The Crown Princess Only Wants to Practice Medicine (Female-Dominated World)

[A gentle, composed, absent-minded heroine with peerless medical skills vs. a prickly, arrogant, miserable, love-struck male lead]

"Joy and sorrow are like dreams, awakening and delusion are one.

With only this profound compassion, never resting, never ceasing.

Thus I bow my head to Guanyin, the Great Bodhisattva."

Shi Hanshi, "Three Poems on an Image of Guanyin"

People in this world pray to Guanyin when they suffer. To spread the way of goodness, she sends the souls of lotus seeds formed in the Jade Palace's Wang Pool into reincarnation, one by one, to save people.

Shen Xiao is one of those lotus seeds, tasked with advancing the art of medicine.

But the world has only just begun, and the people are ignorant.

They make offerings of ginseng, lingzhi, and monkey-head mushrooms, then worship them every day.

When they feel unwell, they burn incense in front of a statue, then drink a little fern soup mixed with incense ash.

As for acupuncture, no one dares to try it.

Luckily, she meets a fool who is willing to let her test her medicine on him.

At last, when Shen Xiao becomes famous for her medical skills, the fool appears again on the night she's packing to leave town. This time, he's blind in one eye.

Shen Xiao: "...Can someone really be this unlucky?"

Soon after parting with Shen Xiao, the fool meets a tragic end. Shen Xiao asks Miaoshan about him and learns he has the fate of a calamity star.

Shen Xiao: "...Fine, I'll help him. Consider it repayment for saving my life."

She asks Miaoshan how to change the calamity star's fate, then offers up her own lotus heart and begins nurturing the Pool of Blessings. She won't stop until she achieves her goal, becoming a half-ascetic.

She travels from the world of the living to the world of the dead. Though she reincarnates, her consciousness never fades. Alone, she passes through six hundred long, lonely years, attaining the Dao through her own body.

Until the calamity star follows her, disrupting her rhythm...

Shen Xiao, eyes closed and speechless: "...Every day of this life has been kind of oppressive."

Calamity star, sniffling: "...Can't I make you happy, too?"

Shen Xiao, slamming the table: "...Then why exactly did you have to seduce me in front of the Bodhisattva!"

Xue Huanzhen considers himself murderous, cold-hearted, and indifferent.

But the moment he sees Shen Xiao, he understands.

Someone else is coveting my looks, huh? I won't say who.

A month after Xue Huanzhen meets Shen Xiao, he frowns.

Why is she so nice to everyone? Someone who's about to get married should pay more attention to keeping her distance from men and women, shouldn't she?

A month after Xue Huanzhen and Shen Xiao part, his eyes are misty with tears.

Dr. Shen, when will you be done playing hard to get...

[Reading tips]

The setting is entirely fictional. It's just a romance novel, so don't nitpick the details.

I shouldn't abandon it. The outline is very complete.

1. This is not a typical female-dominant story, whether with a male or female lead. Men can give birth.

2. Readers are advised to discover their own deal-breakers as they read. The only one I'm warning about in advance: the male lead will probably become a monk around the middle.

3. One-on-one, both leads are virgins, happy ending.

Also known as:

"After Drinking from the Wang Pool, the Lotus Seed Spirit's Two or Three Unforgettable Experiences"

"I've Been a Corporate Drone for Six Hundred Years. What's Wrong with Falling in Love?"

Next up, planned to start in mid-2026: "I Forced My Childhood Friend's Widowed Husband to Marry Me (GB)"

Synopsis:

I was born into the Chen family of Jiangning, a family of cloth merchants. I had no brothers or sisters, and so that the family's enormous fortune wouldn't fall into someone else's hands, my parents raised me as a boy from childhood.

As time went by, I truly came to think of myself as a man.

Xu Maolin and I grew up together. Unlike me, who reeks of money, he comes from a distinguished, scholarly family. Even his fiancée, Shi Tian, is a refined and dignified young woman from Jiangnan, famous for her learning and talent.

I saw Shi Tian when I was twelve. She was so beautiful, with skin like snow and a slender figure. Her eyes were like the bright moon in the sky, and every movement of hers seemed like falling flowers chasing snow. After that fleeting glimpse, I could never forget her.

Xu Maolin went to the capital to take the imperial examination and didn't return for three years. Rumor had it that he'd died at the hands of bandits on Mount Xiaocang.

Shi Tian volunteered to enter her husband's family and remain chaste. She lived just across one wall from me.

One wall!

To me, this was simply the best news imaginable...

She had changed a little, looking more haggard and so thin she was almost unrecognizable. I heard her mother-in-law loved imposing rules. How could I allow her to suffer like that? I had to take Xu Maolin's place and look after her properly!

Every day, I climbed over the wall and went out of my way to please her.

Gradually, I realized she was falling for me.

I spent a third of my family's fortune and finally married her.

But on our wedding night, the beautiful face beneath the veil never quite matched the Shi Tian I remembered...

My Shi Tian... How had she turned into a man?

[A lovesick, lecherous playgirl x a cool, frail, nurturing man]

Reading tips:

1. Sexual orientations are all mixed up in this story: the heroine thinks she likes women, while the hero thinks he likes men. They get together because of a misunderstanding, and it's a marriage-first, love-later romance.

2. The male lead is the second daughter of the female lead's father's concubine.

3. The main story is told in third person.

Theme: Be a kind person