I Don't Want a Husband I Can't Reach

This novel is complete. Blurb One: Three months after their wedding, after a disagreement, An Zhuo was kicked out by Yan Zhen. She stood outside for two hours before he let her back in. Six months after their wedding, after an argument, An Zhuo was kicked out by Yan Zhen again. She went back to her parents' home, then returned three days later with her tail between her legs. One year after their wedding, after a fight, An Zhuo left of her own accord and went back to her parents' home. Her mother packed her up and sent her back. Two years after their wedding, An Zhuo stormed out in a fury, and Yan Zhen brought her back. Four years after their wedding, An Zhuo calmly packed her things, took the small suitcase she had brought with her, and left the Yan family... This time, Yan Zhen could never bring her back again. Blurb Two: At a temple, after learning that her senior had gotten engaged, An Zhuo murmured, "May Buddha bless Senior Yan Zhen and Senior Tong Ling with a happy marriage." She paused for two seconds. "No, that doesn't count. I take it back. May Senior fall in love with me the way I love him, and may I be the one he marries in the end." Just then, her phone rang. An Zhuo answered, and Yan Zhen's voice came through: "The wedding is on the eighth of next month. I'm marrying you. Will you marry me?" As she left the temple, An Zhuo knelt devoutly and prayed, "Thank you, Buddha. Once this comes true, I'll have a new statue made for you." Four years later, as An Zhuo wheeled her suitcase out of the Yan family mansion, she thought: You must never deceive Buddha. A substitute bride's story always ends in divorce. The male lead is truly awful and a real playboy early on. As the female lead puts him through the wringer in the middle and later parts of the story, he slowly comes to face his feelings and turns into a devoted husband chasing after his wife. A little promotion for a forthcoming novel, titled His Tactics. Blurb One: Duan Yan thought her fiance Lou Ke's death was the beginning of her misery, but she was wrong. The one who truly dragged her into a mire where she could never find happiness again was Lou Ke's unrelated older brother, Xue Tianshou, a general who stood just below The Outcast and above everyone else in the Shengyun Empire. Xue Tianshou knew he wasn't a good man, but he had given Duan Yan a chance. She failed to seize it and escape to freedom. That was her fault. Blurb Two: The planet Shengyun is made up of four continents: east, west, south, and north. Four commanders are stationed across them, and the foremost among them is General Xue Tianshou. He saved the life of the old head of the Shengyun Empire, taught the new head of state, and is also a pure-blooded member of the noble clan with black eyes. Who could have guessed that even a man like him would desire something he could not have? It is said that the general desires a woman. Some say she is his younger brother's wife, while others say she is an unmarked member of the lowest caste... Whether or not the rumors are true, the general never married or had children in his life. As one of the few remaining members of the empire's highest bloodline, he failed to pass on the noble clan's bloodline. That was the sole blemish on a life of glory. Notes: 1. This is a story about a man who takes a woman by force. Though the leads don't end up together, the process is still all about taking her by force! 2. The female lead never falls in love with the male lead, which shows just how unforgivable the methods he uses to get her really are. A new novel is now underway, titled The Regret Remedy. Blurb One: In the palace, inside Shoukang Hall, stood the newly appointed young Grand Secretary, Li Yun, before the emperor and empress dowager. Kneeling beside him was Huang Ning, the eldest daughter of General Huang Wang, whose entire family was being sentenced to death or exile. Huang Ning knelt with her head bowed. She could see the hems of the empress dowager's and emperor's robes and their boots, but none of them had as much presence as Li Yun. Li Yun moved his foot, and Huang Ning's hand on the floor recoiled, as if she feared he would step on it. The thick black boots with dark gold patterns had been sewn by her own hands, stitch by stitch. All the love and devotion she had poured into them had now turned into an invisible, icy blade, leaving Shao Mu Ning chilled to the bone. Ever since Li Yun chased her into the palace, Huang Ning had had a bad feeling. At this hour, shouldn't he have been at home, busy bringing his second wife into the household? How could he have time to concern himself with the whereabouts of her, a former lover and the daughter of a condemned official? Just as she had expected, even though she had been raised in the palace since childhood and shared a bond of upbringing with the empress dowager, Her Majesty had been unable to withstand Li Yun's pressure. She withdrew the decree she had just agreed to issue, which would have allowed Huang Ning to divorce Li Yun and go into exile with