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Books by 夏凉如水
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The Concubine-Born Substitute Bride: The Cold-Faced General’s Beloved 替嫁庶女：冷面将军的心尖宠
Blurb: On the day the imperial edict decreed her marriage, her elder sister snapped her zither strings and tearfully swore she would rather die than enter the bitter, freezing frontier. Her younger half-sister, Jiang Yuan, silently picked up the decree, donned the wedding dress, and married General Xiao Ji, who guarded the border, in her sister’s place. Rumor had it that the general had outlived three wives and was as cold and hard as the northern winds beyond the frontier. On their wedding nigh
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The Concubine’s Daughter Just Wants to Lie Flat, but the Prince Won’t Let Her 庶女只想躺平，奈何王爷他不让
As an invisible concubine-born daughter in the Minister's household, her only goal in life is to eat, drink, and have fun, save enough silver, and leave the household when her term is up to become a carefree little rich woman. Unfortunately, an imperial decree betroths her to the fearsome prince, said to be a wife-killer, violent, and disabled. The whole capital waits to laugh at her, even betting that she won't survive three months. After marrying into the prince's household, she discovers that
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Breaking Spring Branches: The Chief Secretary’s Beloved 折春枝：首辅大人的掌心娇
The untouchable beauty bows to her, and a forbidden love slowly takes hold. Dong Yining, an orphan from Lingnan, is taken in as the adopted daughter of Fu Yanli, the powerful chief minister who rules the court. He is cold and strict, an untouchable figure revered by everyone in the capital. She is spoiled and sly, the one and only exception to his rules. He teaches her poetry, books, and etiquette, yet breaks his own rules to buy her sweets late at night and put others in their place at court.
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Sir, Please Let Go! 大人，请放手！
[A calculating power broker × a clear-eyed woman who transmigrated] Modern office worker Wen Yu transmigrates overnight and becomes Xiaoyu, a household slave in the mansion of the powerful official Gu Lingyue, where she is constantly bullied. Faced with the strict hierarchy of a noble household, she has only one thought: save enough money to buy her freedom and escape! She plans carefully, moving from menial chores to sweeping the library, quietly putting her modern knowledge to use. But when sh
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I Married My Nemesis First, Then Fell in Love 与宿敌先婚后爱了
**Blurb:** The two people in the capital who get along worst are the Marquis of Zhenbei’s feral young heir, Lord Xie, and the prickly Miss Luo from the Censor’s family. An absurd imperial decree ties them together. He thinks she’s a mad dog who only knows how to bite. She thinks he’s a hypocrite who spouts nothing but benevolence and righteousness. The whole capital is waiting to see this bickering couple turn their bridal chamber into a battlefield, making a mess of everything until one of them
81Reads6.4Score—Shelves
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Reborn, I Spoiled My White Moonlight's Stand-In 重生后我把白月光替身宠上天！
Reborn, he dotes obsessively on the substitute princess consort he once hurt beyond repair. In his previous life, Yao Yan watched helplessly as Xiao Yuzhu died with hatred in her heart. Her words, “I wouldn't dare keep Your Highness from visiting Miss Lin,” became his everlasting nightmare. When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to the year before the tragedy. In this life, he sheds his cold, harsh disguise and becomes her devoted, puppy-like prince. His first love provokes her? He publi
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My Ice-Cold Husband Is Actually So Charming 冷面夫君他真香了
[The cold-faced King of Hell says one thing and means another. They marry first, fall in love later, and then he's utterly smitten.] The orphan Su Yu, who lived under someone else's roof, wanted nothing more than a peaceful life in the marquis's household. Careful and cautious, she was nevertheless bound by a marriage contract to Zhao Huaiyou, the household's most stern and unyielding third son. On their wedding night, he coldly told her, “I have no particular impression of you.” She took it in
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General, Let’s Get a Divorce! 将军，我们和离吧！
My Husband, After Our Divorce, I Became the Enemy General You Could Never Hope to Reach On our wedding night, he laid down the law with a cold stare: “You’re only a stopgap.” For three years, Qin Wushuang poured her heart into him, but never made the slightest impression. When disease ravaged the borderlands, she offered up her family’s secret cure. When he was in danger, she risked her life to find medicine for him. But when the daughter of his “benefactor” was captured, Wei Heng personally pus
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The Young Uncle’s Moonlight 小叔心间白月光
