My Childhood Friend Turned Out to Be the Second Male Lead

The next book is titled This Day. A frail princess consort with little time left to live × a cold, calculating prince. Synopsis below.

Book blurb:

When Lin Qingyu was eight, her mother did something that caused a sensation throughout the city.

Her mother divorced her father!

After that, her mother left her in the care of her former best friend from her maiden days, the empress of the current dynasty. It was then that Lin Qingyu realized she had not only transmigrated and been reborn, but had also transmigrated into an old-fashioned novel.

And that sharp-tongued, irritating Crown Prince brother of hers was actually the second male lead in the original story. Whenever she thought of how he would later love someone who could never love him back and end up alone for the rest of his life, she couldn't help looking at him with pity. Of course, all she got in return was a knuckle rap on the head.

From the male lead's perspective: Xiao Han was the most exalted Crown Prince in all of Great Wei. Ever since he was little, he had gotten whatever he wanted. But the new little girl in his mother's palace always looked at him with such a tender, pitying gaze. Xiao Han's eye twitched as he glared at her. What was she pitying him for? Her own mother had divorced her father. She should pity herself first!

Later, Xiao Han always took her along to school, to chase cats and dogs, and to watch the male and female leads as one ran away and the other chased after them, until they were both trapped with nowhere to go.

Next book

Title: This Day

Synopsis:

(First married, then fall in love; a frail princess consort with little time left to live × a cold, calculating prince)

Xu Shuwan's first meeting with Ling Yun came about through a bargain.

He would rescue her entire family, imprisoned on charges of treason and collusion with the enemy, and all she had to do was treat one person.

At the Mid-Autumn Palace Banquet, the Prince of Li, who should have been recuperating at home because his serious injuries had yet to heal, appeared once again. He looked perfectly healthy, nothing like the gravely ill man rumored to be near death.

The Prince of Li's appearance left the assembled ministers and ruler dumbfounded. Even more astonishing, this prince, who had always been cold and unfeeling, publicly asked to marry the daughter of a convicted official: Xu Shuwan, the young lady of the former Marquis of Zhenbei's household, who had just been released.

The hearts of the young women who admired the Prince of Li were shattered. From then on, yet more people began throwing rotten vegetables at the gates of the marquis's residence each day.

Xu Shuwan's mouth twitched. There was no need to go that far, really. Their marriage was nothing more than a bargain.

Later, when everything had been settled, Xu Shuwan packed her belongings and prepared to return to her hometown with her family and live in seclusion. The Prince of Li blocked her way.

"We have bowed before our elders and drunk the nuptial wine. We are husband and wife, joined for life, yet you would abandon me and leave?"

Xu Shuwan looked confused. "But wasn't this marriage part of our bargain, too?"

"A bargain? Do you think what we have is nothing but a bargain?" Ling Yun's face paled, and a trace of menace showed in his wounded eyes. "Even if it was a bargain, now that you've had your way with me, don't you think you should take responsibility?"

Xu Shuwan's eyes widened in disbelief. She couldn't believe words that shameless could come out of his mouth!

Take responsibility for what? Wasn't that just an accident?

Reading Guide:

* First married, then fall in love; both leads are each other's first; a little romantic rivalry

Theme: Cherish the person by your side