The Eunuch's Princess

- Coming soon: The Noble Consort Changed Her Mind After Divorcing Her Husband. Please add it to your collection. Blurb at the bottom.

Blurb:

Qiao Gong got drunk and betrothed Yi He to his sworn younger brother.

Her usually distant third uncle had suddenly become her fiancé, and Yi He was eight hundred kinds of unwilling.

Luckily, the year she came of age, Xie Ce was expelled from the Xie family and disappeared without a trace.

The Xie family turned around and sent a concubine-born son to marry Yi He instead. The Qiao family was a prestigious clan with a hundred-year legacy, a family the Xies could never hope to curry favor with.

Unwilling to marry beneath her, Yi He entered the palace instead.

After several years as a consort, the honor and favor bestowed upon her by Emperor Zhao nearly eclipsed that of the empress herself. Yi He thought nothing would ever change.

Until her father and brothers died in battle and were falsely accused of treason. Yi He, a daughter of the Qiao family, became a traitor's kin.

The emperor shut his doors and refused to see her. Amid the chaos of war, he personally burned her alive.

Reborn, Yi He finally saw Emperor Xian for who he truly was. Their defeat and supposed treason were nothing but excuses for the emperor to destroy the Qiao family.

So the once-gentle and dignified Noble Consort changed her ways. She wrote a letter of divorce, set the flower banquet ablaze, and showed disrespect to the empress.

Yi He did every lawless thing imaginable.

At first, Emperor Zhao assumed Yi He was just throwing a tantrum. Though angry, he still ordered people to send gifts to her palace.

He thought he could still placate her.

Until, at a palace banquet, Yi He laid her hand on the knee of the general who had returned to court after quelling the rebellion and softly called him, "Third Uncle."

The man who had spent half his life amid mountains of corpses and seas of fire lowered his eyes and said, "Oh, right, there was that betrothal. You're a Qiao daughter, aren't you? What was your name again?"

Xie Ce looked at Yi He, his words giving away nothing of his feelings. But Emperor Zhao, who had yet to take his seat in the throne hall, was so frightened he fell over.

The emperor had schemed to arrange the Qiao family's marriage. Only he and Xie Ce knew the truth...

[Reading Guide]

The female lead is not a virgin. She may be a little unhinged, and has no morals.

This is an early work, rough around the edges and possibly a bit cringe. Read with caution.

Blurb:

I first met Chen Pu in the autumn of the nineteenth year of Yuanhua.

At the time, Li Xiaoxiao was a destitute princess, born ill-omened and blamed for her mother's death. Emperor Xian had let her live until she came of age only so he could marry her off to the Tartars.

Chen Pu, meanwhile, held sole command of the Eastern Depot. Clad in a blue gauze python robe, even when he stood before people with a smile, he looked like a demon licking its fangs, chilling them to the bone.

Everyone feared Chen Pu and wished he would one day be torn limb from limb.

Li Xiaoxiao alone was unafraid.

Not only was she unafraid, she insisted on clinging to him. She wanted to make the man-eating demon willingly become the blade in her hand.

Together, they would turn the tide at the pinnacle of power and transform the palace behind its red walls into their slaughterhouse.

Never again would anyone bully her or stand in her way.

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Later, when the new emperor ascended the throne, he began choosing a husband for Li Xiaoxiao.

Yet whichever handsome young gentleman was selected, he would be found dead in the outskirts within three days.

For a time, the whole court was gripped by fear.

But no one saw the delicate little princess nestled on Chen Pu's lap in the high-walled palace. She rolled a plump grape between her slender fingers, blinked her amber eyes at him, and asked, "Eunuch Chen, are you doing this because you can't bear to part with Xiaoxiao?"

The sinister, effeminate man had already shed his python robe and gauze hat. He calmly took hold of her fingers. "Princess, teach this eunuch how to let go of candy once it's in his mouth."

Li Xiaoxiao chuckled and slipped the grape into his mouth, as sly as a fox. "I was playing with the cat and didn't wash my hands. This grape is for you, Eunuch Chen."

Chen Pu raised an eyebrow, but didn't bother to argue.

The grape slid down his throat, sweet and refreshing.

Even if it had been poison, he would have accepted it.

Theme: Never stop striving for self-improvement.