As the Flowers Slowly Fall

Main characters: Xu Jiujiu and Xie Yuan.

[No Transmigration, No Rebirth, Native Characters + Ex Begging Her to Return + Heroine’s Growth + Clear-Headed Heroine + Hero Bending for Love]

She is an orphan from a farming family. When the court issues its decree, fifteen-year-old Xu Jiujiu plans to find herself a husband among the refugees.

The man she brings home turns out to be a top-ranked scholar.

Her husband is handsome and gentle as jade. He teaches her to read and write, shows her how to manage others, and gives her all the family’s wealth.

She is his best student and the wife who stayed by him through poverty.

He says he can’t live without her, but he also insists on having power and a promising future.

How can life offer both?

Xu Jiujiu is a girl with a mind of her own. She learns to read from Xie Yuan and picks up all the knowledge he has to offer. She learns to do business from Uncle Li and to identify medicinal herbs from the doctor, then makes pills herself.

All she wants is to take control of her own life and become a bird that can fly wherever she pleases.

But now she has become the mistress he keeps outside his home. He has broken her wings and imprisoned her soul.

Xu Jiujiu, whose vitality was once like a flower in bloom, slowly withers. She wants to escape. She wants to become her own person.