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My next novel, After Marrying the Sickly Crown Prince, is coming soon. The blurb is at the end.
A stubborn legitimate daughter who always gets even X a ruthless, career-obsessed general
Lin Lin transmigrated into a book, becoming Su Sui Sui, the ill-fated legitimate daughter who was oppressed by her stepmother and framed by her sisters.
Just as she decided to rely on herself to defy fate and change her life, a silly System popped up.
“Host, please choose and complete one of the following three tasks to finish your transmigration mission!”
A. Teach the common people how to solve linear equations in two variables
B. Become the greatest swordswoman in the world
C. Marry Xie Jincheng
The first two options were enough to make her see stars. Wasn't this basically forcing her to choose C?
But... who was Xie Jin?
Still, who cared who he was? As long as she could marry him, that was fine!
While Lin Lin kept busy with the household intrigues at home, she did her best to find out about this young Master Xie. But the young Master Xie never showed up. Instead, a general who killed without batting an eye came along.
The general stood straight as a cliff before her, dressed in black. In his palm lay a delicate little sachet, embroidered with a lifelike flower of intertwined branches.
His thin lips parted. “Don't you remember the sachet Miss Su gave me?”
Wait, what? I gave it to him?!
Lin Lin's vision went dark: she hadn't inherited the original owner's memories!
But! But you're not even the person I'm supposed to win over!
Upcoming novel: My Sickly Husband. If you're interested, please add it to your reading list!
Shen Shining never dreamed that she was the legitimate daughter of the Prime Minister's family, lost and raised elsewhere.
And when the Prime Minister's family arranged a marriage with the Eastern Palace, she became the bride sent in the real bride's place.
She was both shocked and delighted, thinking fortune had smiled on her. But only after she met the Crown Prince, who was rumored to be sickly, gloomy, sensitive, and suspicious, did she realize that the Eastern Palace was a far more dangerous place than the Prime Minister's residence.
During her time in the Eastern Palace, Shining was walking on thin ice, careful with every word and action, afraid of accidentally angering the Crown Prince, whose moods were impossible to predict.
The following spring, the Emperor held a banquet at Lantai. Shining accompanied the Crown Prince and ran into her childhood sweetheart. He had since passed the palace examinations with top honors and become a rising star in court.
That night, the Crown Prince, who had never once looked her in the eye, lost his composure. He pinned her to the bed with both hands and said in a hoarse voice, each word distinct: “Even if your heart belongs to someone else, you're still the Crown Princess I married in a proper ceremony!”
Shining froze. What was wrong with him now?
*
Though Chu Jing was the Crown Prince, he knew his position was one his mother had bought with her life. He had suffered from a serious illness since childhood, with no cure available, and survived each day on ginseng broth.
Everyone at court knew he would not live long and that the position of Crown Prince would eventually pass to someone else. The servants in the Eastern Palace even said he was eccentric, and that one careless mistake could cost them their lives.
It was only when the Crown Princess married into the Eastern Palace that the place finally gained a trace of life.
Chu Jing looked at the writing she had casually scribbled in the hall, the peonies she had carefully arranged on his desk, and even the rosy bedding she had put on their bed.
From that moment on, he found himself harboring a thought he had never had before.
He wanted to live to a hundred.
Theme: Your fate is in your own hands
There is a sense of déjà vu