Returning Luan

[Pirated copies contain many errors and omissions. Only the official version on Jinjiang is supported.]

"Forget marrying your Prince Chen. How about you marry me instead?"

"I want soldiers and power. Do you have either?"

Ambitious beauty x country bumpkin who goes from loyal hound to mad dog

1v1, both leads are virgins, happy ending

Reader notes:

1. Plot-heavy, with a slight ensemble cast.

2. A revenge and coming-of-age story. Slow burn, slow build.

My next novel, Spring's End, is coming up.

Everyone in the capital praised Third Miss Xu for her good fortune.

She was the daughter of a low-ranking seventh-grade official, yet had married the legitimate eldest son of the Minister's household as his principal wife.

Though the eldest young master had been ill since childhood, plagued by a chronic ailment and seemingly unlikely to live much longer. The Minister's family had probably arranged this marriage to bring him good luck.

On the wedding day, the Minister's second son went to fetch the bride in place of his sickly twin brother, who was too ill to leave his bed. Seated high on his horse in crimson finery, he was as elegant as an orchid or a jade tree, and every young woman along the way blushed at the sight of him.

Half a month after the wedding, the servants of the Minister's household held the new young mistress in contempt.

The eldest young master was gravely ill and had little time left, yet the new bride had started seducing their second young master, a man of impeccable self-restraint and refined manners! She had no shame at all!

When the rumor reached Chen Yan'an, he went to their bedchamber that night, sick as he was. He had not shared a room with his new bride since the wedding.

On the bed, his face, pale as moonlight and fresh snow, was flushed by a coughing fit. The handkerchief he used to wipe his lips was stained with blood. Yet his eyes were gentle as he looked at his bride:

"I know I've held you back. I'll write you a letter of release. After I'm gone, you won't have to be a widow..."

The new bride stood with her head bowed a short distance away, seemingly at a loss. Her thick, tousled hair hid her eyes, and behind her back, her fingers turned a deadly blade with unhurried precision!

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Jing Li was the most useful blade in the emperor's hand.

Three months earlier, the emperor had tossed a secret report from the Embroidered Uniform Guard at her feet. A faint smile played on his lips as he said, "A Li, you personally raided Prince Yu's manor three years ago. Looks like one fish slipped through the net."

Kneeling beneath the long steps of black jade, Jing Li clutched the embroidered spring saber and abruptly raised her cold, murderous gaze.

My completed novels, Chasing Jade, Reborn as the Crown Princess of a Fallen Kingdom, and The Little Cook at the Border, are available to read!

Theme: Fight against fate.