The Sickly Beauty

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Blurb: A sickly beauty of mysterious origins arrives at the Marquis of Changwen's residence in Xiling. Her eyes are as clear as a spring, and she moves with such grace that every step seems to bring forth a lotus. There's just one problem: she's so frail she can barely walk a few steps.

On the beauty's first day in the household, Shen Fu, the Marquis's third son and heir, is warned by his father not to bother the young lady. He scoffs to himself. She's so delicate she gets winded after a few steps. Looking after someone like that would be a hassle, and he has no intention of making trouble for himself. The women at the Fuchun House are much more fun. That very day, he goes out drinking and carousing with his gang of friends.

Later, the beauty stands beneath the moonlight and softly calls, “San Lang.”

Shen Fu shudders. What the hell? He actually wants to take good care of her!

“Jinjin, what kind of husband do you want?”

The beauty's eyes shimmer with longing. “He should be handsome and talented in poetry, music, and the arts. He shouldn't flirt with other women or be caught up in scandals.”

Shen Fu: …! He realizes that apart from being handsome, he doesn't fit a single one of her requirements!

A gentle, sickly heroine with a little scheming streak x a truly spoiled playboy hero who becomes devoted to her.

[This is a sweet story about a playboy who meets the sickly beauty in his household, regrets all the trouble he's caused, and earnestly pursues his wife.]

* Both leads are each other's first and only love. A sweet romance.

* Both leads grow over time and have their flaws. They help each other heal.

* Note from 2020.1.23, screenshot saved

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Blurb: Zhu Wenqing lost her mother at a young age and was raised at her maternal grandfather's estate, the Duke of Zhenguo's residence. She grew into a peerless beauty with bright eyes and pearly teeth.

Returning to the capital to fulfill her mother's last wish, she enrolls at the Imperial College. On the way, she has a prophetic dream. In it, a man keeps her trapped in a gilded cage, spoiling her rotten but never allowing her to leave his side.

Whenever she tries to escape, his eyes turn sinister as he grips her chin. “From the underworld to the heavens, to the ends of the earth, you can only ever belong to me!”

Zhu Wenqing wakes with a start. She disguises herself to avoid the man from her dream, but he still draws closer, step by step.

Yet the man she encounters in real life seems different from the one in her dream. He's actually quite gentle?

Then, just days before graduation, she dreams that she is about to leave. She thinks the man in real life is a good person and wonders whether she should tell the man from her dream that she's leaving. But in the dream, he refuses to let her go. He locks her in a mountain hut, strokes her face tenderly, and says, “Be good, Xiao Yu. Eat well and be a pretty bride. If you miss even one meal, I'll kill one of them.”

Her friends and family are pinned to the ground.

Zhu Wenqing wakes up: “...”

Forget telling him. So it was all an act.

Time to run for my life tonight.

Unexpectedly, a month later, she sees him standing on a desolate mountain. He mouths with a faint smile, “I... finally... found... you.”

Zhu Wenqing's heart sinks completely.

Si Heng, heir to a marquis, is a favored son of heaven. His peach-blossom eyes make it seem like he has feelings for everyone, but in truth, he feels nothing for anyone. He's cold and heartless.

Then a lovely shadow enters his heart. To win her affection, he learns that she likes warmhearted, upright young men, so he gives her exactly what she wants. He hides his obsession and possessiveness, pretending to be a righteous gentleman.

He thinks that if he keeps it up, she will eventually like him, fall in love with him, and give herself to him completely.

Then one day, after traveling far and enduring countless hardships to get the peach-blossom hairpin she wanted, he thinks he'll see her smiling when he opens the door. Instead, he finds an empty courtyard, desolate and abandoned.

Only then does he realize she sent him to fetch the hairpin so she could get away.

He crushes the hairpin in his hand. Its broken shaft pierces his palm, and blood runs freely as he stares at the empty courtyard with sinister eyes.

The obsession and coldness he'd concealed for so long are laid bare in full.

“Qingqing, don't let me find you. Or else...”

[Bonus Scene]

A poor, ugly girl has recently started attending the Imperial College.

Everyone avoids her.

“That ugly girl? How could anyone like her?”

“She doesn't even have a carriage to take her home after class! She's dirt poor.”

“I bet she's terrible at her studies, too.”

Later, someone removes Zhu Wenqing's veil, and everyone is left speechless.

“My heavens! She's an actual fairy!”

Before every exam, the students flock to Zhu Wenqing, hoping to benefit from her good fortune.

Some even bully Zhu Wenqing for her lowly origins, relying on their power to get away with it. But then the Duke of Zhenguo, Marquis Ning, rushes over. “Qingqing, my precious girl, are you all right? You nearly scared your grandfather to death!”

The Zhu family of the Earl's residence is just as worried. “Should your father find an imperial physician to examine you?”

Everyone: “...”

Wasn't Zhu Wenqing supposed to be poor, ugly, and stupid?

Zhu Wenqing sighs softly. She only wants to coast through school and graduate without a hitch. How did it get so... difficult?

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Characters: adorable little fairy Jin'an x sinister, ruthless shadow guard Sui Yu

Blurb: Winter, year thirty-one of the Jinyuan era. Snow falls thickly, and the cold is bitter.

Sui Yu huddles in a corner in his thin clothes, despair in his eyes as he awaits death. So it's true: there are no immortals in this world!

Just then, a clear voice rings out. “Father, there's someone here.”

Sui Yu struggles to lift his head and sees a well-dressed little girl. With her delicate, doll-like features, she runs up to him without caring that he's dirty and takes his hand in her soft, pale one. “Don't be cold. Things will get better.”

A ray of light shines into Sui Yu's pitch-black world.

Before the age of ten, Sui Yu has only one goal in life: to survive.

After the age of ten, he has only one goal in life: to protect Jin'an.

His world has no light. To survive, he steals, sneaks, robs, and does whatever it takes. But after meeting Jin'an, she shows him that there's another way to live.

With dignity and honor!

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The merciless Demon King x a softhearted little beggar who cries easily

Blurb: From the moment Xiaoman can remember, she's been a beggar at the City God Temple in Nanling.

One day, Xiaoman is sitting in the City God Temple, pitifully eating her half a steamed bun, when a distinguished man appears. He stands before her like a god descending from the heavens, and Xiaoman stares up at him in a daze.

The man asks gently, “Would you like to come with me?”

Xiaoman blinks, but before she can answer, the man crouches down and tenderly wipes her dirty face with a handkerchief.

“Come with me, and you'll never have to live like this again.”

Looking at the handsome man's face, Xiaoman blushes and nods without a second thought.

From then on, the man pampers Xiaoman endlessly. It's no surprise that she falls in love with him.

She once asks, “Mingxi, what do you want most?”

Mingxi is peeling her a tangerine. “More than anything, I want you by my side.”

Xiaoman smiles happily and promises, “Don't worry. I'll never leave you.”

At last, the day Xiaoman will marry Mingxi arrives. But the day before the wedding, she learns why he's been so kind to her and indulged her without limit.

He mistook her for his moonlight, the late Princess Kangning.

She's only a substitute.

On the day of the wedding, she leaves.

The gentle, jade-like gentleman changes in an instant. “Find her. If you can't, then this city may as well be destroyed.”

Xiaoman, when you're tired of playing, you should come home. If you still haven't come home by nightfall, I wonder if you'll be able to bear the consequences.

Theme: Rise from hardship and climb upward, one step at a time.