The Bandit's Darling Bride

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The magistrate of Qinghe County received an imperial order to bring Black Wind Stronghold under government control. He and the stronghold’s chief hit it off at once and became close friends despite their age difference. To keep the negotiations from falling apart, they decided to seal the alliance with a marriage: one offered his younger brother, the other his daughter.

Tao thought she was marrying a refined, gentle man like the magistrate.

Xie Zhu thought he was marrying a burly bandit woman.

On their wedding night, he lifted the veil and saw the little bandit woman smile sweetly at him. “Husband.”

Xie Zhu: That smile just melted my heart.

Tao: This husband looks a little dim-witted.

Xie Zhu at first: Where did this little bandit woman come from? Stay away from me!

Xie Zhu later: This peach smells so sweet. I want a bite.

Tao: Please stay away from me, thanks :)

A childish, self-sabotaging male lead chases his wife to the crematorium!

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The Great Villain Is Upright and Kind

Yun Dandan transmigrated into a book, becoming the unremarkable Seventh Elder of the sect where the hero and heroine lived. She only became an elder because she’d lived long enough.

But the story takes place five hundred years after the novel’s ending. The chaos has ended, the great villain has been sealed away, and the hero and heroine have finished torturing each other, made up, and ascended together.

The world is at peace. All under heaven live in harmony.

Yun Dandan: So am I here to be a lazy fish?

One day, she fished a naked, beautiful young man out of the sea.

The beautiful young man had the purest, most innocent eyes she had ever seen. He looked at her. “Did you save me?”

Yun Dandan: Damn! My heart’s melting! My heart’s melting!

Feeling sorry for the beautiful young man and convinced he needed saving, Yun Dandan brought him back to her sect and gained herself a well-behaved, sensible disciple.

But the boy was a cultivation prodigy. Three days of practice for him equaled thirty years for her. He became the sect’s darling, and the unremarkable Seventh Elder rose in stature along with him.

She took the boy to cultivate and train. They competed against the great sects, and wherever they went, they wiped them out...

Then, one day, she saw the beautiful young man cruelly crush a sect master’s heart. Blood ran from his hand in little rivulets. The beautiful young man looked up at her with innocent eyes. “Master, why are you looking at me like that? I’m killing an evildoer!”

The treasures of the seven great sects were destroyed, and the demon lord sealed away a thousand years ago broke free.

The world fell into chaos, and the sects joined forces to fight back. In the midst of battle, she saw the demon lord high in the clouds, with exactly the same face as the beautiful young man.

The great demon lord gave her a shy smile. “Dandan, thank you for saving me all those years ago.”

Dandan, my ass! She was in deep trouble! Could someone tell her how her kind, obedient disciple had turned into the great demon lord? And how was she supposed to deal with him in a world without the hero and heroine? The unremarkable Seventh Elder was asking online. It was kind of urgent!

Raise Her to the Highest Bough

The Prince of Rui backed the wrong side in the struggle for the throne. After the new emperor ascended, the prince was executed and the women of his household were stripped of their noble status. The flowers that once adorned the royal branches were reduced to mud underfoot.

Mingyue, once famous throughout the capital as a princess, moved into Alley 37. Thugs and hooligans came by to catch a glimpse of her, but when they saw the ugly scar on her face, they fled in fright. Only one man kept watch outside her home day after day, endlessly teasing her and making her furious.

But her mother fell gravely ill, and she had no money for treatment. With nowhere else to turn, Mingyue listened as the thug gave her a wicked smile. “Spend one night with me, and I’ll give you the money to save your mother!”

After a painful day of deliberation, Mingyue finally agreed. She washed and dressed herself that evening and went to the thug’s courtyard, only for him to spend the entire night watching the stars with her.

Only later did she learn that, on countless nights before, he had stood outside her door, driving away those who came to spy on her and protecting her sleep.

She was a flower on a high bough, the moon in the clouds, the woman he had cherished in his heart for years. He would crush the filth and ugliness beneath his feet and raise her back to the highest bough, where she could bloom again.

Theme: Meeting you helped me become a better version of myself.