After Marrying the Blind Princess

Possessive, scheming, blind princess * spoiled young consort who grows up over time

(A woman with a little too much going on beneath the surface) * (A rebellious, slightly sister-obsessed wolf pup)

Coming soon: The Commandery Princess and Her Long-Term Laborer, a scheming commandery princess * a long-suffering laborer

Story blurb:

*An alternate historical setting, no historical research intended / four-year age gap, younger partner / marriage before love / political intrigue / long, slow burn

The Fifth Princess knows from beginning to end that Zhou Che is a woman disguised as a man.

A story of a badly mismatched marriage, where a young consort with a heart set on rebellion ends up taking his marriage seriously.

The Fifth Princess is gentle and kind, and there is no one in the entire imperial palace more beautiful than she is. But because she has suffered from an eye condition since childhood, she never wins the emperor’s favor. In the end, the emperor casually marries her off to Zhou Che, the most notorious playboy among the noble families.

At first, the supposed playboy is against the imperial decree ordering her to marry.

But she never expects that after the wedding, the neglected Fifth Princess will reveal herself as a ruthless powerbroker, manipulating the court from the shadows.

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The candlelight flickers. The beautiful princess, as lovely as a fairy, brazenly flirts with her beneath its glow, and Zhou Che is completely flustered.

In a daze, she somehow manages to use her innate talent and uncanny good fortune to claim every part of the princess, inside and out.

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Later, Zhou Che realizes she has been thoroughly used. So, taking advantage of the turmoil of war, she fakes her death and flees.

The empress goes mad, determined to dig up every inch of land to find the faithless man who abandoned his wife.

To curry favor with the empress of the Central Plains, neighboring countries send her everyone who might have even the slightest resemblance to the former Fifth Princess’s consort, no matter their gender, age, height, or build.

So Zhou Che cautiously poses as her own double for a time. She tries to escape again and again, and fails again and again.

The empress may be mad, but at night, when they are alone together, she always secretly cries.

“Didn’t you eat?” she asks in bed. “She was much better than you.”

Zhou Che: ?

A note: The princess really is blind. She will recover later.

Marrying the princess means taking her as your wife.

Coming-soon novel: The Commandery Princess and Her Long-Term Laborer

A long-suffering laborer * a scheming commandery princess

The imperial throne changes hands, and a new order is established.

A poor girl with a surname but no given name, whose family has been destroyed, is picked up by an old beggar on the roadside. A bowl of watery hot porridge, with barely any rice in it, saves her life.

Still very young and bewildered, she enters the prince’s residence covered in blood and becomes a long-term laborer there.

The young lady of the prince’s household has just turned fifteen. She gives the girl the name Yan, and on a rainy night, personally holds a paper umbrella over the drifting, rootless child. From then on, Li Yan accepts her as her mistress.

The young commandery princess is peerlessly noble and has grown up in the lap of luxury, yet her eyes always hold a compassion no one else can understand.

Li Yan willingly becomes her blade. Even when her mistress acts with ruthless cruelty, Li Yan never wavers for a moment.

Wei Wanzheng is busy muddying the waters of the court, never expecting a fire to break out first in her own household.

The grown commandery princess finally unleashes her thunderous wrath on the culprit.

Later, Li Yan, who once swore she would never betray her, is bound hand and foot and sent to the princess’s bed. The usually cunning princess punishes her with a “soft knife.”

She wears nothing but a light, gauzy robe, so sheer that the graceful curves beneath it are visible at a glance. The night breeze outside makes the candle flame waver. Her delicate, jade-like knees tremble as she kneels before Li Yan. With her usual cool expression, she says things that leave Li Yan utterly confused.

“Have I treated you badly?”

“Look up at me.”

“What more do you want me to do?”

Li Yan knows all the ways she can punish people, so she simply looks away and keeps her lips pressed shut.

Wei Wanzheng grits her teeth and endures it for half the night. Then, under Li Yan’s gaze, her expression changes. The resentment in her eyes gives way to a springlike glow, and peach-pink color blooms at their corners.

“You’re bullying me.” Even her usually cool, confident voice trembles faintly with uncertainty.

She even has the nerve to blame the other person first.

*A story with a broad ensemble cast

*An alternate historical setting

*Flowers bloom in a mire

Theme: Strive for self-improvement.