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Millie Sun
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SmoochPit '25 mentee for my Imperial Chinese-inspired fantasy romcom
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Cunning prankster + resourceful lord = a marriage of chaos.
Threaten them and force them to unite against their common enemies, and all hell breaks loose.
#dvpit #A #NA #F #R #Asian #POC #WOC #Q
Movie poster for Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem 89K Adult Fantasy Romcom She would make him rue the day he dared to ask for her hand Coming soon to the query trenches Comps: A Song to Drown Rivers x The Darkness Within Us x How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Tropes: Enemies to lovers, Unlikeable heroine, Arranged marriage
October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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A Song to Drown Rivers x How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days in LADY HAN'S MANUAL FOR MATRIMONIAL MAYHEM, in which the mischievous bride fights for divorce with chaos:
😈 unlikeable heroine
⚔️ enemies-to-lovers
💑 marriage of convenience
👑 political intrigue
#dvpit#A #F #R #RomCom #Asian #POC
Agent's guide to Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem: 89K Adult Fantasy Romcom with low spice Pitch: What can a girl do to escape an arranged marriage, but to prank her husband to hell and back in the hopes that he will divorce her? In the Dazhen Empire, twenty-year-old Wen Anling’s comfortable life is turned upside down when her father forces her to marry Han Shiyan, the wealthy Lord of Qinglan. In a desperate bid for freedom, Anling fights chaos with chaos, by transforming herself into the nastiest wife possible. Shiyan only married Anling to honour his mother’s dying wish. Had he known his new wife would send his simple life straight to mayhem, he would have thrown honour out the nearest window. But when his wife continues to get under his skin, he cannot help but grow intrigued by her eccentric nature—once he sees her irritating antics as what they truly are: harmless. In the face of deadly threats, Anling must embrace her role as Lady Han and turn her cunning mind to their common enemies, or grab the freedom offered to her and watch the empire fall. Comps: The Darkness Within Us, A Song to Drown Rivers, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Extract: Shiyan’s eyes widened for a heartbeat before he forced composure back onto his features. Her face was powdered with a thick layer of white, as if she had simply dunked it into a bowl of flour. Her bright red lip-paint smudged at the edges and… Heavens forbid women dab their cheeks with uneven blobs of pink. Even the most senile and stern of his guests held their hands to their stomachs, straining to hold back fits of laughter. He would have gladly joined them, too, if he wasn’t the one with the honour of marrying this… this… buffoon. He swallowed and recited the wise sayings of his forefathers: one should not judge a book by its cover; a woman’s beauty runs deeper than appearances; virtues are lasting while beauty is fleeting. Oh, to hell with wise sayings.
October 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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New Substack post: Stats from 6 months of pitch events for my WIP - #Questpit, #Cupit, #Bluepit, #Unhingedpit, #Posterpit and everything they've given me

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New Substack post: Stats from 6 months of pitch events for my WIP - #Questpit, #Cupit, #Bluepit, #Unhingedpit, #Posterpit and everything they've given me
August 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Cunning prankster + resourceful lord = a marriage of chaos.
Threaten them and force them to unite against their common enemies, and all hell breaks loose.
#posterpit #A #NA #F #R #W
Movie poster for Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem 89K Adult Fantasy Romcom She would make him rue the day he dared to ask for her hand Coming soon to the query trenches Comps: A Song to Drown Rivers x The Darkness Within Us x How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Tropes: Enemies to lovers, Unlikeable heroine, Arranged marriage
August 16, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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The first time my MMC meets the FMC

#wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity
The woman held a circular fan before her face, covering her features. But what she could not cover was the tall wig atop her head, dyed redder than the blood of his *enemies* and pinned up with a full garden of peonies and hibiscuses.
August 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
milliesun.bsky.social
A Song to Drown Rivers meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days in LADY HAN'S MANUAL FOR MATRIMONIAL MAYHEM, in which the mischievous bride fights for divorce with chaos:
😈 unlikeable heroine
⚔️ enemies-to-lovers
💑 marriage of convenience
👑 political intrigue
#questpit #A #RF #W (line editing for #Q soon!)
Agent's guide to Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem: 89K Adult Fantasy Romcom with low spice Pitch: What can a girl do to escape an arranged marriage, but to prank her husband to hell and back in the hopes that he will divorce her? In the Dazhen Empire, twenty-year-old Wen Anling’s comfortable life is turned upside down when her father forces her to marry Han Shiyan, the wealthy Lord of Qinglan. In a desperate bid for freedom, Anling fights chaos with chaos, by transforming herself into the nastiest wife possible. Shiyan only married Anling to honour his mother’s dying wish. Had he known his new wife would send his simple life straight to mayhem, he would have thrown honour out the nearest window. But when his wife continues to get under his skin, he cannot help but grow intrigued by her eccentric nature—once he sees her irritating antics as what they truly are: harmless. In the face of deadly threats, Anling must embrace her role as Lady Han and turn her cunning mind to their common enemies, or grab the freedom offered to her and watch the empire fall. Comps: The Darkness Within Us, A Song to Drown Rivers, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Extract: Shiyan’s eyes widened for a heartbeat before he forced composure back onto his features. Her face was powdered with a thick layer of white, as if she had simply dunked it into a bowl of flour. Her bright red lip-paint smudged at the edges and… Heavens forbid women dab their cheeks with uneven blobs of pink. Even the most senile and stern of his guests held their hands to their stomachs, straining to hold back fits of laughter. He would have gladly joined them, too, if he wasn’t the one with the honour of marrying this… this… buffoon. He swallowed and recited the wise sayings of his forefathers: one should not judge a book by its cover; a woman’s beauty runs deeper than appearances; virtues are lasting while beauty is fleeting. Oh, to hell with wise sayings.
August 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Moodboard for #bluepithype
July 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Still a long way to go but happy with my first attempt at elbow grip iron x
#poledance #polefitness #ayesha
June 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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The feeeels when the enemies-to-lovers trope gets to this point ⬇️⬇️⬇️

