Somewhere in This World

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"Half a Lifetime of Joy"

That year, she gently waved a round fan. Her limber body, soft as a boneless willow, rested against a couch covered in golden-threaded Shu brocade. The fan's soft surface lifted my chin.

I looked into a pair of smiling eyes. They seemed to hold deep affection for everyone they looked at. Her vermilion lips parted, and she said one word to me: "Get lost."

Beloved Consort x Wolf Demon

A "bewitching consort who brings ruin to the kingdom," adored by the emperor but uninterested in him, and a ruthless, loyal wolf demon kept in captivity.

"Where in the World"

A frail, frequently ill young lady from a noble family x a gifted top scholar, pure as a white lotus on the outside and dark as a black lotus within

Also known as "What Do You Do When Your Archenemy Stabs You Through the Heart and You Fall in Love with Her?"

The winds stir across the three thousand realms, and millions of years pass in the blink of an eye.

Amid the myriad forms of the mortal world, where is home?

The serious blurb:

She died in a long-planned moment of tenderness.

As the dagger sank into her heart, Ye Sheng heard that person say, "There is no place in this world for outsiders like you."

Her three souls shattered. Ten years together came down to the words, "We owe each other nothing."

When she opened her eyes again, she was Ye Liu, the frail and sickly legitimate daughter of the Ye family in Lingdu.

In this life, all she wanted was to fulfill her mission in peace.

Until that face, etched into her very bones, appeared again in the academy.

Si Li, a seventeen-year-old prodigy and newly crowned top scholar, was her tutor.

Her clear, deer-like eyes and emotionless thin lips were identical to those of the executioner from her past life.

Ye Liu lowered her gaze and bowed with perfect decorum. "Your student, Ye Liu, pays her respects, Teacher."

Si Li looked at this obedient, frail young lady from a noble family and couldn't shake the feeling that she was hiding something in her eyes.

Like snow lying undisturbed for a thousand years, filled with a desolation Si Li could not understand.

She taught her poetry, history, and statecraft, and sheltered her from the storm, never realizing that she was placing the deadly blade back into its owner's hands.

When war flared again and the schemes came to light,

Si Li stood before the myriad demons, watching the familiar figure finally merge with the scene in her memories.

The dagger, the blood, the cold smile, the betrayal.

It turned out their meeting had never been a coincidence.

It was a hunt and a headlong journey toward one another, planned a thousand years ago...

The unserious blurb:

Ye Sheng: I got stabbed, but I chose to be reborn.

Qi Siyao: I was deceived, but I chose to forgive.

Ye Sheng: Wait, who deceived whom?

Qi Siyao: You deceived me about your feelings.

Ye Sheng: You stabbed me in the heart.

Qi Siyao: ...So we're even?

Ye Sheng: Dream on.

(Much, much later...)

Si Li: Would a kiss make us even?

Ye Liu: Get lost.

(But she got kissed anyway.)

Reader's guide:

One-on-one romance, rebirth, disguises, two equally formidable leads, and a battle of wits and acting.

This is not a wish-fulfillment story. Both leads have their own schemes, and their romance swings back and forth between the tip of a blade and a dusting of sugar.

Contains several kinds of side couples. Please read with care.

The main story is complete. Extras will be posted from time to time (I'll finish them as soon as I can).

Finally, if you enjoyed this, please add it to your collection. Thank you!

Theme: Love can bring hope