First Married, Then in Love with the Love-Struck Prince Regent

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[The blurb for my upcoming novel, I Keep My Wife in My Heart, and She Kicks Me Into a Ditch, is at the end~ Visit my author page and add it to your library!]

Ning Huanyi is the only daughter of the prestigious Marquis of Yongchang's household. Brilliant and talented, she is graceful as a willow in the breeze. But she has been frail and sickly since childhood, panting after three steps and coughing after five. Pale and delicate, she looks destined to die young.

People in the capital all say she would make a terrible wife. Whoever married her would be saddled with the name of a man who had to remarry within three years, and be cursed as a husband-killer!

Her childhood betrothal was called off for that very reason, and Ning Huanyi became the laughingstock of the capital.

But before the gossip had even died down, the stunning Regent Xiao Ning'an, who had just returned to the capital, came to propose. Her phoenix eyes were charming even when she wasn't smiling, and her figure was graceful and lovely. She didn't mind that Ning Huanyi was frail, and even petitioned the emperor for an imperial marriage decree in exchange for her military achievements. Her devotion was so plain that many young noblewomen couldn't help envying Ning Huanyi.

The day after their wedding, Ning Huanyi bit her handkerchief, her almond eyes moist. "Your Highness, did you marry me because you felt sorry for me?"

Xiao Ning'an paused while wiping her silver sword, then broke into a smile. "My wife is delicate and frail, and I only like protecting my own. So... we're a match made in heaven."

Ning Huanyi would never know that the beautiful young woman she had saved as a child, after seeing her bullied by rich girls in the street, would one day become the powerful Regent who controlled the court.

A little scene:

On the main street of the capital, rain poured down.

The frail young lady of the Ning family had gone out to pray at a temple when a downpour began. Her carriage rolled slowly along, and she saw several young noblewomen at a street corner laughing at a woman huddled there, while ordering their servants to beat her.

The woman was breathtakingly beautiful, with defiance in her eyes. Her cries for help grew faint. Just as she seemed to have only one breath left, the fists falling like raindrops stopped, and her attackers fled in every direction. Through blood and tears, Xiao Ning'an saw the departing carriage. The character Ning was on it. It must have been the legitimate daughter of the Ning family going out to pray...

[Reading Guide]

☆ One-on-one romance, both leads devoted only to each other. Frail, delicate beauty shou x devoted, fiercely loyal puppy-dog gong with a one-track mind. Estimated length: 300,000 characters. Chapter One's author's note has a detailed reading guide, so remember to check it out.

☆ The gong used to be called Xiao Li. The reason for her name change involves spoilers, so please read to find out.

☆ Set in a fictional dynasty where women can marry. Please don't nitpick the historical details. No writing advice, please.

☆ The shou falls in love after marriage, while the gong has had a secret crush on her for years. The tone is sweet domestic romance, with a focus on sweetness.

Upcoming novel:

Chasing-the-wife crematorium / seductive beauty gong

Yu Qiuchi, a struggling writer of lesbian fiction, transmigrates into one of her own unfinished novels.

Unlike most people who transmigrate into a book, Yu Qiuchi arrives at the very end of the story, when the two heroines are happily together and enjoying all the blessings in the world. But the beautiful villain has been left blind and mute, imprisoned and alone.

Yu Qiuchi has transmigrated into the role of an indifferent, powerful cannon-fodder empress. After issuing an imperial decree, she brings the bedraggled villain, Shen Jingzhu, out of prison.

Yu Qiuchi has always been rather fond of Shen Jingzhu, after all. She was the bright, beautiful girl Yu Qiuchi had written, one who refused to submit to her fate.

Yu Qiuchi takes her home. Whenever they communicate, Shen Jingzhu writes words in her palm.

Most often, she writes "Thank you" and "Don't go."

Shen Jingzhu has lived a life of loneliness. Perhaps unwilling to accept her fate, she fought the heroine and did all manner of evil, only to end up like this.

One day, Yu Qiuchi returns late from court and finds Shen Jingzhu sitting on the steps with her knees drawn to her chest. When she hears the palace attendants announce the empress's arrival, tears fall from her eyes. Her lips tremble as she whispers, "Don't go... Don't leave me..."

Shen Jingzhu can speak again.

From then on, Yu Qiuchi keeps Shen Jingzhu in the palace, protecting and pampering her, and even... loving her.

It is only when Shen Jingzhu sheds her sickly facade, takes control of the realm, and stands by Yu Qiuchi's bed that Yu Qiuchi realizes the girl is still the same girl, a monster who has always had ambition but no feelings.

The empress dies, and Shen Jingzhu, who has spent years being cared for in the palace, ascends the throne.

Is that the end? No. Yu Qiuchi is the author, after all. There's a genre called transmigration-and-rebirth stories.

Reading Guide:

★ One-on-one romance. Shen Jingzhu has a good reason for rebelling! The gong will not change!! Happy ending, trust me.

★ Updates will begin daily when the novel launches. Estimated length: 300,000 characters. Chapter One has a detailed reading guide.

★ The blurb and title may change!

(If you're not interested in the upcoming novel, you can still check out my author page and support a little author who's still growing!)

Theme: No matter what you go through, keep going, and the clouds will part to reveal the light.