Radiant and Fragrant

The next novel, Childhood Sweetheart's Charm, is about raising a crown princess and a healing romance where both people pursue each other. Please add it to your collection! The blurb is below.

Princess Chang Jiang Qingyue of Minghua was heaven's favored daughter, free-spirited and willful. One day, she dreamed that she was tortured and humiliated to death, and that the emperor she had worked so hard to place on the throne was killed by treacherous rebels.

Her husband had grown so powerful that he threatened the throne. When disaster struck her, he vanished without a trace. Much later, he rose again and returned to the capital, where he killed the rebels to avenge her. Unfortunately, she was already dead, and the girl who had been his first love since his youth came knocking just then, enjoying the fruits of his victory.

When she opened her eyes, she saw her husband returning to the capital from the borderlands, and was instantly reassured.

He had a first love? That was fine, as long as he could protect her and the emperor.

With her life still intact, was there any man in the world that a dignified princess like her couldn't find?

So the couple agreed on three rules:

1. They would act like a loving couple in public, and treat each other with respect in private.

2. If either of them found true love, they would preserve the other's dignity.

3. They would protect each other, weather every storm together, and share both fortune and misfortune.

One night, Qi Yaoguang cornered her. She was horrified. "We're only together by contract. You have to stay faithful to your Jiaojiao!"

He could only reply helplessly, "Jiaojiao is you. You are the one I love, and always have been."

No one knew that many years ago, Princess Chang of Minghua had fled south with the young emperor. Along the way, she rescued a frail, shy farm boy. On a whim, she appointed him as a young attendant by her side, helping with her writing and ink. She liked the boy quite a bit, but amid the turmoil of war, she could barely look after herself, and the boy was lost as well.

Only Qi Yaoguang knew how deeply he had loved the ruthless Jiang Qingyue of those days.

The moon was low, the stars were sparse, and a lone lamp still burned. Patiently, she held his hand and taught him to write a poem:

May I be the star and you the moon, their lights shining clear together night after night. The moon may briefly dim, but the stars remain bright, keeping their light until the moon returns, when both will shine in fullness.

He turned his head and caught the delicate fragrance on her, his thoughts turning wild.

After all these years, he had finally drawn the moon he could only yearn for, never touch, into his embrace.

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The upcoming novel Childhood Sweetheart's Charm is open for follows.

Hua Rouzhi came to the capital when her father was promoted. At the imperial hunting grounds, everyone tried every trick to win the crown prince's favor. Yet the future emperor's gaze fell on only one person. Away from the crowd, the young girl cried as she threw herself into his arms. "Brother, why did you leave Rouzhi behind?"

The next day, an imperial decree arranging their marriage sent shockwaves through the entire capital.

Everyone wondered: ever since the crown prince had been found after going missing, he had become gloomy and aloof. Why had he taken a liking to the third young lady of the Hua family, who came from a remote border town, had no distinguished family background, and was still so childish?

Only Wen Zhuoguang knew that he loved Hua Rouzhi most because he had taught her, little by little. She had learned the etiquette he taught her and read the books and poems he introduced her to. Her innocent, radiant nature was also something he had painstakingly kept alive.

"They all say I'm not good enough for you, Brother..."

"Nonsense." He kissed the young girl's cheek. "Rouzhi is the finest young lady in the world."

Few people knew that, in the spring of the Bingchen year, Hua Rouzhi, the most doted-on youngest daughter of the Hua family in Suzhou, had met Hua Zheng, a taciturn boy brought home by her father.

Others said he was the son of a concubine and born lowly, but Hua Rouzhi liked him best, and Hua Zheng cherished his little sister as if she were a precious jewel.

But their happiness did not last. Hua Zheng disappeared overnight, and the Chongxue Courtyard seemed as though no one had ever lived there. The entire Hua family kept silent about what had happened.

Until at last, they were reunited.

He was unmarried, and she was unwed. Their union was a match made in heaven.

Theme: Stand together and move forward, weathering every storm side by side.