Pre-release: The Imprisoned Princess
Gentle, amnesiac, innocent princess X calculating crown prince who plans every move
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[Blurb]
Cui Wan, the legitimate daughter of the Cui family, died on a cold winter's day in her last life.
It was only then that she learned it had all been a trap, a scheme to take her life.
Given another chance at life, all she wanted was to keep her head down and survive.
Break off that miserable engagement, avoid the overt and covert attacks in the inner household, and live long enough to grow old and dote on her grandchildren.
How wonderful would that be?
But Xiao Jin, the commander of the Palace Front Division, simply refused to let her have her way.
At the foot of Mount Daxiang, bandits attacked, and she fled in a panic.
A young general came riding to her rescue, clad in gleaming black armor, as if he were a god.
Stumbling toward him through tear-blurred eyes, she grabbed his arm. "Commander Xiao, thank you for saving my life..."
He looked down and coldly brushed her hand away.
"Miss Cui, men and women should keep their distance."
Cui Wan: ...All right. I'll remember that.
Later on,
he smashed her carriage, knocked off her veiled hat, and cornered her in front of all the powerful nobles of the capital.
"Miss Cui, what are you hiding from?"
Cui Wan: ???
Didn't you say yourself that men and women should keep their distance?
A late-night banquet at the Marquis's estate.
She left the banquet alone, only to be yanked into someone's arms.
The air was thick with the smell of wine, his breath scorching. The commander, who had been sitting upright at the head of the hall moments ago, now had her pinned between the door and his chest.
Flustered, she pushed at him. "Commander! Men and women should keep their distance!"
He gave a low laugh and bent to bite her earlobe.
His voice was hoarse, tender with satisfaction:
"What propriety, what decorum, what keeping one's distance between men and women..."
"Do you think I care about any of that, Wan'er?"
Quiet and graceful legitimate daughter of the Chancellor who only wants to survive X cold-faced in public, madly possessive in private commander
Reading guide:
1. This story is set in an imaginary world, with a mishmash of dynasties.
2. One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first, happy ending.
Pre-release: The Imprisoned Princess
Blurb:
Wei Shu was the one variable he had miscalculated on his path to imperial power.
He was the Great Jing dynasty's most calculating crown prince, planning every move.
When Cui Congyu brought her into the palace, everyone praised the crown prince's kindness for taking in the orphaned daughter of a general who had died in battle.
Only he knew what a masterful move it was.
He would use her innocence to showcase the royal family's "benevolence" and cover up the hypocrisy of the entire dynasty.
"Elder Brother treats you best."
Wei Shu believed him.
Amnesiac, she was like a blank sheet of paper. In the dead of night, she would fall asleep against his knees in the study, completely unguarded. At palace banquets, if she drank too much, she would curl up in his arms and blink up at him, asking softly, "Will Elder Brother stay with me forever?"
He watched coldly, savoring her complete dependence, as if taming a little bird he had chosen with his own hands.
Until the night of her coming-of-age ceremony, when moonlight flooded the courtyard.
She suddenly tugged at his sleeve and looked up, her eyes full of innocence. "Elder Brother, they say... I'm going to get married soon."
"Does getting married mean spending the rest of your life with just one person, never parting again?"
She paused, her voice as light as a butterfly's wing. "Then... can I marry Lang?"
The white jade hairpin he was using to arrange her hair snapped in his palm without warning.
Blood dripped between his fingers, but he felt no pain at all.
So the little bird he had tamed with his own hands had already silently pecked through his heart.
Later, her memories came rushing back like a tide.
The blood at the general's estate, her parents' brutal deaths, and his terrifyingly calm face in the firelight...
"Elder Brother, let me go."
For the first time, she looked at him with fear.
But he smiled and wiped away her tears, fastening a golden chain around her ankle.
"Shu'er, you should have understood when you turned sixteen."
"From the moment you stepped into the Eastern Palace, I was the only one who could ever be part of your life."
"You promised me you'd always stay by my side."
He imprisoned her deep in the palace, keeping her from all contact with other people.
His ministers called him depraved. The whole realm condemned him as a madman.
Yet late at night, he gripped her chin, his eyes bloodshot and filled with obsession.
"Tell me, who do you want to marry now?"
She trembled and said nothing.
He chuckled softly and kissed away the tear at the corner of her eye.
"Good girl. Say, 'I will marry only Elder Brother.'"
Gentle, amnesiac, innocent princess X calculating crown prince who plans every move
| He calculated the whole world, but failed to account for falling in love.
| "How dare you try to escape the cage I wove for you with my own hands?"
Theme: Staying alive is what matters most
Since the stepmother has a high position in the family, how can she allow her daughter to be a concubine? Don't you think it's embarrassing?