A tough, fearless girl from the streets × a sharp-tongued, beautiful young prince
1.
Ever since moving to the capital, Shi Yue feels like nothing is going her way.
First, she inexplicably binds herself to a system called the “Daiyu Burying Flowers Tear Collection System.” The System wants her to save the male lead, after which he will repay her by taking her by force as his sixth concubine, abusing her in body and mind until she dies with all her tears dried up.
Ha! What kind of stupid System is that?
I may not be good at burying flowers, but I’m great at burying people.
Looking at the male lead in front of her, covered in wounds from an animal attack,
Shi Yue rolls her eyes and walks away.
System: […]
She thought staying away from the male lead would change the plot, but things go off the rails, and she’s about to go off the rails too.
【The male lead is dead. You can’t survive either. Boohoo, I can’t get home now!】The System cries even harder than she does.
Only then does Shi Yue realize how serious things are. “Is there any way to fix this?” She can’t die. Her mother is counting on her.
【There is, but the difficulty level is hell.】
【You need to find the System’s hidden new male lead within three years, then successfully marry him.】
“Easy, easy. I just have to win over a new male lead, right? Tell me where he is, and I’ll go get him.”
【All we know so far is that the male lead is a man. Everything else is unknown.】
“Ha. Of course it’s hell.”
No matter how difficult the mission, she has to survive. Shi Yue begins the grueling search for the male lead.
Her neighbor Auntie Wang’s nephew is named Yaozu.
There’s something to that name. It sounds like it could belong to a male lead.
At her mother’s urging, Shi Yue meets him for a matchmaking date.
Yaozu lives up to his name. They’ve barely met when he launches into a grand lecture: “A woman is born to put her husband first, run the household, care for the family, bear children, and honor her parents-in-law. If she can’t even do that, how can she be a wife?”
Shi Yue: Ugly, and you’ve got a pretty high opinion of yourself. Get lost!
After her first match goes nowhere, Shi Yue learns from the experience and turns her attention to the son of the shopkeeper next door.
The young man is well-mannered, gentle, and considerate. Most importantly, he treats her wonderfully. He looks like male lead material.
Shi Yue is ready to take a chance and ask him to marry her, but a tear she happens to collect gives her a clue about the male lead.
It turns out the gentle, considerate young man isn’t the male lead.
A little disappointed, Shi Yue soon sets her sights on her sworn elder brother, who always does whatever she asks.
He’s tall and handsome. His personality is a little cold, but he has all the makings of a male lead.
But no matter how long Shi Yue waits, her sworn brother keeps blowing hot and cold.
Just as she decides to switch targets to the second son of the Marquis, who looks exactly like the dead former male lead,
her sworn brother finally blurts out, “Wait for me three years. Once I’ve avenged my family, I’ll come marry you.”
Shi Yue gives a bitter smile. “I’ll be dead in three years. I’m not waiting.”
After one disappointment after another, with the three-year deadline drawing near, Shi Yue loses hope. All she wants is to find her mother another layer of protection before she dies.
After careful calculations, she finally reaches out to the young prince who haunts her every day, making snide remarks.
2.
The first time Xiao Yanqing met Shi Yue, she was still the carefree village girl from Lotus Village.
She pointed at the mask on his face and asked, “Do you wear a mask all the time because you’re ugly?”
When he sees her again, three years have passed. She has snatched a dagger from an assassin with her bare hands and struck a fatal blow.
She flits among all kinds of men, making them shed plenty of tears.
Yet she never lets her gaze linger on him, not even for a moment.
He gets jealous, he goes mad, he’s so angry he coughs blood.
Only when she uses her own body to test poison for him, her face as pale as paper,
does he realize that she recognized him long ago.
“The young prince is handsome and refined, with a face as lovely as jade and the bright beauty of the moon in the clouds. How could a weed struggling in the mud like me dare reach up and lay a hand on the moon?”
Originally titled Reaching for the Moon.
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Theme: We women have strength
After reading these chapters, I feel that there is no merit and no fault. The mother-daughter relationship is excellent. But the whole article feels very cliche. The heroine is eloquent and smart, and the mother is decisive and not emotional. It's the kind of article that you click on to read, but you won't necessarily open it again after closing it. And the writing doesn't quite match these chapters, and the pace is too slow. People who click on it after reading the copy probably want to see the emotional line, but now among the male characters, Lao Jiu is portrayed as an innocent young man, but he plays the role of a tool man. The person named Xiao is quite arrogant, but he only speaks a few words when he appears.
After reading these chapters, I feel that there is no merit and no fault. The mother-daughter relationship is excellent. But the whole article feels very cliche. The heroine is eloquent and smart, and the mother is decisive and not emotional. It's the kind of article that you click on to read, but you won't necessarily open it again after closing it. And the writing doesn't quite match these chapters, and the pace is too slow. People who click on it after reading the copy probably want to see the emotional line, but now among the male characters, Lao Jiu is portrayed as an innocent young man, but he plays the role of a tool man. The person named Xiao is quite arrogant, but he only speaks a few words when he appears.