All I Want Is to Be the Prince's Sworn Younger Sister

Opening December 1: Spring Moon Hides the Kite. After her childhood sweetheart forcibly claims her, she transforms into a princess!

Completed novel: After I Was Widowed, I Had My Nemesis's Child: Empress Dowager x Regent

Character setup:

A gentle yet steely young woman physician x a radiant and noble Prince Duan

Blurb:

Ruochun, a female physician at the Imperial Medical Academy, was framed and killed, then reborn into a poor family. By chance, she met Prince Duan, Lan Zhuo, and became his sworn younger sister.

At the time, her sworn brother was a prince praised by the entire court, as flawless as fine jade. She was nothing but a stone fallen into the mud.

During an earthquake, Ruochun was shoved by the crowd and nearly fell. In the darkness, a warm hand clasped hers, and a clear male voice came from above her: "I'm here."

Her elder brother was always a man of few words, but just that one sentence made her feel completely safe.

**

She began to admire him, though perhaps there was something else mixed in with that feeling.

Her eyes would always follow her elder brother without her realizing it, and he could always stir her emotions. Just one faint smile from him could make her secretly happy for half a day...

But she never dared to hope for more, and could not bear to ruin their sibling bond, so she carefully hid her fluttering heart.

The more she admired him in her heart, the more she treated him like a father and elder brother on the surface.

**

Until Lan Zhuo was poisoned by a love toxin. Ruochun hurried to his side. "Elder Brother?"

To her surprise, his scorching palm clamped around her wrist. With a gentle tug, he pulled her close.

He raised his dark eyes, his gaze burning, his breath heavy and hot.

He looked up at her as if she were a moon too sacred to defile, speaking with restrained yet feverish intensity: "I stopped wanting to be your elder brother a long time ago."

Ruochun's heart pounded wildly, her dark lashes lowering to hide her astonishment.

He was the one she could never confess her feelings for, too.

Mutual pining, one-on-one, both virgins, happy ending

Serial novel: After I Was Widowed, I Had My Nemesis's Child

Blurb:

After her country fell overnight, Lin Jiayue, a princess of the former dynasty, became the new emperor's favored consort. But she refused to be a bird in a cage. All she wanted was to reclaim the empire that belonged to the Lin family.

Prince Yan was decisive and fiercely loyal, yet the emperor did not trust him.

She used her beauty to strike a bargain with him: she would help him win the emperor's trust, and he would help her assassinate the new ruler.

He fell into her trap just as she had planned, bowing to her will.

When the emperor passed away, she became empress dowager, and he became regent.

They were allies, yet secretly vied with each other.

At court, they glared coldly at one another.

On the phoenix bed, they moved as one.

Though she gave herself over to physical pleasure, Jiayue remained perfectly clearheaded. She would never lose herself to love.

Then an accident left her, a widow, pregnant. The man who had silently supported her changed in an instant.

He dropped his disguise and forced the young emperor to abdicate in his favor. Then, disregarding her objections, he forcibly married her and made her empress.

It turned out his identity was a lie, and even the so-called accident had been part of his long-laid plan.

"All my life, I have been abandoned. You alone reached out your hand to me. From that moment, I decided you would be the only one for me, for the rest of my life." He knelt before her, gazing up at her with the same reverence as always.

Her eyes bristled with thorns once more. "But the thing I believe in least in this life is so-called 'love.'"

**

Yan Mozhi concealed his identity and approached his elder half-brother for the sole purpose of killing him for revenge.

Only after entering the palace did he discover that the princess of the former dynasty, whom he had secretly loved for years, had become his half-brother's favored consort.

From then on, he had one more goal in life.

**

Lin Jiayue became Yan Mozhi's empress, the only woman in his harem.

Yan Mozhi knew he had done wrong. He humbled himself before her day and night, yet could not win a smile from her.

He remembered how, many years ago, she had been a princess of noble birth, while he had been little more than a muddy puddle. Now she was right before him, and he could even hold her hand. That was enough.

He never dared hope she would love him. Even he felt he did not deserve it.

But...

Now that the moon had fallen into his palm, he would never let go, even if it cost him his life.

Reader's guide: ★ The heroine is not a virgin, the hero is; happy ending. Romance-focused, with a little political scheming. ★ Not a strong-female-lead story; the heroine will not ascend the throne.

Theme: Water benefits all things without contending with them.