Heavenly Lion [GB]

Upcoming novel: People Slander Me for This, a GB story featuring a powerful princess and a fallen prince who's a hopeless romantic

Chang Xi picked up a filthy captive with a face as lovely as a flower from beneath a pleasure tent in an enemy state.

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--- Blurb for this novel ---

The Celestial Court's lion-taming deity descended to the mortal realm to protect the Great Liang. The person in whom the god resided became the High Priest.

--- The Ancient Records of the Heavenly Lion

Flames blazed upon the towering altar.

Yao Du pointed at the unconscious person on the ground.

"Tie him up. Carry him off."

Innocent bystander L:

(clutching his bruised stomach) (crawling in utter anguish)

"Put him down! He's the High Priest of my Great Liang! What do you want with him? What are you plotting? Are you using him to control me? To threaten Great Liang? You..."

"Neither."

Yao Du gave a shameless grin.

"I want him. I'm taking him home to warm my bed."

L: "…"

Beneath his outer robe, the High Priest, who was supposed to be "unconscious," gave an almost imperceptible flutter of his lashes.

"..."

A rich, powerful delinquent and boss of the Southern Region x a beautiful, slender bookworm who wants nothing and makes a poor living as a fake fortune-teller

[A few notes:]

1. GB, strong female lead, not a matriarchal world. Normal human anatomy and ordinary intimate relations. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

2. There are secondary BG and GL couples.

3. Set in an alternate history. No ghosts or gods, only people. The only unusual element is the return to an ancestral form. To explain: due to the setting, only the female lead can shapeshift, and only twice. She turns into a cat, and has almost no intimate contact with the male lead while transformed. He doesn't know it's her. Skip this if it's not to your taste. It barely affects the plot.

Theme: Find your own path in a life you never asked for.