A Quiet and Lovely Maiden [Republican Era]

My loves, please add this to your reading list! [Super-charming skill activated]

Old-school | Republic of China-era romantic tangle | domineering love

Young marshal ** heiress of a financial dynasty

Content warning: The heroine is a heartthrob, and there are lots of second male leads!

The bitterly cold end of winter, 1921. The wind cuts, and the snow has yet to melt.

When they first meet, she is the eldest daughter of Far Eastern Industries and his elder brother’s fiancée.

He is astonished by her beauty, but his elder brother sees her as a relic of an arranged marriage and casts her aside.

As graceful as willow branches in March, her beauty is utterly untouched by the dust of the world.

When the two of them go their separate ways, a pearl is left in the wrong hands. Better to change its owner and hide it away.

I praise fate for bringing her to my side.

I could have endured the darkness, if I had never seen the sun.

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An abstract version of the blurb: At eighteen, the age when first love blossoms, Lin Xunmei falls in love with a man.

Luckily, their families are well matched, and her family supports them. They arrange a marriage.

Unfortunately, the man rejects her time and again, and finally calls off the wedding in the most humiliating way, in front of everyone.

Xunmei had seen it coming. Now she can finally give up on him.

But she never expected that after the divorce, when she goes back to school, life would suddenly become so exciting.

The young marshal of Su Province is imposing and presses her at every turn.

The only son of the Shanxi governor says one thing and means another. He complains, yet clutches her hand tightly.

Life at the Western-style school is so wonderful that she doesn’t want to choose either of them.

Premise: May the moon shine high above, illuminating me alone.