A Record of the Crown Prince's Crematorium

A quick recommendation for my completed novels: The Florist's Crematorium Chronicles and You Are the Cure That Sweetens the Pine.

My next book will be My Husband's Funeral, also known as A Chronicle of My Husband's Crematorium.

Coming soon: A General's Crematorium Chronicles and The Powerful Minister Has Been Scheming for Me for Ages. Please add them to your collection.

Blurb:

As a noblewoman from a distinguished family, Bai Zhixia was always careful with her words and actions. The boldest thing she ever did was ask Lu Yan, who owed her his life, to marry her. She had always remembered the day, many years ago, when she rescued Lu Yan from a pond and the boy clutched her hand, begging, "Don't leave me..."

But she seemed to be the only one who remembered those words.

Lu Yan was convinced that she had set up his childhood sweetheart and caused her harm. He resented Bai Zhixia for using her act of kindness to claim the position of his principal wife. He treated her coldly and distantly, then brought his widowed childhood sweetheart into the prince's manor and cared for her attentively. Each one of these things tormented Bai Zhixia.

When the Bai family was framed and sentenced to execution, Bai Zhixia clutched a divorce letter and knelt before him, begging him to clear her family's name. Lu Yan flung the letter to the ground and sneered, "Dream on..."

On the day the Bai family was executed, Lu Yan locked her in her room and forbade her from going to collect their bodies. After noon, Bai Zhixia began vomiting blood, one mouthful after another, and died before Lu Yan's eyes.

Lu Yan thought Bai Zhixia was putting on an act, but when he moved her body aside, he saw the scar on her leg.

Many years ago on Mount Fuyu, he had only seen the girl who rescued him scrape her leg underwater, as blood spread through the water before his eyes... But all these years, he had believed it was his childhood sweetheart who had saved him.

*

Lu Yan was reborn.

He hurried to find Bai Zhixia, only to see her laughing and chatting with a handsome young man, her eyes and brows soft with warmth.

Not long afterward, the decisive and ruthless heir to Prince Jin, Lu Yan, knelt at Bai Zhixia's feet with red-rimmed eyes.

"Yingying, I'm the boy from Mount Fuyu."

Bai Zhixia smiled casually.

"My boy died on Mount Fuyu a long time ago."

1. Neither the heroine nor her men are perfect. The male lead especially doesn't understand love. He has PTSD but doesn't realize it.

2. Both leads are reborn. The heroine saves the male lead twice.

3. Expect outrageous melodrama and angst. There is no white moonlight. The so-called childhood sweetheart is only someone he owes a debt of gratitude and responsibility to. The male lead has always loved the heroine, but he was misled and deceived.

4. Daily updates after the story goes premium, at 8 p.m. If I can't update, I'll post a notice. Work is busy and I'm writing like crazy; for various reasons, I've had no choice but to close the comment section, sob.

Pei Qingyue was born to nobility and was strikingly beautiful. Countless young men in Shengjing admired her, but only Rong Sanlang passed all three of her tests. He loved her enough to give up his family fortune and reputation for her.

Pei Qingyue wanted for neither glory nor riches, so she refused an imperial marriage decree and resolutely married beneath her station.

Sadly, their true love fell apart when the Pei family was convicted.

Rong Sanlang's career suffered, and he blamed and hated her. He retaliated against and humiliated her, schemed to take the dowry she had brought with her, and finally sent her to her death with a dose of poison.

The agonizing pain of Pei Qingyue's guts twisting apart was etched into her bones. As her soul drifted away, she saw Rong Sanlang weeping over her coffin at her funeral, earning a reputation as a virtuous and devoted gentleman. Now even her heart, liver, and lungs seemed to ache with hatred.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back in her first year after marrying into the Rong family.

Her maid cautiously advised her, "Things are so difficult now. Why not divorce him?"

Pei Qingyue rubbed her aching chest and sneered. "What nonsense are you talking about?"

For this kind of hatred and resentment, the only answer was for her husband to die!

*

Pei Qingyue was in full swing, stirring up trouble, clearing her family's name, and taking revenge, when Rong Sanlang suddenly changed his ways.

He was uncharacteristically resolute and forceful. Even if it meant breaking his bones and bending his back, he would not stop pursuing her. He even helped clear the Pei family's name and joined forces with her against the Rong family.

In the middle of the night, gritting his teeth and weeping, he still repeated the words he had said years ago: "I have only you, and I want only you... I don't care if I die."

Pei Qingyue wouldn't indulge him. With a gentle smile, she stabbed him. "Then go die."

Reader's guide: 1. The male lead is a genuine scoundrel pretending to be a gentleman. He truly comes to his senses after being reborn, but this couple won't end up together. 2. Whether the younger wolfdog-like second male lead gets the girl will be decided by a vote about halfway through the story. 3. Regardless of the vote's result, the second male lead will remain faithful to the heroine. 4. The leads never consummated their marriage, in either their past or present lives.

