The Little Eunuch in the Coffin Shop

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Blurb: Tonghua wasn't originally called Tonghua. Her childhood sweetheart, Lin Huoyu, was in trouble, and her parents exchanged her for someone else's bride so they could find a wife for her older brother. She became the child bride of the Xu family's simple-minded son. Before she could marry and consummate the marriage at fifteen, the Xu family tried to force her to sleep with both father and son. Tonghua injured them and was sent to prison.

With help from the county magistrate, she took the name Tonghua and fled to another place. In the town where Lin Huoyu had met with disaster, she opened a coffin shop under the identity of his widow, just to make ends meet.

What she didn't know was that Lin Huoyu had escaped death, changed his appearance, and become a trusted lackey of the powerful eunuch overseeing the inner palace. After they met again years later, Tonghua became the last trace of kindness left in him.

When her enemies came looking for trouble, Lin Huoyu dealt with them in secret.

When a rival shop came to smash up her store, Lin Huoyu dealt with them in secret.

When a wealthy man wanted to take Tonghua as his concubine, Lin Huoyu dealt with him in secret.

When her birth parents came to take advantage of her, Lin Huoyu dealt with them in secret.

When the Xu family came to take their bride back, Lin Huoyu dealt with them.

When a promising young man came to propose, Lin Huoyu was ready to help the two of them find happiness.

He never imagined that Tonghua already knew who he was. One bowl of bone broth had severed her chance of ever having children.

Brother Huoyu, I want no one but you in this life.

Having you by my side is the best life I could ask for.

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Blurb: There was a people in Bohai blessed with long lives. A man from Qi stumbled upon them and reported it to the Holy Emperor. Seeking immortality, the emperor wiped out the entire Bohai people, though a few survivors managed to escape.

When Yu Yan found Su Bai in a pile of corpses, she claimed him as her son and hid with him in the city.

For the next ten years, to avoid drawing attention, she had Su Bai call her Mother, Aunt, or Sister, as the situation required.

Yu Yan thought that in the years to come, Su Bai would call her Little Sister, Niece, or Daughter.

She never expected that, just as he was about to call her Little Sister, she would become Su Bai's wife.

The feelings involved in marrying the child you raised yourself are... a little complicated!

He was a powerful enforcer at court, a man who made everyone tremble at the mention of his name. In the end, he was abandoned and died far from home. When he awoke, he had been reborn to the day his people were massacred. He planned to bide his time and take revenge on those who had betrayed him, but by a twist of fate, Yu Yan took him away.

For ten years, their identities forced them to hide in one place after another. He stayed by her side, originally hoping to use Yu Yan's identity as a Bohai survivor to return to the struggle for power. But after ten years together, Yu Yan became his weakness, his very life.

He could give up his life, his power, his wealth, everything, but he would never let Yu Yan suffer the slightest harm.

For Yu Yan, he could make the whole world his enemy. For Yu Yan, he could commit treason and kill the emperor. For Yu Yan, he could abandon all his ambitions and climb to the top of the court, all so he could stand openly at her side.

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Blurb: When Tu Jiaojiao woke up, her father's body was laid out in the front hall, her mother was unconscious in the back hall, and her childhood fiance had broken off their engagement. A cousin from another generation and a cousin who had severed ties with the family were fighting to become her father's son, all for the sake of the family fortune.

Hmph! Her father had no son to carry his spirit tablet and give him a proper burial, so Tu Jiaojiao paid a scholar to become his adopted son. A son by adoption was still a son, and that settled the matter.

But as for this scholar...

Tu Jiaojiao had only just been congratulated on becoming the wife of a successful candidate in the imperial exams when the scholar showed up with his new official's wife.

"My husband may once have been engaged to you, but now we're married. If you don't mind, sign this deed of sale and I'll let my husband take you as a concubine."

Be his concubine? Not a chance!

"Well, isn't that a coincidence? Just when your husband was climbing the social ladder to marry you, his new wife, the apricot blossoms all over my walls happened to spill over the fence. You're here at just the right time. Here are all the expenses your husband incurred from the day he got engaged to me. Since he was the one who broke off the engagement, all you have to do is pay me back, and we'll call it even." Tu Jiaojiao grabbed Bai Lu as he passed by and slapped him with the label of her lover.

Also complete: My Mother-in-Law Insists on Remaining a Widow, The Beauty Need Not Furrow Her Brows, and The Crown Prince's First Love Married Someone Else. See the author's page.

Theme: Face hardships, stay true to your original aspirations, and find happiness in the end.