After Accidentally Getting the Tyrant Prince Pregnant

Please add my new novel, The Emperor Became a Sweetheart, to your favorites! Its blurb is at the very bottom. Here is the blurb for this story.

At a banquet for the powerful and wealthy, Liu Liu fills in for her good friend at the zither and unexpectedly spends a night with a man. Afterward, the cold, noble man leans lazily against the headboard and asks, "Will you be my concubine, or do you want money?"

Liu Liu calmly fastens her clothes. "Money."

The man curls his lips. "Someone, bring three thousand taels in silver."

Liu Liu waves a hand. "Six thousand."

Prince Jin, Shen Tingyun, has a strange illness. Whenever he comes into contact with a woman, he suffers from an unrelenting headache. The only exception is that zither player. He cannot marry, much less have children, and people outside the palace all say he suffers from impotence. His political enemies use this to pressure him again and again: if he has no heir soon, he will lose his power. Just as he is about to pretend to adopt a child, the zither player comes to him and claims she is carrying his baby.

Liu Liu says coldly, "I'm pregnant. If you acknowledge the child, I'll give birth and hand it over to you. If you don't, I'll take an abortion pill as soon as I walk out. Please make up your mind, Your Highness."

Shen Tingyun is stunned for a long moment. Liu Liu gets up to leave, but as she steps over the threshold, she hears him say, "I acknowledge the child."

After marrying into the household, Liu Liu signs a contract: once she has given birth, she can divorce him, take the money, and leave. As time goes by, she finds the prince terribly annoying. He is always bothering her about the pregnancy, saying she is too thin and should eat more, that she is bored and he should take her to look at flowers, and that when she feels unwell, he seems even worse off than she does. After she finally gives birth, Liu Liu thinks she is free at last.

Shen Tingyun comes to find her. "Miss Liu, I'd like to discuss renewing our contract."

Liu Liu adjusts the bundle on her shoulder. "Please step aside, Your Highness. The carriage driver is waiting outside."

Shen Tingyun grits his teeth in anger. This heartless woman! "Look after the heir for a year, and your younger brother can enter the court. Your younger sister can marry into a good family."

Liu Liu slowly pulls her foot back from the threshold. "I'll think about it."

A year later.

Shen Tingyun asks Liu Liu to renew their contract again. "Have another child, and I'll cover all your expenses from now on."

Liu Liu smacks her bundle right into Shen Tingyun's face. "Shen Tingyun, are you ever going to stop?!"

A refined prince who despises women x an independent young lady fallen on hard times

Reading guide:

1. The heroine's profession isn't zither player. If we're being precise, she should be called a pastry chef.

2. The hero isn't perfect, while the heroine is clear-headed and rational.

3. The dynasty is fictional, with plenty of invented details. The plot serves the romance, so please don't nitpick historical accuracy.

4. A lighthearted, bubbly sweet romance with a bit of absurd humor.

My new novel, The Emperor Became a Sweetheart, is now available. If you like it, please add it to your favorites.

Li Xian'er is frail and delicate, and loves to lie flat. The imperial consorts give her the flattering title "Consort Xian," a homophone for "idle." One day, after spending the night with the emperor, she unexpectedly swaps souls with him. From then on, the decisive, diligent, people-loving emperor becomes a frail sweetheart who can't take care of himself, spending all day by the side of idle Consort Xian in the depths of the palace. Meanwhile, Consort Xian reaches into the court and interferes in politics. The court ministers jointly petition that she is a bewitching woman who has led the emperor astray and should be executed, or else the Great Ling dynasty is doomed.

But at the morning court, the emperor weeps and tells the story of his earth-shaking, tear-jerking love for Consort Xian. Consort Xian is spared, but sent to the Cold Palace. Deep in the night, within the Cold Palace, the young emperor kneels on the ground, tears in his eyes, begging the Consort sitting cross-legged on the bed.

"Your Majesty, I was wrong... I shouldn't have been unable to withstand the accusations and locked you up here. I'll find a way to get you out at once."

A flash of lightning, and the two stare at each other for a long moment...

The Consort Xian who had been lying calmly in bed suddenly rolls off it, then kowtows to the emperor, who is still kneeling on the ground with tear stains on his face.

"I beg you, Your Majesty, let me live out my days alone in the Cold Palace. I'll never leave, as long as you spare my life..."

Sheng Huayan gets up and looks down at the woman trembling like a leaf. He gives a quiet, icy laugh.

"You think you can lie flat here? Wouldn't that be much too good for you?"

The next day, the ministers watch as the emperor, now restored to his cold and formidable self, brings Consort Xian, who has been banished to the Cold Palace, to court to listen to the proceedings.

A year later, Consort Xian wears the empress's crown and becomes the "Idle Empress" of Great Ling, still seated at court.

They see her yawn repeatedly, close her eyes, and lean against the emperor's shoulder, nearly falling asleep. The sinister, ruthless emperor gives an order: "Court is dismissed."

Then he carries the sleeping empress back to their bedchamber.

The ministers sigh in despair. Heaven means to destroy Great Ling! A wicked consort, truly a wicked consort...

Give us back our emperor who shunned women and loved his people enough to govern diligently!!!!

Delicate, pampered, frail, and happy to lie flat like a lazy fish x Decisive, sinister, and ruthless

Theme: Even if a pearl is covered in dust, it will still shine brilliantly.