1v1 + redemption + forbidden love + ruthless power minister + cherished first love After being widowed, she became the apple of her brother-in-law’s eye. The Gu family fell, and all its splendor turned to ashes. With only her ten-year-old brother-in-law, Gu Yu, left alive, Yun Pei chose to stay. For ten grueling years, she made tofu and endured endless scorn, supporting the boy from the streets all the way to the imperial court. In return, his possessiveness only grew, along with his sharp tongu
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After Losing Her Memory, the Mrs. Doesn’t Want to Put Up With It Anymore 失忆后，夫人她不想忍了
Amnesia and awakening × chasing his wife after losing her × two strong leads teaming up After hitting her head and losing her memory, Xie Hanyan returns to the age of seventeen. Over five years of marriage, she has gone from a fierce daughter of a military family to the meek mistress of the Lu household, enduring humiliation, only to be bullied by her sister-in-law, tormented by her mother-in-law, and met with cold indifference from her husband. The moment her memories return, she tears off h
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One Page Before the Divorce 和离前一页
Transmigrating into an old-fashioned angst novel as a cannon-fodder bride in a proxy marriage, Shen Mingwei found herself in hell from the start. On their wedding night, the male lead, Yuan Yu, coldly exposed the scheme and cast her aside like trash, abandoning her in a secluded courtyard to fend for herself. Faced with a cruel husband, a scheming sister, and a household that looked down on her, Shen Mingwei finally woke up. She returned to her old profession as a modern cosmetics researcher, us
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The Crown Prince's Cherished Darling 太子掌中娇
[Scheming hostage × cunning crown prince | She runs, he pursues | A battle of equals] Sent to Liang as a hostage from a defeated state, Chu Jiao's mission is to win over Xiao Zhi, the moody crown prince of Liang. She acts innocent, sends him poisoned pastries, pretends to stumble, and makes the admiration in her eyes look utterly sincere. The crown prince seems to enjoy it. He gives her precious treasures and special privileges, and stands up for her. Everyone says the cold-faced crown prince ha
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I Became the Blind Prince’s Substitute Bride, but He Set His Heart on Me 替嫁失明王爷，他却认准了我
[One-on-One, Both Pure, Substitute's Rise, Marriage First and Love Later, The Pursuit of His Wife] The night she was forced into a substitute marriage, Wen Xin thought she had jumped straight into a pit of fire. The blind Prince Rui, Cui You'an, was violent and sinister. His fingertips traced her neck. “A fake like you thinks she's worthy?” She hid her fear, grinding ink for him and tending his wounds in the dark, until she became his only pair of eyes. When his fingers could finally trace her f
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The Seventh Year I’ve Longed for You 觊觎你的第七年
[A Secret Crush Comes True × Eight-Year Age Gap × He Chases Her After Losing Her × Two Strong Leads in the Workplace] After seven years of secretly loving him, she finally stands before him but not as the kind of woman he likes. In Su Nian's twenty-five years of life, Shen Yu has occupied seven of them. He's her brother's friend, a legend at the business school, and the man she desires but doesn't dare confess her feelings for. She works hard to get into his company, hoping to be closer to him,
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A Letter Hard to Send: After the Divorce Agreement Was Torn to Shreds 锦书难寄之和离书撕碎后
*Blurb:* Shen Qingyou is a celebrated young nobleman, gentle as jade and the most talented man in the capital. He is the dream lover of countless young ladies. Yet toward the “wife” his elders forced on him, a quiet woman who seems barely to exist, he is distant and cold. They treat each other with respect, but their marriage is frozen through and through. A Fu knows he never wanted this marriage and never imposes on him. She quietly takes care of everything where he can't see, then lives out he
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Spring in the Marquis's Household: My Godfather Has Been Plotting This for Years 侯门春色：干爹他蓄谋已久
In her past life, Han Chiyu was smothered to death on the delivery bed by the fake heiress. She was reborn on the night she was supposed to reunite with her family. Without hesitation, she clung to Zhou Yuanjing, her powerful “godfather.” “Godfather, save me!” From then on, she became his adoptive daughter in name, his fiancée, and the Duchess of Jingguo. Everyone thought she was a clingy flower who had risen to prominence by relying on her godfather. But they had no idea She used memories of he
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The Warlord's Laid-Back, Lovely Wife 乱世枭雄的咸鱼娇妻
