After I Played with the Chaste Princess’s Consort and Cast Him Aside

[Historical Romance, Sweet Romance, and Court Intrigue] [Childhood Friends] [Please Add to Your Library] Updates every other day at 9:00 p.m. [Both Leads Are Each Other's Only Partner / 1v1] A short piece written to practice prose. The writing is a little rough around the edges. Coming soon: the companion novel, The High Priest, Please Get on the Bed! This is the sister story to this one, about the love and hate between the second female lead from the Southern Frontier and the high priest. She will drag the revered, immortal-like High Priest down from his altar and make him serve her. Blurb Everyone knows Song Youning is a shameless troublemaker. Her male confidants inside and outside the palace walls could circle the imperial city three times. Her eight hundred romantic escapades have spread through every tavern, and she has more than enough love debts to her name. Until the spring banquet, when she ran into Li Funing, the prime minister's son. The man stood amid the sparse shadows of apricot blossoms. No matter how shamelessly she flirted with him, he did not so much as glance her way. His air of abstinence made her, who was used to indulging in every sensual pleasure, brighten at once. She truly liked this man, but he treated her like a plague! If the sweet approach doesn't work, then she'll have to get rough! She not only stole a forceful kiss while pretending to be drunk, but loudly declared her claim on him right there: "This man belongs to me now..." And so all of Great Qian learned that the famously aloof Lord Li was involved with the princess. But he really was exactly as he appeared. Life with him was as bland as plain water, and he wouldn't let her have even the slightest taste of anything spicy. Song Youning, who had always been attracted to handsome men, naturally lost interest. The brief flutter of her heart in her youth melted away like spring ice, until nothing remained. ...Help! What is she supposed to do about this man? Can she seduce him and then dump him? She was the one who pursued him, but she really doesn't want to take responsibility... There's no choice but to run! Song Youning dusted herself off and eloped with the legitimate son of the Prince of Zhennan. In the blink of an eye, she became Great Qian's hottest playwright, living a carefree life with handsome men in her arms and dancers all around her. Who could have guessed that her "proper and courteous" fiance would submit a formal complaint to the emperor? "Your Majesty, please judge this fairly. The princess publicly took liberties with me back then, but now she wants to seduce me and abandon me. I am already twenty-four. The princess has kissed me, and we have done everything a couple ought to do, yet I still have no status... If the princess truly refuses to take responsibility, I have no choice but to enter a monastery and spend the rest of my life there." The whole court erupted: The princess was actually a heartless woman who wouldn't acknowledge a man after getting what she wanted! Song Youning: ??? She hadn't even done anything with him yet! Where had her former fiance gone, the dignified, self-controlled man who wouldn't even let her touch his hand? Who was this man with reddened eyes, looking as if he were about to burst into tears?! Later, she discovered that this man spoke in such a calculated, coy way. He used scene-by-scene tactics to win her over: staging a "chance" encounter in the Imperial Garden while getting rained on, leaning against her neck when drunk, and even making pointed remarks in front of their parents: "The Heir Xiao is so impressive. He can take the princess to a brothel. Unlike me... I can only help the princess wash her camisoles..." Unable to take it anymore, she pinned him onto the imperial throne: "Lord Li, are you planning to secure your position as imperial consort with your tea-acting skills?" He lifted his eyes with a faint smile, hooked a finger into her sash, and murmured close to her ear: "When the princess forced a kiss on me back then... you weren't nearly so reserved." "Now that I belong to the princess, you should at least grant me one of these: my innocence... or our marriage." - Li Funing hates three things most: Being treated like an immortal, pretending to be magnanimous, and... being Song Youning's secret fiance. What Li Funing hates most is Song Youning's insouciant manner. He thought he had grown accustomed to her keeping him at arm's length, but when she casually sent him that letter saying she was going traveling, he still found it absurd. How could she do this? How could she set him in her heart, then turn around and leave so casually? He never understood how Song Youning could let go the moment she decided to, so completely and without hesitation. When she was young, she had treated him so well. Was it because she loved him... or had she simply seen him as a novel toy she couldn't have, one she could summon whenever she wished and dismiss just as easily? To be honest, what he hated most was pretending to be an aloof immortal in front of her while watching her laugh and chat with other people. He hated having to pretend to be magnanimous when he was jealous and resentful inside. And more than anything, he didn't want to keep following her around in secret, without a name or a place in her life, for the rest of his days... He was clearly her fiance, yet she never acknowledged it. She always did whatever she pleased, leaving him waiting there... He was angry that she treated love so carelessly, so they had a quarrel. But his feet carried him to her bedroom as if they were beyond his control... He thought she didn't care about him, so they quarreled again. But with just two letters, she lured him all the way from the capital... At last, he could no longer control himself. He seized her wrist and pressed her against the desk, his voice terrifyingly hoarse as he demanded an answer: "Tell me, why did you say you liked me and wanted to take me as your husband at the spring banquet all those years ago?" She paused, then smiled lightly. "I... don't know. Maybe it seemed fun!" His breath caught, and his knuckles turned white. Fun? So the ten-year ordeal of love he had fallen into was, to her, nothing more than... a fun game? Li Funing once thought she had been the first to fall for him at that spring banquet. Only later did he realize that the one who had fallen deepest... had always been him. The male lead is restrained and impeccably proper at first, but later becomes intensely possessive and jealous. He loves playing the sickly, flirtatious type to win the position of imperial consort. The female lead is oblivious and only wants to make money and gain power. Character traits: [1] A dramatic reversal that shatters his original image: from stuffy imperial consort to a foxlike man with reddened eyes. His motto is, "I'll descend from my altar for love." [2] The male lead handles romantic rivals with skill, making pointed remarks in front of their parents: "The Heir Xiao is so impressive. He can take the princess to a brothel. Unlike me... I can only help the princess wash her camisoles..." [3] Scene-by-scene tactics to win her over: a "chance" encounter in the Imperial Garden while getting rained on, leaning against her neck when drunk. It's all an act... [4] The female lead is not very perceptive about love and cherishes her freedom, but the male lead thinks she doesn't care about him. Theme: Growing up is a long and beautiful process.