The Egret

Huajing x Li Jingheng | Proud beauty x Refined tyrant Huajing attends her fiancé’s funeral in a black dress and crosses paths with a man from her past. His hawk-like gaze pierces through the swirling ashes, raking her from head to toe. She vaguely remembers the day they broke up, when she slapped him twice and made him kneel. Back then, he looked just the same, as if he wanted to devour her whole. At a family banquet, she carries herself with the dignity of an elder, waiting for him to call her “Auntie.” Li Jingheng sits in the shadows, slowly lifting his eyes to her. “He’s gone. Are you planning to spend the rest of your life a widow, or... are you thinking of marrying one of your other uncles?” Huajing lowers her eyes and mocks him for being a shameless bastard. Later, she’s trapped in that pair of hawk eyes, their breaths mingling, their clothes in disarray. He forces her to look at him. “Why were you trembling at the funeral that day?” Huajing turns her face away, shivering. “I was cold.” Li Jingheng bites her earlobe, wicked to the extreme. “You’re so hot now. Does that mean you’re done being faithful to the dead?” Both virgins | Mutual love and mutual slaughter | Rekindled romance | Classic melodrama A storm of outrageous twists, dark and twisted. Readers with strong moral sensibilities, proceed with caution. Blurb archived in screenshots and screen recordings on 2026/03/03 and 2026/03/30 ^ ^, Below is a blurb for a forthcoming novel, ^ ^ 🌸 "A Taste for Theater" Cheng Yan x Huo Lin | Cunning falsehoods x Earnest words They say Huo Lin was bewitched when he met Cheng Yan. He lost his business, lost his heart, and nearly lost half his life. Then she even lied to him: “You lost the baby ages ago.” She vanished without a trace for three years. When they meet again, he loses control for the first time, smashing everything in the room and cornering her against the hotel’s floor-to-ceiling window. “Keep lying to me! Tell me this child isn’t mine!” “The only thing I never lied about was that I never loved you.” “Then start lying now.” Lie to him for the rest of his life. A rational con artist x a willing mark Every time she lies to him, it sounds like a love confession. He’s six years older | She runs away while pregnant | Classic melodrama | A love born of bitter hatred Both physically and emotionally faithful; flawed characters. Readers with strong moral sensibilities, proceed with caution. Blurb dated 2026/02/08, screenshot and screen recording archived Theme: The egret does not roost in a cage. It lives free and proud.