her mother and younger sister. Huang Ning looked at the emperor, the young ruler who had called her older sister since childhood. He avoided her gaze. Huang Ning sneered. So what if the Huang family had been brought down? The emperor was still a powerless puppet. The ruler was weak and his minister strong. Before, the emperor had been in the Huang family's hands. Now, someone else had simply taken control. It was already settled: the Li family would dominate the Great Wei Dynasty. Huang Ning no longer cared what the emperor or the empress dowager said. She only remembered the humiliation of Li Yun yanking her up and carrying her over his shoulder through the entire palace, and the pain when he threw her forcefully into the carriage and she hit something. Everyone close to Huang Ning knew that she could not bear pain. As a child, she had fallen into an icy lake and developed a strange condition. She was more sensitive to pain than ordinary people and could hardly stand it. Li Yun knew that. Before she could cry out, Li Yun climbed into the carriage and cornered her. So this was his true face. The refined, gentle, and courteous Young Master Li had finally torn off his mask, revealing a glimpse of the ice beneath. Blurb Two: Not long after the new emperor ascended the throne, Huang Ning, a former princess and the daughter of a condemned official from the previous dynasty, set out from her distant place of exile to return to the imperial capital. The new emperor did not wait for her in the palace. Instead, he went to the old residence where he had lived before taking the throne: the Li family mansion. Li Yun sat in a small courtyard in the Li family's three-courtyard estate. Not a thing about its layout had changed. He leisurely sipped tea, then picked up and toyed with an unfinished piece of embroidery left by the courtyard's former owner. Back then, the woman who had lived here had fled from this very place. Now he was waiting here, waiting to see how she had left, and then make her walk back to him, one step at a time. If there were a remedy for regret in this world, Huang Ning would surely swallow it. She would stay far away from Li Yun and never have anything to do with him again. If there were a remedy for regret in this world, Li Yun would get his hands on it at any cost and swallow it. He regretted everything. He wished he could start over. Power, glory, family, he would give it all up for her. He only wanted her not to give him up. A little promotion for another completed novel, Bullying. Blurb One: That incredibly handsome man from the city stepped out of his car, surrounded like a king by men in matching black uniforms. The villagers gathered at the little shop by the village entrance stared in shock. Only the shop's new girl didn't seem to care. The rhythm of her flyswatter never faltered. The man walked straight up to her and spoke in perfectly standard Mandarin, without a hint of emotion: "You risked your life to escape just to live like this?" After the handsome man left, a middle-school girl who had come to buy snacks couldn't help exclaiming to Zuo You, "I just saw a domineering CEO scene in real life! Big sis, you're amazing. I'm so jealous!" Zuo You said, "Don't be. Life in a wealthy family is tough. You might end up missing a body part." Thinking of all the domineering CEO novels recommended on her phone, the girl looked horrified. "L-like having your uterus removed, only to discover you're carrying twins?" Zuo You: "?" The girl continued, "O-or donating a kidney, with the CEO only remembering you after the grass on your grave is two meters tall?" Zuo You said, "Have wealthy families really sunk this low? Is there no law anymore?!" She was grateful to Lin Duan for not killing her all these years. But even if he killed her, she would never go back. Zuo You instinctively touched her abdomen. The wound, long since healed, seemed to ache faintly again. Blurb Two: Lin Duan understood his possessiveness toward Zuo You, but she was no more than a trivial little plaything to him. Yet when that little plaything was lost, Lin Duan could no longer go on living. Excerpt One: When Zuo You was little, she loved going to Mo Qishan's home to play. She adored Mo Qishan's grandmother, and Grandma Mo adored her too. She was always touching Zuo You's hair and ears, but every time she did, she would sigh. One day, Grandma sighed again. Mo Qishan couldn't understand why and asked her. Grandma said, "Soft hair and soft ears, a kind heart and a soft heart. If Youyou meets someone gentle and kindhearted in the future, she'll be all right. But if she's unlucky enough to meet someone cold and ruthless, she'll suffer. Amitabha, may Buddha protect our Youyou." Mo Qishan was little then and couldn't understand a word her grandmother said. Later, after watching Zuo You struggle for years in Lin Duan's trap, she finally understood what her grandmother had meant. Buddha had not protected Zuo You. Lin Duan was her calamity. Theme: The you of today treats me with indifference; the me of tomorrow will be beyond your reach.