After I Picked Up a Crown Prince and Took Him Home

Liang Jiu happened upon a beauty outside Baiyun Temple and, in a fit of kindness, brought him home.

While bathing him, she discovered that the beauty was a man.

She wanted to send him away, but he was badly injured, refused to leave her home, and offered gold leaves as payment.

Liang Jiu: "...Fine."

Having a man in the house didn't seem to change Liang Jiu's life much, until one day she found a mysterious little book.

It was filled with things she didn't understand. Curious about the "blissful, otherworldly" sensations it described, she decided to try them with the man in her house.

First they held hands, but she didn't float.

Then they kissed, but she still didn't float.

Just as she was about to give up, the man said, "Why don't you try taking your clothes off?"

After she'd experienced that floating sensation a few times, her father, the prime minister, who had disappeared for sixteen years, showed up and said he would take her home.

Liang Jiu thought it over, went with her father, and forgot all about the man.

She thought they would never cross paths again in this lifetime, until she saw the dignified and magnificent Crown Prince, Gu Huaijin, at the emperor's birthday banquet.

When the banquet began, her aunt, Noble Consort Ning, pointed to a group of young noblemen and asked which one she wanted for a husband.

Liang Jiu glanced at the Crown Prince, who wore a mysterious smile, and said nothing.

After the banquet, Gu Huaijin stopped her on her way out of the palace.

"Have you ever practiced cultivation outside Baiyun Temple, Miss Liang?"

Liang Jiu looked horrified. "Never! Your Highness, you've mistaken me for someone else."

Gu Huaijin lifted the carriage curtain. "Would you like me to help you remember?"

Liang Jiu gave him an awkward smile and bolted.

*

Though Liang Jiu had become the prime minister's daughter, she still spent her free time the same way as before: reading romantic stories.

Recently, she'd become obsessed with a story called The Taoist Nun Crown Princess Is Scorchingly Hot. She pestered the author for updates every day, spending so much real gold and silver that she climbed her way to the top of the reader leaderboard.

Then the story went on hiatus!

Just as she was pacing around in a panic and tearing her hair out, the Crown Prince, who seemed impossible to shake off, came to see her.

"Want to know what happens next?"

He placed the half-written story in front of her. "Marry me, and I'll tell you."

*

After the Crown Prince and the prime minister's daughter married, the once wildly popular The Taoist Nun Crown Princess Is Scorchingly Hot resumed serialization.

The story was so rich in content, so sincere in its emotions, and so full of steamy scenes that readers were left speechless.

The common folk read it with delight, and even some young officials followed every update.

After yet another sleepless night, Liang Jiu got out of bed holding her aching waist and saw Gu Huaijin sitting by the window in his robe, writing furiously.

Thinking about how he might embellish the battle they'd just had, Liang Jiu felt as if the top of her head were about to fly off.

She slammed her hand on the table. "Stop writing!"

"Finish it! Right now!"

Reading guide:

A beautiful heroine who is often short on brains x a handsome hero who is often short on conscience

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[Blurb]

The day Xiao Jincheng saved Han Ji, the son of a family friend, he kindly asked him if he had any unfinished wishes.

Han Ji replied, "I have no attachments left in this life, except for my betrothed, Wen Qingyu."

Out of curiosity, Xiao Jincheng ordered his people to bring Wen Qingyu to Prince Qi's residence.

That day, snow fell from the sky. Wen Qingyu arrived through the snow in a red robe, holding an oil-paper umbrella and smiling at him.

"May I ask where Han Ji is now, Your Highness?"

Looking at her peerlessly beautiful face, Xiao Jincheng felt the wind stop and the snow melt.

After that...

He couldn't help lying to her. "Han Ji is dead. Please accept my condolences, Miss Wen."

*

After Han Ji died, Wen Qingyu was dejected and heartbroken.

Fortunately, Xiao Jincheng was always there for her, comforting her, tending to her every need, and looking after her with meticulous care.

How could she not know his intentions? But her heart belonged to someone else, so she never responded to his advances.

Until one day, he took an arrow for her and was left on the verge of death.

At his sickbed, Xiao Jincheng, barely clinging to life, held her hand and asked if she would spend the rest of her life with him.

Looking at his handsome, elegant face, Wen Qingyu felt her heart shatter, but in the end, she nodded.

Yet the day before the wedding, she received word that Han Ji was still alive.

Desperate to leave Prince Qi's residence, she was stopped without mercy by Xiao Jincheng.

"He really is dead. He just died."

Xiao Jincheng's eyes were icy as he smiled faintly and held out a brocade box containing Han Ji's head. "If you don't believe me, open it and see..."

*

The one my heart is bound to,

I would break his wings

and keep him by my side.

Reading guide:

A delicate beauty x a scheming prince

A possessive romance. Don't read if it's not your thing.

Theme: Be true to love