Perched on a Branch

[My new story, The Supporting Female Lead Reads Minds and Chooses the Ascetic Crown Prince Instead, is now available. Visit my profile to read it~] Xie Qiao transmigrates. The people around her tell her that the original owner was naturally licentious and flirtatious. At fifteen, she took a fancy to the handsome Su Qisheng, a hostage prince from an enemy kingdom, seduced him by every means, and toyed with him as she pleased. When the hostage prince fell seriously ill, however, she greedily chased power and cast him aside, turning around to marry her own kingdom's crown prince, who was about to ascend the throne. The hostage prince returns to his homeland after recovering from his grave illness. He turns dark overnight, bears his humiliation, kills his brother and father, and seizes the throne before returning at the head of a great army. The crown prince abandons her and flees. Su Qi, the former hostage, is now the new king of Jiang, and is about to come settle the score with her for the wrongs of the past. Xie Qiao: "??? What kind of hellish start is this?" Xie Qiao looks at the sinister king before her, covered in blood. Feeling helpless, afraid, and inexplicably drawn to him, she has no choice but to use the standard transmigration excuse: "I've lost my memory. I couldn't possibly have treated you that way!" "How about giving us another chance? I promise I won't change my mind this time!" Everyone assumes she's as good as dead and will be killed on the spot the next moment. The crazed King Wei looks down at her and says, "All right." In other people's eyes, Su Qi is scheming and surrounded by the menace of drawn swords. No one knows that everything he has done is only to return to her side. When the ruthless King Wei agrees, Xie Qiao frets to herself: I'm done for. He agreed so quickly because killing me wouldn't be enough. He wants to humiliate me thoroughly and avenge himself! She has no idea that Su Qi is so overjoyed his palms are clenched until they bleed. All he can manage to say is, "All right." [Beautiful noblewoman with amnesia # unhinged, devoted former lover] P.S. The amnesia is real. The heroine was born into this world. My next story is now available: The Supporting Female Lead Reads Minds and Chooses the Ascetic Crown Prince Instead When Su Miaomiao first meets the Sixth Prince at ten, she falls in love with him at first sight, passionately and without reservation. The Sixth Prince likes elegant, demure, chaste women, so she reins in her nature and stops riding horses and swimming. From then on, she behaves with restraint and is proper in every way. The Sixth Prince likes women who are talented and refined, so she changes her interests and studies music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and literature until she masters them all. Sincerity can move even stone. Before she comes of age, the Sixth Prince finally looks at her with warmth and tenderness, promising that one day they will become the most loving couple in the world. Su Miaomiao is overjoyed for a long time. Only after she gains the ability to read minds does she discover that she is merely the ridiculous, shameless supporting female lead in a storybook. Her beloved despises her: [She's just an ugly imitation. Never mind, it's all for the throne. I'll have to put up with you for now, my dear. Once I take the throne, I'll depose her at once and make you empress.] Su Qingqing is her half-sister, and the true heroine of the story. Su Miaomiao refuses to believe that she has wasted seven years of her life on a worthless man. She turns and jumps into the Peach Blossom Pool, holding her breath underwater to calm herself. When she can't hold it any longer, she bursts through the surface, splashing water everywhere, right onto the former crown prince's robes. The former crown prince is the late emperor's legitimate son, aloof and detached from worldly affairs. After becoming a monk, he seems even more like an immortal. Though he lives in the cold palace, no one dares disrespect or offend him. But when Su Miaomiao approaches him, she hears a lovestruck thought: [So cute. I want to hug her...] (Extra scene) The Sixth Prince can't believe it: "Miaomiao, I'm the one you like!" Su Miaomiao holds a wine cup and makes no attempt to hide her feelings: "Bullshit. I've always liked the transcendent and peerless Crown Prince!" Looking at her former lover's twisted expression, Su Miaomiao happily drains her cup. She turns around and runs straight into the Crown Prince's cool, austere robes. He has heard everything. The aloof Crown Prince looks down at the wine stain on his robes. "That's the second time." Miaomiao flusters and starts to apologize, but the next moment, the ascetic Crown Prince asks in her ear, "Were you telling the truth just now?" [Adorable girl-next-door who can read minds * ascetic Crown Prince who has secretly loved her for years] [Groveling, love rivals, crisp and sweet catharsis, HE] Theme: Heal life with love.