The Tyrant's Beloved

Seeking saves for my next novel, The Gua-Eating System Makes Me a Divine Fortune-Teller

Blurb:

My whole family wants to drug me and send me off to be a fifty-year-old man's concubine! What should I do?

Don't worry. I've got the Gua-Eating System, and I have dirt on every member of my family.

[Grandma dotes on her younger brother, secretly giving him all the family's silver to pay off his gambling debts!]

[My uncle is having an affair with the widow next door!]

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[That scumbag shares a bed with me every night, and now he wants his fiancee to sleep with us too! Son on the left, daughter-in-law on the right. What a happy family!]

[The girl coming toward us is troubled by something. Turns out she's just a substitute for his beloved white moonlight, but she really likes him?]

[He lied to me and used me, won't give me a proper title, and is going to marry someone else, but I know he loves me.]

After hearing all this juicy gossip, Bai Yuwei was furious. So she decided to become a fortune-teller.

"Miss, your forehead looks dark, and ominous clouds gather over you. I'm afraid that's a bad omen."

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Blurb:

Yun Yue was peerlessly elegant and gentle, a model for all the noblewomen of the capital.

Her fiance was handsome and refined, a man with a brilliant future ahead of him.

She was also Prince Liang's most beloved princess.

Her life should have been the happiest and most perfect one of all.

Then, one day, the Song army advanced to the border. To stop Song from marching south to attack Liang, she had no choice but to marry into their royal family.

Rumor had it that Song's ruler, Song Yixun, was cruel and bloodthirsty, and that more than a dozen beauties sent to him by other nations had already met untimely deaths. Her dear younger sister, desperate to avoid the marriage herself, demanded that Yun Yue give up her betrothal. Only then did Yun Yue learn that the man she thought was the finest fiance in the world had already been carrying on with her sister.

Betrayed by both her sister and her fiance, Yun Yue was heartbroken and agreed to the marriage alliance.

Everyone believed that the tyrant of Song had been Yun Yue's childhood sweetheart when he was held hostage in Liang, and that they had been inseparable since childhood.

Only Yun Yue knew that their supposed childhood friendship was a lie. He had suffered humiliation as a hostage in Liang and hated every member of the Liang royal family. She was sure she would meet a terrible end.

What?

He avoids women and never sets foot in the harem, yet he favors her alone and treats her well?

He must have an ulterior motive. He's lowering her guard so he can use her.

He wants to marry her and make her queen?

He must be trying to put her in the spotlight, make her a demon queen reviled by everyone, and have her die under the weight of public condemnation!

He dismisses his harem for her?

He must be...

In any case, it definitely isn't because he loves me.

Song Yixun: How do I make the princess believe that I love her? Waiting for an answer. It's urgent.

Reader's notes:

1. The setting is extremely loose. Official ranks, palace hierarchy, food, and everything else are all thrown into one big pot.

2. The male lead really is a tyrant.

Theme: Claim your own happiness.