The Candle of Long Life

Blurb:

A sea kingdom mermaid x a sacred mountain elf

She is a human princess married into the sea kingdom, a symbol of the first alliance between the human and sea races. But her merfolk husband treats her coldly and disappears on their wedding night.

But her true identity is actually that of a descendant of Nuwa!

The moment the little merboy was born, his mother ran off. They say she even tricked his father out of his immortal herb?

Yuntian: I did it willingly!

The men: Brother, we're all men. We understand. Who doesn't have a little dignity to protect?

To prove his innocence, Yuntian, the Sea Emperor, decides to take his son on a journey to find his mother.

Yuntian: Son, I can't let you grow up without a mother's love. Come on, let's go find your mother!

Son: Dad, is that her?

Yuntian (embarrassed): That's an old sow!

Son: Didn't you say Mother was fair and plump?

Yuntian's inner thoughts: My child's mother, please come back! I can't handle this kid! Whatever I've done to upset you, I'll change, I promise!

Ancient texts record that the maker of mermaid candles was called the Candle Master, whose family guarded the Everlasting Candle for generations. As long as the candle burned, its maker lived; when it went out, they died.

The Everlasting Candle was made from the fat of merfolk, with one merfolk producing just one candle. Making one was an extremely cruel process. While the merfolk had yet to take human form and were still conscious, the Candle Master would slowly cut open their belly with a knife and remove their organs, then scrape out their fat bit by bit with a carving knife. When the last drop of fat had been taken, the merfolk would breathe their last. Once all the fat was extracted, the Candle Master used a secret technique to refine it into an Everlasting Candle.

The merfolk are devoted to love. They are willing to sacrifice everything for the one they choose, even their lives.

He used to think his father was a fool for willingly giving up his throne and his life for a human woman, becoming a white candle just to stay by her side. Now, at last, he understood.

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"Some hatred is a circle, vengeance answered by vengeance, never ending.

Some love enters hardship and lingers, while the moon at the window becomes a broken jade pendant night after night.

Some grudges are buried in the heart and left unspoken, turned in the belly into wind and snow, blades and swords.

All for the sake of fulfilling a long-cherished wish. Amid the chaos, how can good and evil be distinguished?

Half a city of smoke and sand, drifting down with the wind." - Xu Song

Blurb 1 (serious version)

A wolfish prince who is all dashing youth in public and a madman in private x a self-reliant little rogue who survives by trickery and lies

Nine hundred and sixty-eight years have passed since the age of the feudal lords. Heroes rose one after another, the realm was divided and reunited, flourished and declined, and in the blink of an eye, seas became mulberry fields.

The Chronicles of the Emperors of Zhongzhou records: After 183 years of turmoil, the Southern Dynasty fell in the fourteenth year of Taihe. Every member of the royal family gave their life for their country. Emperor Wu of the Northern Dynasty unified the land, dominated the Central Plains, and renamed the dynasty Tiantong. He was truly the greatest conqueror of the ages.

In the tenth year of Tiantong, Jiang Shangyue followed her con-man Taoist father all the way to the capital. There, by chance, she encountered Duan Xun, the capital's most notorious playboy.

One is a clever, eccentric girl who makes her living through scams. After a chance pursuit, she marries into a prince's estate and sets off a farcical comedy in the capital. By chance, she stumbles upon one long-buried secret after another. As the layers of mystery are peeled away, the truth comes into view. Yet the husband who lives with her day and night becomes harder and harder to understand.

The other is a flamboyant, pleasure-loving young playboy, dashing and handsome. He has lived in the capital for years, and no one has discovered the other face he hides: one that thirsts for blood and slaughter.

When the moon-mark appears, the realm falls into chaos. Will this curse-like prophecy come true again? What bloody storms will the moon-mark's return unleash?

Suspicion, exploitation, destruction, desire, love, hatred...

He calculated everything, except for her.

She wanted to redeem him, but in the end, she was the one who truly needed redemption.

It turned out they were both prisoners, trapped in each other's worlds.

Once sweet, now at each other's throats. She had underestimated the power of love and hate in the human heart, enough to destroy the heavens and the earth.

In the end, she left him alone and went away, taking it upon herself to prop up the tottering dynasty.

In the dark, fate had already decided. If this is how it ends, will she still rush toward him without hesitation? Would she still be willing to spend her whole life wandering the martial world, living by trickery and lies? A streetwise rogue who knows nothing of family or country?

"A Yue, heaven and earth are like a cage, trapping all things. You and I are prisoners too. Some are trapped by their country, some by hatred, some by the demons in our hearts... A Yue, let us forget our shameful past and make peace with each other. What do you say?"

"They've all gone. They're free, and they've left us with an even bigger cage..."

When everything finally settled, he stood before her, transformed. Faced with her former lover's sincere remorse, would she forgive him?