#ThePrisonerofBeauty #cdrama
May 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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From my novella WIP

#wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity
May 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The FMC in my Red Riding Hood novella can be a little dopey…

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"I will be a great-grandmother soon then!" "I don't... I'm not sure, Grandma." "It will happen, my dear." Grandma would pat Lottie's hand in reassurance. "It will happen." But she really wasn't so sure. Would it happen if they always slept separately-she in the bed and he on a cot by the door-and they never touched each other? Even though she'd never been taught explicitly the magic behind baby-making, instinct told her that men and women operated more like dogs than flowers. Could he pollinate her across the field when they worked together, or even across the table when they ate their meals in companionable silence?
April 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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A few of the shows I'm binging as “homework” for my WIP based in the same dynasty as these 😎
#writesky
The rise of phoenixes Story of pearl girl Flourished peony
April 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Ahhhh on the last day of March, when I also had to work my ass off until >10pm, I managed to smash out rewrite #1 all the way to the end! (I was realistically expecting early April) ❤️
March 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Another #WIPSnips from my fantasy romcom #writesky #writingcommunity
Polish
March 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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From the fantasy romcom I am currently editing:

#wipsnips #writesky #writingcommunity
“Oh, our plums are conspiring against you,” he jested with a lift of his eyebrows. “I know you miss our handsome Qhir, but sitting here gawking at plums—” “I do not miss him!” she protested. “—won’t help him return faster—” “Nor was I gawking—” “But you don’t deny that he’s handsome?” “He is not,” she lied again as heat crept up the nape of her neck. “He is revolting, and obnoxious, and positively vile, and … and …”
March 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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It’s been a long time since I’ve come across a romantasy that I find fast paced and easy to read (which makes it easy to get addicted to). Loving this!

First line: My husband is taking too long to die.
The darkness within us by Tricia Levenseller
March 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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I mean… my FL isn’t wrong but also lol at her thinking her husband’s a butcher when he’s actually an assassin 🫠😈 (from my Little Red Riding Hood retelling)
#WIPsnips #WriteSky
“You’re not despicable nor monstrous, Cain. What you’re doing is perfectly respectable work.” “I don’t think so.” “Well, I think so.” And the woman was always right, according to Viola and all the other ladies in the Den.
March 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Best way to start a Saturday - getting right down to business
#WriteSky
Writing at table with iPad, pop keyboard and kindle
March 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Am I the only one who finds the Manchu script, turned sideways (maybe with a horizontal flip as well), looks awfully like the elven language in LOTR? 🤔
Manchu script
February 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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From my experimental omni-POV novella - "nonsense" is a kind of sense, right? 🤔

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
One might think that was how karma worked, that the villagers who burned down someone else’s home deserved to fall victim to the plague. The plague, however, was a little less discriminatory than that. It was well on its way to Tom and Adam and Willa and Drea and, of course, the loud-mouthed Penny. But it also found in Lottie a weakened body from months of malnutrition and there, it took its hold. Come morning in the little hut, Lottie was sweating, shuddering and muttering nonsense about Daisy the cow and Tulip the chicken.
February 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM
milliesun.bsky.social
Cunning prankster vs resourceful lord = a marriage of chaos.
Threaten them and force them to unite against their common enemies, and all hell breaks loose in this low-fantasy romcom version of A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS.
#cupit #RF #RC #POC #A
moodboard for "Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem", chinese history-inspired fantasy romance, includes photos of female and male leads, plum blossoms and bamboo
February 14, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Along with all the fun and excitement of #questpit yesterday, I also found out that my first ever #microfiction “THE HUMAN LEGACY” was selected as Story of the Week over at fiftywordstories.com! Sooo surprising and over the moon ❤️
The world devoted itself to building faster, smarter and better AI. More factories, more cubicles, more servers, more chips. It was a testament to the greatness of humankind. For when the seas surged and the storms struck and great fires ravaged the earth, obliterating every shred of humanity, AI survived.
February 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Trapped in an arranged marriage, troublemaker Wen Anling pranks her husband to hell and back in the hope of a divorce—until a deadly threat to the kingdom reveals just how useful a wealthy spouse can be.

A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS
#questpit #W #A #F #R #ownvoices
moodboard for "Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem", chinese history-inspired fantasy romance, includes photos of female and male leads, plum blossoms and bamboo
February 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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A witty schemer plots against her husband and ends up saving the kingdom in a fantasy romcom blend of A SONG TO DROWN RIVERS X HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS

❤️ Multicultural w/ POC leads
❤️ Unlikeable heroine
❤️ Enemies-to-lovers
❤️ Marriage of convenience
❤️ Political intrigue
#questpit #W #A #F #R
moodboard for "Lady Han's Manual for Matrimonial Mayhem", chinese history-inspired fantasy romance, includes photos of female and male leads, plum blossoms and bamboo
February 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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My first extract for #WIPSnips! From my draft Red Riding Hood retelling:
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
But he also knew what the healers in any town would do if he was to bring her to them. If they agreed to see to her at all, they would force a nasty concoction down her throat, apply a dozen leeches to her skin, demand fifty gold for the 'expensive' concoction of which four-fifths was probably horse piss, and in a few days, she would still die. Without a miracle, she was on a one-way trip to hell.
January 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM