I Crossed the Emerald-Eyed One for the Third Time

Currently serializing A Finger of Spring, featuring a powerful eunuch male lead and the daughter of a condemned official. Preorder: Gather My Rotten Bones

A resilient, determined, sunny heroine x a gentle, guileless, ghostly "monster" of a male lead

Xu Xungui has blue eyes, like the sea. He must be the northern sea monster people talk about, a monster.

These are turbulent times. No sensible person wants to get mixed up in a mess.

He's someone Sang Nai's father brought home. He puts on a good act, obedient and polite, but there's always something off about him, as though he's wearing a mask.

And she's going to embrace him, and save him again and again, thousands upon thousands of times.

(I really couldn't come up with a blurb for this one.)

One-on-one, both inexperienced, pure romance

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Fan Qing is an orphan. The only person she has is her gentle and refined fiance, Xiao Chengchu.

One day, she accidentally learns that her fiance will go to the capital to take the imperial examinations and then marry a wealthy heiress, leaving her to wait in vain.

Fan Qing: "..."

What nonsense. I don't believe it.

Until one day, Xiao Chengchu took her hands and, as if reciting from a storybook, said the exact same thing she'd heard, his eyes full of tenderness. "Qingqing, when I return, I'll marry you properly and bring you into my household."

Fan Qing hesitated. "...Could you just not go?"

Xiao Chengchu: "All right. I promise."

Then her fiance died.

She wept and wailed, overcome with guilt, thinking she should have let him go after all.

He died in a desolate mountain. An old Daoist pointed out a place and told her to find his bones and call back his soul. On the seventh night, shadows swayed outside her door and rustled in the wind. Someone knocked. A man's voice, deep and gentle, seemed to whisper in her ear. "Qingqing, it's me."

"..."

Fan Qing fell silent as she looked at the letter in her arms. It read:

"Qingqing, I had no choice but to do this. When I return, you can punish me however you like. Everything is fine. Don't worry about me."

He might as well have stayed dead.

Xiao Chengchu had already set out for the capital to take the exams. So what was the thing she'd picked up? And who was outside her door?

A cold wind rustled past. In the wilderness, she'd picked up a rotten skeleton and summoned a demon ghost.

Whenever Fan Qing's consciousness began to fade, the demon ghost would cradle her face and whisper, "Qingqing, Qingqing... Say my name. Lu Shiyun."

A shadow of red appeared in the corners of his eyes. "My wife picked up my rotten bones, gave me her yin energy, and found a demon ghost amid the endless graves."

"So I'll make my withered bones fragrant, and my bed warm beneath the layered covers, to repay my wife for taking my bones into her grave."

Just then, her fiance returned.

One-on-one, sc, happy ending

Blurb dated 2026.9.1

A slight Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio feel. Yin and yang are brought into balance, so what she gives him is yin energy.

Content warning: Love triangle drama

Theme: Rejecting judgment based on hearsay and following the crowd