(The novel The Caged Sparrow is currently being updated. It features a possessive romance. The blurb is below and can also be found on the author's page. Interested readers are welcome to add it to their collections.)
Blurb:
[Warmhearted, righteous little-sunshine heroine VS seemingly gentle and courteous, but actually obsessive and violent hero]
Ming Zhi is a palace maid assigned to clean the Cold Palace. Her only wish is to leave the palace and see the world.
Then one day, she unexpectedly spends a passionate night with the Third Prince, Pei Yuan, in the Cold Palace.
Her life is thrown off course from that moment on.
The Third Prince is gentle by nature. After she becomes his concubine, he says, "No one has ever treated me well. Will you leave me too?"
Ming Zhi pushes herself up from the bed and presses close to Pei Yuan's neck, whispering, "Unless Your Highness no longer wants me."
She thinks they are in love with each other, but amid the struggle for power, Pei Yuan plots against her and nearly gets her killed.
2.
Pei Yuan's mother died young, and the emperor shows him no affection. The eunuchs and palace maids take pleasure in tormenting him.
Though he is a prince, he lives worse than the concubine's pug.
He appears gentle and courteous, but in truth he is obsessive and violent, like a cold-blooded viper.
For the sake of his own interests, he could even bite his benefactor to death.
But when he sees Ming Zhi being carried to the mass grave, blood at her lips and no breath left in her,
he regrets everything.
3.
Five years later, Crown Prince Pei Yuan travels incognito to Jiangnan,
and sees the woman who has haunted his dreams, holding a little girl in her arms,
smiling brightly at a farmer.
Later, Pei Yuan's eyes redden as he holds Ming Zhi tight. "Zhi Zhi, I was wrong. Divorce that man and come back to the capital with me."
"You've mistaken me for someone else."
1. The hero has to win the heroine back after driving her away.
2. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. One-on-one romance with a happy ending.
The Caged Sparrow
[Important]
1. Possessive romance
2. The heroine's family is ruined, but the hero is not responsible
3. Bold, passionate sunshine heroine from a disgraced family VS seemingly refined, but actually brooding regent
1.
Shen Wanyuan, daughter of a low-ranking official, begs at her fiance's door through a night of snow and wind to save her father, who has been imprisoned.
Instead, she receives a letter breaking off their engagement.
When she has nowhere left to turn, the regent Lu Heng offers her help.
Lu Heng is as refined as an orchid and a jade tree, tall and graceful, with impeccable manners in every word and deed.
He gives her a plum blossom in the snow, protects her mother, and gifts her a rare book from a previous dynasty.
He is willing to enjoy the beauties of nature with her and give her shops of her own.
Shen Wanyuan gives Lu Heng all her passionate love and affection.
She smiles and throws herself into his arms, asking eagerly:
"Do you think I'm too forward?"
Lu Heng replies with a smile, "You have always been my little sun, Wanyuan. I only fear that one day your light won't reach me."
At that time, they love each other, and both are happy.
Until one day,
Shen Wanyuan discovers, trembling all over, that Lu Heng is a bloodthirsty lone wolf.
Everything was part of his scheme. Even the Shen family's downfall was his doing,
and she is already trapped in this four-walled cage, with nowhere to go.
2.
Regent Lu Heng holds power over the entire court and is as cold-blooded as a viper,
but he is willing to hide his dark side for Shen Wanyuan. There will come a day when it is exposed.
That day,
Shen Wanyuan, her face full of defiance, rasps:
"Didn't Your Highness scheme and plot just to make me give myself to you?!"
The little sparrow he painstakingly trapped in a cage rebels.
For the first time, Shen Wanyuan poisons him and flees the capital.
He nearly dies in the icy river.
The second time, on the day he is to marry a noblewoman from the capital, Shen Wanyuan runs away again.
He stands in his wedding robes, holding a crying baby, his eyes full of fury as he stares at the empty courtyard.
The white jade ring on his finger shatters.
3.
Five years later,
at the Lantern Festival,
the young heir of Prince Su's household runs out of the manor in tears.
He sees a gentle woman comforting a little girl who is throwing a tantrum.
Her voice is gentle and her words tender, just like any mother.
With tears in his eyes, the young heir rushes over and tugs at her sleeve. "Could you comfort me too?"
Watching the familiar woman from afar, Lu Heng stands frozen in place.
Theme: You have to work hard to live a happy life.
This guy is pretty awesome. How long does it take for the heroine to reconcile with such a man? I want to continue reading to see how they got involved again.
I really, really hate the male protagonist...
If I were the heroine, I really wouldn't choose him
Wouldn't the heroine just go back with her? It would be ridiculous to go back and continue to be a concubine? That's exactly what the title of the book is. The Concubine's Survival Guide.
The work intensity has become more intense. After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to update it every other day. I hope the little angels don't mind, there will be more updates on the weekend!
You're not going to finish torturing the scumbag right now, are you? ? ? ? Wasn't the suffering the heroine and daughter suffered all caused by him? Now this is just a debt repayment, and the heroine is still moved?
Oh? How could this bitch of a man say such a thing?
I feel like my body has been drained. I'm going to have lunch... Rounding it up is 10,000 times, hahahaha.
Isn't it long? It should be long and open. It's not suitable for girls to open wide.
Such a good dog, why do you still hit people?
I feel like the heroine herself is a little alienated, a little um, a little awkward to look at. It feels like the heroine has been dumbfounded all of a sudden. It feels like the hero is the only one in the world who is hurting her. She used to be quite smart. Could it be that I remember it wrong?
This guy is pretty awesome. How long does it take for the heroine to reconcile with such a man? I want to continue reading to see how they got involved again.
I really, really hate the male protagonist... If I were the heroine, I really wouldn't choose him
Wouldn't the heroine just go back with her? It would be ridiculous to go back and continue to be a concubine? That's exactly what the title of the book is. The Concubine's Survival Guide.
The work intensity has become more intense. After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to update it every other day. I hope the little angels don't mind, there will be more updates on the weekend!
You're not going to finish torturing the scumbag right now, are you? ? ? ? Wasn't the suffering the heroine and daughter suffered all caused by him? Now this is just a debt repayment, and the heroine is still moved?
Oh? How could this bitch of a man say such a thing?
I feel like my body has been drained. I'm going to have lunch... Rounding it up is 10,000 times, hahahaha.
Isn't it long? It should be long and open. It's not suitable for girls to open wide.
Such a good dog, why do you still hit people?
I feel like the heroine herself is a little alienated, a little um, a little awkward to look at. It feels like the heroine has been dumbfounded all of a sudden. It feels like the hero is the only one in the world who is hurting her. She used to be quite smart. Could it be that I remember it wrong?