Pear Blossoms Fall Like Snow

(Low ratings are only natural when there are few readers and little traffic.) Two female leads + mutual healing + age gap + both devoted to each other + marriage before love.

Given the setting, there’s bound to be more angst than sweetness. This is an alternate-history Spring and Autumn period, with the states of Qin and Chu. History buffs, proceed with caution. Stick with it, and maybe you’ll find it’s just your thing!]

“The first time I saw you, I looked up and watched the pear blossoms fall.”

Before Chu fell, Qu Yan, the youngest princess of the royal family, grew up surrounded by people. Anyone else would surely have become spoiled and willful, but she was cautious, considered herself humble, and was exceptionally obedient. She only let her true nature show in front of her beloved mother, the queen. The King of Chu already had two sons before her, so she was the child he loved least.

When Qin’s army invaded, her mother took her own life. Everyone else either fled or died, and no one cared whether Qu Yan lived or died.

When she heard Qin soldiers shouting, “Chu has fallen!” she was buried beneath the ruins of the palace. Barely alive, she glimpsed through the haze an enemy general, armor stained with blood, striding toward her...

That is how Qu Yan believed she first met Mo Siyu. She had no idea that years earlier, Mo Siyu had ventured alone into the heart of Chu’s army to steal military intelligence. Her cover was blown, and she was gravely wounded while fleeing through Chu territory, only to be rescued by Qu Yan, the young Chu princess who had secretly left the palace.

The unknown fruit called fate had quietly begun to ripen back then...