Her Majesty Is Beautiful and Irresistible

Currently serializing: Spring Blossoms After the Orchid Embers. The heroine fakes her death, and the hero goes mad with love. Please add it to your favorites!!

On the day of the centennial oath-taking ceremony, Jiang Lingyi suffered a sudden heart attack. Resuscitation failed, and in an instant she transmigrated into the body of an embroiderer in the Southern Yu Kingdom.

Jiang Lingyi adapted quickly. Before long, she had started her own business and found herself a boyfriend. Life was sweet.

But fate had other plans. Before Jiang Lingyi could even figure out what was happening, she was inexplicably carried off in a bridal sedan and became the Crown Prince's betrothed.

On their wedding night, the Crown Prince left her with one remark: he already had someone in his heart, and she should know how to conduct herself.

Jiang Lingyi sneered. Perfect. They each loved someone else, so they could simply stay out of each other's way.

After the wedding, they slept in separate rooms and could not even be bothered to keep up appearances. The Crown Prince came and went from dawn to dusk, while Jiang Lingyi stayed deep within the inner quarters. Both were perfectly content with the arrangement.

At long last, she found a spare moment and began writing to her boyfriend.

A Yan, seeing your letter is like seeing you.

My father forced me to marry someone I don't love. He's arrogant, ignorant, self-righteous, ruthless, and petty.

But don't worry. He and I are keeping our distance and have nothing to do with each other.

Once this business is settled, I'll find a way to get away, and then we can be together forever.

What Jiang Lingyi never expected was to receive his reply just two days later.

Yiyi, circumstances forced me to marry another woman. But we each have someone else in our hearts, and we've agreed to part ways when the time is right. You will be the only wife I ever have.

But don't worry. This woman is spoiled, willful, ill-mannered, disrespectful of her betters, and downright vile. Compared with you, Yiyi, she's like mud beside the clouds.

Jiang Lingyi sighed. She had not expected him to be in the same predicament. Life really was unpredictable.

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The Crown Prince and Jiang Lingyi shared their senses. After she had fallen into the water and come down with a high fever more times than he could count, he finally lost patience and decided to have her locked up.

But when he stepped into her courtyard, some strange impulse made him stop outside her window.

The young woman seated before a bronze mirror was slowly putting on a human-face mask. She chatted and laughed with the maid beside her.

"It's been so long since I last did this. Have my disguise skills gotten rusty?"

The Crown Prince felt as if thunder had struck. That face, who else could it be but the woman he had been longing for day and night?

So... the lover of the hateful woman I'd cursed countless times was actually me?

Reading Guide:

◎ The leads are each other's only partners, one-on-one romance.

◎ Set in an imaginary world. Please don't read too much into the historical details.

◎ No political scheming.

◎ Anything in the blurb that doesn't make sense is foreshadowing. The story will explain it.

Currently serializing: Spring Blossoms After the Orchid Embers! The heroine fakes her death, and the hero goes mad with love. Brother-in-law and sister-in-law romance.

For the first sixteen years of Qi Jingci's life, she did everything by the book. Everyone said the Prince of Huai'an's daughter was poised and gentle, a model noblewoman.

She always thought she would follow the rules for the rest of her life, until she met Yan Hengzhou.

Prince Jing, Yan Hengzhou, was the true power behind the court. He held all authority in his hands, and even the emperor was his puppet.

Ever since meeting Qi Jingci, he had noticed that the young woman seemed to treat him differently.

Chance encounters, deliberately created moments of intimacy. No matter how coldly he treated her, Qi Jingci would only lower her eyes in wounded silence and softly call, "Your Highness..."

He believed he had seen through all her little tricks and schemes.

The pity was that he had no interest in them.

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War broke out on the border. Yan Hengzhou was appointed regent and volunteered to lead the campaign. But on his way back, he heard that the Prince of Huai'an's household had rebelled and that the emperor had ordered the entire family executed.

The usually composed Prince Jing went mad. In a single night, he uncovered the truth: his political enemies had framed them.

That night, people said the lamps in the emperor's Funing Hall burned until dawn. The next morning, the palace ran red with blood.

A light rain fell all night.

No one knew that when he raced back from the border, he spent the entire night searching the mass grave outside the city, but could not find the young woman who had said she would marry him when he returned victorious.

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The court officials all felt that the regent was no longer as composed as before. He had become somewhat brutal.

They only dared whisper among themselves that it seemed to have something to do with the daughter of the Prince of Huai'an, whose family had been executed a few years earlier.

But the regent was mercurial and unpredictable. They did not dare say more, and could only guess in private.

At the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, the regent sat below the emperor, drinking alone, seemingly lost in thought.

Gradually, his vision grew hazy. He set down his cup and looked up, then froze, his gaze fixed on the highest seat.

In a hoarse voice, he asked the eunuch beside him, "De Xi, who is that woman next to the emperor?"

De Xi did not understand what he meant. He glanced up at the dazzling, alluring woman beside the emperor and respectfully replied,

"Your Highness, she's the Noble Consort His Majesty appointed a few days ago. She rose three ranks in just half a month. It seems she is greatly favored!"

But Yan Hengzhou could no longer hear anything. He stared at the familiar face on the dais as she played up to the emperor.

With a sharp crack, the cup in his hand shattered.

Theme: Everyone deserves to be loved