The Chancellor Failed to Become a Monk

My next book, She Is the Tyrant's White Moonlight. Blurb below.

Blurb:

Xie Yiyang, chancellor of Beirou, is fond of studying Buddhist teachings and has developed the desire to shave his head and become a monk. He goes to Funing Temple and asks to be tonsured, but a senior monk tells him that his worldly ties are not yet severed and refuses.

Xie Yiyang returns helplessly to his meditation room, only to find a trembling woman hiding behind the Buddha statue.

Without a word, the woman throws herself at him. Before he can react, she has already pulled him into bed beneath the covers.

"Since I've ruined your chastity, I will take responsibility for you."

Xie Yiyang promises the woman, who is sobbing beneath the covers.

Princess Song Yunxi of D Ning is fleeing an arranged marriage when she encounters a lecherous bandit. She intervenes heroically but is drugged and loses control of herself. In desperation, she climbs over the wall into Funing Temple, intending to grab a young monk to help her deal with the drug. Instead, the first person she sees is a man with long hair, dressed in plain clothes.

He is gentle as jade, as bright as the moon. Apart from being a little frail and poor, he has no obvious flaws. Marrying him should be fine, right?

On their wedding day, Xie Yiyang crushes an assassin's head with one hand right in front of Song Yunxi.

On the second day of their marriage, a thousand large chests of gold, silver, and jewels are set before Song Yunxi. Xie Yiyang apologizes to her. "Things happened suddenly, so the betrothal gifts were meager. Please forgive me, wife."

On the third day of their marriage, Song Yunxi finally discovers that the husband she married in a daze is actually her intended match for a political marriage, the chancellor of Beirou, second only to The Outcast and above everyone else.

Chancellor Xie treats her with tender care and cherishes her constantly. There's just one problem: he keeps running off to temples every few days, insisting that he wants a divorce and to become a monk.

"Xie Yiyang, if you keep thinking about becoming a monk, I'll burn every temple in the land!"

"I abuse my power and harm the innocent. Your second brother, Song Yunting, died at my hands. Knowing what kind of person I am, are you still willing to stay with me?"

"The Chancellor Xie in my heart cares for the world and has compassion for all living things. It's worth staying with a person like that."

Three years ago, Song Yunxi drank a potion to forget her love, hoping to erase Xie Yiyang from her memory forever. Three years later, she falls in love with him again, and this time she doesn't want to let go.

Reader's guide: Both leads are pure, happy ending. A noble, refined minister X a warm, playful princess. A companion novel to After the General Marries.

Cover design thanks to the artist Jiu Huli.

Coming soon: She Is the Tyrant's White Moonlight

Chu Nian, the sickly and beautiful daughter of the Assistant Minister of Revenue, is still unmarried, but her reputation for beauty has reached the palace. The tyrant Su Yu takes a liking to her and issues an imperial decree ordering her to enter the palace.

Su Yu seized power as a young man and ascended the throne. He has always been wanton, brutal, and cold-hearted, feared by all.

Chu Nian thinks her life is probably over.

On an auspicious, sun-drenched day, Chu Nian enters the palace in full finery. That very night, she is bathed and dressed, wrapped in a quilt, and sent to Su Yu's bedroom.

Chu Nian clutches the quilt tightly and curls up in a corner, watching the young tyrant approach step by step. Her tearful eyes make her look all the more pitiful and lovable.

"Am I really that frightening?"

The tyrant of the rumors speaks gently and behaves like a gentleman, the corners of his mouth curving into a truly handsome smile.

Chu Nian timidly looks at the man before her. This tyrant is rather different from the rumors. He actually seems quite nice!

Behind the red curtains, they share a tender, passionate night. When Chu Nian wakes, she sees the young tyrant sitting obediently on the bed with his legs folded beneath him. His eyes shimmer like spring water as he looks at her pitifully, his voice sweet and soft. "Big Sister, A Yu is hungry. I want meat!"

Only then does Chu Nian learn that as a child, Su Yu witnessed his parents' brutal deaths. He was imprisoned in a palace corridor and survived on leftovers and spoiled food for two years. After escaping the palace, he spent ten years gathering power, slaughtering his way through his enemies, and ascending the throne over a sea of blood and corpses.

These experiences left him with a secret unknown to the world: hidden within his body is the personality of a five-year-old child, mischievous, clingy, and greedy.

Chu Nian thought she would be killed to keep the secret, like everyone else who had discovered it. Instead, Su Yu only grows more affectionate toward her.

"That wicked consort is ruining the country! Sooner or later, Chu Nian will destroy Da Cheng!"

"A Nian, Su Yu is cold-blooded and cruel, and is no suitable partner. If you're willing, I'll risk my life to take you far away!"

Everyone calls Su Yu a foolish and brutal ruler, but Chu Nian has always thought him wise and mighty, a rare good ruler in this world.

"I've stepped into hell, and everyone in the world fears me. They wish they could carve me up alive with a knife. Aren't you afraid?"

Chu Nian lifts her head, looks at the handsome, brooding man before her, and throws herself into his arms.

"I'm not afraid. His Majesty is a good person, the very best person in the whole world!"

Theme: There should be more tolerance and compassion in life