The Emperor's Favored Dowager

The blurb for the upcoming novel, “The Cold Buddhist Prince Comes Calling After the Substitute Marriage,” is below. The full novel will cost only two yuan.

Luo Qingci is the heir to the Duke of Protecting the Nation, a famous good-for-nothing in the capital. She is no good at either literature or martial arts, and suffers from a chronic illness. By chance, she saves a gloomy young man. Learning how difficult his life is, she gives him a great deal of help, then forgets all about it.

Later, when her identity is exposed, everyone is astonished. No wonder the heir to the Duke of Protecting the Nation is so delicate and refined. She is a woman?!

The current emperor is incompetent and tyrannical. When he hears what happened, he flies into a rage and intends to punish Luo Qingci severely. But after seeing her dressed as a woman, he summons her to the palace with an imperial edict and makes her a concubine, despite being old enough to be her father.

On the day she is to enter the palace, Ci Shuo, the most notorious eunuch in the capital, stages a rebellion and enthrones the young emperor. Luo Qingci never becomes the emperor's bride, but she is forced to remain in the palace, where night after night she must face Ci Shuo, a grand eunuch whom outsiders see as ruthless and cold as ice.

In the silent depths of the palace, Ci Shuo bends over her, his gaze obsessive and vicious. Taking Luo Qingci's hand, he kisses her fingers earnestly. “Qingci, you can only be mine...”

Ci Shuo is cold and obsessive, with a taste for blood. He holds everything in the capital in the palm of his hand.

When he meets the person who once helped him, Ci Shuo smiles gently and slowly wipes the bloodied knife in his hand clean with a handkerchief, while it is still warm. So what if she is the renowned Divine Physician of the capital, famed for saving lives?

Human nature is evil. He has never believed that anyone would help a stranger without expecting something in return.

But perhaps the pastries she put in his mouth were simply too sweet? Or perhaps the purse she made for him was particularly lovely?

In any case, without realizing it, Ci Shuo changed.

A little scene:

Luo Qingci picks up a piece of fish and places it in Ci Shuo's bowl.

Ci Shuo: “...”

“I don't eat fish.” He reaches out a finger and calmly pushes the bowl a little farther away.

Luo Qingci glances at him, her gaze warm and languid.

Ci Shuo says nothing. Silently, he picks up his chopsticks and puts the fish in his mouth.

Everyone thought that the astonishing empress would not last long in the palace before she met an untimely end. But then the world was stunned to learn that she was the Divine Physician Luo, who had saved hundreds of people throughout the capital. And the bloodthirsty, unrestrained grand eunuch usurped the throne and became emperor.

Not only did she remain firmly seated as mistress of the imperial harem, she held an unrivaled position in the palace and seemed to enjoy the emperor's exclusive favor.

A deranged, cold-blooded, inhuman male lead x an aloof Divine Physician heroine

* A melodramatic story of ruthless possession.

* A deranged, inhuman fake-eunuch male lead who wants to corrupt the heroine, but ends up being seduced (?) and reformed by her.

* The cover art came from the lovely Gugu at Bishui. Thank you so much, it looks wonderful!

Currently writing “The Cold Buddhist Prince Comes Calling After the Substitute Marriage”

General Yi has two daughters. His legitimate daughter is exceptionally clever, with both beauty and talent. His concubine-born daughter, Yi Manling, is beautiful as a flower, but timid and weak-willed.

The general and his wife were childhood sweethearts and share a deep affection. His concubine-born daughter was born from a drunken night with a maid, and he does not care much for her.

The legitimate daughter is about to be married, but her fiance is killed on the battlefield. Unable to escape the match, she turns her attention to Yi Manling and wants her to marry in her place. Yi Manling is timid and afraid of what people will say. Though she is unwilling, she can only agree in tears.

Unexpectedly, not long after Yi Manling's wedding, her fiance returns safe and sound!

For more than a year of marriage, her husband and the legitimate daughter have often appeared together, acting intimately, like a married couple.

Yi Manling watches from the sidelines, her heart unmoved. She has always been compliant.

That is, until she meets Mu Hui, the handsome and otherworldly Ninth Prince, who has only just returned to secular life. His features are compassionate, and he holds a string of sandalwood prayer beads, appearing sacred and noble.

He sees through her timid exterior and stirs up the deepest malice and resentment hidden in her heart.

He tells her to fight for what she wants. Whether she is ruthless or bullies the weak, he will take responsibility for it.

Yi Manling always thought Mu Hui must have the heart of a Bodhisattva. When she has no choice but to ask him for help, she kneels on the ground, tears shimmering in her eyes, looking delicate and sorrowful.

The Buddhist prince Mu Hui sits on a raised platform, his white robes flowing, his bearing handsome and refined. His jade-like fingers turn the prayer beads, his dark eyes glossy as lacquer. He looks down at her, his expression unreadable.

“After your divorce, stay by my side.”

Yi Manling startles and abruptly raises her head, meeting a pair of deep, wolf-like eyes.

With one complication after another involving his old flame, Jia Hongxuan suddenly thinks of his wife of more than a year, Yi Manling, whose nature is gentle and compliant, and who is delicate and endearing.

That night, he comes to her room. Separated by a screen, his wife says she is unwell and afraid of infecting him.

His wife lies in bed, her voice choked and trembling, still thinking wholeheartedly of him. Jia Hongxuan feels even more guilty and resolves to live properly with her from now on.

But as he turns to leave, he does not notice Yi Manling lying behind the screen, her face flushed, her clothes half undone as someone holds her in their arms, red plum-blossom marks scattered across her shoulder.

The Ninth Prince, Mu Hui, was born bad. He is gloomy and unpredictable, and has been disliked by the world since birth. After his mother died, he was framed and sent to a temple to practice. Several years later, he returns to the capital and unexpectedly encounters a little turtle.

The little turtle spends all day curled up in her shell, cowering and letting others walk all over her, a complete coward.

Yet he senses the resentment hidden deep within her. He draws her in and takes control of her, coaxing her to poke her head out of her shell, bare her sharp teeth, and bite to pieces everyone who dares bully her.

The little turtle suits Mu Hui's tastes so well that he thinks he would not mind spending the rest of his life with her.

But one day, the little turtle runs away, carrying his child.

One-on-one romance. The heroine is not a virgin, while the hero is. The hero has to win his wife back. The male lead is not a good person and is very twisted. The heroine is weak at first but learns to stand up for herself later! Her weak phase only lasts for the first few chapters.

Completed novel: “Becoming a Playboy's Mistress”

Theme: Live well.