The Empress Is Too Delicate to Take Care of Herself

Upcoming novel: "After the Mad Dog Hero Gets Clingy" (quick transmigration)

Blurb

[An emperor who seems ruthless and obsessive, but is actually stubborn and jealous X A favored consort who seems gentle and docile, but is actually scheming and impossible]

Qiao Si was raised at home like a canary in a cage. To her family, her greatest value was her ability to secure alliances. They treated her like an object to be sold to the highest bidder.

She didn't like Chu Yao, but the engagement was forced on her. She could only learn his preferences and act like a gentle, docile woman.

But when she suddenly discovered that Chu Yao's identity was fake, she hurriedly begged her father to break off the engagement. After carefully choosing a man from a good family who would be easy to control, she waited to marry into his household and escape the Qiao residence.

She never expected that every new emperor would bring a new court.

The young man was imprisoned for treason, while her family conspired to send her to an old prince as a concubine. Just when all hope seemed lost, someone from the palace arrived.

In a warm room beneath red curtains, her once-gentle lover looked down at her, turning a jade thumb ring in his hand. His expression was cold and detached.

Watching her sincerely defend her fiance, he gripped her chin, his voice icy.

"Can a daughter of the Qiao family, so skilled at pretending, really love someone?"

He mocked her so-called sincerity, but inside, jealousy coiled around his heart like a poisonous snake.

Chu Yao knew Qiao Si didn't like him, but he still couldn't stop watching her.

He had thought someone like her had no real feelings. But when he lost his memories of the past, he saw her make a complete mess of herself for someone else.

Suddenly, he couldn't accept it. Why couldn't that person be him?

He forced Qiao Si to enter the palace, determined to show her who the best branch to cling to really was.

He watched her tempt him just as she had before. He thought he wouldn't be affected, but every smile and frown of hers still had him in its grip.

In the dead of night, sweat dampened their skin and their breaths mingled.

The young emperor bit her lip, then stroked her soft, fair belly, his gaze tender and shadowed.

"Qiao Qiao, when will you give me an heir?"

Qiao Si couldn't manage a single word. Her gaze unfocused, she couldn't help wondering: Which one of us is the sickly one, exactly?

"He commands a vast empire, yet humbles himself at her fingertips, pleading for her love."

P.S. The hero chases the heroine after she leaves him. He seems cold, but soon falls hard.

The heroine falls for him later. She's flawed, not a saint.

Both leads are virgins.

Upcoming novel: "After the Mad Dog Hero Gets Clingy" (quick transmigration)

It's said that when the chosen hero makes a comeback, there are always cannon-fodder characters who spur him on, becoming stepping stones that help him advance and find his destined heroine.

Shen Yao refuses to be used that way. She wants these heroes to taste the agony of a broken heart.

Demon X transmigrated-into-a-book woman seeking redemption. She is the gold-digging first love who dumps her demonic boyfriend, then pays the price and ends up destitute.

Beloved fake heiress X rugged military general. She is the vain, wicked real heiress who dumps her adoptive brother to return to a wealthy family, only to be humiliated by the fake heiress.

Stiff, cold Miaojiang high priest X saintess in a political marriage. She is the junior sister raised by the hero, who was driven away after plotting against him.

Reckless young master X girl from the slums. She is his proud childhood friend who eventually moves far away.

Lowly, long-suffering deposed crown prince X transmigrated woman. She is the empress who breaks off their engagement to enter the palace as the hero's adoptive mother, becomes a laughingstock, and dies by suicide.

Gloomy, ruthless senior brother X bright, cheerful junior sister. She is the little fox demon who breaks the hero's heart and is run through by his sword.

Once-wealthy young master X glamorous actress. She is the heiress who leaves the hero to study abroad, then returns and gets humiliated on a dating show.

Quiet young intellectual sent to the countryside X fellow female intellectual. She is the spoiled village beauty who looks down on the hero, then marries a widower after he ruins her.

Head of a wealthy family X real heiress who was switched at birth. She is the sickly, fussy fake heiress forced to live on the streets.

Female slave X hostage prince from the Central Plains

Scheming school beauty X older powerful man

More to come.

P.S. This is my own self-indulgent story. If you don't like it, please don't complain. The hero is a dog, and the heroine is a scumbag who doesn't realize she's one.

The characters' values do not represent the author's.

Theme: Sincerity deserves sincerity.