I Just Want to Be Beautiful on My Own

[The next novel, a political intrigue story, I Didn't Mean to Flirt with Your Majesties, is now open for follows. Blurb at the end!]

#A story that seems unwilling, but is actually mutual#

Hua Yunqian is the young lord of the demon realm, yet he loves eating lychees and reading storybooks, content to laze around all day.

He enjoyed his carefree life for five hundred years, until the war between immortals and demons broke out. The new Immortal Venerable slaughtered the entire demon realm and ran him through as well.

Hua Yunqian thought it was all over. But when he opened his eyes, he had returned to three hundred years earlier, back when the Immortal Venerable was still a boy in his teens.

As a lazybones who wanted to stay alive rather than seek revenge, Hua Yunqian secretly protected the young Immortal Venerable. When the boy ended up in the demon realm, Hua Yunqian rescued him in a heroic moment, forging a life-saving bond between them.

Just as Young Lord Hua thought he could go back to lazing around, the boy fell to his knees before him with a thump and asked to become his disciple.

Hua Yunqian: "?"

Unable to resist the boy's pitiful expression, Hua Yunqian hastily accepted the master-disciple relationship, then promptly dumped him in the cultivation world and ignored him.

But the Heavenly Dao was determined to bring them together. When Hua Yunqian went to the border to investigate a case, he ran into Yu Siyan on a mission. When he accompanied the demons into a secret realm, he ran into Yu Siyan there, training with his fellow disciples. Even in the demon realm, the two managed to cross paths.

After several such coincidences, Hua Yunqian gave up resisting and consoled himself: It's just looking after a kid. A good-looking, well-behaved little disciple isn't so bad.

Forced to get his act together, Hua Yunqian began taking his disciple to all sorts of secret realms to train. But every secret realm had countless dangers, and there was always one danger he couldn't avoid.

When Hua Yunqian overcame one obstacle after another to find his lost little disciple, the boy's face was flushed. Growing more and more suspicious, Hua Yunqian asked, "Where's that junior sister from your sect?"

Yu Siyan looked close to tears. "If Master wants to reject me, just say so. Why make up some other person to humiliate me?"

Hua Yunqian: "..."

How had he ended up with a new task: becoming his disciple's cultivation partner?

[1v1, both leads are pure]

A lazy master who has to get his act together for his beloved, top × a black lotus in public and a little white flower in private, bottom

[Reader's Note]

1. The bottom is powerful but tragic, and his background is heartbreaking, but the main story is sweet! Sweet!

2. New author, amateur writing. Feel free to drop the book when necessary.

3. Please don't attribute the characters' behavior to the author.

Next upcoming novel

I Didn't Mean to Flirt with Your Majesties

Sheng An took a poisoned arrow for King Wei, only to end up hated by everyone.

He had served a ruler who wasn't worth it. After enduring three years of humiliation, Sheng An was presented to Emperor Zhong Mingzheng of Great Zhao as a "beauty" by the state of Wei.

Zhong Mingzheng kept him in the palace because his face resembled someone from the past. Sheng An used Great Zhao as a weapon to take revenge, while treating Emperor Zhao with complete indifference. He acted obedient whenever he had to, but when there was no need, he couldn't even be bothered to put on an act.

But Sheng An hadn't expected that when he used honeyed words to frame a hostage prince in the palace, Zhong Mingzheng would send the man out without a second thought. Nor had he expected Zhong Mingzheng to immediately order his people to carry out a military strategy Sheng An had casually suggested while pretending to be foolish. The emperor seemed like a foolish ruler.

And yet everything worked out. The hostage prince had tried to assassinate the emperor, and the strategy had won a battle through an unexpected maneuver. Sheng An finally came clean. "I was only using Your Majesty to deal with those who once humiliated me."

The emperor didn't even blink. "An'an, you don't need to say more. I know you love me."

Sheng An: "?" Whatever. Believe what you want.

Later, Zhong Mingzheng casually took him to the battlefield and the imperial court, then made him a prince. When the ministers accused Sheng An of deceiving the emperor and manipulating power, Sheng An looked utterly innocent. "I really didn't mean to flirt with your emperor."

The emperor had simply fallen for his own delusion.

What should an emperor do when he's too good-looking?

Zhong Mingzheng: "Thanks for asking. Plenty of people have wanted to destroy my country and take me to fill their harem, and I destroyed their countries instead."

Proud of his looks, Zhong Mingzheng scoffed at so-called beauties. That was until Wei's envoys arrived. The moment he saw the young man standing in the hall, the emperor, who had never been interested in beauty, kept him in a side chamber of his bedchamber that very day.

The ministers were horrified, fearing he was a dangerous beauty who would bring down the emperor. But the young beauty helped His Majesty conquer Wu and destroy Wei, unifying the realm. Zhong Mingzheng made him a marquis and then a prince. Only then did they learn the emperor had kept him in the palace because of a chance romantic bond, and the so-called beauty was actually a young and celebrated general from Wei.

After learning the truth, the ministers changed their tune: As expected of our emperor. He even managed to win over the enemy nation's God of War with ease.

The young emperor's stern, composed face couldn't conceal his smile. "I treated him with sincerity, so naturally I won An'an's heart."

The ministers: "..." That's all well and good, but it still doesn't justify following him around and spending every night at his residence!

[1v1, both leads are pure]

An emperor who is calculating but dotes on his beloved, whether his feelings are real or feigned, top × a fake schemer who's actually an airhead, carefree and single-mindedly focused on his career, bottom

Theme: Hard work creates a better life.