My Childhood Sweetheart, Qingqing

Ongoing novel: Choosing the Eldest Brother, the Heir Apparent, Is So Hard. Please follow! A sanctimonious, scheming heir apparent goes mad for love + childhood sweetheart versus newcomer love rival showdown + possessive, coercive romance. Blurb at the end.

[Clear-headed, alluring beauty & domineering, obsessive prince]

When Wei Qianhe decided to leave Gu Cangheng, she didn't hesitate for long.

She remembered the despicable way he had taken her in as a mistress when her family was ruined, then failed to cherish her and caused her death three years later. She was already being merciful by not taking revenge on him...

Their childhood-sweetheart bond shattered overnight. Wei Qianhe insisted on obeying the order banishing her into exile and heading northwest to find the fiancé from her dream, Song Qingqiao, the future emperor.

She never expected Gu Cangheng to follow her so stubbornly, disguising himself as a bailiff to escort her all the way. Even more unexpectedly, Song Qingqiao had also disguised himself as another bailiff, hiding among the exiles to evade assassination...

The three of them traveled together through hardship until they reached a military camp in the northwest. When Wei Qianhe presented her betrothal token and asked to marry Song Qingqiao, the balance between them was shattered for good.

The young Prince Gu Cangheng of the Zongmu clan, who held sway over the court, couldn't understand why the girl who had been by his side since childhood suddenly insisted on leaving him.

Unable to stomach it, he relentlessly pursued Wei Qianhe.

When she was exiled, he disguised himself as a bailiff and escorted her. When she was stranded in the northwest and reduced to a prisoner, he guarded her day and night, not letting anyone so much as touch a hair on her head...

As they spent every day together, their feelings deepened. He had no idea that the woman he loved had already seen through his disguise, and repeatedly seduced and used him, moving between him and Song Qingqiao.

He had thought Wei Qianhe must care for him at least a little, until he realized that every deliberate show of affection was only meant to keep her brilliant fiancé firmly in her grasp...

"Fine! Fine! Fine!" Gu Cangheng laughed in fury.

Leaving him for good was one thing, but what did she mean by drawing him into bed behind her fiancé's back?

He had been there first, so why should he be the other man?

The unreachable moonlight in his palm: if he stole her away and imprisoned her, wouldn't she behave?

Bonus Scene:

Gu Cangheng was haunted by erotic dreams night after night. He thought it was because his own thoughts were impure and he was desecrating the woman in his dreams, until he caught the same scent of fragrant medicine in Song Qingqiao's room.

With bloodshot eyes, the man, sinking into a fit of rage, cornered Wei Qianhe by the bed.

"So this incense powder doesn't just work on me. You can sleep with someone else, too, Qianqian? One man to soothe by day, another to sleep with at night. What a comfortable life. But why be so formal with me, Qianqian? If you want to trick me into having a child, do you really need incense? Just beckon and I'll come."

The man pressed her relentlessly, unwilling to accept it. "So you want to marry Song Qingqiao, but you're using me to have a child? Have you thought about whose surname the child will take?"

Wei Qianhe's eyes brimmed with tears as she timidly replied, "After Song Qingqiao returns to his clan, he should take the surname Gu. So... there's no question about the child's surname, is there?"

Gu Cangheng was speechless... She dared to insult him like this!!!

Reader's Guide:

1. Happy ending, one-on-one romance, both leads are each other's only partners. The male lead and male supporting character are both chaste.

2. The male lead is the heroine's childhood sweetheart, the young Prince Gu Cangheng. Song Qingqiao is the second male lead, so don't pick the wrong side.

3. The male lead's evil deeds foreseen in the heroine's dream have an explanation. He isn't trash; he's just too in love.

Ongoing novel: Choosing the Eldest Brother, the Heir Apparent, Is So Hard. Please follow!

[Bold young general & cherished darling of a general's household & scheming heir apparent]

Shen Siluo, an adopted daughter of a general's household, grew up doted on by her eldest brother. Blessed with extraordinary talent, she followed in her brother Shen Di's footsteps and mastered mechanical devices and military armor.

Sadly, her adoptive mother couldn't tolerate her and forced her to leave while her brother was away recruiting troops for a campaign.

Shen Siluo fled in a sorry state, only to encounter Ye Huaizheng, heir to the Prince of Ningjiang, who had fallen on hard times.

Gentle as jade, he gave her a place to stay and patiently guided her as she rediscovered herself and learned to stand on her own.

The young girl began to fall for him and experienced love for the first time, until her brother Shen Di charged a thousand miles to bring her back and make her help defend the frontier...

The frail heir apparent Ye Huaizheng was knocked unconscious with a packet of poison and sold to a human trafficker. Blind and suffering from the poison, he was seen in his most wretched state by Shen Siluo, the young daughter of the Shen family, whom he had briefly met as a child...

At first, Ye Huaizheng only wanted to help her grow as a way of repaying her kindness. He ruthlessly stifled her budding feelings, hoping to let her leave him without regrets one day.

But when Shen Siluo turned away and ran to Shen Di, he regretted it. He could think only of how to keep her by his side forever, imprisoned there for all eternity.

The one who had always loved in vain was him. He had missed the innocent feelings she once had for him, and he had been wrong all along.

Now he could only seize her by force, tear away his mask of kindness and humility, and scheme at every step, determined to make her his.

The Shen family, a military clan that had safeguarded the country for a hundred years, was wiped out in a single battle. Only Shen Di's son remained to keep the family's crumbling reputation alive.

As the Rongji and Luge factions fought each other, Shen Siluo, who had grown up relying on Shen Di, was clever and alert. She helped him win again and again, becoming his indispensable right-hand woman.

Yet the younger sister who had always been inseparable from him vanished overnight. For three years, he yearned for her day and night, but she escaped without a trace...

At last, Shen Di caught up with her and, abusing his strength, beat the gravely ill Ye heir apparent.

He was unaware of his own feelings, and simply felt an instinctive dislike and aversion toward Ye Huaizheng.

Only when he saw Ye Huaizhen steal a kiss from a drunken A Luo did Shen Di suddenly understand: Siluo and he had a marriage contract, so if he wanted her, he didn't have to give her up to anyone.

Reader's Guide:

1. Happy ending, both leads are each other's only partners, one-on-one romance. The male lead and male supporting character are both chaste.

2. Constant twists, with all the push and pull happening before they fall in love. A newcomer and an older brother fight over her, a showdown between evenly matched rivals, a rejected lover who regrets it and pursues her relentlessly, unrequited love, restraint that eventually snaps, and a touch of ensemble cast.

3. The heroine is delicate but not weak. She grows from weakness to strength and develops her sense of self. The important thing isn't to be the strongest, but to make the best use of her strengths.

Theme: Dare to make mistakes and live without regrets