Dong Qingru, who worked herself to death in a cutthroat rat race, transmigrated as the most beautiful woman in Jiangnan, and one who was running away from her wedding, no less. Her fiancé, Xie Yu'an, was a future warlord who slaughtered without mercy. As she looked at the cold, stern man who had captured her in the snowy night and heard him say, "Power and money are the best nourishment in troubled times," Dong Qingru had an epiphany: striving? Not a chance! The only sensible way to stay alive a
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The Favorite Consort Wants No Palace Scheming: Your Majesty, Please Behave 宠妃她不想宫斗：陛下请自重
Tao Jin transmigrates as a young palace candidate in the Sheng Dynasty. All she wants is to eat, sleep, and make it safely through her time in the palace until she can leave. She deliberately keeps a low profile during the selection, yet a lazy yawn catches the eye of the young emperor Pei Huan, whose standards are sky-high, and he picks her at once. After entering the palace, she sticks to her motto of keeping her head down: she never competes for favor or takes sides, and spends all day thinki
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The Capital's Crown Prince Has Lost His Beloved 京圈太子爷的心尖宠跑了
[Synopsis] Zhong Yichen, the crown prince of Beijing’s elite circle, wields immense power in the capital and is known for his roving eye and fickle heart. Yet he is forced to marry Shen Qingning, the doctor who saved his grandfather’s life. Bound by a contract and a marriage of convenience, she is his wife in name, yet the person he holds in the least regard. He is unfaithful and sharp-tongued. She faces him with calm composure and focuses on her career, yet through countless dark nights, she qu
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The Moon Lights the Way Home: My Ex-Husband's Too Late to Regret It 明月照归途：前夫追悔莫及
Shen Huiyi gave her heart to Pei Yuan’an for three years, but couldn’t warm the heart of her husband, a renowned official. He treated her coldly on their wedding night, leaving her alone in their chambers and warning her to “know her place.” When she traveled a thousand miles through wind and snow to find him, she saw him smiling as he showed concern for someone else. Her heart finally turned to ash, and she asked for a divorce. With one divorce decree, they went their separate ways. She headed
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You and Me, Every Morning and Night 屿你朝夕
Lu Shiyu and Xu Zhaoxi have been “thick as thieves” since they were toddlers. He was the perfect child everyone else’s parents wished they had, blessed with a genius’s aura. She was the carefree little tagalong who ran around after him. She took a punch from a bully in the next class for him, and he let her copy all his homework throughout middle and high school. Everyone said they were made for each other, except the two of them. One would rather die than confess, while the other had no idea. A
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The Marquess’s Wife Is Reborn 侯门主母她重生了
On her wedding day, Rong Dai lifted her veil and called off the marriage in front of everyone. Reborn, she was no longer the virtuous mistress who had once lived cautiously in the Zhou family and died coughing up blood. In this life, all she wanted was money and freedom. She rented shops, built a business, and made her mother’s dowry prosper. As for the man whose proposal she had rejected, Zhou Zimu, the eldest legitimate son of an aristocratic family and the universally admired unattainable
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Spring Snow Melts Beneath the Hibiscus Canopy 芙蓉帐暖春雪消
Luo Fu only discovers she's been forced into a bridal sedan to marry Zhou Changchuan, the Left Chancellor who wields power over the court but is as cold as ice, in place of her cousin. Rumor has it that his birth mother was ruined by a beautiful woman, leaving him with a deep loathing for women who dress too provocatively. And Luo Fu, a country girl mocked by the capital's noblewomen as a “femme fatale” for her voluptuous, enchanting beauty, is exactly that sort of woman. On their wedding night,
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A Love That Cuts to the Bone: The CEO’s Pregnant Runaway Wife 蚀骨情深：总裁的带球逃妻
Six years ago, pregnant with his child, she was cruelly abandoned on a stormy night. After enduring humiliation, she left in despair. Six years later, she returns with her child, now a composed, independent professional. At an upscale reception, she unexpectedly comes face-to-face with him again. He is now a powerful, ruthless executive, with a “well-matched” fiancée at his side. She holds the hand of a son whose features are unmistakably his, her gaze distant, as if she had never loved him. He
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The Cicada's Wind Knows My Heart 蝉风知我意
Lu Zhiye lays his old school uniform on the ground, drops to one knee, and takes out that paper star from years ago. Inside the star, it says: “May you grow wild and free throughout your life, and shine brilliantly in the end.” He had been her wish all those years ago. Lu Zhiye draws a comic on the wall: a boy on a motorcycle and a girl wearing headphones. As students gather to watch, Lin Xian smiles and introduces him: “This is my husband.”
