A Letter to My Brother

(The main story is complete. The blurb for my next book, Marrying the Disabled Heir to Bring Him Good Fortune, is below~)

Princess Xie Baozhen of Yongle is the only daughter of the Duke of Ying's household, a lone red bloom among a sea of green. Three uncles stand guard over her, and eight older brothers vie for her affection. She's the apple of everyone's eye, living a life of unparalleled luxury.

Then one day, a ninth older brother she has never met arrives at the family home, as pure and pristine as ice and jade. From then on, undercurrents stir in the once-peaceful Duke of Ying's household.

This ninth brother is perfect in every way, except that he cannot speak and has a tragic past.

At their first meeting, the young princess thinks Ninth Brother is an illegitimate child born of her father's betrayal of her mother. She makes things difficult for him at every turn, glaring like a wildcat. "Don't come within a step of the main courtyard from now on, and don't let me see you!"

The gentle young man in white cannot speak. He nods to the little princess with a quiet smile, but that smile never reaches his eyes.

Later, this mute Ninth Brother corners a spoiled young nobleman in a narrow alley. He sheds his disguise of gentle refinement and bares his vicious fangs.

He stares coldly at the young fop sprawled on the ground, beaten half to death. At last, his usually closed lips part, and a hoarse, low voice emerges:

"If you come near her with either foot, I'll break that foot. If you touch her with either hand, I'll break that hand. If you look at her one more time, I'll gouge out both your eyes. If you say one more word, I'll cut out your tongue!"

Only then does Princess Yongle realize that this lofty beauty is actually a dangerous black lotus!

Reader's guide

1. The heroine is a pampered, slightly spoiled cutie. The hero is a major villain who pretends to be ill, ruthless and no good, but kind only to the heroine.

2. The hero and heroine are not related by blood. The dynasty is fictional for the sake of the story, so please don't nitpick historical details.

3. Next book: Marrying the Disabled Heir to Bring Him Good Fortune (redemption + the hero's long road to winning his wife back):

A "concubine consort misdiagnosis" scandal implicates more than a dozen physicians from the Imperial Medical Academy. To save her father, the chief imperial physician, Ming Wan volunteers, packs her bags, and tearfully marries the heir of Marquis Xuanping:

The gloomy eighteen-year-old Wen Zhi, who lost his family on the battlefield and had his legs crippled.

He's sensitive and fragile, gloomy and aloof, covered in cold, sharp thorns. Every word he says cuts like a knife. He won't stop until he and everyone around him are wounded all over, like a rotten stone that can never be warmed.

Even the gentlest, most cheerful person runs out of patience one day. Ming Wan thinks: To hell with him. She's done trying to warm this rotten stone!

She decides to leave and set both of them free.

But then there's a crash behind her as a wooden chair topples over. Wen Zhi falls helplessly to the floor, unable to move his legs, one hand reaching desperately forward as if trying to grab something. He says viciously, "If you dare leave, and I catch you one day, I'll make sure you never know peace again!"

Ming Wan turns back to look at his bloodshot eyes. After a long while, she says softly, "If you want to bring me back, you have to get that leg better and walk to me yourself, one step at a time."

Five years later, Ming Wan stands in the rain holding her "son's" hand. She watches the youngest chief minister in the dynasty approach her, supporting himself with a cane and walking slowly and steadily, one step at a time...

Ming Wan closes her eyes, trembling.

She knows her good days may be over.

P.S. The hero is awful-tempered in the beginning, but deeply in love with the heroine. He has to win her back. No major angst, and the overall tone is sweet, sweet, sweet (whispered). Rolling around and begging for pre-orders~

My completed stories:

Marrying My Nemesis (Pride and Prejudice, face-slapping and falling in love)

Retreat! Retreat! Retreat! (delicate, soft-bodied princess x ruthless fake eunuch)

All That Glitters (Reborn) (princess and her puppy-like young man)

My Roommate Isn't Human (girl and black dragon)

Forced to Become the Legitimate Partner of a Monster (warm and healing)

Weibo: Jinjiang Buding Jiang

More completed stories in my author page. Please adopt me and bookmark my stories!!! >3

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