A Young Lady's Secret Longing

Name: A Young Lady's Secret Longing
Author: Mo Qinghan

闺秀情丝

by Mo Qinghan (墨清菡)

Status: Completed
Length: 301k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Palace & Household Intrigue
Updated: 1y ago
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【Romance + Secret Crush + Everyone’s Favorite + Political Scheming + Palace Intrigue】 Zhou Jingxi was the beloved jewel of the Marquis of Beiwou. She was breathtakingly beautiful, brilliant, and gifted in both letters and martial arts. She excelled at music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and was a renowned talent. Countless noble young men had sent matchmakers to her, only to be turned away. In the eyes of the world, she was haughty and arrogant, and not a single young nobleman in the capital was good enough for her. In truth, her heart already belonged to someone. She had been secretly in love for years with her cousin, Chu Ruiheng, the third prince, who was five years older than her. Chu Ruiheng had cherished his beautiful, clever little cousin since childhood. Over the years they spent together, Zhou Jingxi fell in love with him. When she was fifteen, she finally worked up the courage to tell him how she felt. But then Chu Ruiheng rejected Princess Xilang with the words, “I like men,” causing a misunderstanding. Heartbroken to learn that he liked men, Zhou Jingxi left the city where he lived and went to stay with her aunt in Jiangnan, hoping to forget him. She was gone for three years. Three years later, Chu Ruiheng arranged for people to spread word that he had been injured. “I hear Prince Jing was gravely wounded while campaigning against Nanyuan. He’s on the verge of death, and His Majesty has ordered the finest doctors in the land to be found.” Zhou Jingxi had thought she was over him, but when she heard in Jiangnan that Chu Ruiheng had been gravely wounded, she realized she still cared about him. She decided to return to the capital to visit him! She traveled day and night, making the exhausting journey to the capital in half a month, only to discover that she had been deceived. The campaign against Nanyuan was real, but the injury was not. Chu Ruiheng had used it as a ploy to lure her back to the capital. Only then did she understand that their feelings were mutual, and she wasn’t the only one in love.

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