The Young Master and the Sickly One

The adored fake heir x The scheming, sickly, unhinged one A blurb for my upcoming GL novel, Married to the Blind Princess, is below. Thank you for your support. *Alternate setting / political intrigue / plot-driven / ensemble cast / ruthless protagonist / slow burn / happy ending Song Boyuan, the only legitimate eldest grandson of the Grand Duke Who Guards the State of Great Liang, is a pretty face with no substance. Everyone in Bianjing knows it. She cannot govern the country with literature or defend it with martial arts. She also has a congenital problem in that department, inherited from her mother's womb. Aside from her handsome looks and noble birth, she's good for nothing. To stop Song Boyuan from thoroughly disgracing the old Grand Duke, the emperor issued an edict marrying her to Jing Dai, the younger daughter of the top merchant family in the empire, along with a lavish dowry that stretched for miles through Bianjing. Song Boyuan felt unworthy and tried all sorts of schemes to call off the marriage, but the eldest daughter of the Jing family, kept tucked away in her inner quarters, foiled each one. She had no choice. In the middle of the night, she climbed over the wall and slipped into Miss Jing's courtyard. "Take a good look at me. What exactly do you like about me? I can change, all right?" Jing Dai stood by a peach tree bathed in moonlight, her slender waist like a willow, and smiled smugly at her. "I can't conceive, and you can't get anyone pregnant. Aren't we a perfect match?" Song Boyuan was forced to marry this little fox from the Jing family, beginning a life under Jing Dai's thumb. . Song Boyuan found it especially irritating that this seemingly gentle and delicate woman held her life and death in her hands. "Everyone outside says you're gentle, charming, and clever. How come I don't see it?" Jing Dai smiled faintly. "My husband won't behave. What can I do?" Once Song Boyuan finally learned to behave, Jing Dai was no longer as effortlessly in control as before. "Song Boyuan! I'm in poor health." "It's fine. The doctor said you need more exercise to be healthy." Jing Dai regretted starting this whole thing. Told mainly from the pursuer's perspective, with the pair taking turns in bed. And because Jing Dai is so frail, Song Boyuan usually has to work a little harder. (Not really.) Upcoming novel: Married to the Blind Princess, blurb The gentle, fiercely protective blind princess x The dissolute but dependable younger consort *Alternate setting / four-year age gap, with the consort younger / marriage before love / happy ending A story of a wildly mismatched pair. The young consort, who was set on rebellion, ends up taking their marriage seriously. The fifth princess, Nanguang Shang, is gentle and kind, and no one in the inner palace can match her beauty. But because she has suffered from an eye condition since childhood, she never earns the emperor's favor. In the end, the emperor casually marries her off to Zhou Che, the most dissolute "good-for-nothing" in a powerful family. The notorious playboy herself is initially resistant to the imperial decree ordering her to marry. But after they wed, the fifth princess, who had been neglected since childhood, transforms into a powerful and wicked schemer who manipulates the court. * The candlelight flickered. The beautiful princess, as lovely as a goddess, flirted with her wantonly by the candlelight, and Zhou Che panicked completely. In a daze, she displayed a miraculous talent for doing things without any instruction, and claimed the princess, inside and out. The next day, Zhou Che sat in the doorway, staring at her fingertips. The princess called softly, "A Che?" Zhou Che sprang to her feet and hurried into the room, shutting the maid out. "Your Highness, let me serve you." "N-no need. I'm blind, but I can still tell the time." Nanguang Shang blushed and cut her off. Zhou Che silently finished what she'd meant to say. "I mean, help you wash up." Nanguang Shang: ? Zhou Che: *smiles* * Later, Zhou Che felt she'd been thoroughly used, so she took advantage of wartime chaos to fake her death and leave. The empress went mad, turning the world upside down to find the heartless man who had abandoned his wife. To curry favor with the empress of the Central Plains, neighboring kingdoms sent her everyone, young and old, tall and short, male and female, as long as they bore even the slightest resemblance to the former fifth imperial consort. So Zhou Che cautiously became her own double for a while. She tried to escape again and again, failed again and again, and then tried again, until at last she accepted her fate. The empress may have been a madwoman, but when they were alone at night, she always secretly cried. "Did you not eat?" she asked through her tears in bed. "She's much better than you." Zhou Che: ? Please note: The princess really is blind. She will be cured later. Theme: Strive tenaciously and press forward with courage.