Blurb One:
Born into this world, Xie Ruyi is the most honored legitimate princess in the Great Yan dynasty. Life couldn't be better.
Then one day, she has a dream and discovers that she's an insignificant cannon-fodder character in an old-fashioned novel!
The novel, Drunken Beauty, is about the breathtaking love between a founding emperor and an unparalleled beauty. As it happens, the founding emperor has the same name as her nominal father.
According to the story, her nominal mother, the empress, is the beauty's foil. Not long after the beauty enters the palace, the empress dies of illness. The beauty then becomes empress, and Xie Ruyi, the legitimate princess, loses her former glory. Worse still, when she turns eighteen, she's sent away in a political marriage. After that, she's gone.
Xie Ruyi has mixed feelings. She thought she'd landed a story where she could coast to victory, but it turns out to be hard mode... Is it too late to transmigrate back?
Blurb Two:
Ask who Lu Li gets along with least at the Imperial Academy, and the answer is undoubtedly Xie Ruyi.
The two clashed the first time they met, and they've repeatedly gotten into conflicts ever since. He's sick of it.
What's even more frustrating is that this pampered princess is outspoken and carefree, and coasts through her studies. Yet she's first in every academy exam. No matter how late he stays up studying, he can't beat her. He's frustrated and helpless.
Deep down, he can't help hoping she'll have some bad luck.
Then one day, she really does fall from grace.
He catches her wiping away tears when she thinks no one's watching. For some reason, it makes him feel awful. After hesitating again and again, before he can offer her a handkerchief, a reserved man approaches at an unhurried pace.
There is a light in her eyes as she looks at him.
Lu Li doesn't go over. Later, he silently watches her grieve for that man, then watches as she loses hope and sets out on the road to a political marriage.
At last, he can't hold back any longer.
Content warnings:
1. The second male lead ends up with the heroine.
2. This is a fictional historical setting. Please don't associate it with any particular dynasty.
3. The author's writing is slow-paced, not a fast-moving wish-fulfillment story. If that's not your thing, think carefully before reading. The most important thing is to enjoy yourself.
The full novel is already written. The author is terrible at titles and blurbs, so the title and blurb may be revised later, but the main story will remain the same.
Theme: A story about love and waiting
