[Black Lotus, Flirtatious Beauty x Madly Self-Convinced Regent]
Ye Li is the illegitimate daughter of a concubine hidden away by the Shaoqing residence.
Fortunately, she was born with the beauty of a femme fatale, and has her looks to rely on.
Xie Jinxuan, regent of Great Zhao, is bloodthirsty and ruthless, with power to shake the heavens.
Noble ladies avoid him like the plague, afraid of falling into his grasp.
Only that frail young lady from the Ye family collapses bonelessly into his arms at a flower-viewing banquet.
"Please forgive me, Your Highness. My heart condition is acting up. Could you have someone find me some medicine..."
Her voice is as sweet as an oriole's. A pearl hairpin slips from her hair and lands delicately in his palm.
Xie Jinxuan calmly helps her up, his fingertips gliding over her impossibly slender waist.
The seventh spy. She's a better actress than the previous six.
*
At Prince Jing's residence, red candles glow and warm the bed curtains. The two people on the couch each harbor their own schemes.
In his eyes, her feigned weakness and coy affection are all clumsy tricks from a spy.
He grips her chin and sneers. "My princess consort's heart condition, how come it gets better without medicine as soon as we're in bed?"
The woman lets out soft, repeated moans. "I-I don't know either..."
Xie Jinxuan chuckles and pulls her into his arms.
"Fine. If it's a heart condition, I refuse to believe I can't cure you."
*
Later, the people of the capital are astonished to find that their usually ruthless, heartless regent seems like a different person.
He takes honeyed tangerine segments from the woman's hand with his mouth, warms her bed, squeezes through the lantern festival crowds, and cooks for her himself.
Until one day, that sickly princess consort leaves a note and walks out while pregnant.
The people of the capital say that night, the regent, whose name once struck terror into everyone's hearts, went mad.
[Reading Guide]
1. One-on-one romance, both sexually inexperienced, aggressive seduction, possessive love, marriage before love, 70% sweetness and 30% emotional angst.
2. The blurb was captured on 2024.11.12.
Theme: Claim your own happiness
