The Alluring Beauty in the Tent

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Yu, a lovely young woman from the Anbo household, with a face as beautiful as a hibiscus beneath the moon, got married. Her husband was a young gentleman from an opera troupe.

To spare her husband any embarrassment, she concealed her identity and quietly put away her pearls and gold hairpins. After the wedding, she worked diligently alongside her husband to manage the troupe.

Until one day, the royal guards surrounded their home, filling every space around it. Her young husband from the opera troupe stepped out among them in a python robe, radiating grandeur...

Wanyu: Did I... did I come to the wrong door?

Mu Jing married a young girl. She once sternly told him to treat her well, because her father was a butcher and terribly fierce.

After they were married, she would frequently express her contempt for scions of noble houses and royal aristocrats right beside his ear.

Worried that his beloved little wife might suspect he would turn out to be a flirt with several wives and concubines, he quietly concealed his identity. He took off his fine clothes and the royal jade pendant that marked his status, changed into a blue robe, and became a young man in an opera troupe.

Until one day, a wealthy young hooligan brought a group of servants to wreck the place.

His sweet and delicate wife spread her arms to shield him. "Don't be afraid, husband. Actually, your father-in-law is an earl."

Seeing her look calm even as her voice trembled, he chuckled, tucked her slightly disheveled hair behind her ear, and whispered, "Don't be afraid either, my lady. Actually, your father-in-law is the current emperor."

&This story contains many fictional details and takes place in an alternate world, a very, very alternate world. Please don't nitpick the history.&

&The heroine really is a silly, sweet innocent, and the hero only pretends to be devious. This is a story about two lovable fools getting married.&

Upcoming novel, please add it to your favorites: "I Became My Husband's Second Wife"

Su Ying got married. Her husband was handsome, with sword-straight brows and bright eyes. He was also the powerful chief minister, young, wealthy, and high-ranking, perfect in every way.

Except... he used to be her brother-in-law.

After her older sister died, her parents married her off to her brother-in-law as his second wife.

Her brother-in-law had been devoted to her late sister, and they had two children together. He saw Su Ying only as her sister's substitute...

Song Yan had been troubled lately. His wife had taken a bad fall, and the injury had damaged her mind.

She had lost her memory.

She had completely forgotten that she was married and had given birth to two children. The doctor warned them not to force her to remember, so they had no choice but to revive her memories little by little.

After discussing it with his father-in-law, Song Yan assumed a new identity in front of his wife, who only acknowledged that she herself had never married: he was the widower of Su Ying's late older sister.

Under the pretext of bringing their families even closer, his father-in-law married her to him once again.

After the wedding, Song Yan took Su Ying to the place where they had first met, the Matchmaker's Pavilion where they had prayed together when they fell in love, and the tree where they had hung a lock symbolizing their union.

He hoped to awaken her memories.

Who knew that Su Ying would look heartbroken and say, "So you only ever saw me as my sister's shadow."

Song Yan: "???"

Later, he changed his strategy.

The taciturn chief minister thought it over carefully, then began telling his wife tender words of love.

Song Yan: "Yingying, the truth is, my heart and eyes have always held only you. The first time I saw you, I knew you were the person I wanted to spend my life with."

Su Ying, disbelieving and horrified: "So, to get me, you killed my sister without a second thought."

"A Hundred Nights of Joy"

The day Xia Mingwei entered the Gu household as a concubine was the very day Gu Yi'an returned home in glory, dressed in fine clothes.

They first met at the Gu residence. She had just finished serving tea to the principal wife. Her gaze lowered, she stared blankly at the hem of her skirt. Gu Yi'an happened to pass by and glanced at his younger half-brother's new concubine, thinking, She's a beauty.

The second time they met, she was dancing for his younger half-brother in the courtyard. Gu Yi'an watched from afar as her slender waist swayed with just the right softness. Her body was as supple as a cloud, her dance graceful. So she was a beautiful woman who could dance, too.

For several nights afterward, he tossed and turned, unable to sleep. The dancing girl visited his dreams night after night.

The third time, they met in a corridor. She approached him, no longer showing a trace of the seductive charm she had displayed in her dance. Her expression was calm as she curtsied and said, "Mingwei greets her elder brother..."

Before she could finish, he suddenly remembered the tenderness of their dreamlike intimacy the night before. Lord Gu, who had always been capable and decisive, nearly fled.

After a little over a month, the suppressed feelings finally burst forth. Ambiguous sounds came without pause from his younger half-brother's room, mixed with a few broken cries from the woman, her voice delicate and high.

Lord Gu, usually calm and restrained, strict with himself and respectful of propriety, clenched his fists. His eyes red, he kicked the door open without a second thought...

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