The General's Crematorium Chronicles

Yun Mei and Huo Xi were childhood sweethearts who loved each other, and their marriage had been arranged since they were young.

But the tides turned, and the Huo family was falsely accused. Before they were sent into exile, Yun Mei was forced to break off her engagement to Huo Xi. She sent him silver through her maid along with a letter pledging her devotion. But after she waited faithfully for three years, Huo Xi returned in triumph, and what awaited Yun Mei was his coldhearted rejection and his request to marry her maid.

For Yun Mei, that might as well have been the end of the world, but her troubles were far from over.

Her family was destroyed, and she was sold into a pleasure house.

That night, he was vicious, venting his hatred for her abandonment and humiliating her without restraint. He even covered her mouth and mocked her coldly. "What do you want to say? Beg me to save the Yun family? Or that Yuewei took the silver from you, and that you were the one who told her to write me letters every month?"

He didn't believe her at all.

Yun Mei was trapped in a desperate situation, wishing she were dead, until she discovered his secret.

*

"General, do you remember? There was a mist just like this on the day we got engaged."

Early one spring morning, she stirred up his memories of the past.

A flash of cold light suddenly gleamed. Huo Xi caught the dagger she thrust at him, his face twisted with fury. "Are you trying to die?"

"I gave you my whole heart, General, and all I got in return was my family's ruin. I deserve to die!"

Her eyes reddened as she struck at him again with her other hand.

"Stop!"

Huo Xi shouted in panic toward the door, but the crossbow bolt still cut through the air.

The dagger sank into flesh, and the bolt pierced her body.

*

The second year after Yun Mei's death, on an early spring morning veiled in mist, Huo Xi saw a woman outside the city. Her gentle, affectionate eyes and brows looked exactly like Yun Mei's on the day they got engaged.

He chased after her like a madman, his heart in turmoil, afraid she would say she had mistaken him for someone else. She looked back at him with cold eyes and smiled.

"General, long time no see..."

She hadn't come to rekindle their romance. She'd come to finish her unfinished revenge. He knew why she had returned, yet willingly drank the poison to quench his thirst.

Reader's guide: 1. Both leads are virgins. 2. Both were deceived, and there's plenty of over-the-top angst and melodrama. The male lead is vicious with his words and hates her deeply, but he wasn't responsible for what happened to the Yun family. There's more to it. 3. Amid all the heartbreak, there's sweetness too. The male lead suffers most.

The Powerful Minister Has Been Scheming for Me for Ages

Suisui was as delicate and beautiful as a flower, but she was raised in the inner chambers of the Ye family, where few knew of her. She had known since childhood that she was lowborn. No matter how proudly she held herself, she could only submit to whatever happened to her.

On the day she came of age, her childhood sweetheart came to propose, but he asked for her legitimate elder sister's hand instead. Even so, he continued to harass Suisui and refused to leave her alone. A poor-born top scholar was devoted to her, but he had caught the eye of her concubine-born elder sister, who schemed against Suisui openly and behind her back.

Suisui's life grew harder and harder.

Until one day, the ruthless and merciless minister Song Jue came to call, putting the Ye family on edge. He gathered the Ye family members together, pointed at one from a distance, and said nonchalantly, "I don't want the one you mentioned. I want her..."

He "bought" Suisui, and the deal was done.

Everyone thought this devil had feelings for Suisui, but only she knew just how much he disliked her. He even disapproved when she swallowed food she didn't like.

"If you want something, fight for it. If you don't, learn to refuse. If you can't refuse, run away. Just submitting to everything is never the answer."

He picked up a bite of her favorite dish and taught her.

But Suisui stared at his long, jade-like fingers, trembling with fear as she thought, The rumors say those are the very fingers that strangled the woman who coveted him...

*

In his past life, Song Jue saw a young woman jump into the river. Someone stopped her, but he watched from the railing. He saw the woman's resolute smile, and in the end, she still died.

"Tsk."

Song Jue was displeased.

As the Emperor's blade, he was responsible for countless deaths, but he prided himself on never having innocent blood on his hands. Yet that girl had died after taking poison he gave her.

He was a man of principles. He would never take an innocent life.

So after he was reborn, the first thing Song Jue did was bring that girl to his side.

To keep her from repeating the same mistake, Lord Song had no choice but to rein in his nature and teach this submissive girl. Who would have thought that six months later, the first time she bared her claws, she would point a trembling finger at him and say, "Y-you, get out."

Lord Song, who was about to climb into her bed and kiss the one he loved: Tsk...

1. Both leads are virgins. The male lead has nothing going for him except his looks, strength, and abilities. His personality is especially awful!

2. Both leads are reborn. The obsessive childhood sweetheart gets his comeuppance, and his ashes will be scattered.

3. In theory, this is a cozy, healing, sweet romance.

Theme: Mistakes must be made right, and the one in your heart must be treasured.