Taming the Wolf

Coming next: The Unspoken Addiction and Trapped Beast. Please add them to your reading lists.

[Sweet-and-salty princess sent to marry abroad VS wild and alluring young wolf, happy ending]

Raised in the splendor of the imperial palace for fifteen years, Princess Nanping never imagined she would one day leave her homeland and be sent to marry on the plateau.

She had to put her first love and the dignity of being the emperor's cherished daughter behind her.

And even less did she expect to meet such a handsome young man in the snowy lands.

His passion burned like a blazing fire, and his eyes were as clear as a sacred lake.

"I am Cuolun," he asked in halting Eastern Qi, "and what are you?"

His white teeth gleamed. A little wolf cub with newly sharpened fangs, Princess Nanping thought.

She wrote her name in his palm. The boy was overjoyed and played the zhamunie for her beneath the moonlight.

"You are so beautiful," he said. "More beautiful than a Gesang flower. I want to marry you and treat you well all my life."

Nanping smiled. How could she take that seriously? She had traveled thousands of miles to marry his older brother, Zanduo.

The men here were all like wolves, wild to the bone. Women were nothing but prey to them. What did they know about a lifetime of love?

But the young man's gaze was so ardent, so sincere.

*

Not long after Princess Nanping married, her husband in name only went on an expedition to Guangxia and never returned.

Power shifted on the plateau, and tribes fought one another in bloody wars. Year after year, the little wolf cub with newly sharpened fangs grew into a mighty alpha.

The young Cuolun inherited the throne and at last married the woman he loved, Nanping.

Only then did he learn that the person in the princess's heart was not him, but the spring willows and mist of her homeland.

But he was not afraid. Time could wear down any divide.

A lifetime meant a lifetime.

Love between two people was nothing beside the vastness of their homeland. The two nations made peace, the tribes were pacified, and the herders sang with joy.

He would protect her for all her days, and help her dreams bloom into Gesang flowers on this cold, barren land.

*The heroine is invincible, a master of everything who crushes the competition. This is a feel-good power fantasy, so please don't overthink the logic.

*The setting is entirely fictional, with no basis in historical fact. Every event is made up. Please don't nitpick the history or discuss it as if it involved real people. Thank you.

---- Coming Soon: The Unspoken Addiction ----

*Original title: The Sun's A and B Sides

A.

Gao Xiao first met Chen Dongyi on a snowy night in Beijing.

Spring seemed to have kissed his features, leaving them gentle and vivid. He melted the wounded heart of a woman.

At the time, Gao Xiao had no idea that this seemingly casual night would be the beginning of a raging undercurrent.

Every chance encounter is carefully planned.

B.

Chen Dongyi often thought back to that night ten years ago.

He and Gao Xiao sat shoulder to shoulder in a cluttered stairwell. The girl took his hand and pressed it against her throat, then slowly hummed a long note.

The boy's fingers trembled along with her voice, and the whole world resonated in silence.

For the first time, Chen Dongyi felt that he could hear. He heard the pounding of the feelings stirring in his heart.

Buried too deep and hidden for too long, his longing had become an unspoken addiction he could not confess.

One day, the wound in his heart would fester. He would be beyond saving unless he could have her.

[Amnesiac little ray of sunshine VS brilliant, twisted genius]

---- Coming Soon: Trapped Beast ----

When Qin Chu walked into the theater, she saw that the strange, handsome man was sitting in the center of the front row again.

She told jokes and delivered punchlines. The other audience members were doubled over with laughter. He was the only one leaning back in his seat, expressionless.

The man's light brown eyes fixed on Qin Chu like a beast waiting to hunt.

He hadn't come to watch the show.

He had come to watch her.

*

There's a rumor in Beijing's elite circles that Lin San has a peculiar preference.

Plenty of women like him, but the only ones who ever get close to him have dimples.

At a dinner party organized by a friend, Qiao Zheng held out his phone in front of Lin San.

"This is a woman I just started dating," Qiao Zheng said, pointedly looking at Lin San.

On the screen, a woman was performing stand-up comedy. She was quick-witted and razor-sharp.

The people around her were laughing so hard they could hardly breathe, but she remained composed. Only when she casually smiled at the end of her set did a pair of dimples appear.

"What do you think, Mr. Lin?" Qiao Zheng asked, for no apparent reason, in a challenging tone.

As they spoke, the phone made its way into Lin San's hands.

The man merely glanced at it before handing it back, looking unconcerned.

"Not bad."

*

Lin San didn't know how long a person could live while carrying a secret.

He only knew he'd been struggling in the mire for fifteen years, and he couldn't bear another minute.

A drowning person has to grab hold of a straw. Now that he had finally seen Qin Chu again, he could never let her go.

Whether they escaped together from the endless sea of suffering, or plunged together into a bottomless abyss.

*The male lead has no previous romantic or sexual experience. A story of mutual healing, with a touch of mystery. The male lead's name will be decided when I start writing. I'm not good at coming up with names.

Theme: You must decide your own fate. Once you've made a decision, you must stick to it!