The Years I, the Emperor, Spent as a Secret Mistress

Being emperor is really hard these days.

The border needs money.

Disaster relief needs money.

The river embankments need repairs.

Even the stable at the Grand Princess's husband's estate has come asking me for money to fix it.

My life is so hard.

I went incognito to drink alone outside the palace and heard on a flower boat about a wealthy woman from Jiangnan, rich enough to rival a nation, who was looking for a husband to keep her company.

She wanted someone handsome and of respectable background. Though she couldn't give him the title of husband, she'd give him two-tenths of the businesses under her name, worth over two million taels of silver.

I was tempted. I wasn't bad-looking, and my background... was respectable enough.

So I went to apply that very night.

A few upcoming historical romance novels:

The Princes Fighting for the Throne Are All Reborn

Emperor Qianyuan's sons were all brilliant young men, skilled in both letters and arms, unmatched in cunning. Each was more capable and prouder than the last.

With Emperor Qianyuan's tacit approval, the princes, evenly matched in power, began an eight-year struggle for the throne. In the end, nearly all of them were defeated, and every one of them met a miserable fate.

Third Prince Qi Yun was reborn. Thinking back on how he'd fought his brothers without giving an inch in his previous life, living worse than a dog, he realized it had been utterly pointless. So he'd had a change of heart. This time, whoever wanted to compete could go ahead. He wasn't going to fight. He'd rather lie flat at home and pursue his wife. How could that not be wonderful?

Then he realized... He wasn't the only one who thought that way.

Springtime Feelings for Begonias

After her mother died young, Mu Ning was entrusted to her maternal family when her gravely ill father lay on his deathbed.

But her maternal relatives turned out to be wolves in sheep's clothing. After her father died, they plotted to seize her family's property and wanted to offer her to the powerful.

When Mu Ning learned the truth, she disfigured herself and fled into the commoner's world, where she struggled to survive.

In the end, she was caught up in the poisoning of Prince Chen's consort and was killed with a single sword stroke by the enraged Prince Chen.

Perhaps she had died so unjustly that even Heaven couldn't bear it, and granted her the chance to begin again.

Double Happiness

Chen Shuangxi was a good-for-nothing at the Duke of An's estate, while Li Lenian was a notorious wastrel at the Duke of Wu's estate.

In their respective families, one ranked seventeenth and the other eighteenth.

Considering the imperial edict arranging their marriage, the two families, who had never gotten along, miraculously agreed:

Seventeenth Young Master and Eighteenth Young Lady were a perfect match, made for each other, a talented man and beautiful woman.

Amid all the shameless praise, two bewildered young people who knew the story's script were bundled into the bridal chamber...

Sparrows Leave the Branch

Her biological aunt sweet-talked her into marrying into a duke's estate that was already in decline.

Not only did she lose all her dowry, but she also gave her heart to the wrong person, and even her life-saving bracelet was forcibly taken by her sister-in-law.

Jiang Jun's so-called family worked her to death, and she died in despair.

When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the time when her father was posted to Suzhou...

Theme: Be self-reliant and persevere with courage