"A pretty face with a foolish, rotten heart x a scheming, black-hearted crown prince"
[Warning, right up front! This is pure self-indulgence, written for fun, and the leads hurt each other. If your brainwaves align with mine, you might enjoy it too. If they don't, it may seem totally nonsensical. I don't recommend buying the whole book at once, so please read with caution. Thanks!]
[Though I personally still really love this book w]
The emperor is incompetent and dotes on a bewitching beauty from a foreign land.
As the beauty's daughter, brought into the palace with her, Princess Zhaoning has a difficult childhood. But rather than learning to keep her head down, once she gains power she becomes arrogant, domineering, and debauched.
With a beauty that outshines all others in the capital, she either charms the Minister of Rites' son into writing poetry or gets the richest young master in the land to spend a fortune on her.
Zhaoning still isn't satisfied.
On a whim, she turns her attention to the Crown Prince, the heir praised by everyone in and out of court.
What a fine young gentleman, as bright as the wind and moon, yet mired in this mortal world.
It would be fun to drag a man like him down from his pedestal, she thinks with wicked amusement.
The Crown Prince, Xiao Yebei, returns victorious from his northern campaign just in time for the Mid-Autumn banquet in the capital.
As the moon reaches its zenith, the graceful Crown Prince strolls into the banquet hall and passes someone on his way to his seat.
Several years have passed. The younger sister who once begged him for protection and kindness so she could survive in the palace has blossomed into a dazzling, bold beauty.
Xiao Ye barely pays her any mind, merely greeting her coolly: "Imperial younger sister."
That night, after a few cups of wine, Xiao Ye returns to the Eastern Palace alone.
To his surprise, a beautiful figure is sprawled across his bed.
The door is half open, and moonlight spills over the beauty's partly exposed neck.
"Do you know what will happen to you?" Xiao Ye asks without concern, assuming she is just a palace maid who doesn't know her place and is trying to climb the social ladder.
The beauty says nothing, only slowly turning her face toward him, revealing a captivating, seductive beauty.
Her lips part, her gaze is tender, and she hooks a finger around the hem of his robe. "Your Highness, help me."
At first, Xiao Ye only pities her, letting a little of his base tenderness slip through his fingers as he sits back and watches her fall.
Until the day flames fill the sky, and her utterly unhesitating departure tells him that he was the only one who had ever truly fallen.
The phoenix hairpin he had planned to place in her hair snaps in his hand. The new emperor, now in command of the empire, advances step by step, his bloodied hand gripping the ankle of the little liar whose escape has failed.
The clink of metal echoes through the hall, chilling everyone who hears it.
"Tell me, how are you planning to make this right?"
He has kissed her smiling face, but his refined voice has long since been tarnished. "...Zhaoning, why go to all that trouble to make me fall for you, only to run away?"
He has fallen into the abyss completely, just as she wanted, hasn't he?
A little extra:
"You leave me, and this is what you do to yourself?"
"Zhaoning, you're so hopeless."
His voice is clear and bright, like jade striking strings, but his eyes hold a gloom that doesn't suit it.
Zhaoning watches Xiao Ye kneel before her, brush ointment over her wounds with his fingertip, and carefully fasten a thin gold chain around her ankle.
She points her toe and swings the chain around her ankle, tilting her head with a teasing smile.
It's still anyone's guess who this chain has really bound.
Note:
1. They are not blood relatives, not blood relatives, not blood relatives. She was never entered into the imperial register, and they have no real connection either legally or emotionally. They were never destined to be together, but the author forces them into it with melodrama. Bows.jpg
2. The leads are deeply flawed. One has brains, the other has brains but not many, and both are pretty crazy. [Highlight]
3. This blurb reflects just one perspective on the plot, not the whole story. The extra scene does appear in the novel.
Promo time! Check out my author page if you're interested~
[Coming soon]
"I Regret Letting My Husband Seek a Marquisate":
"Both reborn / Second chance romance"
General Shi Qian rose from humble beginnings, winning great military honors and driving the Rong and Di tribes back time and again. The day he returned to the capital to receive his title, riding a silver-saddled white horse, swift as a shooting star, he became the dream man of countless young women.
Unfortunately, years earlier, he had been forced into marrying a hunter's daughter as his principal wife because of "the kindness of a single meal."
