The Tyrant Is a Hopeless Romantic: His Favorite Consort Can't Escape

Lin Youyou's Checklist for Entering the Palace:

Step One: Enter the palace discreetly and stay alive (Exceeded expectations: now the emperor's sole favorite)

Step Two: Use the princess to find my "foster mother" (Going smoothly so far, making decent progress)

Step Three: Love money and grab whatever I can (The emperor is stingy, so saving up is slow)

Step Four: Achieve my goal, fake my death, and run away (Failed! Reason: The dark-hearted, sensitive emperor who should be focusing on his career has fallen for me!)

Hua Nanshan's Checklist for Winning Her Heart:

Core principle: Pursue and surround her, block every escape, defend my ground, and keep fighting for her.

First wish: Make sure I'm the best-looking man around her (Plan to marry the Grand Princess off far away to the northern frontier)

Second wish: Eliminate every unstable factor and keep her safe (Make up for my earlier mistake of not understanding love and nearly killing her)

Third wish: Do whatever it takes to keep her, with money, gifts, and good looks (Including, but not limited to, tribute pearls, ancient paintings and calligraphy, gold, silver, jewels, and every other asset that can be quickly turned into cash)

Fourth wish (dark version): Everyone's eyeing my Noble Consort! Die! Die! She's mine alone! I don't want the moon hanging high in the sky, shining only on me. I want it in my arms, where it won't rise (going crazy every day)

Lin Youyou can only say: Men will only get in the way of my career!