After Flirting with My Mortal Enemy

Complete. Thank you! Starting this Wednesday (August 24), the chapters from Chapter 24 onward will be locked. If you've already read them, please don't buy them again!

My new novel, The Scholar's Crematorium, is now underway. It's about a refined scoundrel pursuing his wife after she leaves him. Please add it to your collection. The blurb is at the bottom. Thank you, thank you!

Also recommending my friend's upcoming novel, The Emperor's Crematorium After My Death by Chi Xiaotai. The blurb is below as well. Thank you, thank you!

A beautiful, strong, tragic, unhinged spy VS a tigress who talks back even while throwing punches. Both are devoted and strong.

Content warning: There are sweet moments, as well as a crematorium-style groveling arc.

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Gu Haitang was born into a prominent family, but unfortunately had a scumbag father and a wanton elder sister. With no other choice, she left home as a child and went to guard the border with her uncle.

When she first met the enemy nation's scheming, vicious heir, Gu Haitang wanted to kill him to eliminate future trouble. Who knew the lunatic would hand her a knife? "Here. Made of black iron. It's great for skinning and cutting bones."

Later, he cornered her against a wall, tugging at his collar, flushed and overheated. "Your sister set a trap for me. How about you pay her debt?"

Gu Haitang: "Get lost!"

Later still, when she was ambushed, he wrapped an arm around her waist and shielded her. When her scumbag father whipped her, he stood before her like a god. He even tempted her to take the jade pendant he offered: "Sell this pendant, and it'll cover the Tang army's provisions for half a month."

He advanced step by step, using himself as bait to lure her into his trap. The day she saw through him, beneath a vast blanket of snow, Gu Haitang shot an arrow through his chest. But the piercing pain felt as if the arrow had gone through her own heart.

It turned out that from the very beginning, Zeyan had planned this deception specifically for her, all to get the troop deployment map from her.

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When Huo Ning first met the famous Gu Haitang, he had poison on his fingertips, ready in case she couldn't endure torture and revealed the troop deployment map to the enemy.

He knew Gu Haitang wanted to kill him, yet deliberately lured her into his trap. But when he was in danger and Gu Haitang came to save him, the hem of her robe brushed his lips. The resulting itch burrowed into his bones, leaving him unable to stop, willing to drink poison to quench his thirst.

Revised blurb: June 1, 2022

My new novel, The Scholar's Crematorium, is now underway. Come join me, everyone~~

Hu Shanlan was born beautiful and alluring, attracting countless men. Her family sent her to the Minister's residence to secure a position as imperial merchants, and she became Zheng Wei's concubine. Zheng Wei was upright in character and strikingly handsome. He carried her home on dark nights, tenderly apologized after angering her, and indulged her in everything. Hu Shanlan thought, how could a man like this not make her fall for him?

So when he told her not to make a fuss, she put up with his cousin's many schemes. Knowing how difficult his situation was, she endured the Zheng family's mistreatment and targeting. The Hu family finally won the imperial merchant appointment, but Zheng Wei's elder brother, the legitimate son, molested her in front of everyone, ruining her reputation.

Zheng Wei held her and comforted her again and again: "It doesn't matter whether you're my proper wife. You're the only one in my heart..."

Hu Shanlan gave everything she had to get Zheng Wei safely into the examination hall. He sat the exams for several days, and she was made to kneel for just as long.

On the day the good news arrived, Hu Shanlan still couldn't get out of bed. Then she heard him speak of her indifferently to someone else: "She's just a plaything. There's no need to take her seriously."

She even learned that he himself had orchestrated the disaster that befell her. Little by little, he tore apart her desperate hope that he would defend himself. "The Hu family has no influence at court. How could you become my proper wife?"

Hu Shanlan fell gravely ill. After coming close to death, she finally came to her senses.

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Several months later, Zheng Wei saw Hu Shanlan, whom he had searched for so long, standing in a newly opened silk shop in the city. She chatted and laughed, her alluring eyes sweeping over him as if she didn't know him at all.

He rushed toward her in a frenzy. Who could have guessed that when he had used himself as bait to lure her into his trap, making her a pawn in his game, he would end up trapping himself too?

But even after he begged humbly and came close to death several times, she only smiled faintly. "I was just saying it. Why did you take me seriously, sir?"

1. Delicate and soft VS refined scoundrel.

2. First time for both, one-on-one, happy ending.

The Emperor's Crematorium After My Death by Chi Xiaotai

Out of gratitude for saving her life, the sparrow demon Li Shuang fell in love with the mortal boy Shi Yong. She even took out her life pearl to rewrite his fate of being cursed with loneliness, and was herself frozen in ice for ten thousand years.

Ten thousand years later, Li Shuang finally ascended to immortality, only to learn that Shi Yong had been the Silver River Emperor undergoing a tribulation. The Silver River Emperor was the only surviving ancient deity in the Ninth Heaven, pure as ice and snow, untouched by worldly dust. He cultivated the merciless path and had forgotten his mortal memories.

Unable to forget their old love, Li Shuang willingly went to his residence to serve as an obscure immortal attendant, just for the chance to see him now and then.

At a word from him, she plucked out her most precious feather and traded it to the Flower Fairy so the trumpet vine would bloom forever, but he never looked at it again. To rid him of poison, she willingly served the Demon Lord as a slave for fifty years, yet when she returned, he didn't even ask her about it...

For thousands upon thousands of years, even though he had never cherished her, she never wanted to turn back.

Until the Silver River Emperor cornered her at the Immortal-Slaying Platform for the sake of the Heavenly Princess Luo Fan. "As long as we cut out your seven-orifice exquisite heart, Luo Fan will be saved. Don't be afraid. It'll be over soon, and it won't hurt."

At that moment, her heart turned to ashes, and not another tear could escape her eyes.

"Fine. You can have my life pearl and my heart. From now on, I owe you nothing." Smiling, she cut out her own heart and leaped from the Immortal-Slaying Platform.

Watching her soul get torn apart by the astral winds, the Silver River Emperor's face turned deathly pale, and he staggered back.

Theme: The peace and beauty of this world come from those who give everything to protect it.