The Beauty's Parasol

The neighboring novel, Phoenixes in Harmony, is currently being updated. If you like it, go check it out! A story about Fu Heng and Chu Ling, descendants of Li Yunzhen Chu Ling's love for Fu Heng was a little secret she kept to herself. She was the daughter of the prefect of Sujiang, and he was the all-powerful regent. She couldn't marry him, so this was her secret. One day, Chu Ling rescued a man who looked very much like the regent. Her unruffled heart began to stir. If she couldn't marry the regent, marrying someone who looked just like him would be wonderful, too. So when the man woke and asked what reward she wanted, she said, "Marry me." The man gazed at Chu Ling for a long while, then nodded in agreement. He treated her wonderfully: washing her feet, coaxing her to sleep, and indulging her occasional temper. Chu Ling felt that this man was spoiling her rotten. But their happy days didn't last. Before long, the man disappeared. Chu Ling cried until her eyes were red and cursed him as heartless and cruel, wishing him a terrible death. A month later, the regent arrived in Sujiang with an imperial edict and an imposing procession of betrothal gifts, entering the government office. The Chu family trembled as if facing a great enemy, only to hear a familiar voice from above. "I have come to marry you." Chu Ling, kneeling in the courtyard with a frail figure, slender shoulders, and a stunned, helpless expression: "..." How... did he come back? - Everyone in the capital knew that the first thing Regent Fu Heng did after returning to the capital from a six-month disappearance was to obtain an imperial edict granting a marriage and take betrothal gifts to Jiangcheng to propose. Everyone in the capital also knew that the regent was turned away, chased out of the young lady's home along with his betrothal gifts. And everyone in the capital knew that the regent knelt outside the young lady's bedroom for two days and two nights. In the end, he had to pretend to faint and play the suffering card before she opened the door. Only Chu Ling herself knew... She was born in darkness, bearing a blood feud. When the phoenix flowers bloomed, the beauty's red umbrella appeared. Its dazzling red glow and bewitching hue made it seem like a grim reaper sent from hell to claim a life. And on the day she met Fu Heng, she had just raised her red paper umbrella and become the pitiful Second Miss Chu once more. * One-on-one, both leads have only been with each other. * Synopsis dated 2020.12.14. Reposting is prohibited. Coming next: Her Excellency, the Embroidered Uniform Guard The Su family had a daughter named Su Yuejian. For fifteen years she lived secluded in the inner chambers, known by name but never seen. In the final years of the Jia'an era, on the Mid-Autumn Festival during her coming-of-age ceremony, the Su family's eldest legitimate daughter, Su Yuejian, became famous throughout Lin'an. At fifteen, the girl was as graceful as a flower, her delicate figure swaying as she spoke with charm and beauty, dazzling everyone present. Thus a saying arose in Lin'an: If you want a wife, marry a Su girl. But a beauty was hard to win. Countless young men returned disappointed, then watched to see which family would ultimately claim this precious jewel. Then, one day, the jewel was tarnished. On a pitch-black night, Su Yuejian drank tea carefully prepared by one of the concubines in her household. In her room was the wanton nephew of Concubine Chen. A hundred paces away, in the woodshed, a peerlessly handsome man was locked up. For Su Yuejian, the choice wasn't all that difficult. By morning, almost no one knew what had happened in the dim woodshed. Concubine Chen didn't dare speak, and Su Yuejian wouldn't. As for that man... That handsome man was trouble. He kept insisting he would take responsibility for her, but she didn't need him to. Through a twist of fate, he became her personal guard, her servant. He made no attempt to hide his desire for her, and she answered him with merciless insults. Su Yuejian thought at the time that those must have been the cruelest days of her life. Yet somehow, she couldn't get rid of that man. Not long afterward, disaster struck the Su family. They were implicated by Prince Zhong, and the entire household was thrown into prison. The man disappeared just before the Su family was imprisoned. Sitting in the filthy cell, Su Yuejian found herself relieved: Thank goodness, he was gone. But the next day, she saw him. The man stood outside the cell in a majestic flying-fish uniform, while she crouched inside in prison clothes, a wretched sight. How the tables had turned. As always, the man said little. He only spoke when ordering his subordinates to take her away. When Su Yuejian heard the jailers call him Commander, her heart sank. After all the ways she had humiliated him, how would he take revenge? But she never expected that, after night fell, he would bring a basin of water and set it before her. He crouched down. "Miss, let your servant wash your feet." * One-on-one, both leads have only been with each other. * More details may be added later. Synopsis dated 2020.12.14. Reposting or altering it is prohibited. Theme: Even in adversity, remember to look toward the light.