The Tale of Wen Tan

Name: The Tale of Wen Tan
Author: Huo Sheng

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by Huo Sheng (霍笙)

Status: Completed
Length: 216k Words
Genre: Ancient Romance
Subgenre: Palace & Household Intrigue
Updated: 9mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

A perceptive, worldly beauty × a jade-faced marquis

Wen Tan thought this was all life had to offer: scheming against the other girls in the training house, waiting for some rich man to buy her, and rotting away in the mud. Then Marquis Jiarui offered her a chance to work together.

“I need a fiancée, and you need somewhere to belong. Why not make a deal?”

And so she transformed from a Yangzhou beauty bred for sale into an official's daughter in the capital, nervously navigating a world of power and privilege.

As the wedding procession crossed the final stretch of red carpet in the capital, Wen Tan suddenly realized this man was far more cold-hearted and ruthless than she had imagined.

Later, when a palace coup erupted, he lay on the brink of death. Watching her retreating figure, he finally realized that the mutually beneficial partnership had long ago become tinged with a love he himself had never noticed.

From then on, doting on his wife without restraint became Marquis Jiarui's daily duty, while repeatedly turning him down became Wen Tan's chief annoyance.

But after all that fretting, she found that this cold man had somehow turned warm.

A fragment

“Marquis, keep your voice down. There are maids outside!”

Annoyed, she flushed, her round almond eyes growing misty.

Shen Yanming admired her for a moment, then helpfully reminded her, “There should be scented balm and a razor case in your brother's room. Have someone fetch them.”

Wen Tan had always known him to be arrogant, but she had never expected such a brazen, mischievous side beneath that handsome face.

She clenched her handkerchief. “No,” she said. Seeing his expression turn cold, she quickly added, “Yun'er has another way.”

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