Blurb:
[Posting once I have 100,000 words saved up | Faux siblings | No morals, no ethics, no limits. The only thing I can't promise is that the heroine won't suffer]
1. Jiang Chunwu, princess of the State of Chu, was peerlessly beautiful and hailed as the most beautiful woman in the kingdom. The Chu Emperor doted on her above all others.
On the day of her coming-of-age ceremony, she learned she wasn't of royal blood. The Chu Emperor flew into a rage, bestowed a length of white silk upon her mother consort to end her life, and was about to kill Jiang Chunwu himself when her elder brother, the Crown Prince, walked in, dressed all in white. He stepped in front of her, his broad shoulders shielding her.
"Father, please spare my sister."
The Chu Emperor's heart softened at last. He ordered her thrown into the Cold Palace to fend for herself.
2. Crown Prince Jiang Yinan was already leading armies in battles across the land by the age of twenty. All the civil and military officials admired him.
There were countless beautiful women in the world, yet none could catch his eye, because he had always kept a secret.
He harbored feelings for the sister he'd grown up with that he could never put into words.
As the days and nights passed in the Cold Palace, the two grew closer. When the Chu Emperor wanted to find him a Crown Princess, his usually obedient sister wrapped her arms around his neck, her almond-shaped eyes brimming with tears. "Brother, you're all I have."
That night, they were finally no longer siblings who scrupulously observed the rules. The girl's faint sobs and the man's hoarse gasps rose and fell, continuing for a long, long time.
3. A year later, while Jiang Yinan was away leading troops into battle, an envoy from Yue came to request a marriage alliance. The Chu Emperor pushed her forward without hesitation.
Everyone said the Emperor of Yue was ugly and crude.
On their wedding night, a pair of rough hands lifted her veil. Before her eyes was a face of breathtaking beauty. The man before her was the beggar she'd casually saved years ago.
Qi Yuan treasured her like a jewel. Though he believed her heart belonged to someone else, he still treated her with great care.
Just as her heart began to waver, news came from Chu that the emperor had died and the crown prince had taken the throne.
The first thing the new emperor did was lead an army of a hundred thousand to Yue to reclaim the woman he longed for day and night. He didn't know that she had never loved him in the first place.
Faced with two men who loved her to the point of obsession, she didn't want them to draw swords against each other because of her, so she ran away.
She hadn't gone far before a group of guards caught her and dragged her back. Her usually gentle and refined Crown Prince brother now had bloodshot eyes. He roughly tore open her sash and asked her again and again:
"Dear little sister, compared to him, am I better?"
Outside the door, Qi Yuan, defeated and forced to kneel, listened as the woman he loved made love to another man all night.
Reader's Guide: 1. The female lead has no prior sexual experience; there is no blood relation between the male and female leads. Both men have no past romantic or sexual partners, and the heroine has a lot of intimate contact with the second male lead.
2. At first, the heroine doesn't understand love. She depends on her brother and feels grateful to the other man. Her brother will slowly guide her later.
3. The dynasty is fictional and unrelated to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
4. The heroine will gradually grow.
That's all for now. I'll add more later.
Blurb written on 2025.6.21
Theme: Treasure the person in front of you.
