Chasing Beauty

@Please add my upcoming historical romance, Pillowside Spring, to your reading list. I'm hoping to start posting around April. Zhen Yan, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Ding'an, is stunningly beautiful, one of the few peerless beauties in all of Great Qi. But when her family falls from power overnight, this once-beloved flower becomes someone anyone can bully. To escape danger, her family sends her to her fiance's home in the middle of the night. Unexpectedly, she is drugged along the way. After one wild night, the man leaves behind only a jade pendant before vanishing without a trace. Zhen Yan thinks she'll never remember this nightmare again, so she puts away the feelings she shouldn't have. On the day she enters the Xiao residence, Zhen Yan stands carefully in the main hall to pay her respects to the elders. Instead, a group of noble young ladies from the household kick her while she's down, sneering that her lowly status makes her unworthy of the Third Young Master of the Xiao family. Only the Sixth Uncle, Xiao Boyan, is indifferent to her awkward position. Powerful at court and elegant as the moon, he treats her with warmth and consideration. Zhen Yan is deeply grateful, until one day she accidentally falls into Xiao Boyan's arms and sees at his waist a jade pendant exactly like the one worn by the man she spent that night with. "..." The male lead: Xiao Boyan has never been interested in women. On his way back to the capital to take up a new post, his sworn enemy ambushes him and drugs him. At death's door, he is rescued by a woman, and she saves his life. Xiao Boyan doesn't take much notice of a mere woman, but he still leaves her his personal jade pendant as a reward. Unexpectedly, even after his wounds heal, he can't get the woman's voice, appearance, and face out of his mind. He sends people back to search for her, but they find nothing. Just as he's about to give up, his future nephew's bride enters the household one day. The woman stands gracefully in the sunlight, her almond eyes glimmering as she softly calls him, "Sixth Uncle." That one call completely unsettles Xiao Boyan's heart. If he likes her, then he'll just take her back. Upcoming historical romance: Pillowside Spring In the third year of Zhaoyuan, the Heir of the Prince of Zhennan returns from the battlefield gravely wounded, carried in a sedan chair. Ding Yaoyao, chosen to bring good fortune to the heir and bear him an heir, is as beautiful as jade and gentle and virtuous, one of the few women in Great Qi fit to be a good wife. But this lovely woman has been in the household for half a year, and still shows no sign of pregnancy. Her mother-in-law dislikes her, calling her a barren hen. Her sister-in-law makes things difficult for her, forcing her to do the servants' dirtiest and hardest chores. The mother and daughter even drug her during a family banquet and send a man to her room, hoping to ruin her reputation and drive her out of the prince's residence. The day she is poisoned, Ding Yaoyao stumbles out of her room, leaning against the wall. To save her life, she steels herself and enters the room of Su Hui, the Prince of Zhennan, known as the "Jade-Faced Asura." The man, as elegant as an orchid and a tree, sits calmly with a military text in hand. He doesn't even raise his eyes to look at her. Ding Yaoyao hooks her slender fingers into his belt and slips them beneath his robes. Her eyes are bewitching, her expression pitiful. "Third Uncle, please take pity on me." Not long afterward, the heir dies of his injuries. As luck would have it, Ding Yaoyao discovers she's pregnant, and her child secures her position as the heir's wife. But she grows thinner by the day, and her beautiful eyes fill with unease. A few days later, she gives her mother-in-law a letter relinquishing her position and asks to leave the household. As it happens, Su Hui is there too. The man, who is always calm and unreadable, suddenly smiles as he holds his teacup. That night, the man who seems like an immortal descends from heaven holds Ding Yaoyao by her slender waist and pins her in his arms. His voice is low and seductive. "A-Yao, you're carrying my child. Where do you think you can run?" "You're the one who seduced me first. Without my permission, do you think you can just end things whenever you want?" ,,,,,,,, Ding Yaoyao would regret it many times over, through countless days and nights. If she could live her life over again, even if someone ruined her reputation and she were driven from the household, she would never provoke Su Hui, that madman. Upcoming historical romance: So I Ended Up Picking Up an Emperor Yang Bailu, the legitimate daughter of the Marquis of Anle, has a dream. In the dream, she marries the man she loves and becomes the Heir of the Prince of Yue's wife, enjoying the height of glory. But after the wedding, she learns that the heir loves someone else and married her only for the military power her father commands. Three years later, the Prince of Yue's rebellion fails, and she is swept up in the family's downfall and sentenced to death. When she wakes, Yang Bailu finally sees the truth. To hell with being the heir's wife! She's the legitimate daughter of a marquis. She can marry whoever she wants! So when the Marquis of Anle's residence announces that it is seeking a husband for her, the whole country is in an uproar. The heroine has only two requirements for her future husband. First: He must have no official position and be handsome. Second: He must treat her well and never take a concubine. This leaves the Marquis of Anle in a real bind. Where is he supposed to find a decent man with knowledge and learning, no status, and the willingness to marry into the family and put up with his daughter's fiery temper? Then one day, Yang Bailu goes out of town for a stroll and finds a wretched young man on the verge of death beside a lake. He's filthy, but exceptionally handsome, especially his pair of peach-blossom eyes, as beautiful and bewitching as a pool of spring water. Yang Bailu slaps her thigh. He's the one! Crown Prince Cheng Feibai is framed and exiled from the capital. On the day of his exile, his enemies ambush him. As he flees, he encounters a dainty young girl with exquisite features. She smiles and hands him a chicken drumstick. "If you become my husband, you'll get chicken drumsticks with every meal from now on." The Crown Prince naturally has no interest in a mercenary woman who's only after his looks. Still, marrying her would be an excellent way to hide his true identity. Cheng Feibai weakly reaches out to take the drumstick. "Fine, but we need three rules before the wedding. First, you can't enter my room without my permission. We'll each live our own lives. Second, you can't force me to do my duty as a husband. Third, you can't flirt with other men." They immediately agree: It's a deal. After the wedding, her husband spends every day reading in his room and rarely bothers her. Yang Bailu gets the carefree, heavenly life she wanted. She's either out having fun with her friends, playing cricket in the residence, or flirting with the young servants. But as time goes by, why does her convenient husband look at her more and more strangely? Why does he keep staying in her room, sometimes for the entire night? Theme: Strive for a positive life.