House Slave

[Upcoming historical romance] The Hostage Prince I Mistreated Ascends the Throne. Blurb below

---Blurb for this novel---

The Li family dwindled and fell into decline. After her parents died one after the other, Li Fuying was left all alone.

Fuying was as delicate as a willow in the wind, but her temperament was willful and capricious. Aside from her household servant Li Yanxi, no one was willing to follow her. She had no choice but to take Li Yanxi and seek refuge with her uncle, who lived a thousand miles away.

Fuying still considered herself a young lady and continued to treat her servant Li Yanxi harshly, beating and berating him without giving him the time of day.

Li Yanxi, however, kept his head down and remained obedient and loyal.

Along the way, Fuying accidentally took an aphrodisiac and had no choice but to seek Li Yanxi's help to dispel its effects.

But she was still hoping to make a good match, so afterward she beat and scolded Li Yanxi, warning him not to tell anyone.

Li Yanxi was docile, keeping quiet and taking the blows without complaint.

Unexpectedly, after the first time, the effects returned every three to five days. No medicine could cure her, and no matter how hard she tried to endure it, she could only seek Li Yanxi's help each time.

Li Yanxi cooperated without complaint and never said a word more than necessary.

Fuying was fairly satisfied. She planned to marry her cousin at her uncle's house, free Li Yanxi from his servant status, and promote him to steward.

But after she became engaged to her cousin, the effects flared up again. When she went to find Li Yanxi, he was lounging by the window, gazing at the sky with a blade of grass in his mouth, not moving an inch.

"Beg me."

"Don't want to? Your future husband has already passed through the moon gate."

1v1, scheming characters

Neither the male nor female lead is a pushover

[Important] 1. In her previous life, the author was a scale: after tormenting one side, the other side is sure to get tormented too. Readers who are extremely devoted to either the male or female lead should avoid this. If you read anyway, you do so at your own risk.

2. Neither the female nor the male lead is a pushover. The male lead won't be completely meek, either. See the tag "scheming": that's about the male lead. He'll use any means necessary.

3. They're both low, low people, a case of a pot finding its lid.

4. Comments making sweeping judgments will be deleted.

-

-

[Upcoming] The Hostage Prince I Mistreated Ascends the Throne. Blurb

Ming Can, the little princess of Jiang, was accustomed to a life of extravagance and debauchery, and to behaving with arrogant impunity. She had always gotten everything she wanted, except for Shi An, the hostage prince of Zhou.

He was just a hostage sent from a defeated country. So what if he had a handsome face? What was there to be proud of? Why wouldn't he even look at her?

But she loved seeing him kneel stiffly on the ground, quietly shedding tears with stubborn pride. She was determined to break his backbone piece by piece, to leave a mark on him that belonged to her alone, one that would never fade for all eternity.

But on the day Jiang was defeated and its capital fell, Shi An pressed a dagger to her throat. Riding a horse sent by his accomplices within the city, he tossed her into a crowd of rioters without hesitation.

-

Shi An suffered for more than a decade in Jiang. He hated the people of Jiang, and he hated Ming Can most of all. He was determined to make sure she could never rise again!

Unexpectedly, the once-cruel Ming Can lost her memory and became foolish, forgetting everything that had happened in the past.

Late at night, in the bedchamber of the Zhou imperial palace, the dim candlelight flickered. The person behind the curtain wept bitterly. "Big Brother, you're hurting me. I've really never met you before. I have a husband..."

Backlit, Shi An's expression was inscrutable. His gloomy gaze crept toward her inch by inch like a snake's tongue. His cold fingertips gently brushed her cheek, and he laughed hoarsely. "Forgotten? Don't be afraid. I, the emperor, will help the princess remember, carefully and in detail, every single thing."

1. 1v1, scheming characters.

2. A riot of colors in black x a white-cut-black character who's very black. The heroine is extremely wicked. Extremely.

3. In her previous life, the author was a scale: after one side gets tormented, the other side will definitely get tormented too. Readers who are extremely devoted to either lead should avoid this.

4. Not a great heroine, not a strong female lead.

5. The heroine isn't foolish. She's pretending.

6. Enemies-to-lovers for real? (I think it's moderately so.)

Theme: Tender grass fears frost, and frost fears the sun. The wicked always meet their match.