The Heir Apparent Is Courting Himself Again

My new story is out: I Knew You Liked Me. Bright young heiress x serious-minded scholar

[Blurb]

Shen Yu is a notorious playboy in the capital, blessed with a handsome face but a terrible temper and a strange disposition. Everyone keeps their distance from him. Even dogs yelp when they see him and turn tail.

Xue Zhishan never thought she’d get involved with someone like him.

But fate had other plans. Somehow, Shen Yu could hear her thoughts!

How terrifying! Did that mean he knew she acted prim and proper in public, then went wild and rolled around on the floor in private?

What should she do? Bribe him, or just kill him to keep him quiet?

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As for Xue Zhishan, Shen Yu only knew her as a classmate at school, a young girl living under someone else’s roof.

Then one day, Miss Xue started sending him gifts every day. When he was punished with copying five hundred large-character sheets, she even offered to do it for him, no strings attached.

That night, Shen Yu tossed and turned, tossed and turned, and tossed and turned some more. At last, he sat up to look in the mirror and muttered, “Could she have fallen for me?”

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People in the capital often said that the overlooked young cousin of the Xue family had pursued Shen Yu relentlessly, serving him tea and waiting on him hand and foot until she finally became the heir’s wife.

Shen Yu, in his refined manner: “Bah! What a load of crap! I spent three years sweet-talking my wife into coming home with me!”

A few notes:

Mutual first loves. Short story.

The mind-reading is a misunderstanding.

[Check out the new story, I Knew You Liked Me]

Li Ying, the chancellor’s daughter, was born with a strange, incurable illness and was not expected to live past twenty. Her family doted on her and granted her every wish.

When they heard their daughter praise this year’s third-place scholar for his handsome, refined looks, the chancellor promptly invited a matchmaker over and arranged for the man to marry into the family.

When Li Ying returned from visiting relatives and saw an unfamiliar young man in the house, her father introduced him as his beloved son-in-law. Li Ying was horrified. “I only said he was good-looking! I never said I wanted to marry him!”

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Zhu Junbai grew up poor, raised by his grandmother. He agreed to marry into the chancellor’s family only because the chancellor could provide priceless medicinal herbs to treat his grandmother’s illness.

As for that proud young lady, now that they were husband and wife, Zhu Junbai would remain faithful and never seek anyone else. When she died of her illness, he would wear mourning clothes for her and care for her parents.

Li Ying gave a little “Oh,” then beamed. “You’ve thought everything through so carefully. But what if I don’t die?”

Zhu Junbai lowered his eyes to Li Ying’s hand, which was sneaking toward him like a cat. Despite himself, he blushed.

Theme: Be yourself.