After Falling Under a Love Curse with the Scheming Young Master

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Si Ying is the daughter of a bewitching consort. After her mother dies, she is sent to Zhao as a hostage, where she falls for Crown Prince Zhao.

Shen Yu is the son of a discarded consort. After his maternal clan falls from power, he is sent to Zhao as a hostage, all the while determined to return to Qi and fight for the throne.

Both are unloved princes and princesses in their homelands, pitifully cast off as hostages in an enemy state.

After an accident leaves them both afflicted by a love curse, Si Ying becomes "deeply enamored" of Shen Yu, and Shen Yu declares, "I will marry no one but you." The ruler of Zhao therefore arranges their marriage, to take place a year later.

Si Ying hears that the curse can be broken after they sleep together ten times. The two make a pact: once the curse is lifted, they will call off the engagement and go their separate ways, each free to marry whomever they please.

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The day before Crown Prince Zhao's wedding, his bride-to-be, Si Ying, vanishes.

Everyone searches the Zhao palace from end to end, but no one can find her. Little do they know, she is trapped in the bedchamber of Qi's new ruler.

With tears clouding her eyes, Si Ying asks him why he broke their pact.

Shen Yu gently kisses her brow. "I want the nightingale in my bedchamber to belong to me alone."

Reader note: One couple, happy ending.

The blurb was written on May 12, 2024, and a screenshot was saved. It was lightly revised on August 14, 2024. Original title: The Nightingale in the Bedchamber.

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New novel: How Can I Resist My Cousin, Whom I Find So Adorable? Blurb:

Gu Youran is as lovely as her name suggests: a beauty anyone would cherish, with looks like a celestial maiden.

When the noblewomen of the capital see Empress Dowager Gu bring Gu Youran into the palace, they assume she intends to make her the emperor's favorite consort and strengthen the Gu family's power.

Even the emperor thinks so.

Gu Youran is breathtakingly beautiful. He lets her approach him, flirt with him, and kiss him, certain he will never be moved. Yet little by little, he falls for her.

He assumes Gu Youran wants to be empress, but she is nothing more than a little liar.

After a night together, Gu Youran takes the palace's priceless Bodhi flower and disappears without a trace.

Furious, the emperor orders his men to search every inch of the land until they find her.

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Two years later, the emperor travels south.

By a lotus pond, he meets Gu Youran, who has lost her memory. Knowing she cannot remember, he decides not to pursue what happened before.

He brings Gu Youran aboard the imperial barge. As they grow close again, Xiao Ran would gladly give her his whole heart. Just when he thinks she has fallen in love with him, Gu Youran takes the Miaoxin Pill and leaves him once more.

She tricked him again!!!

Reader notes:

A devoted emperor, an aloof beauty like a lofty flower, versus a flirtatious beauty who lies through her teeth.

One couple, happy ending, both leads are each other's first.

Screenshot saved on February 25, 2025.

Theme: People strive to rise higher.