A Hidden Beauty

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[Childhood sweethearts, rekindled love. The author's next stories are Willow Waist and Jade Carver. Please add them to your collection.]

In the eyes of others, Qin Youwei had a charmed life.

Born into a prominent aristocratic family, she had been childhood friends with the current emperor. When she came of age, she received the late emperor's favor and married into the wealthy Zhou family, becoming the wife of its eldest son.

But no one knew that in the three years since their marriage, her husband had seldom set foot in her bedroom and had taken many concubines. One after another, they bore him children, while she remained lonely and alone.

Then, at a spring banquet, the Empress Dowager invited Qin Youwei to the palace for a chat. Due to a palace maid's negligence, she became separated from the others and wandered alone into a peach grove.

Peach blossoms fluttered down like snow from the sky, and the tall figure of a man appeared before her eyes.

Not long after, two major events shook Yujing City.

First, the eldest son of the Zhou family and the eldest daughter of the Qin family announced their divorce and vowed to have nothing more to do with each other. Second, a Noble Consort suddenly appeared in the palace. The palace attendants did not know her true identity, only that she was the sole lady in the palace who enjoyed the emperor's favor.

Zhou Fang had never cared about his wife. He thought it was tiresome that the two of them had been forced together.

But somehow, Qin Youwei had recently changed. Whenever he looked at her, a hint of coquettish charm seemed to color her eyes and brows.

Then one day, they went to the palace together. The emperor and Zhou Fang's wife both left the banquet at the same time.

When they returned a little later, they were astonished to find several peach petals clinging to his wife's skirt, while similar petals adorned the imperial robe of the emperor seated high upon the throne.

[Reader's Guide]

1. The male lead is a virgin; the female lead is not. A sweet romance.

2. The heroine's romantic storyline with the male lead begins only after she divorces her former husband.

3. The setting is entirely fictional.

[Next Story] Willow Waist

[The husband grovels to win her back / Marriage first, love later / Putting a scumbag in his place]

Su Li was engaged to the second son of the Cheng family. But on the day of the betrothal gifts, her future husband announced that he would raise his concubine to the status of a co-wife. In an instant, Su Li became the laughingstock of all Yangzhou.

Everyone assumed she would make a scene after suffering such humiliation. Instead, Su Li neither cried nor fussed. She quietly tore up the marriage contract, then turned around and married Cheng Zhixuan's sworn enemy, Lu Fanghuai, heir to the Marquis of Gaoyuan's household.

In outsiders' eyes, Lu Fanghuai was nothing but an idle wastrel who was always picking fights with the Cheng and Su families.

They assumed the heir would treat Su Li poorly, and began betting on when the two would divorce.

But to everyone's surprise, this arrogant young lord completely changed his ways after marrying Su Li.

Wherever Su Li appeared, the handsome young lord was sure to be nearby. What's more, they often heard him shamelessly call his wife “Jiaojiao.”

A few things to know:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are chaste. Fictional historical setting.

2. A sweet little story, no angst.

3. The scumbag husband grovels to win her back, but the heroine absolutely will not forgive him!

Theme: Be self-reliant, face hardships without fear, and strive for the future.