After Seeking Refuge with My White Moonlight's Wealthy Brother (Reborn)

◆ Coming next: With My Imperial Brother, Traces in the Snow, The General Doesn't Want to Be Empress. Please add them to your reading lists, qwq. The blurbs for the upcoming books are at the bottom. Please follow the author too. Add the upcoming books and follow the author, everyone, qwq.

◆ This is the author's first book, so there are many areas that could be improved. Thank you for your support, and please continue to look after me in the future. (Bows)~

Blurb:

[Gentle, brave, and flirtatious beauty × scheming, handsome young marquis who hides behind a polished facade] [Sweet romance: marriage first, love later]

In her previous life, Chu Ying was a beauty whose dance had made her famous throughout the capital. Countless people had admired her, but she could only watch as a marriage contract bound her to her childhood sweetheart.

But her husband had always kept another woman in his heart, a woman he wanted to marry with a grand procession and a woman who longed for a glorious wedding. Then Chu Ying was framed, her legs were broken, and she languished in bed before dying without a sound.

Reborn, she saw the scum and his beloved again, and finally understood: she wasn't good enough for him. She would step aside, help them be together, and save her own life. She wanted no part of this marriage.

Where should she begin if she wanted a divorce?

Chu Ying had a clever plan: Jiang Xie, the young marquis and brother of her husband's beloved, was handsome and rich, but also a wastrel. Why not get this brother to help her scheme against his own sister?

After latching onto a powerful patron, making a name for herself, and successfully getting divorced, Chu Ying turned around, eager to enjoy her freedom. But the incorrigible young marquis pulled her onto the roof one night and said in a voice as warm as jade:

"You're so beautiful that other people will easily set their sights on you. Why don't we get together and fully commit to our spendthrift-wastrel personas?"

So... you were the one with the biggest schemes all along?

*

Women in the capital had always felt both love and resentment toward the heir of the Jiang family. They loved his naturally elegant, handsome looks, but resented his indifference to women, convinced he was not someone they could entrust their lives to.

Until one day... everyone watched as he married Chu Ying, the divorced lady from the Chu family.

People assumed the two had merely ended up together out of necessity, a couple who had each come into the marriage with a past.

Even Chu Ying herself thought so.

Back then, facing the handsome and wealthy Jiang Xie, Chu Ying had somehow nodded and said: We'll be the best partners. May our partnership last forever!

Later...

Forever,

"We have all the time in the world."

[Little Scene]

Snow fell thickly as Jiang Xie held an umbrella over the drunken young woman. Beneath it, taking advantage of her inebriation, she gave him a soft peck on the lips.

The next day,

Jiang Xie looked at her with an amused smile. "Chu Ying, do you remember what you did last night?"

Chu Ying, who had forgotten everything after sobering up, thought for a while and blinked. "...What bad intentions could a drunk girl possibly have?"

Later...

After nightfall, Jiang Xie kissed the corner of Chu Ying's mouth and asked, "Are you still drunk?"

Chu Ying (trembling): "...I'm not, QAQ."

#I Fell for His Looks and Ended Up With a Hidden Big Shot?##Scheming Against Each Other Until We Married##Official Edition on Jinjiang#

Reader's Guide:

1. Only the version on Jinjiang is official. Everything elsewhere is pirated. The author has revised and polished the earlier chapters, so the plot and wording differ from the pirated versions.

2. The male lead and the woman who was his former beloved are not related. The story becomes extremely sweet and satisfying after the early divorce plot. Both leads have their own agendas at first, and neither is perfect.

3. Marriage first, love later, one-on-one, both leads are virgins. This is essentially a sweet story about two adorable people secretly in love.

[Cover image courtesy of Su Meng-Ming Su]

◆ A story of mutual suspicion and secret love between a seemingly gentle imperial brother and a seemingly delicate imperial sister: With My Imperial Brother

[False gentle, secretly ruthless, possessive imperial brother × false delicate, scheming beauty fighting to survive]

The day her true birth was revealed, Chi Yu fell from grace and became a commoner overnight.

Passing off a child as a member of the imperial family was a crime punishable by death. If she wanted to live, she would have to marry in place of the beloved princess.

"A way out? What can you offer me in exchange?" her former imperial brother asked with a mocking smile.

Ahead lay a marriage alliance with an uncertain fate. Behind her was a palace that devoured people without shedding blood.

After a long silence, she lowered her eyes meekly and, trembling, reached out to curl her fingers around his palm.

By day, they played the part of devoted siblings. By night, they shared the most secret love in the world.

But no one knew that she had never cared about being a princess. She had long wanted to leave the palace behind its high walls.

And no one knew that her feigned obedience and submission were only a ruse as she plotted her escape from the capital.

