The Crown Princess Fuyao

Carefree, spoiled, and lazy Crown Princess x A patient, restrained, gentle Junior Tutor

----------------------A spirited childhood friend and cousin

Gu Fuyao is Emperor Zhaowu's only child, and was named Crown Princess at birth.

When she was thirteen, the emperor and empress left the palace on a tour, leaving Fuyao behind to govern in their absence.

The carefree princess now had to attend court, review memorials, and do her lessons.

Luckily, her cousin was there to help her, making life a little less difficult.

But one early winter night, he told her, "Fuyao, I'm going to join the army. Pick a few agreeable consorts in the capital to keep you company. I'll come back next year, when you come of age, and marry you."

The night before her cousin left, Fuyao sat alone for a very long time in her vast bedchamber.

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Cheng Zhiyu is the heir to the Prince of Qin, the Crown Princess's childhood friend and cousin, and her future imperial consort.

But he wants glory and achievement. He wants his name recorded among the great generals.

At the time, he knew nothing of love. Before leaving for the army, he told Fuyao to find a few consorts to keep her company.

That became the thing he regretted most.

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Song Huai is handsome and brilliant, a prodigy who came first in the imperial examinations at eighteen, and a lone bird whose wings were clipped by the emperor.

He was exceptionally appointed Junior Tutor to the Crown Princess.

That year, Her Highness was eight. He taught her and watched her grow.

Day after day, he developed forbidden desires, and they became an obsession.

He said, "Your Highness, may everything always go your way."

In the end, he devoted his whole life to fulfilling that promise.

A little scene:

One day, Fuyao stopped Song Huai in the imperial study. Red-eyed, she pressed a jade finger to his chest and demanded, "Junior Tutor, what are you hiding in your heart?"

Unable to hold back his surging feelings any longer, Song Huai caught her hand and pressed it to his heart. Trembling, he said, "A forbidden desire. I harbor forbidden feelings for Your Highness."

Fuyao gazed at his radiant face and suddenly smiled.

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After a year fighting the Xiongnu, Cheng Zhiyu returned to the capital only to discover that Fuyao had obediently found herself a man. She even wanted to dump him and make that no-good Junior Tutor her imperial consort.

"Preposterous!" Cheng Zhiyu kicked over the low table before him, regretting his choice so much he could have kicked himself...

Later, he stubbornly held Fuyao in his arms, kissing her again and again through his tears. "Don't choose anyone else. Just choose me, all right?"

But Fuyao coldly pushed him away and said, resolute, "No!"

Watching Fuyao walk away, Cheng Zhiyu's gaze grew dark.

After more than ten years as childhood sweethearts, he would win her back, even if he had to force her.

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After Fuyao became emperor.

One night, Fuyao was in her cousin's palace, getting ready to retire.

Song Huai suddenly sent someone to summon her. "Your Majesty, Lord Song is ill."

Fuyao left her cousin behind and went to visit him in the middle of the night.

Cheng Zhiyu gritted his teeth in anger. "He'll stoop to any low trick!"

When Fuyao returned to Song Huai's palace, he saw the marks on her body and flew into a jealous rage...

Fuyao's struggles were futile. "You... you can't just bully people!"

The man who had always been dignified and self-controlled was now consumed by jealousy. "So he can bully you, but I can't?"

Song Huai pinned Fuyao's hands down and pressed her beneath him once more...

[The loyal puppy turns into a wolf, while the aloof beauty descends from her lofty perch for love.]

Content warnings:

1. This is a romance, not a female-dominance or strong-female-lead story. The characters are not perfect.

2. The Junior Tutor is ten years older than the Crown Princess.

3. From her marriage until she becomes emperor, the heroine has romantic and intimate involvement with only one of the two men.

4. The Crown Princess is a lazy fish who doesn't want to become emperor at first, but will govern the country later.

5. One woman and two men. The cousin becomes a beautiful, strong, tragic figure later, and truly loses his mind. Contains angst, so read at your own discretion.

6. A fictional setting, partly modeled on the Ming dynasty. Please don't nitpick the history.

Below is the blurb for the upcoming novel, Marrying My Brother:

On a warm spring day, Shen Yang was swinging with her friends in the garden when she accidentally fell. Her skirt was stained with spots of red, and her maidenhead was broken.

The accident revealed that her second brother had been adopted.

Her mother tried to guilt him into marrying her, crying, making a scene, and threatening to hang herself. There was no other way, so the two awkwardly married.

On their wedding night, her second brother said, "Yangyang, I only think of you as my little sister. In three years, we'll divorce, and each of us can marry someone else."

Shen Yang let out a deep breath. She only thought of him as her brother, too.

Three days after the wedding, Zhao Qi'an left to fight on the border.

Remembering her agreement with her brother, Shen Yang actively searched for someone she liked, waiting until their divorce in three years to marry someone else.

But when her brother returned from war, he began acting strangely. His deep, dark eyes kept fixing on her, leaving Shen Yang flustered and confused.

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After fighting on the border for three years, Zhao Qi'an came home to find that his feelings had changed when he saw his little sister.

As he fought for his life on the battlefield, her letters from home and the clothes she had sewn for him stitch by stitch carried him through dozens of battles. He knew he had a home, and someone waiting for him there.

He never imagined she was waiting for him to come back so they could divorce!

Zhao Qi'an regretted everything. When he saw her enjoying a romantic moment with another man, he trapped Shen Yang in a corner and kissed her uncontrollably.

Shen Yang raised her hand to hit him, trembling. "Are you crazy? I'm your sister."

Zhao Qi'an lowered his head and kissed her again, his voice fierce. "No. You're my wife."

Theme: Even if a thousand people stand in my way, I will go on.