Your Humble Servant Is Shameless

Arranged marriage, then doting romance / self-destructive pursuit of his wife / obsessive possessiveness / sweet romance / happy ending

Straightforward, innocent princess × gentle and refined in public, scheming incubus in private

P.S. The male lead is very different before and after. He may seem indifferent at first, but later he falls desperately in love.

The moment she accepted the imperial marriage decree, Ji Ling knew she was doomed.

Her consort was sickly, incapable of consummating a marriage, and an unloved son of a concubine.

The emperor's intention to humiliate her was obvious, but all she could think about was his breathtakingly beautiful, gentle appearance.

Before the wedding, distracted by thoughts of that beauty, she nearly staged a rescue at a pleasure house for someone who was "the spitting image of Wanwan."

Little did she know that her beloved was none other than her own consort!

On their wedding day, she stared at the face she had coveted for so long and swallowed several times.

She thought, a marriage without sex is better than not getting him at all.

But the very next moment, the man rumored to be impotent spoke up: "Your Highness, if you keep looking at me, I won't be able to control myself."

Unable to control himself...?

She hadn't expected the rumor to be false.

And she certainly hadn't expected her seemingly gentle consort to be a libertine in private, spouting dirty talk all night long.

After their marriage, Ji Ling realized he wasn't entirely sincere. After calculating the situation, she decided she wasn't losing out, either, and retaliated by making him serve her even more fiercely at night.

She thought lust could cloud the mind.

As they spent more time together, she truly began to hope for sincere affection.

But when the lies were exposed, she learned the truth behind all his tenderness and flattery.

She tossed down a divorce agreement and left the capital without hesitation.

At last, her usually proper and dignified consort panicked. Clutching her letter, he chased her down and pleaded humbly, "Your Highness may punish me for whatever I did wrong. Please, come back with me."

She closed her eyes and refused. "If you won't divorce me, I'll divorce you!"

But deep down, she couldn't truly resist a man who took the initiative.

Half-reluctantly, she was "forced" by her consort to return to his residence.

But as soon as they got back, his expression changed. Night after night, he kept her pinned to the bed, using everything he had learned in his life. "Princess, isn't this what you like best about me?"

His former ingratiating flattery was gone. His eyes held nothing but surging obsession and malice.

Only then did she realize:

Her consort was a madman.

In the study, she found the undergarment she had lost, marked with traces of someone rubbing it.

In the back garden, she found the bones of a young man.

She saw him coughing up blood as he drank a poisonous medicinal brew, all for one night of passion...

And even... he wasn't Huo Xiliu at all.

To win Ji Ling's affection, Huo Xiliu schemed at every turn.

He imagined countless ways they might first meet. In the end, on a snowy day, dressed in white and gentle as jade, he succeeded in making her fall for him at first sight.

Then began his endless schemes, from which there was no escape.

Wasn't he just using her?

Then why did his heart feel constricted when he learned of the emperor's despicable intentions toward her? Why did it bother him to see her getting along with the young lord? Why did he grit his teeth in anger when she joked about keeping male favorites?

It wasn't until he lost his composure over the unknown young man at her side...

that he realized he had fallen for her long ago.

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine won't make herself suffer. They can argue all they like, but when it's time for sex, she'll have it.

2. All the men are messed up (ninety percent of them in this story), especially the ones who secretly love the heroine.

3. The male lead's feelings are complicated. I can't explain further because it would spoil the story, but he is absolutely the one in the more submissive position in the relationship.

4. I thought about it and decided to mention that the heroine has a bit of a everyone-loves-her quality.

Blurb dated 3/13

Blurb for Encountering a Ghost:

Woman × ghost / human

Naturally airheaded, chuunibyou girl × gloomy, aloof male ghost / gentle, guiding, cool and detached type

Qi Tang × Xie Linyuan / Yan Shi

As the only cultivator on Canglan Mountain whose spiritual root had yet to awaken, Qi Tang had "earned" the title of disgrace to the immortal sect for three hundred years.

All she wanted was to lie flat in peace and be a background character.

That was until she accidentally trespassed into a forbidden area in the back mountain, where a cold, sly male voice began haunting her:

"Want to wipe away your past humiliation and stand at the peak of the immortal sect? Be good and listen to me. I'll help you."

Desperate, Qi Tang believed him.

And so...

He told her to "seduce" her senior brother Yan Shi, who practiced the Way of Ruthlessness.

She went, ready to face death, only to find... the aloof beauty blushing at the tips of his ears?

He taught her to sabotage her master's mountain-protecting formation.

She did it, trembling all the while, then turned around to find her master standing among the clouds, his expression complicated and unreadable. In the end, he merely sighed.

He tempted her to steal the immortal sect's sacred treasure.

She became the "demon seed" everyone wanted to beat, but the expected storm of fury never came.

Qi Tang began to suspect this "cheat" was a trap, one that targeted only her.

During the immortal sect tournament, she used the spells he had taught her.

Then she was locked up...

On a dark and windy night, she finally met the owner of that voice...

She had planned to settle the score with this liar, but when she saw a face identical to her senior brother's, she froze. "Senior Brother?"

The man's eyes were sinister, with none of Yan Shi's gentleness. "I'm not that fool Yan Shi."

Reading Guide:

1. All the main characters are virgins when they first appear. Happy ending (a completely happy ending!!!)

2. I want all of them to go through the fire of regret while pursuing their wives!!

3. The heroine is not a good-for-nothing. Her strength is unknown.

4. The heroine isn't stupid. She knows these things won't have much impact before she does them.

Theme: Love yourself