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General, Your Wife Is Not Your Younger Sister! 将军，您媳妇不是妹妹！
The iron-willed officer Zhao Jing takes pity on a frail “younger sister” named Yun Ni and brings her home. He plans to treat her as family and give her a safe place to live, never realizing that this seemingly delicate young woman is actually the lost jewel of a marquis's family. It all begins with an awkward “sibling agreement.” The stoic little officer Zhao goes hunting to improve their meals and clumsily buys her new clothes, keeping her safe beneath his wing. But when a tutor shows his admir
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Getting Ready: Lord Cen and His Capable Wife 小妆成：岑大人与他的贤内助
Three months into her marriage to Cen Yin, Jiang Gui felt more like a guest than a wife. They treated each other with polite courtesy, and their life together was as still as a pool of water, its course seemingly set. She had once thought this was how her whole life would be. Things began to change when her younger brother-in-law brought home his mistress and demanded a divorce, plunging the whole family into chaos. For the first time, her quiet husband asked for her opinion. From joining forces
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The Spoiled Young Lord's Redemption Plan 纨绔世子洗白攻略
**Setting:** The fictional Great Yin Dynasty, where aristocratic clans hold great importance. * **Male lead:** Lu Yunzhi, heir to the Duke of Zhenguo and the capital’s most notorious playboy. He keeps fighting cocks and dogs, frequents pleasure quarters, and has friends among women from every walk of life. He hates being constrained and is forced to marry under pressure from his family. Though he seems carefree and irreverent, deep down he carries childhood wounds from feeling insecure and negle
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The White Moonlight Disguise Diary 白月光伪装日记
[Transmigrate into a book + System + mind-reading + groveling pursuit of the wife + rekindled love] Gu Xixi transmigrates into a villainess in an angsty novel and is forced to bind herself to the [White Moonlight System]. Every day, she must act out scenes of concern for the male lead, Shen Siheng, or be erased. On the outside, she’s as gentle as water. Inside, she’s ranting like crazy: “That three-pointer was awesome! Too bad he’s blind!” “Can I expense this water? System, you’re not ripping me
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The Contract Is Up, but the CEO Refuses to Log Off 协议到期，总裁他拒绝下线
To pay for her mother's medical care, down-on-her-luck designer Su Ruan signs a marriage contract and marries Jiang Lin, a coldhearted tech mogul. The agreement is clear: they won't interfere in each other's lives, the marriage lasts one year, and when the term is up, she leaves. But no one told her... That living under the same roof, he'd develop an abnormal heartbeat over a bowl of porridge she accidentally burned; That he'd quietly memorize all her preferences, then stubbornly claim it was “a
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Reborn, I Found the Boy He Used to Be First 重生后，我先找到了少年的他
The moment Qin Luwu opened her eyes, she had gone from an old woman with white hair back to the age of fifteen. In her previous life, she had spent half her life by Shen Xiao’s side, regretting on her deathbed that they had met too late. In this life, she resolved to find him early, only to run into a young rascal who chewed on a blade of grass, vaulted walls, and spent his days in gambling dens. The boy called her “little lady blocking the road,” yet turned around to snatch candied hawthorns to
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The Spoiled Heir Is Still Trying to Go Broke 纨绔今天也在努力破产
