A Voice Like Honey

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After Gu Zhiwei is reborn, she has two goals.

First, persuade her father to leave the court, so he won't be executed by the foolish emperor.

Second, do whatever it takes to marry the Prince of Zhenbei, known far and wide as the King of Hell.

She accomplishes the first splendidly. As for the second, best not to mention it.

One day, Fu Zhongzheng is drinking tea when he hears a scholar in the next room joking, “The Grand Academician Gu's daughter is as beautiful as a peony. If I could marry her, I'd move every treasure in the world to keep her.” Fu Zhongzheng's gaze darkens. That woman with the alluring voice, as soft and sweet as fragrant jade?

Later, beneath a soft silk bed-curtain, the iron-willed new emperor tenderly holds her in his arms. He wipes the redness from the corners of her eyes, silences her broken cries, and pleads and coaxes her in a low voice,

“Be good, Weiwei. It hurts me to see you cry.”

No one knows that Fu Zhongzheng has gone to such lengths, fought through countless battles, and offered an empire as his bride-price, all to transplant this delicate flower into his own backyard, where he can admire her every day.

Reading guide:

1. One-on-one, both leads' first time, a light and sweet period-style romance. Updates every night at midnight, with two chapters a day after it goes premium.

2. Wei is the fairest and most beautiful woman in the world.

3. Everything serves the plot. The setting is highly fictionalized, so please don't nitpick historical details.

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Synopsis for Spring's Chilly Quilt

Gu Zheng wasted her entire previous life.

She stood by Song Ke as he built his fortune from nothing, watching him become rich enough to rival a kingdom and powerful enough to sway the realm. His little paper-and-ink shop grew into a government supplier for the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau.

She also watched him change from a fresh-faced young man into someone who could no longer stand the sight of her.

He flirted with singing girls, kept servants as playthings, and enjoyed a life of ease, only to die miserably.

As for Gu Zheng, she had neither children to rely on nor brothers in her family to support her. When the man died, the family fortune collapsed, and she was sold off as well. Gu Zheng thought that in her next life, she ought to stay far away from him.

But when she opened her eyes, the man was holding a spring-patterned quilt and gazing at her eagerly. “Wife, it's cold. Shall we share it?” Gu Zheng was so annoyed with him that she simply closed her eyes and let it go.

Just hold out a little longer. Once she had the Song family's lifeline in her hands, she'd outlive that scoundrel and enjoy a happy life of her own. But Song Ke wagged his tail like a dog: “Wife, look at me, wife...”

Synopsis for Soft Bone Fragrance, a sinister powerful official x a sweet, delicate beauty

Gu Zhishan was born into an aristocratic family, was wild and unrestrained, and ingratiated himself with the powerful. By his early thirties, he had risen to the highest rank in the court.

Everyone called him a sinister and ruthless man.

Gu Zhishan himself thought he was destined to die without an heir, with no one to burn incense for him after death.

But then he went to the Hanlin Academy scholar's home for a couple of cups of rice wine and ended up sleeping with the man's newlywed wife.

Yue Niang had always been unlucky. After losing her parents, she had finally married, and shyly accepted her husband's affection.

But one rainy night, as the flowers were battered by the storm, she discovered that the man was her husband's superior.

With tears in her eyes, Yue Niang rubbed her aching waist as she entered the Gu household. The man spoke gruffly, his sharp eyes glancing at her with utter disdain. “With a body as scrawny as yours, no wonder people take advantage of you.”

Yue Niang's peach-like eyes reddened as she looked at him pitifully. Gu Zhishan's heart softened.

“Fine. From now on, I'll protect you.”

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