After Marrying a Mute Bride

*Upcoming story: Hollow Heart Syndrome, a modern patron-and-kept-lover story. Please add it to your collection!

*Marriage first, love later

*70% anti-piracy setting

[Sweet-talking, passionate female general × composed, reserved eldest daughter]

The Shen family’s daughter was adopted. From the moment she was taken in, she could not speak. Cold and distant, she went to great lengths to avoid contact with outsiders. Yet her gentle, refined demeanor and peerless beauty earned her a place among the capital’s four great beauties and talents.

Unfortunately, she was frail and mute.

The Northern General of the Duke of Wei’s household was well past the age of twenty, yet still unmarried. In recognition of her many military achievements, the emperor decided to arrange a marriage for her himself, allowing her to name the person she wished to wed.

But instead of finding her a bride, he issued a ridiculous marriage decree.

Lin Chenying only learned that her bride was mute after bringing her home. She didn’t mind. She personally brought her meals and water without fail, treating her with courtesy by day, then holding her in bed at night and whispering tender words to her.

Shen Yan was gradually worn down, left at a loss by Lin Chenying’s two very different sides.

Marrying a woman was strange enough, but then one night she heard Lin Chenying whisper in her ear...

It had all been part of Lin Chenying’s plan from the start.

1. An alternate ancient setting, sweet romance.

2. Both leads are yandere, and completely unhinged.

3. Frail heroine + scheming heroine

...Upcoming story: Hollow Heart Syndrome...

[Blurb]

Jian Shuang was saddled with a huge debt before she had even graduated from college.

While working part-time at a hotel, she came across a drunken woman. The woman’s flushed cheek rested woozily against her, and her room key was tucked against her chest. She begged Jian Shuang to take it out for her.

On the night of her twenty-second birthday, Jian Shuang slept with a woman.

She thought it would be a one-night fling, but one day, when Jian Shuang walked out of the campus gates, a white Bentley was waiting outside.

Xu Shengran rolled down the window and lowered her sunglasses. Her sidelong glance and smile were captivating.

“Come with me.”

Jian Shuang, inexperienced and unworldly, had been made to spend the whole night with a woman whose name she didn’t even know. When she woke the next morning, there was a business card beside her pillow.

A new contact was waiting on her phone, along with a transfer so large it made her eyes sting.

“If you develop feelings for me, we’ll end this relationship.”

The doors and windows were shut tight. Pills lay scattered across the floor.

She said I was sick, and that I had to swallow every last pill in this empty room.

There was mold on the ceiling and biscuits on the table.

I am a machine that can talk.

Listening to her unconventional confession, I cried tears of joy.

Don’t save me. Don’t hold me. Don’t dream of me.

This is my hollow heart syndrome.

Theme: Love can transcend reality