine is very weak at first, but gradually grows stronger. The hero is obsessive and cruel at first, then becomes humble and wretched.

* The main theme is the hero’s unrequited love and possessive pursuit. Even after he gets her, he still does whatever he wants and has no normal person’s understanding of romance. He is a total jerk, an enormous one, so later there will be a "she runs, he chases" pursuit arc.

* Dramatic possessive pursuit and a groveling pursuit arc. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending.

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Next up: The Bodhisattva Raised in the Eastern Palace

Qing Yin was a famous sickly beauty in Luoyang. She was breathless after three steps and coughing after five, and had spent so long secluded at home that no one knew her.

Her fiancé thought she was dull and boring, and actually abandoned her on their wedding day.

Qing Yin lifted her veil and, with trembling hands, wrote a letter breaking off the engagement. Then she bade her parents farewell and went to a nunnery to practice as a lay Buddhist.

Before long, she became a celebrated living bodhisattva throughout Luoyang.

Countless young noblemen traveled great distances to the nunnery just to catch a glimpse of her true face.

Later, this living bodhisattva was kept in the Eastern Palace by Crown Prince Zhao Shu.

*

Crown Prince Zhao Shu was peerlessly handsome, a true paragon among men.

Rumor had it that he was chaste and desireless, seeking nothing and loving only his realm, not beautiful women.

But no one had seen how thoroughly Zhao Shu lost his composure in Qing Yin’s presence.

Living in the Eastern Palace, Qing Yin was a living bodhisattva in Buddhist robes by day, explaining the scriptures to the crown prince. At night, however, she was forced to change into a flimsy dress and sit in Zhao Shu’s lap as he nuzzled her cheek and hair, only stopping when her earlobes were flushed red.

He often whispered in her ear, "People always say the Buddha saves all living beings. But, Bodhisattva, why don’t you dare look at me?"

Later, Qing Yin learned from a palace maid that the empress intended to choose a crown princess. As someone whose relationship with the crown prince was neither clear nor proper, she had become the target of everyone’s hostility.

That night, Qing Yin prepared Zhao Shu’s favorite wine and changed into the plain clothes he liked best. Her moist, limpid eyes were full of apprehension. "I beg Your Highness to take pity on me and let me leave the palace..."

Zhao Shu abandoned his usual gentleness. He pulled over a red sash and tied their wrists together, his eyes full of fervor and tenderness.

"The world outside is in chaos. If you leave the palace, Yin Yin, aren’t you afraid you’ll die?"

*

Qing Yin became something like the mistress of half the Eastern Palace. Everyone thought she had submitted to the crown prince’s power and unwillingly become a caged bird.

They did not know that even her first encounter with Zhao Shu had been carefully plotted by her.

#What he thinks is possessive pursuit is simply her playing hard to get.

Scheming, alluring beauty and obsessive, mad crown prince

One-on-one romance, sexually inexperienced leads, happy ending