City of Beauty

The serial novel Golden Cicada is currently updating. Feel free to visit my column and add it to your favorites! [Flirtatious Tease and Devoted Loyalist + Marriage First, Love Later] All she ever wanted was never to be anyone's canary in a gilded cage. - Xu Mingyan was originally a country girl. Because she looked almost exactly like Yan Mingyuan, the legitimate daughter of the Earl of Zhong'an's household, she went from sparrow to phoenix overnight, marrying in her place as Princess Consort Yu. What a glorious turn of fortune. - Prince Yu Pei Xian was born into a distinguished family and had limitless prospects. Yet when an imperial edict decreed his marriage, the man of countless noblewomen's dreams ended up taking Yan, a fallen aristocrat, as his principal wife. They were a mismatch, and everyone waited to see the new bride make a fool of herself. - After marrying, Pei Xian devoted himself to political affairs. He treated his wife with courtesy, but kept his distance, until he discovered her secret... He began to approach and test her. After one clash after another, Yan Mingyuan's identity was exposed. But as the days passed, Pei Xian fell deeper in love. He helped her deceive the world and sever ties with her past. He wanted to give her freedom... Only in the end did he learn what it meant to love someone he could never have, and what it meant to be heartbroken. - She longed for freedom. Sweet-tongued but hard-hearted, rational and ruthless, she ultimately won. *** *** *** *** Blurb for Allure: Su Yan rose from Crown Princess to Empress, then Empress Dowager. In the end, she died in her bed of old age, never once truly growing close to the emperor, the inscrutable, taciturn man named Luo Jin. Only after death, as her soul drifted through the world, did she finally see the truth she had never known. It turned out that she was the one in Luo Jin's heart, the unattainable beloved. And Luo Jin had kept his distance because he thought she still couldn't forget the top scholar from years ago. They had both meant to let the other go, never knowing they would only miss each other. Reborn, she returned to those spring days when the peach blossoms were in full bloom... Theme: Persistence brings victory