Forced to Take Off the Prince of Chu's Armor

The blurb for my upcoming novel is below.

Everyone at court knows that the weak and frail Prince of Chu, who commands one hundred thousand troops stationed in southeastern Great Yu, and the princess, who has no real authority despite enduring life in the army and is undefeated along the border, can't stand each other.

The princess can't stand him for commanding troops while accomplishing nothing, wasting a valuable resource.

Prince of Chu... He is forced to dislike Her Highness the princess for wielding weapons and fighting all the time.

One lives in the southeast, the other is stationed in the northwest. They were like the stars Canopus and Shang, never meeting. Occasionally, they would exchange memorials and spar with words on paper, doing no real harm.

But who could have known that when the Prince of Chu traveled to the capital to pay his respects to the emperor, he would be assigned the ridiculous task of delivering provisions to the troops in the northwest? The delicate, willow-like beauty, who seemed to sway in the breeze, was sent right in front of the stunning, vicious general who could uproot a willow tree with one hand.

The moment he stepped into the northwestern military camp, a whistling arrow shot through the air and landed precisely in front of his feet.

The Prince of Chu stopped and gave his fan a light wave.

The commander of one hundred thousand southeastern troops had to at least put on a show of strength in front of his sworn enemy's camp.

When the princess rode over, the Prince of Chu deliberately leaned back and slumped to the ground. He gazed at her with clear, gentle, innocent eyes.

The princess... saw her own face in his eyes, looking impatient but also a little dazzled.

How was she supposed to kill him now?

As it turned out, once she softened her heart, she could never harden it again.

The steel-fanged white rabbit, who had shown up looking like prey, smoothly took the little wolf princess with soft paw pads back to Chang'an, but ended up losing himself in the princess's residence.

One moonlit night, the princess and the Prince of Chu talked.

"My fief borders the land under the Prince's jurisdiction. If I were an idle princess, I could live right beside Your Highness."

"Then, during the holidays and birthday celebrations, at grand banquets and small gatherings, I could always meet Your Highness. I would gladly offer myself to you. It would make a fine romantic tale."

The princess suddenly realized that all her spur-of-the-moment decisions had been part of his careful plotting.

Upcoming novel: A Field Guide to Fu Huasheng

The Ze beast is snow-white, with a single horn and golden eyes. Its towering body stands on four powerful legs. It can speak and understand the essence of all things, and it warns people and drives away misfortune.

But once the seal on the divine beast Bai Ze was broken, she became a "disaster" in the eyes of gods, immortals, and demons.

The one who broke her seal was an ordinary human who had no doubts or fear at all. He smoothly accepted what was happening before him, and didn't seem to have much sense.

The God of Fortune told her that if she filled the Bai Ze Atlas again, she could return to Bai Ze's homeland.

The 11,520 kinds of monsters and spirits in the Bai Ze Atlas were scattered far and wide. There was no way to track them down.

If they wanted Bai Ze to grow old and die in the mortal world, they could just say so.

"Huasheng, I'll find all the monsters with you!" Fu Zhengyu, the man who broke her seal, declared with bright, determined eyes, patting her head as if she were a dog.

A mere human, who would live for only a hundred years, and yet he dared to make such a boast!

And who gave him permission to name her? Did he really think he was her father?

So annoying. She wanted to defy her nature and eat people!

But she couldn't. Another autumn wind blew, and the world had changed during the years she was sealed away. The law no longer allowed her to eat people.

From then on, monsters howled and ghosts and gods stirred up trouble. And with Fu Zhengyu, the cheerful human dad who had broken her seal and become bound to her, Bai Ze's life turned into a complete mess.

Theme: There is still poetry and a distant horizon in life.