(This book goes behind the paywall starting from Chapter 24 on Thursday, April 21. If you've already read those chapters, please don't buy them again!)
Coming soon: The Marquis's Remedy and After Falling Out with the Scheming Emperor. Their blurbs are below. Please add them to your reading list!
Ongoing: The Eastern Palace's Crematorium Chronicles, updating now!
When Feng Xue fell in love with Zhao Jinhe, she was a lowly dancer in the prosperous capital, while he was a prince of the mighty Zhao Kingdom, oppressed by others.
Even so, he remained an unreachable presence in her heart.
She thought her feelings would stay buried forever, until at his birthday banquet, the man on the throne, three parts drunk, pointed at her wretched state and issued an absurd, laughable decree.
Overjoyed, she stayed by his side through three bitter years, and finally won his heart.
She thought the ice and snow in his heart had finally melted beneath her warmth.
But later, a few words from those around him led him to have her family burned alive.
Only then did she understand: he had no heart.
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In the third year after Feng Xue left, Zhao Jinhe finally found her. She had forgotten her past and taken on a new identity:
the wife of the general he valued most.
He did the most insane thing of his life: stole his subject's wife and killed his subject.
Then he invented a beautiful past for them. As he made Feng Xue believe in that past, he too became unknowingly immersed in it.
But even the gentlest, most intricate web will one day tear apart.
Coming Soon 1
After Falling Out with the Scheming Emperor
Blurb
From the moment Shen Qinglong pulled Wei Zhao out of a pile of corpses when she was twelve,
she swore she would obey him for the rest of her life.
Until she was fourteen, she was A Qi, Shen Qinglong's most capable bodyguard.
After fourteen, she became Wei Zhao, the brave and battle-hardened young general of Xilong.
Wei Zhao thought she had hidden her love for Shen Qinglong so well that no one would ever find out.
Until she was sent away in a prison cart as a gift in exchange for the woman he loved, and only then did she understand.
Shen Qinglong knew everything.
Her feelings were just a bargaining chip he had used for years to control her and seize military power.
After years of fighting, Wei Zhao was the celebrated young General Wei in Xilong, but in Nanqi she was an enemy whose flesh and bones people longed to devour.
She received the imperial decree and stood stunned for a moment. Then she smiled faintly, dressed in plain clothes with her hair loose, and climbed into the prison cart Nanqi had specially arranged.
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Ink slowly gathered at the tip of the brush, then dropped onto the rice paper, leaving a glaring black spot. Shen Qinglong sat in silence for a long time before finally asking, "Did she say anything before she left?"
The eunuch who delivered the decree hesitated. "Miss Wei said... If Your Majesty wants her to do anything, just say so."
"She's always done what Your Majesty says."
Shen Qinglong's heart gave a sudden, sharp throb. Yes, she had always done what he said.
*
Later, Shen Qinglong led his army to destroy Nanqi. When he saw Wei Zhao again, she had already set a wedding date with someone else.
The general was gone. All that remained was a slender woman, her old injuries still unhealed.
Her eyes were covered with white cloth. "Has Doctor Wen come back?"
Shen Qinglong breathed softly, ignoring the waves of dull pain in his heart, and replied,
"I came to take you home."
Coming Soon 2
The Marquis's Remedy
Blurb
Until she was sixteen, Atang always thought the people who treated her best in the world were Gu Yuanzhao and her mother, whose face she had long since forgotten.
When Atang was eight, she was kidnapped by human traffickers on the street and kept in a pitch-dark cellar for five years. Every day, they fed her poison. She heard that once the poison seeped into her body, a single drop of blood from her heart would become the best medicinal ingredient. All of this was meant to save a woman.
When she was thirteen, Gu Yuanzhao tracked down the cellar and rescued the dozen or so girls still alive there. Atang was one of them.
She had taken so much poison that she could no longer remember her father or brothers, or where she had lived. All she remembered was having a wonderful mother and the name Atang. Gu Yuanzhao kept her by his side and taught her to write, paint, play the qin, and play chess...
Before Atang knew what love was, she simply thought Gu Yuanzhao was the most important person in her life after her mother. So when the Gu family fell from power and Gu Yuanzhao was trampled by others, she was like a wolf, fiercely protecting him despite his broken legs.
She thought they had at least some feelings for each other. But on her sixteenth birthday, Gu Yuanzhao's people held her down as a dagger pressed into her chest and sank deeper inch by inch. Just before she blacked out, all she saw was a sea of bright red and Gu Yuanzhao's terrifyingly calm eyes.
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Later, Atang did everything she could to escape the Gu household. She never imagined that when she saw Gu Yuanzhao again, the man who had always stood above everyone and refused to kneel even after his legs were broken would be kneeling before her, red-eyed, begging her to come back.
Atang didn't look at him. She only shook her head gently. This was the first time she had ever refused him.
Theme: Everyone should live for themselves
Look at the copy, the general is really miserable
So looking at the comments, this article is the so-called "double death counts as he"?
This copywriting and the advance collection copywriting both have a bit...
The general is disgusting... If he really likes the heroine so much, he will stay with her for the rest of his life. Even if you let it go in the future and fall in love with someone else, it's okay. Now, isn't this another disaster for a girl...
This character is too fragmented. The heroine was snatched into the palace. How could her mentality change so quickly?
Damn it, this male protagonist poisoned the maid to mute, he can't just do this right?
Wow wow wow, I really like your writing style! In this ending, it is actually good for the male protagonist to give up in order to let the female protagonist live, but the mistake is that there are too many lives between them. The female protagonist is right, since the fire, there is no possibility between them. It would be great if the male protagonist could realize it earlier, but the male protagonist's experience is destined that he will not change his mind (if the female protagonist, he does not care about anything else, because for him, trust itself is a hidden danger. ) This ending is very good, and it fits their characters very well. (But there is something to say, as a face control person, why can't two good-looking people have a child? Wuwuwu, even General Meng's child will stay. As a CP fan, it would be better if both children can stay. Wuwuwu, the ending for adults can only be like this. It's great that the two children can live, so no matter which couple you stand on, you will be satisfied!)
The heroine doesn't have a long memory... She sneaked out before, and He Ning died... Now she has to sneak out again... Every time, the maid is unlucky...
Zhao Jinhe was really such a scumbag and deserved to die. If he had been nicer to Fengxue, he wouldn't have been like this.
Ah, this girl from the Song family is unlucky. She is acting as a successor and shield...