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Bold, clever female official x devoted, restrained prince | Two strong leads, top-tier tension

On a spring day in the twenty-second year of Tianyuan, Meng Yu had just recovered from an illness. Half-awake after a nap, she looked around for Li Zhen but couldn't find him. She got up and went outside. Only when she reached the study did she see the Prince of Jin of the Great Yong, standing alone before her bookshelf, lost in thought.

She walked in and called to him. With a clatter, something fell to the floor.

She looked down. It was the keepsake she'd treasured for years, left behind nine years ago when he concealed his identity to establish a school for her and secure her a woman's household registration: a smooth jade pendant and a sheet of paper on which she'd personally copied his profile.

Meng Yu felt a weight lift from her heart. At last, he had discovered this long-buried part of their past.

But when she looked up, Li Zhen's expression was deeply strange.

Li Zhen was the fifth prince of the current dynasty. His birth mother left the palace when he was young, and he grew up under the emperor's suspicion, hiding his talents and enduring in silence for half his life.

The only time he ever crossed a line and took a risk was when he secretly helped someone in Yangzhou. He had never shown himself, and had always assumed the other person knew nothing of it.

Now, as he looked at the two objects on the floor, all their intimate memories surged back at once. The tender moments when she took his hand and kissed him... the time they'd recently spent holding each other in bed... In an instant, every memory became a carefully staged illusion in his eyes.

Li Zhen's voice was low and hoarse, edged with a crack. "So you got close to me just to repay a debt of gratitude?"

Meng Yu gave a soft laugh. "Your Highness, what else did you expect?"

Rise straight to the heavens; refined through hardship

Notes:

1. One-on-one pairing, both leads are each other's first and only, happy ending.

2. Set in a fictional world. Details are subject to the plot, and women are allowed to take the civil service exams.

3. Two capable leads, political scheming, fated reunion, and mutual devotion.

4. No harem at the end.

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"My Eldest Brother Can't Say No"

Blurb:

When Wen Yunci was eleven, she followed her birth mother into the Yuan household of the Marquis of Wuping after her mother remarried. The master of the marquis's household was kind and magnanimous, the wives in the inner residence were gentle and good-hearted, and her brothers and sisters were lively and considerate.

In a turbulent age, she was still able to enjoy a reasonably peaceful life as a noble young lady.

Everyone simply advised her to keep her distance from her eldest brother.

Yuan Xun, heir to the Marquis of Wuping, was handsome and noble, with the bearing of a gentleman. When he commanded troops, his orders were law, and not a single soldier dared disobey.

He was ruthless and imposing toward outsiders, and just as stern when reprimanding his younger siblings.

Yet at some point, he began casting deep, tender looks her way. As her eldest brother, he poured her tea, helped her onto her horse, and did everything he could to care for her.

Eventually, he began avoiding everyone's eyes, embracing her in a secluded courtyard and showering her with tenderness as they lost themselves in each other.

Young and inexperienced, Wen Yunci couldn't resist such intense passion. She was both terrified and intoxicated by his devotion.

Beneath a moonlit, starry sky, he promised to take her away once the fighting stopped and spend the rest of their lives together.

But when the day they had been waiting for finally came, he personally severed their bond.

After two years of war, Yuan Xun returned to the household. The way he looked at her was no different from how he looked at his other sisters. He spoke politely and distantly, strictly observing the formalities between brother and sister.

It was as if their private conversations in the courtyard and their moonlit vows had only ever been an illusion of her own making.

From then on, she hid all her feelings, shut herself away in the rear courtyard, and sealed their past away, pretending nothing had ever happened.

She watched coldly as Yuan Xun busied himself with finding her a husband, as he did for his other sisters, yet rejected every candidate.

When she took charge of her own future and found a kind, gentle young man, Yuan Xun suddenly lost his composure on the eve of her wedding. In front of everyone, he forcibly took her away and imprisoned her in the old courtyard.

They gave themselves over to one another all night, in an overwhelming passion that only subsided at daybreak.

Wen Yunci lay weak and drowsy, curled up in Yuan Xun's arms.

He reached out to soothe her uncontrollable trembling, his voice husky with satisfaction.

"Aci, I'm the only one you can call your husband, because I'm your big brother."

He lowered his head and kissed her again. "Just like you did a moment ago."

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