*

Chi Nan was a prince who rose from the lowest position, revealing his brilliance one step at a time.

When he ascended the throne, his harem was empty.

Everyone thought the new emperor was too busy with affairs of state to care about romance. People called him noble, gentle, and peerless.

But once, in this emperor's residence, there had been a beloved concubine whom no one had ever seen.

"You're not my sister. You're my A Yu."

Amid the alluring candlelight behind the curtains, he lowered his eyes and kissed the corner of her lips, his voice hoarse.

No one knew of the near-mad devotion he hid beneath his gentle facade.

She was both his imperial sister and the woman he loved.

*

When Chi Nan was at his lowest, she had helped him on a whim and never thought of it again. But he had held onto that memory for years.

When she looked at him with tearful eyes and reached out, he wanted to turn everything in the world that had wronged her into a phoenix crown and wedding robes, and give them to her along with the position of empress.

◆ A no-nonsense woman general and a handsome prince who conceals that he's the crown prince share a night of romance: The General Doesn't Want to Be Empress

[Bold, beautiful, and forthright woman general × handsome and powerful crown prince who keeps his feelings bottled up]

#The Junior Disciple Who Turned Out to Be the Emperor##The Night I Abandoned Him, I Found My Beloved Beside Me?##I Truly Didn't Want to Be Empress Back Then#

Chang Wan, the daughter of the Grand General Who Guards the Nation, was a stunning beauty, yet she had practiced martial arts with her father since childhood.

Other young women studied music, strategy games, calligraphy, and painting, and thought about marrying into a good family.

Chang Wan studied the deadly blade and sword, devoting herself to serving her ruler and defending her country.

She could not stand the new junior disciple. He wore a mask to put on airs, acting all gentle and well-mannered. Who was he trying to fool?

Her junior disciple had long wanted to complain about his senior sister, Chang Wan. All she knew was how to wield a sword, with not a trace of femininity. Who would ever marry her?

Then came that unexpected night, when they shared a night of passion beneath the warm curtains as rain fell on the flowering trees.

Chang Wan didn't even bother to look at the face he revealed for the first time. She simply turned and left.

When her junior disciple proposed, Chang Wan gave him a firm refusal:

"This isn't your fault. We have no feelings for each other. Even if the person standing before me today were the Crown Prince, promising to make me empress one day, if I didn't love him, it would still be impossible."

No one knew that Chang Wan's heart held someone she could never forget.

*

After the realm was pacified and the new emperor ascended the throne, Chang Wan entered the palace to meet him, honored for her military service. But the new emperor summoned her to his chambers alone.

Behind layers of curtains and beaded screens, a man of incomparable beauty emerged.

But... his face was exactly the same as that of the man Chang Wan held dear?

This peerless man walked up to Chang Wan, lips curling into a smile as he asked:

"Would you be my empress, Senior Sister?"

"...?"

*

Shen Hua proposed to his senior sister three times in his life.

The first time, after they had spent the night together, Chang Wan told him: The world is vast. There's no need.

The second time, sitting with a wine cup atop the high city wall, Chang Wan told him: The country comes first. Personal feelings are no help.

The third time, she finally blushed and clumsily took his hand with the hand that had only ever touched weapons. Chang Wan told him: Yes.

He was a prince high above the world, and he spent his whole life making Chang Wan his empress.

But he was her captive.

◆ A classic, melodramatic reunion between a female assassin and the double of the man she loves (?): Traces in the Snow

Shen Changyue had a face that could bring kingdoms to ruin, yet she was once a bright moon no one could reach.

By a twist of fate, she was saved by Wei Su when she was young, and from then on she devoted herself to loving Wei Zhi.

Everyone knew she was Wei Su's woman, but no one knew she was his finest weapon, her hands stained with blood for his sake.

One day, she sheathed her sword and walked across the snowy plain with an umbrella. There in the snow, she saw a boy, covered in blood and at death's door, whose face bore an uncanny resemblance to the man she loved.

It was the only time she ever felt compassion, and the first time she ever lied to Wei Zhi.

She let the boy escape from beneath her sword.

He had such a face, after all. Just once, she thought. Just this once. I hope he gets as far away as possible.

*

Three years later, Wei Zhi became king and took a new queen.

It turned out that even the love they had shared back then was a lie. Because of her beauty, Shen Changyue was imprisoned in the harem and became a plaything to be humiliated at will.

At the end of her road, with nowhere to turn and no one in the world willing to shelter her,

only the boy from years ago held her bloodied body in his arms as he walked through the endless snow.

She was a prince's consort. He was a rebel.

*

If there was nowhere in this world for her, then he would wield his sword and carve out a place for them with his own hands.

Theme: It is never worth compromising yourself for love.