Unparalleled Beauty, Hidden Pride (Both Reborn)

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[Coming Soon] I’m Done Being a Princess Sent Away for Marriage! Blurb below.

[Sunny, bold, handsome-face-loving female general x a top scholar with eight hundred schemes]

Yuan Xiangyi came from a family of military officers. She should have been defending the frontier and riding across the desert, but an imperial decree forced her to become Prince Kang’s consort. From then on, she never saw the sunset over the long river again.

Because of Yuan Xiangyi, her family was dragged into the struggle for the throne and became a stepping stone for Prince Kang, Lu Shi’an, to ascend the throne. A century-old military clan was ruined overnight, and its loyal members were reduced to bones.

Reborn, Yuan Xiangyi decides to find herself a husband and petition the emperor before he can issue the decree. After all, there are only three days left until the day she was married off in her previous life.

The female general waits beneath the notice board to choose a husband, poised on horseback with her spear in hand. The noble ladies of the capital don’t dare approach.

Then a frail-looking scholar appears beneath the board. He may be a little delicate, but his face is so stunning that she can’t look away.

Never mind. Since she has to choose a husband, she might as well pick a handsome one. She can probably get through the rest of her life looking at that face.

So Yuan Xiangyi wastes no time hauling him onto her horse and riding straight to the imperial palace.

*

Married life

At the Hundred Flowers Banquet, the noble ladies expect Yuan Xiangyi to make a fool of herself. Instead, she composes poems and answers questions with ease. Since when was she so well-read?

Wen Heng: “My lady, I prepared a cheat sheet for every flower. Was it to your liking?”

At the autumn hunt, Yuan Xiangyi watches her husband take a break after every three steps. He draws his bow and hits the bull’s-eye, but the moment he sees her, he tosses the bow aside.

Wen Heng: “My lady, my old heart problem is acting up. My heart is racing. Would you like to come and listen?”

On a trip south of the Yangtze, Yuan Xiangyi accidentally reveals the iron ring on her thumb. It was the token of love Wen Heng gave her on their wedding night.

Everyone immediately kneels and pays their respects. “The entire Myriad Poisons Sect welcomes madam!”

Yuan Xiangyi: “This is the business you said you’d set up in Jiangnan?”

The frontier is in danger. Yuan Xiangyi, pregnant and ready to put on her armor and take up her red-tasseled spear, learns that the man appointed commander for this campaign is her own husband, who supposedly can’t lift a weapon or handle hard labor.

She rushes into the courtyard. “How can a scholar like you go around swinging weapons?!”

Wen Heng picks up the forty-pound red-tasseled spear with one hand and sets it aside. Carefully helping her sit down, he gives her an innocent, harmless smile. “I never said I passed the civil service exam, my lady.”

...So he’s a top military exam graduate!

After a great victory, the army returns to the capital. At the victory banquet, the drunken emperor takes Wen Heng’s hand and says solemnly, “When are you planning to inherit the title of Marquis of Yongyi?”

Yuan Xiangyi: “Wen Heng! Just how much have you been hiding from me?!”

*

Young Marquis Wen left home and traveled north to conceal his background and earn an official title. In truth, he did it to win the hand of the woman he loved.

In his previous life, he failed to protect her. By the time the forces coming to rescue the emperor arrived, she had already perished in the dust.

When he wakes again, it is the sixteenth year of Shengjing. He is once more the carefree young Marquis Wen, and she is once more the battle-hardened female general guarding the frontier.

He hears that the female general plans to choose a husband soon, so he pays a lot of money to make sure none of the other candidates show up to see the results.

That way, no matter how long she looks, he’ll be the only one she can pick.

-----Here’s another coming-soon title-----

I’m Done Being a Princess Sent Away for Marriage!

[Bright, fiery bandit princess x an elegant, down-on-his-luck young nobleman]

Xiao Qi grew up in the mountains. When she was still a baby, the bandit chief of a mountain stronghold adopted her. From then on, the stronghold’s three leaders became her three dads.

When the girl turns sixteen, a huge group of people suddenly arrives from the foot of the mountain.

Thinking they’re soldiers come to suppress the bandits, her three dads sharpen their blades again and again, ready to fight their way out. Then the newcomers call for them to hand over the princess.

The princess? Who?

All three dads turn to look at Xiao Qi.

The girl is dressed for action, a gleaming pair of blades in her hands. She asks them eagerly, “Dads! When are we charging out?”

Xiao Qi is brought back to the palace. The emperor gives her the name Xiao Qi and titles her Princess Qiyu.

Xiao Qi doesn’t like the name. Pearls and brocade aren’t where she belongs.

Princess Qiyu causes chaos throughout the palace, much to her adoptive father’s dismay. Just then, peace talks begin over the fighting at the border, and the emperor makes a grand gesture: he orders Princess Qiyu to be sent away for marriage!

Only then does she understand. He took back the princess who had been living outside the palace to protect the daughter he loves most. He isn’t her adoptive father. She’s the adopted daughter.

Xiao Qi sits in the carriage taking her to be married off.

The wind howls and the horses cry along the barren road.

The more she thinks about it, the more wronged she feels. She’s done with this ridiculous princess-for-marriage business!

“Only cowards go off to marry for peace. A real woman fights with real weapons!”

From then on, there is no longer a Princess Qiyu. There is only Xiao Qi, a bandit leader on the frontier. They say Xiao Qi takes every last thing she can, and her troops are countless and fierce. The surrounding kingdoms once tried to join forces against her, only to be soundly defeated. Now they pay tribute every year.

Once she has established herself, she quickly brings her bandit dads over to inspect her achievements.

Her dads nod in unison. “Not bad. But as the leader of a stronghold, you still need a husband to rule it with you.”

Xiao Qi sits on a sandy slope, gazing blankly at the distant horizon.

The camel bells ring softly as a caravan passes. The veil of the young man at its head lifts. At the sight of him, the foxtail grass Xiao Qi is chewing falls from her mouth.

With yellow sand filling the sky, she sits tall on her horse and looks down at him. “Are you coming with me? If not, I’ll just take you by force!”

*

Pei Lu was once lucky enough to meet Princess Qiyu.

She was full of life, bright and beautiful. She didn’t belong trapped in the silent, empty palace.

When the emperor hears that the princess has returned to her old profession as a bandit, he sends people to persuade her to surrender.

It’s no easy job. Hurting the princess means certain death, and being hurt by the princess... is basically certain death too.

No one else is willing to go, but he is.

Even though everyone says he’s risking his life for a future at court.

They’re all wrong. The princess isn’t like that. She won’t do anything to him.

Well... she won’t do anything to him, except forcibly take him as her husband.

Pei Lu thinks he may be the easiest consort in history.

Even later, when the princess opens trade routes, joins forces with the Western Regions, and creates a peaceful age of lasting stability, he still thinks he may be the easiest imperial consort in history.

Theme: Strive relentlessly and take charge of your own destiny