Blurb: After waking up in a book as the daughter of its richest man and a famously beautiful airhead, she knows how the original story ends: the male lead uses her until there is nothing left, her family goes bankrupt, and she dies a miserable death. Bai Taotao: Thanks for asking. I just got here, and someone is already proposing to me. My goal is to go bankrupt as fast as possible and stay alive! So she starts spending wildly: buying a haunted mine, investing in a painter whose work is guarante
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Jade Shattered, Joy Found: The Cold-Faced General Bows to Me 碎玉成欢：冷面将军为我折腰
In my past life, I coughed up blood and died on a snowy night, after begging for him. In this life, I smashed my betrothal jade hairpin in front of everyone. “I'd rather die than marry Pei Yu!” Gu Miaoyin has been reborn at the turning point of her fate. In her past life, she mistook a debt of gratitude for love. Blinded by romance, she did everything she could to marry the cold-faced God of War, Pei Yu, only to end up neglected in a lonely compound, coughing blood before she died a miserable de
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A Drunken Spring in the Second Wife's Hall 继室春堂醉
On the very night of their marriage of convenience, her husband drew his last breath. The newly widowed Xie Qingqing knelt before the funeral altar in mourning clothes, but kept a list of potential new husbands clenched in her hand. Before the seventh-day memorial had even passed, Lu Zhao, her powerful brother-in-law, kicked open her door and snatched her household registration. “Sister-in-law, a widow of the Lu family can't just leave whenever she pleases!” He thought she was a climbing vine lo
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After I Became a Substitute Bride, the Ailing Prince Got Back on His Feet 替嫁后，病秧子王爷他站起来了
A replacement bride to the prince? No, I’m here to fight you for the throne On their wedding night, Ye Qingmei seized the “unconscious” prince’s wrist and frowned. “Your pulse is boiling. This illness… is interesting.” She was the discarded daughter of the Chancellor’s household. She had agreed to the replacement marriage only to investigate her birth mother’s disappearance and make some money on the side. With the Ji Shi Hall on one hand, she amassed wealth; with an intelligence network on the
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Hidden Steel in Disguise: The Heir’s Beloved Moon 替身藏锋：世子的心尖月
The Substitute Bride: The Cold-Faced Prince Is Truly Smitten Su Miaoqing transmigrated into the role of a substitute bride, married to a cold-faced prince who was paralyzed and violent. She was delighted. No wedding-night duties and no fighting for his favor meant she could focus on making money. Three years of widowhood, five years to fortune. Life was good. But she soon discovered that the prince wasn’t really paralyzed. He had been slowly poisoned, and the story behind her substitute marriage
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Reborn in the 1980s: My Factory Manager, My Medicine 重生八零：我的厂长我的药
Top medical PhD Lin Yun is betrayed and reborn in the 1980s, as a pitiful young woman whose father is dead, whose family has no money, and who is being forced into marriage. Her wicked relatives sneer, “Accept your fate! We're keeping the bride price!” Lin Yun sneers and grabs a shovel. “I'll send you all packing!” From the start, she turns the tables, reports their abuse, and shocks the whole village. She finds a half-dead man on the mountain, who turns out to be Lu Hancheng, a retired milit
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A Thousand Pieces of Gold for One Smile 千金一笑
Gu Miao, daughter of the prime minister, is known in public as the capital’s most talented and refined young lady. In private, however, she has a very low threshold for laughter and an endless stream of sarcastic inner commentary. An imperial decree arranges her marriage to Huo Yan, the Prince of Zhenbei, who is famous for his ruthless nature. On their wedding night, Huo Yan unexpectedly gains the ability to read minds, opening the door to a whole new world. He gives her a stern lecture, and she
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