When Spring Comes to the Mortal World

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[Spirited, lively little white rabbit] x [Cold, staid peach blossom spirit]

Chen Suisui had stayed at Woling Sect for over ten years. One day, she finally went down the mountain, only to find herself running for her life--

Why should she have to be sent off as a sacrifice just because some rotten tree demanded one?

Zhou Hu nodded in agreement, then ran away with the girl--

He was a demon! Why stay and let the cultivators make a meal of him?

One designated sacrifice, one flower spirit ignorant of human feelings.

Let's run away together, escape our fate, and flee to the human world.

The last time they met, he was still a great iceberg. The next moment, he had pulled her into his arms.

Chen Suisui: ...Do demons really express themselves this directly?

Still, his embrace smelled lovely.

--

The Heavenly Dao follows its laws, and the Dao follows nature.

If one overcomes the nine deficiencies of human nature, can one attain the Dao and ascend?

Wait, what is this even saying?

Didn't we agree we'd only run away? Where did this mission to save the world come from?

Is this really something a poor mortal should have to do?

--

Later, on that spring day, Chen Suisui lay in Zhou Hu's arms and whispered in his ear:

"We've already defeated the Heavenly Dao."

"Spring has come to the human world. Why not gift me a courtyard full of flowers?"

From then on, we will take in all the beauty of the human world together.

A story celebrating spring and love.

Guaranteed happy ending.

Pre-release blurb: Two strong leads, reunion

[Cool on the outside, warm on the inside, older princess] x [Sly, flirtatious, younger emperor]

Everyone said that Princess Xu Yunxiu had volunteered to marry for the good of the realm.

Yet on her wedding night, under a dark and windy sky, blood splattered the red curtains.

The emperor's close attendant stepped over the corpse, whose eyes remained open in death, and said respectfully:

"Your Highness, rest assured. His Majesty will take responsibility for this."

Her slender, pale fingers paused, then continued to toy with the gold-inlaid coral beads.

"Sister, please help me."

The emperor's quiet plea came back to her.

She could not forget how he had reached out to her when she was in dire straits.

Once, you gave me a peach; now I should repay you with fine jade.

"All right," Xu Yunxiu replied.

No one knew her private motives, just as no one knew that she had once traveled alone through the smoke of war.

Her ambitions had never been limited to being the "eldest princess."

--

Gao Juan knew he was no noble-born heir.

The throne did not have to be his, either.

But a prosperous Great Qi, peaceful and harmonious, was what he had sought all his life.

He knew it was her wish, too.

So Gao Juan drew Xu Yunxiu into the game of power.

She said she would help him hold steady the imperial jade seal that commanded all under heaven.

"But..."

The bedchamber was warm beneath its hibiscus curtains, candlelight flickering.

Gao Juan gently parted the swaying beaded curtain, his face shifting between light and shadow.

"I ask only for my sister's affection."

Theme: Defying fate