The Beauty of Salt and Frost

[Under revision]

Be your subject in the bedchamber, and the one in your heart

Synopsis:

Rong Yu is a woman of boundless, enchanting beauty.

Everyone knows she is the biggest stain on Shen Ying’s reputation, vicious and debauched, hated by all.

Shen Ying, meanwhile, has always been elegant and refined, with a beauty rarely seen in the world. He is snow atop a high mountain, the moon in the heavens, and the unattainable dream of countless women.

And yet there is not a single person who doesn’t envy Rong Yu.

Because this bewitching woman dragged the untouchable Shen Ying down from the heavens and sullied him.

The unattainable beauty | The world’s most beautiful woman

The male lead is sweet on the outside but dark within; the female lead is dark through and through. One is universally praised, the other notorious.

[Important] One-on-one romance, happy ending, single-relationship.

They love each other equally, and very, very deeply.

Reader’s guide

1. [Most important] The female lead is psychologically ill. She has no compassion, or perhaps she simply has no heart! You could call her a lunatic (?), but she is sincere about the male lead.

2. Because of her upbringing, the female lead has an almost obsessive possessiveness toward the male lead, and often behaves like a stalker (?). But this is an equal relationship. If anything, the male lead has it worse. The story is told more from the female lead’s perspective, so there will be some bias.

3. I’m taking this point out on its own: this is an equal relationship, and neither person is more submissive. I personally dislike it when differences in status make a relationship unequal. Don’t criticize the female lead as too submissive and take it further without even reading the main story.

Recommended: My Thousand-Gold Beauty

All the noble young ladies of the capital share the same unattainable dream.

The Third Prince, Xie Yun, is peerlessly handsome, as cool as the moon, and impossibly noble.

But Sang Yao doesn’t like him. It started when she accidentally twisted her ankle beside him one day. He could easily have reached out to catch her, but instead he casually stepped aside and watched Xie Yao fall, making her lose face.

Sang Yao: ╰(‵□′)╯

Sang Yao remembered it for years. Whenever she passed Xie Yun, she would huff in annoyance, but Xie Yun never even glanced at her.

Sang Yao: Now I’m even angrier (`Δ?)!

Later, Sang Yao accidentally picked up a booklet Xie Yun had dropped. When she opened it...

It contained not only a detailed record of Xie Yun’s infatuation with her, but also many erotic stories that had never happened and existed only in his imagination. Even more outrageous, there were love letters from Xie Yun to her, so explicit they were practically obscene!

Sang Yao slammed the booklet shut in embarrassment, her little face turning red.

From then on, Sang Yao looked at Xie Yun differently.

It turned out that even the most outstanding people had their troubles. Xie Yun seemed capable of anything, but in reality, he was just a poor man who loved someone he couldn’t have, and didn’t even dare say a word to her in real life. All he could do was fantasize about her in his dreams every day.

Sang Yao had always been softhearted, and would occasionally take pity on him by speaking to him first.

Xie Yun remained aloof.

Sang Yao: He’s just shy. I understand.

Later, disaster struck the Sang family, and Sang Yao had no choice but to ask to see Xie Yun.

For Xie Yun, it was nothing more than an ordinary meeting that required little more than a perfunctory response.

He set his teacup on the table, his expression cool, and said flatly, “Miss, please leave. I have other matters to attend to.”

The bastard still expected her to make the first move.

Without another word, Sang Yao went over and kissed him. “Stop pretending. There, happy now?”

Xie Yun froze on the spot.

*

One day,

a servant of Xie Yun’s, who secretly shipped Sang Yao and Xie Yun, discovered that the taboo fanfiction he had painstakingly written had disappeared!

Later,

Even though his story was gone, his incredibly obscure ship had actually become canon!?

Later still,

the fanfiction that had been missing for years turned up in the hands of his prince’s consort. She pointed to it and told him,

“Don’t be fooled by how proper that stuffy man looks. He’s actually very passionate inside.”

Theme: You never know that there will always be a light behind you.