The Princess's Secret Lover

Coming soon: A Perfect Match and I’m Scared, Not Shy. Their blurbs are at the very bottom~

Blurb:

Princess Le’an was the most beloved woman in the empire, showered with every imaginable favor. She grew into a bewitchingly beautiful woman of unsurpassed grace, and anyone who met her gaze, man or woman, felt their heart skip a beat.

But lately, Princess Le’an had been troubled by something. While she fretted over it, someone suggested she find a pleasing man to amuse herself with and ease her worries.

Just as she was despairing of finding a suitable candidate, Shen Xing, a friend of her younger brother the Crown Prince, came along.

Shen Xing was refined and handsome, and treated everyone with kindness. Even when people teased him, he never got angry. He seemed honest and easy to bully.

More importantly, his status was low, and he had no taste for competing with others. Someone like him could be cast aside later without fear of him clinging on.

So Princess Le’an got the idea to tease him. She teased him and teased him, until she teased him right into bed.

Once she had a taste, there was no going back. Before long, the two of them were secretly locked in passionate embraces every night.

To outsiders, one was her younger brother’s friend, and the other was his elder sister.

By day, they exchanged no more than a cool greeting and barely said a word. At night, they were so intimate they could hardly be parted.

No one would have imagined there was anything more between them, until the Crown Prince ascended the throne and her former brother-in-law rose step by step to become Chief Minister, wielding power over the entire court.

When Princess Le’an merely looked a few times at a handsome young guard, the Chief Minister ordered him put to death.

*

Only later did Zhao Yujing realize that Shen Xing wasn’t as innocent as he seemed. He was deeply calculating and skilled at putting on an act. Lately, he had also been growing increasingly audacious and refusing to let her have her way. So, one night after they had just tangled together, she decided they should part on good terms.

“Don’t come looking for me at night anymore. If this goes on, people will get the wrong idea.”

“Get the wrong idea?”

Shen Xing held her firmly in place, winding a strand of her dark hair around his finger as he revealed his true nature.

“When you seduced me, you should have known this day would come.”

Coming Soon 1: A Perfect Match

Zheng Wan was an unfavored concubine-born daughter of a general’s household. She was often subjected to cold stares and lived a miserable life.

To make matters worse, she was stunningly beautiful, with an extreme, bewitching allure. Plenty of spoiled young noblemen were eager to take her as a concubine.

She knew her status was low and that becoming a proper wife would be difficult. How much more impossible, then, to marry the man she loved, Gu Xun, eldest son of the prominent Gu family?

Gu Xun was noble and radiant, peerless among his contemporaries. A man of such distinguished status and exceptional talent was far beyond Zheng Wan’s reach.

Rather than let someone else claim her and continue living a life of groveling, she might as well make her own choice.

Zheng Wan, who had always been timid, decided to be ruthless for once…

After one reckless night, she married Gu Xun as she had hoped.

*

After the wedding, they treated each other with respect and courtesy in front of others, and Gu Xun gave her all the status and dignity she could ask for.

But Zheng Wan knew in her heart that Gu Xun loathed her.

He loathed her unscrupulous schemes and calculated plotting.

Whenever she tried to deceive herself, Gu Xun’s cold warning from their wedding night rang in her ears.

“Don’t covet what doesn’t belong to you.”

She kept her feelings off her face and answered softly, though her heart ached.

But as long as she could stay by Gu Xun’s side, she thought, it was all worth it.

*

Gu Xun remained resentful of Zheng Wan’s schemes, especially since she kept using the same tricks after they married.

He looked down on her attempts to seduce him, but despised his own weak resolve even more, since he always let her get her way.

He was growing increasingly addicted to their nighttime encounters.

But after their marriage, Zheng Wan dutifully managed the household affairs for him, listened to his opinions on everything, and conducted herself with graceful, quiet gentleness, as if she truly meant to be a devoted, loving wife. Gu Xun thought that perhaps he wouldn’t mind if things stayed this way.

Then one day, a friend visiting their home expressed admiration for the deep affection between the couple. Gu Xun replied carelessly, “It’s only an act.”

But when he turned around, his wife was standing not far behind him. The item that had slipped from her hand was the purse she had promised to sew for him not long ago.

From that day on, Gu Xun realized his wife had changed.

She no longer had eyes only for him.

The change left Gu Xun feeling restless and troubled.

Coming Soon 2: I’m Scared, Not Shy

Ruan Yin was the apple of the Grand Princess’s eye. She was exceptionally talented, gifted with a brilliant pen, and loved poetry and prose. She hated fighting and violence most of all.

She was gentle and kindhearted, and always willing to help others. All her classmates at the academy adored her.

Wei Qi, heir to the Duke of Dingguo, was tall, distinguished, and exceptionally talented. He loved nothing more than practicing with blades and swords, and was a notorious little tyrant in the capital.

Their teacher assigned them as partners. To be friendly, Ruan Yin smiled and struck up a conversation with Wei Qi, even offering to help him. But he simply stared at her without moving, his gaze so frightening it looked as if he wanted to swallow her whole.

Ruan Yin: I’m scared!

Luckily, Ruan Yin later heard that Wei Qi hated weak, frail people who couldn’t even lift a chicken. She looked down and pinched her own skinny arms and legs, and instantly understood.

Now she was even more scared!

She started avoiding Wei Qi.

Then, one day, Wei Qi was poisoned and on the verge of death. Ruan Yin couldn’t bring herself to let him die, so she kindly helped him detoxify, though Wei Qi didn’t know it was her.

But Wei Qi’s gaze grew stranger and stranger whenever he looked at her.

Later, for some reason, Wei Qi began to suspect that Ruan Yin was the one who had saved him. He cornered her again and again, demanding that she recreate what had happened that day so he could be sure.

Though Ruan Yin was scared, she still slapped him hard and called him a pervert.

After all, the poison Wei Qi had taken was an aphrodisiac!

*

Wei Qi realized that Ruan Yin was avoiding him, but he didn’t know why.

He wanted to see her every moment of every day, wanted her to talk to him and smile at him.

Distracted, he thought that perhaps she was just shy.

Then he’d have to be more proactive.

Theme: Love someone sincerely