Everyone couldn't help but feel sorry for General Shi.
A hunter's daughter and a young general
worlds apart.
*
Jiang Jin is an orphan who grew up eating at the tables of one family after another. She knows she is not worthy of Shi Qian and has no intention of seeking his love. Shi Qian spends most of his time away on campaign, so she stays in the capital, managing the household and taking care of his affairs.
Shi Qian treats her well enough. He never flirts with other women, and leaves his salary and rewards in the capital for her to spend.
Apart from having no feelings for her, he is as good a husband as she could wish for.
War reports keep coming in. Shi Qian has only been back in the capital a few days when he is about to leave on campaign again.
On the night before they part, Jiang Jin lies beside him. After a long silence, all she can bring herself to say is, "Take care of yourself. I'll wait for you to come back in the capital."
When you return, we will divorce.
For a long time, he doesn't answer. Jiang Jin turns her head and sees only his stern profile and tightly closed eyes.
Jiang Jin lies silent for a long time, and only falls asleep well past midnight.
After all, besides the title of wife, she has never expected anything more.
But when she opens her eyes again, she discovers she has gone back ten years.
She sees Shi Qian, who has yet to make a name for himself, covered in blood and lying along the path she takes into the mountains to hunt.
Jiang Jin: ...
Jiang Jin: Let that bastard die, for all I care.
Other upcoming books:
"The Seventh Year Before She Died":
Both reborn / Proud empress x loyal general
"The Girl and the Shadow Guard": "I'll go to hell with you"
A cold, obsessive girl with maxed-out combat skills x her loyal, unhinged shadow guard
[Completed]
Sweet romance: "The Young General, My Moonlight, Has Lost His Character"
A proud young general x a bold girl / An ancient girl group's everyday fan life
Revenge romance: "The Runaway Wife"
She runs away after her husband succeeds in usurping the throne
Theme: Love yourself before loving others
He Seems to Really Like Me
A Mistake in the Orchid Season
After One Night with My Husband from a Past Life
My Ex-Husband Was Reborn After We Broke Up
A Joyful Wedding
Chasing the World
When Spring Burns Out
Entangled Branches
The Runaway Bride
I Make Her a Blade
I Have a Crush on My First Love
Gathering the Bright Moon
Am I not perverted enough? Why do I think these two people are sick? What are they doing...
In fact, the whole article is quite good. There are no strange male and female characters. I feel very comfortable reading it. I highly recommend it. The ending is relatively novel.
I worked overtime and had a hard time (soul out of body). I am very sorry for another day qwq
In fact, I feel like the heroine is not quite normal anymore.
Is Zhao Ning depressed? It feels like she has never started school since she was imprisoned. From Zhao Ning's perspective, she is really unlucky. Nothing goes smoothly, and I don't live a few days of self-respect in my life.
The expired midnight snack cannot be eaten and it has become moldy. The heroine should throw it away.
A novel that I really, really like. I really like this kind of delicate and entangled relationship where love and hate can't be distinguished. Both of them have their own pasts, there is pain and caress between each other, there is a wonderful fate and the unsolvable knot left behind. Every psychological description is particularly detailed and natural. Subtle, it is the natural and awkward reaction that the two have experienced after all this. Zhao Ning has suffered too much, so she will show a reaction that makes her brother feel distressed. And she is essentially a pure person, because the carvings in the past have made her domineering and domineering, but these The seemingly noble and arrogant appearance is actually broken at the touch of a touch. Therefore, in order to preserve these appearances, she repeatedly drove herself to accept the use of her by people more powerful than her. (It seems that the reason for not being able to stand the use of her by her brother was out of love.) Therefore, she indulged herself in the early stage. It gave her the power to be inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people. She also resolutely gave up on pursuing the freedom of not being inferior to others. Brother gave Zhao Ning the opportunity to stand on her own feet and the opportunity to support herself. In fact, it can be seen that Zhao Ning is also a very ambitious person! Zhao Ning's personality is shaped by her essence, experience, and character. It's a particularly nice book... I won't write a long review...
I can't bear to finish it, and I look forward to a few more sweet chapters. Okay, I'll go collect it
I had my cat neutered today and I have been taking care of the kittens. I will update after about 12 o'clock during the day~
The heroine is depressed and feels bipolar, which is very difficult.