The Top Scholar's Childhood Sweetheart

[My next novel, Boundless Allure, is now underway. Please add it to your favorites! The blurb is at the very bottom.]

Blurb:

The boy next door gets beaten and scolded by the adults every day, and often goes without food.

Kindhearted Xiaohua sometimes climbs over the wall to bring him something to eat.

He always looks up at her, his handsome features as lovely as a painting, and says gently, "When I pass the imperial examinations, I'll come back and marry you."

Xiaohua doesn't believe him, because that's not how things happen in the storybooks.

So she shakes her head and says, "After you pass the exams, some vixen will steal you away. So you don't have to marry me, Brother. Just give me some silver to spend."

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Later, he really does pass the exams. Overnight, word spreads through the village that the prime minister has picked him as a son-in-law right after the results were announced.

When Xiaohua hears the news, her feet are covered in mud and she is holding a bundle of firewood. People say that the boy will marry the prime minister's daughter, and soon earn a title and promotion.

He'll become someone important, go somewhere Xiaohua can't follow, and never see her again.

A few days later, he returns on a tall horse, with gongs and drums sounding on either side to celebrate him. He is full of pride and confidence.

Xiaohua watches from afar, and for the first time truly understands what it means to be worlds apart.

She instinctively looks behind him, but sees no elegant young lady from a noble family.

Her brother stands tall and graceful, his features as gentle as ever. He looks up at her on the wall and holds out his hand, coaxing her tenderly: "I'll give it all to you, Xiaohua. All my silver, too. Do you want it?"

Coming next: Boundless Allure. Please add it to your favorites!

The Third Prince once met a woman, alluring beyond compare, with a face like a crabapple blossom.

He assumed that the woman who had stumbled into his arms was shameless. With a look of disdain, he mocked her mercilessly.

But after his mood improved and he sat down in a pavilion, he couldn't stop thinking of her alluring, boneless figure.

At first, he thought: If this woman dares to come and provoke me again, I'll graciously take her into my household.

An hour later, he thought: This woman has no sense at all. Her coy, playing-hard-to-get routine is utterly unoriginal.

Six months later, the Third Prince roared, "Are you all useless? How have you not found a single person after all this time?"

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But the Third Prince doesn't know that the young daughter of the Marquis's household, who had finally been persuaded to leave home and clear her head, went home and cried all night after accidentally stumbling into his arms.

For the next six months, no matter who tried to persuade her, Gu Jiao bit her red lip and refused to go out. In a soft, delicate voice, she replied, "All the men outside are rotten. I don't want to go out."

Besides, just the scent of a man makes her legs go weak, so she doesn't dare leave home at all.

Gu Jiao's face turns bright red, and she can't bring herself to say the rest.

Coming soon: My Three Brothers Spoil Me. Please add it to your favorites!

Du Shuangyue is the little princess of the Du family: clever, beautiful, spoiled, and willful.

On her eighteenth birthday, she finally gets her first boyfriend without telling her brothers.

She posts a photo of herself cheek to cheek with her boyfriend on social media, blocking her three annoying brothers from seeing it.

Then she sees all three of them glaring at her with dark faces, gritting their teeth.

Her brooding eldest brother slowly traces a thumb over her neck and asks coldly, "You have a boyfriend now?"

Her adorable second brother clutches her hand, weeping like a rain-soaked pear blossom. "Little sister, don't you want your brothers anymore?"

Her arrogant third brother snorts and starts acting like he couldn't care less, while secretly sabotaging her dates with her boyfriend.

Du Shuangyue: ...

Not long after, her mother tells her that she isn't her biological daughter. Du Shuangyue thinks her mother must be joking, until she discovers that she isn't even listed in the Du family's household registry!

And her three brothers, who have spoiled her beyond measure, are all staring at her with shining eyes.

Du Shuangyue can't help trembling. "W-What are you looking at?"

In short, it's a story about three brothers who all love me, while I already have a boyfriend.

Theme: Sincere affection never loses its purity