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

Lin Youyou's Checklist for Entering the Palace:

Step One: Enter quietly and stay alive (Completed beyond expectations: now the emperor's sole favorite)

Step Two: Use the princess to find a “godmother” (Going smoothly so far, making decent progress)

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

Step Four: Achieve my goal, fake my death, and run (Failed! Reason: The scheming, sensitive emperor, who should be focused on his career, has fallen in love with me!)

Hua Nanshan's Checklist for Winning Her Heart:

Core principle: Pursue her relentlessly, block every rival, defend your claim, and fight for her again and again.

First wish: Make sure I'm the most handsome man around her (Plan to marry the eldest princess off to the far north)

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 everything possible to keep her, with money, possessions, and good looks (Including, but not limited to, tribute pearls, paintings and calligraphy from the previous dynasty, gold, silver, jewels, and any other assets that can be quickly converted into cash)

Fourth wish (dark version): Everyone is coveting my noble consort! Die! Die! She's mine alone! I don't want the moon hanging high in the sky and shining only on me. I want it in my arms, before it rises (going crazy every day)

Lin Youyou has only this to say: Men will only get in the way of my career!