Scheming for You

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[Upcoming historical romance: The Trueborn Daughter Became a Stepmother After the Marriage Swap. Blurb below. Please add it to your reading lists!]

[Blurb]

Gentle, foolish young widow (a ravishing beauty) x aloof prince on a high peak (a refined scoundrel)

Deception and coercion + long-laid plans + a husband chasing his wife back + aloof prince goes mad for love

The mute A-Yuan is captivatingly beautiful. Sadly, not only is she widowed, but her younger brother-in-law, her only remaining family, has also been claimed by his birth family. Now she is all alone.

With predators circling her home, she decides to marry again.

On her wedding night, she looks at the man before her and hears the maid call him "Your Highness." Her eyes widen.

Why does the prince look so much like the younger brother-in-law who was taken away?!

"Someone intends to use you to humiliate me. Stay here for now." Yu Wangshu's gaze is cool and distant.

The marriage contract is canceled, and A-Yuan stays. But she soon discovers that Yu Wangshu finds his life as a prince far from comfortable. He is constantly suspected and schemed against.

One day, Yu Wangshu is struck by a strange poison while saving her.

The poison isn't fatal, but the cure is unspeakable.

Between her fingers, the prince lowers his noble head...

A-Yuan is mortified, unaware that it has all been a lie...

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Yu Wangshu was sold to the poor village of Lingshui as a child. A-Yuan was the only light in his dark past.

When he was claimed by his birth family, he watched the little figure waving before the thatched cottage and felt like a lonely bird, left without a mate.

When he saw that familiar figure again, Yu Wangshu's cold eyes darkened.

He brought A-Yuan into his residence and made her willingly depend on him, like entwined vines that lived and followed one another. He even concealed clues to her true identity, all so he could keep her to himself.

One day, the truth came out, and A-Yuan left without a word.

They met again at a banquet celebrating the Chief Councillor's reunion with his eldest legitimate daughter.

Falling petals and brilliant flowers surrounded her. She smiled brightly, but looked at him with cool composure, as if he were a stranger.

After the banquet, word spread through the palace that the emperor intended to take Miss Yan as a consort.

Late that night, Yu Wangshu sneaked into Miss Yan's bedchamber. His pale eyes were as cold as stars at midnight. "So A-Yuan is going to be my imperial mother this time?"

Miss Yan pushed him away without hesitation and curled her lips into a sharp smile. "That's none of your business."

Reader's Guide

1. One-on-one, both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending, set in an imaginary world. The former husband could not consummate the marriage for physical reasons, but was physically intimate with the female lead. Please proceed with caution if that bothers you. The leads become romantically involved after their family relationship has been severed.

2. The female lead is one year older than the male lead.

3. Height difference. The female lead's muteness will be cured after she is claimed by her birth family.

Blurb written on August 30, 2023.

Upcoming historical romance: The Trueborn Daughter Became a Stepmother After the Marriage Swap. Please add it to your reading list!

True and false heiresses + face-slapping + marriage first, love later + the aloof prince's old heart catches fire

Gu Jia was sixteen when she learned she was the Earl's trueborn daughter. Returning to the capital, she should have been welcomed back into her family.

But the false heiress had been made a county princess, and the heir to the Duke of Rui, who was promised to her in childhood, had sworn he would marry no one else.

On one side was a merchant's daughter raised among common folk. On the other was the future Duchess of Rui, a woman of high standing.

The Earl's family knew exactly which one mattered more.

To preserve the false heiress's dignity, Gu Jia was treated as a poor distant relative who had come to seek shelter, and was neglected and harshly treated.

In the end, the false heiress even suggested that Gu Jia marry into the Duke's household as a concubine.

Everyone in the Earl's family praised Shen Yan for her virtue and expected Gu Jia to be grateful.

Gu Jia laughed.

She stepped past the others and stood before the Duke of Rui, tilting her head up with a pitiful look. "She said I should be the heir's concubine."

Later, Gu Jia watched calmly as Shen Yan knelt before her, offering tea and bowing her head.

The false heiress's voice was as faint as a mosquito's. "Mother."

#After My Marriage Was Stolen, I Became the False Heiress's Mother-in-Law#

[Reader's Guide]

1. One-on-one, happy ending, both leads are sexually inexperienced, set in an imaginary world.

2. Sixteen-year age gap. Proceed with caution.

3. The male lead is reborn, but his memories return gradually. There are secrets behind his first marriage, and both his body and heart belong to the female lead!

Theme: Women should be self-reliant and live life on their own terms.