I’m Just Here to Find My Brother!

In the tenth year of Luo Xingshang’s exile, her hardships finally seemed to be over. Her brother, who had restored the family’s fortunes, was coming to bring her back to Jinling and restore her status as a noblewoman.

But before she could even celebrate, someone forced her to drink poisoned wine and sent her tumbling off a cliff. The culprit stole her identity, took everything she had, and rode back to the capital in a splendid carriage.

After one calamity after another, Luo Xingshang thinks: So I didn’t become a noblewoman after all. I’ve ended up a fugitive slave instead?

She decides to make the thousand-mile journey from Liaodong to Jinling alone, escape back to her brother, and expose the impostor!

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Unexpectedly, barely has she set out when a handsome stranger, her cheap, long-lost brother, seems to fall from the sky.

Yun Xizhi is as beautiful as an immortal, graceful as a flowering orchid and straight as a jade tree. Though he is descended from the founding heroes of the dynasty, he grew up imprisoned in a secret garden behind towering walls.

Luo Xingshang still remembers the young nobleman, bright as the moon beneath the flowering trees in the snow that year. She remembers the flower he gave her over the wall, too. She takes him with her when she leaves.

That turns out to stir up a hornet’s nest. Only later does she discover that the person she’s abducted is from the Prince of Yan’s household: Yan Xuan, the prince’s most doted-on third legitimate son, and the toughest young firebrand in Beiping.

When Yan Xuan realizes that the person he went to so much trouble to abduct has been whisked away by a runaway slave girl, he flies into a murderous rage and gives chase.

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Later on.

In a cave, Luo Xingshang shakes out a blanket and invites Yun Xizhi to share it, while using Yan Xuan to warm her feet.

In the east wing, she pins Yun Xizhi down and steals a kiss. Turning around, she yelps as Yan Xuan’s little tiger teeth nibble at her.

On the battlefield, she smugly slips out of Yun Xizhi’s tent, only to run straight into Yan Xuan’s arms. He’s been waiting in the shadows, fuming

“You just spent an hour with him, so you have to spend two hours with me!”

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Much later, the Prince of Yan conquers Jinling and ascends the throne.

Luo Yin chuan looks proudly at his younger sister, who has returned in triumph after earning great merit in helping the new emperor seize the throne. But when he sees the two formidable figures behind her, both calling out “Big Brother” in unison

“???”

A resilient, tough heroine whose life has been full of hardships, and her beautiful, gentle, delicate, and innocent-hearted companion, who looks like an immortal. Then add a flirtatious, two-timing troublemaker who starts out arrogant but later wants to be the third in their relationship. Together, the three of them make a good life for themselves (really).

1. One woman and two men, mutual healing, and a certified three-person relationship.

2. The blurb focuses on the romance, but the heroine has a complete career arc. The romance and plot develop side by side.

3. No picking sides, and plenty of scenes with all three together.

Set in a fictional dynasty inspired by the early Ming, when the capital is Jinling. One supporting character has transmigrated.

Theme: With no lamps to keep the day alive, I brush off the snow and seek spring myself.