The Princess Taken Captive

Please add the next book, The Foolish Beauty's Handbook for Taming Her Husband, to your library. (Young married couple, marry first and fall in love later, sweet romance)

Blurb:

A powerful minister with a craving for skin-to-skin contact x a seemingly innocent but secretly calculating princess

Li Lingluo has lost her memory.

The man before her, named Pei Ji, claims to be her husband.

He seems to love her deeply, and to desire her body just as intensely. His temperament is extreme: at times as gentle as water, at others possessive to the point of madness.

Pei Ji draws her onto his lap and inhales her sweet fragrance as if addicted, coaxing her gently: "Lingluo, will you stay with me for all our lives?"

Lingluo answers yes, still in a daze. By habit, she kisses his lips, utterly puzzled as to why her husband always asks her to prove her love.

She doesn't know what made her husband's temperament so extreme, but she thinks she loves him very much, too.

As a powerful minister of the Feng Dynasty, Pei Ji is notorious for killing his own kin, plotting to seize the throne, and taking control of the military. His crimes are too numerous to list, and everyone in the court hates him.

He had walked alone for far too long. In the days when he felt he was standing at the edge of an abyss, the princess arrived like a sudden ray of sunshine.

Three years ago, Lingluo took the initiative to bare herself before him, hoping to use his influence to bring down the empress dowager. An orchid adorned her hair, and she was breathtakingly beautiful.

Pei Ji appeared cold on the outside, but secretly removed every obstacle in her path and helped her take charge of court affairs.

Who could have known that the princess was only using him, then turning around and marrying a consort from a family of equal standing?

Three years later, an accident brought the princess he had longed for to the gates of the Pei residence.

The princess had lost her memory.

On a snowy night, the young woman's eyes shimmered like a cat's as she tearfully begged, frail and weak: "Please, my lord, save me."

Pei Ji draped a crane-patterned cloak over her shoulders, his voice gentler than it had ever been:

"My wife has been visiting her family for far too long. Your husband is terribly worried."

Only when the consort surrounded the Pei residence with soldiers did Lingluo realize that everything Pei Ji had told her was a lie.

Without the slightest hesitation, she plunged the hairpin Pei Ji had made with his own hands into his heart.

After that, Pei Ji was willing to be her slave, her dog, and humble himself in every way, all just to make the princess turn back to him.

A single lamp glowed in the dark room as the curtains swayed.

He took off his clothes and knelt before Lingluo, showering her with sweet words and attending to her in every way.

Lingluo's slender fingers traced the edge of his ear and gently rubbed his earlobe. Watching his cheeks gradually turn red, she smiled wickedly. "Does this feel good?"

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine is not a virgin; the hero is. Happy ending.

2. The hero forces the relationship early on. Later, he pursues his wife, while the heroine trains him like a dog.

Please add the new book The Foolish Beauty's Handbook for Taming Her Husband to your library! Blurb below:

(Sweet romance, young married couple, marry first and fall in love later)

Shen Yan is the concubine-born daughter of a minor seventh-rank official. Her skin is as fair as ice and jade, and her beauty could topple kingdoms. Yet ever since childhood, people have said she is slow to understand emotions.

She is gentle and proper. After marrying the young general Jiang Shuo, to whom she had been engaged since childhood, Shen Yan is careful and scrupulous, strictly observing the rules of a wife. She is determined to make Jiang Shuo treat her with the same respect and affection she shows him.

But a man's heart is as hard to fathom as the ocean, and Jiang Shuo's thoughts are much too difficult to guess.

He pours away the soup she made with her own hands. He throws away the sachet she spent all night embroidering, pricking her fingers in the process. He even turns down her request to share a bed.

Shen Yan is determined to be a good wife. She is even considerate enough to offer to take a concubine for him, but Jiang Shuo is so angry he doesn't speak to her for days.

As expected, a marriage forced upon them will only turn them into a resentful couple. Shen Yan secretly considers asking for a divorce.

But Jiang Shuo suddenly storms in, picks up the Handbook for Taming Your Husband that she hid in her dressing case, and throws it in front of her. "So all those tricks of yours came from a book?"

The young general Jiang Shuo rides his horse beside a slanting bridge, while girls in red sleeves beckon from every floor of the nearby buildings. He is a dashing young man with ambitions as high as the sky, and had already won great military honors by the age of eighteen.

Yet at the height of his youth and confidence, he is forced to marry the daughter of a minor official.

When they first marry, Jiang Shuo despises her, condemning her as "a girl from a small household, scheming to marry above her station."

But after the wedding, he can't help blushing in front of her, is drawn in by her fragrance, and is constantly captivated by her softness and tenderness. He even enjoys the attentions she gives him, though it's obvious she's trying far too hard.

Jiang Shuo thinks: Hah, she's got some tricks. This woman must be deeply in love with me.

The moment he sees the handbook, he trembles with rage and pins the young woman to the bed. His mouth, harder than stone, finally opens, and he pours out all the sweet words he has been keeping bottled up. "Do you even like me or not? Even if you don't, I still won't let you leave."

Shen Yan is bewildered and sobs. "You poured away my soup, threw away my sachet, rejected the person I sent you, and won't even share a bed with me. You're the one who doesn't like me! I want a divorce!"

"I finished the soup. I wear the sachet every day. I drove everyone you sent away from the residence."

"If you dare send anyone to my room again..." The young man bites her red lips, his eyes dark with desire.

Afterward, behind the red gauze curtains, Shen Yan is kept in bed by him for three days. He insists on teaching her things that aren't in the book.

Reader's Guide:

Marry first, fall in love later; a slow-simmering sweet romance. The hero wins himself over, and his words don't match what he does.

A wooden-headed beauty x a proud young general

She never understands, no matter what x he refuses to say, no matter what

Both are virgins; happy ending.

Theme: Understand your heart and live well.