I'm getting ready to start a new book and am already working on the detailed outline. You can count on me to finish it. The blurb is below. If you like the premise, please add it to your collection.
Shen Qing, the legitimate second daughter of the Marquis of Yong'an, is born to wealth and privilege. She is peerlessly beautiful, a beauty renowned throughout the capital.
Unfortunately, her mother is a second wife, and she has an older brother and sister from the first marriage. Her father favors the first wife's children to an absurd degree, afraid they'll be disadvantaged. Her older sister envies her beauty and plots against her at every turn. Her older brother can't tell right from wrong, and her mother is hopelessly lovestruck. Shen Qing has suffered greatly since childhood.
No, she has to become the most powerful woman in the land and trample all those rotten people underfoot.
But everyone knows Shen Qing wants to become empress, so the crown prince sees her as a threat. Before long, she becomes the laughingstock of the entire capital.
Xu Zhinian wraps his arms around her and leans close to her hair, whispering, "Shen Qing, I'll marry you and protect you for the rest of your life."
Shen Qing pushes him away. Looking at Xu Zhinian, dashing in his fine clothes and mounted on his horse, with sharp brows and bright eyes, only makes her sadder. She cries even harder. Why aren't you a prince?
"Don't get your hopes up. I must become empress." Shen Qing sends him away in tears.
He gently kisses her tears. It's the first time he has touched her face. Her tears aren't warm after all, but cold enough to pierce his heart.
Later, Shen Qing allies herself with a prince and schemes to seize the throne. She becomes empress, but along the way, everyone she wanted to protect and everyone she resented have died. She and the new emperor are merely allies. What use is the throne of empress to her now?
Years later, Xu Zhinian becomes a general guarding one side of the realm and is enfeoffed as Prince You. But even his battles on the front lines are only for the sake of keeping you safe in the palace. If he can, he'll spill blood at the tip of his blade in exchange for your lifelong peace.
But the new emperor grows wary and poisons Shen Qing, using her as bait to surround and destroy Xu Zhinian. She dies in the arms of the man she loves, and that is enough.
"Shen Qing, we will never be apart again."
Reborn into a new life, she has one more enemy.
This time, Shen Qing will not only avenge the old wrongs from her previous life, but also add the princes to her little list.
Of course, the most important thing is to win Xu Zhinian's heart.
"Xu Zhinian, someone bullied me."
"..."
"Xu Zhinian, where have you been all this time?"
"..."
"Xu Zhinian, why are you ignoring me?"
"...Miss Shen, please behave with propriety."
Shen Qing kisses him at once. "I refuse."
He turns around and pins her in his arms, holding her tightly. "You asked for this."
[She has a long road ahead as she pursues him. The male lead has always been in love with the female lead. Both are pure, and their feelings are mutual. Includes palace intrigue and political scheming. This is not a brainless wish-fulfillment story, and it has a happy ending.]
[Love and Espionage]:
In an age of chaos, the three kingdoms of Meng, Nan, and Liang stand in a tense balance. Meng and Nan plan to form an alliance through marriage and annex the weakest, Liang. Liang has no choice but to send the woman Luo Jingxue to take the place of Nan's princess and embark on the journey to marry into another kingdom.
Female Lead's Perspective:
Before accepting the marriage, Luo Jingxue already knows that her husband, Meng Yi, has a beloved woman, and that he has threatened to kill himself to resist the marriage for her sake. But she never expects to be ambushed by assassins on the way. She arrives in the Kingdom of Meng in a wretched state, only to be met with her husband's indifference. On their wedding night, he stays by his beloved's side...
After that, she suffers one attack after another: a runaway carriage, an assassination by his beloved, poisoning, and her husband's complicity. Even the god of death would have to admit she's remarkably hard to kill!
Then, after all these mishaps, she discovers she's mistaken about who his beloved is! It's someone else! And then she suffers a whole new string of accidents and injuries... Only to hear that she's mistaken again!
She is completely at her breaking point and demands of Meng Yi, "Who exactly is your beloved? Can't I just give you up?" Meng Yi gazes at her with deep affection, brushes the wisps of hair by her ear, and softly says, "My beloved is no one but you!"
Male Lead's Perspective:
I got a wife for free through this political marriage. I object! She must be an enemy spy!
Why is my wife so beautiful? A beauty trap! My heart is already hers!
My wife doesn't even take me seriously! This won't do. Gather the most learned people in the country and form a think tank. They must help me win my wife's heart!
Think Tank Member A: What kind of husband apologizes to his wife? It would cost him his dignity as a man!
Meng Yi: I sentence you to divorce your wife!
Think Tank Member B: Take a concubine to make her jealous! She'll feel threatened and come make up with you!
Meng Yi: I sentence you to go home immediately and dismiss all your concubines!
Think Tank Member C: When a husband and wife quarrel, they make up in bed. Just pull the covers over your heads and sleep together. Once you're done, you'll be as good as new.
Meng Yi stares blankly, his face turning red as he asks, "Does that work?"
A vain and devoted peacock of a male lead × a sharp-witted female lead who always gets revenge and never broods over things. 1v1, and the male lead has no unrequited first love.
Theme: Be brave and pursue love
On the first day, she talked to me about poetry, on the second day, she talked about ideals, and on the third day, she said that she also liked Shakespeare's Desmondina. Just now, she suddenly said: Are you there? Look at the draft box. So ma'am, I want to see your draft box. Do you still have it?