A Good Man Is Hard to Find

Name: A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Author: Ball Ball Guest

良人难觅

by Ball Ball Guest (球球客)

Status: Completed
Length: 225k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Fantasy Romance
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

[One-on-one romance + devoted couple + reborn and rise to power + mysteries of identity and personal growth + tragic romance and tangled feelings + political intrigue + fantasy setting + revenge and redemption + short novel]

Poisoned wine burns her throat, and Cui Wanzhao is reborn as a four-year-old. During a viper attack in the imperial garden, she points straight at the Second Prince: “Your Majesty, the Second Prince and a guard were sneaking around!” Her childish words set off a storm at court. The Second Prince is placed under house arrest, and the Cui family is safe for the time being.

While escaping through a secret passage beneath the Cui residence, she accidentally ends up on Cloudmist Mountain, where a mysterious master takes her in and teaches her for eight years. After descending the mountain, she loses her memories when Heaven’s Will erases them during a trade in the Qingqiu Kingdom. Now without her memories, she relies on A Li for companionship in Jingyue City. A Li dies a tragic death protecting her, and a shadowy figure takes the opportunity to tempt her with the promise of revenge for A Li, asking her to trade for Xiao Yuan’s head. After returning to Chang’an, she is confined by the Imperial Preceptor and learns strange arts.

Two years later, at the coronation ceremony, she and Xiao Ning lock eyes, hatred surging between them. Xiao Yuan surveys the entire situation and seizes the throne in one decisive move.

A hundred years later, scarlet flames soar from the Nirvana Pool in the demon realm as the Phoenix Maiden returns from her trial. The Dark-Robed Lord of the East, Xiao Yuan, has searched for her for a century, and at last he finds her. But just as happiness arrives, Heaven’s Will appears, condemning the Phoenix Maiden for disrupting the cycle of reincarnation. Xiao Yuan furiously exposes Heaven’s Will’s thousand-year conspiracy to control the Phoenix Maiden’s fate, his spiritual power surging as he shields her.

The Phoenix Maiden fuses with the apparition of an ancient phoenix and stands shoulder to shoulder with Xiao Yuan in battle. “With the blood of the Phoenix Clan, I will shatter every chain imposed by Heaven’s Will!” At her long, piercing cry, dark spiritual power and phoenix flames intertwine, transforming heaven and earth in an instant. After the fierce battle, Heaven’s Will vanishes, and the Three Realms return to peace. Xiao Yuan and the Phoenix Maiden travel hand in hand through the three thousand worlds, and their legend becomes an eternal myth throughout the Three Realms.

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