Blurb 2 (not-so-serious version)

The wealthy and dazzling Prince Duan x a clever, money-making girl

Jiang Shangyue grew up poor, and her life's ambition is to rob the rich to help the poor. Who's poor? She is!

In the tenth year after the north and south were unified, she followed her con-man father to the capital to sell miracle medicine (read: aphrodisiacs), and happened to meet Duan Xun, the capital's most notorious playboy and a man with money to burn.

When a fool with money meets a poor girl, it's obviously because her pretty face caught his eye and lust clouded his judgment!

But who knew...

She would end up faking a pregnancy to marry into the prince's estate as a concubine, taking the top spot on the capital's list of green tea girls.

The fool with money lightly waves his folding fan, a smile playing on his lips: It's not about being clearheaded or not. When love comes along, you want to bring her home.

Jiang Shangyue says with a perfectly serious face: Hm? He's rich and really cocky. I want to tag along with him... to mooch off him!!!

Jiang Shangyue has been poor for so long she's had enough. After marrying into the prince's estate, she has only three things to do every day: get Duan Xun's money! Get Duan Xun's money! Get Duan Xun's money!

Duan Xun: Hah, woman! The Prince of Pingnan's estate is vast and prosperous, but it's all mine!

The mountain won't move, so the river will; if the river won't move, people will. So Jiang Shangyue draws erotic pictures by lamplight, with characters who look just like Duan Xun and the other pretty boys in the estate... Later, greed blackens her heart, and she knocks the pretty boys out and sells them to a rich woman in the capital...

Everyone says: A man should marry a virtuous wife. The prince is going to have a terrible time with this one.

It's easy to enter the prince's estate, but hard to leave.

Her husband goes out to fool around during the day, then has the nerve to invite her to drink with him at night. In a fit of anger, she runs out of the estate and, in front of everyone, lets her fake pregnancy show...

Everyone: Silently mourns for the prince for three seconds.

Duan Xun: Are you still running away?

Jiang Shangyue: I won't go out again, sob sob~

A cozy little scene

"Does this count as you making the first move?" Duan Xun lifts her chin and kisses her tenderly. The exotic fragrance on Jiang Shangyue throws him into a moment of confusion, and he reaches out to undo her clothes.

That's what she gets for flirting with a man in the morning!

Jiang Shangyue's mind is full of images from erotic paintings. She knows all the positions by heart, but when it comes to putting them into practice, she fumbles around.

"A Yue... A Yue..." He calls her name again and again.

"Mm, I'm here."

He buries his face in the crook of her neck and licks his lips. "A Yue, we have to stay together forever."

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P.S. The author is terrible at titles and blurbs, so the actual story may differ. The cover's a bit shabby, so just bear with it. Maybe I'll change it to something easier on the eyes once I get rich. XOXO~

The male lead is a little twisted psychologically. Though he seems perfectly normal early on, he's just pretending.

If you have a problem, don't curse at me. If you've got the guts, come at me with a knife. Remember, my name is Hu Tutu, and I live at Room 1001, Building 2, Fandou Garden, Fandou Street.

My next novel will be Why Is the Chief Minister Such a Slacker? [Female-to-Male Transmigration]. Please follow it!

The heroine is an overworked office drone on a 007 schedule, who has suffered from stomach problems for years. She dies suddenly while working overtime without extra pay. When she wakes up, she has entered a book called The Foolish Emperor's Erotic History, by the author Big Cucumber. A stupid System malfunctions and accidentally transmigrates her into a man's body.

Her Host is the scheming male second lead in the book, destined to become the chief minister of the Qiyuan dynasty, second only to the emperor and powerful enough to cover the sky with one hand...

Build a career? Not a chance! He just wants to be a slacker!

She doesn't want to be shot full of arrows and then hung outside the city gate to dry into a salted fish...

Coming Soon 1: Cracks

The abyss is a crack, and the human heart is an abyss.

If you too live in the abyss, shh...

Don't be afraid, and don't look back.

God will not spare any traitor in their next life.

The heroine's name comes from the singer Xu Song's single "Crow."

Just think of me as unlucky, unable to have good fortune. I only hope you can sense me from afar, as I descend here again and travel through the wild forest, flapping my stubborn wings, though they are split...

Xu Song - "Crow"

Coming Soon 2: Taming the Bad-Dog Boyfriend

A beautiful, powerful, tragic human boy vs. a cold robot so handsome he dazzles the heavens

He is a born killer: fierce, powerful, and cold... his grandfather's proudest creation.

He will tame him and make him work for him.

Only to discover in the end that he is just a robot... How ridiculous.

But can a robot have human feelings?

He has seen his heart. Could such a precise, complicated heart be more complicated than a human one?

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Theme: Ten thousand years is too long; seize the day.