Currently serializing: The Timid Beauty and Her Backing Husband
Coming soon: My Rival in Love Is a Man
Completed: I Hear the Commandery Princess Is Always Widowed. Please add them to your reading list~
Novel blurb:
[Quirky, fake younger cousin x aloof older cousin]
The Fu Marquis household in the capital has recently had a strange bit of news: The old madam's long-lost granddaughter, the only daughter of a late top scholar, has finally been found.
Rumors are flying as everyone tries to catch a glimpse of this orphaned young lady from a distinguished family. People are hauling out stools, melon seeds, and fruit, ready to sit back and watch the show.
[Zhou Yanran's perspective]
At first, she was only running away from an arranged marriage. By a twist of fate, she ended up in the marquis's household, wearing the secret identity of a young lady from the family. She carefully navigates her way around, hoping to get a meal, stay alive, and make a little money on the side.
As an impostor, she never forgets her mission: put on a fake haunting and make money.
But nobody in the marquis's sprawling household is easy to fool. Her fake cousin is hot-tempered, her fake cousin-sister is arrogant and finicky, and her fake aunt is cruel and mean. She declares righteously, “Pay me more! I absolutely need more money!”
[Fu Changfeng's perspective]
At first, he only wanted to find someone who looked like his cousin to comfort his dying grandmother and fulfill her wish.
Later, as his grandmother's health improves, all he wants is for the irritating fake cousin who keeps calling him “cousin” to disappear without a trace, so he won't have to look at her.
Who knew the impostor wouldn't follow orders and was always saying shocking things?
Fu Changfeng: “To keep up appearances, I'll have to give you a birthmark tattoo.”
“Pay me more!”
Fu Changfeng: “Stay away from the Minister's son. Don't provoke him.”
“Pay me more!”
Fu Changfeng: “Now that Grandmother has recovered, I can arrange a fake marriage to send you away.”
“No way! But you have to pay me more!”
Fu Changfeng explodes in anger. “Money, money, money! That's all you ever think about.”
She trembles. “I'm just working for you. What else would I want, if not money? You?”
Currently serializing: The Timid Beauty and Her Backing Husband
Blurb:
Qin Sang was born to an official family, but in a single day her family was destroyed and her parents died. She took her little brother to live under her uncle's roof, at the mercy of others.
She was beautiful, sweet, gentle, and sensible, but her aunt despised her and her cousin bullied her. She silently endured it all just so her little brother could have a safe place to live.
She endured the cruel taunts and troublemaking!
She endured being thrown out of the house!
When she was forced into a ghost marriage, she cried for a long time, but for her little brother's sake, she endured that too.
On her wedding night, she was sobbing with grief when someone suddenly lifted her veil, revealing a handsome face.
Wasn't she supposed to be marrying a memorial tablet?
Had the ghost gotten into the festive spirit and come to see what he looked like?
He raised the corners of his lips. “Don't you recognize your own husband?”
Only after the wedding did Qin Sang realize she had married the wrong man. So she decided to make the best of it and keep enduring life in the marquis's household.
But to her surprise, her mother-in-law doted on her, the servants respected her, and even her powerful husband cherished her.
Her life was wonderful. Her aunt turned red-eyed with rage and gritted her teeth, ready to cause trouble again.
At last, her husband couldn't stand it anymore and said indignantly, “They're picking on you, and you're still putting up with it?”
Qin Sang lowered her head and murmured, “I don't dare fight back.”
He erupted. “You have a husband like me to back you up! Why wouldn't you dare?”
Qin Sang: “Then... should I try fighting back?”
As the most celebrated young marquis in Jizhou, Helan Zhao is as graceful as jade and fiercely proud. Apart from the emperor and his mother, he has never cared about anyone else.
He is used to the extravagant, indulgent lives of the aristocracy and has seen more than enough willful, overbearing noblewomen. Yet for some reason, he can't help feeling sorry for a young woman he's met only a few times.
Her clothes are in rags, and she is as timid as a mouse, but she stands up to him for the sake of her little brother's life.
She is kind by nature and repays evil with good. To repay a debt of gratitude, she agrees to marry a memorial tablet and remain a widow for the rest of her life.
Even Helan Zhao doesn't know what came over him. He secretly marries her and brings her to his side, not out of desire, but so she can finally live in peace.
“From now on, I'll protect you. Don't be afraid.”
“Fight back against anyone who bullies you. I'll back you up.”
She only smiles faintly and shakes her head. “With the marquis standing up for me, I won't hold it against them.”
Helan Zhao clenches his fists and grits his teeth. “That won't do. I can't forgive anyone who bullies me. If you don't dare, I'll deal with them myself.”
The young woman looks frightened and waves her hands at his fists. “There's no need to trouble the marquis. I'll do it myself.”
Helan Zhao breathes a sigh of relief, then starts watching her take revenge from the sidelines. Her methods are so childish that he can't help gritting his teeth and spitting out a few words: “Are you playing house? Watch how it's done!”
Bonus scene:
After their wedding, Qin Sang dutifully takes care of her mother-in-law and serves her husband. She feels her status is lowly, so she goes out of her way to please her husband, the heir. To her romantic rival, her gentle and compliant demeanor looks like groveling and shameless flattery.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. It can't be easy marrying into the marquis's household. You're shameless enough to stoop to any low trick just to keep your husband's heart.”
Qin Sang: “I...” She bites her lip, her eyes turning red.
Helan Zhao wraps an arm around her slender waist, his eyes full of concern. “Qingqing, why are you crying? Who bullied you? I'll make them pay!”
Romantic rival: “...” I thought the marquis didn't care for her?
Coming soon: My Rival in Love Is a Man. Please add it to your reading list.
[Petty, passionate, and shameless little troublemaker x restrained, slow-to-warm young prince]
Chu Yu has had a wish since childhood: to marry her eldest cousin when she comes of age, so they can become a real family.
Every year, whenever she argues with her stepmother, she packs her things and runs to her aunt's house. First, to vent her frustrations, and second, to grow closer to her cousin and hopefully get his wooden head to finally understand.
That day, she runs away from home to her aunt's house again, ready to pour out all her complaints, when she hears some explosive news: Her eldest cousin, who never shows interest in women, has brought back a woman of incomparable beauty.
“Incomparable beauty? A woman?” She laughs until she tears up and shakes her head. “Don't believe rumors or spread them.” Her cousin is more virtuous than Liu Xiahui. How could this be possible?
“I saw it with my own eyes. He even gently supported her, treating her as carefully as a treasure.”
Chu Yu's hopes come crashing down. She cries out, “I don't believe it! I couldn't do it in ten years, so what kind of vixen could?”
Meng Yuanming has been exiled for seventeen years. An imperial decree suddenly summons him back to his homeland to inherit the throne, but assassins pursue him and block his way at every turn.
Dragging his battered body along, he reluctantly follows his subordinate's advice: disguise himself as a delicate young woman and stay at the governor's residence to recuperate.
Before his physical wounds have even healed, the mental torture begins.
Some girl appears out of nowhere, sees him as a rival in love, and comes up with new ways every day to pick on him, set traps, and bully him.
Meng Yuanming is so furious that his injuries worsen. Just as he decides to tell her the truth, she suddenly changes her attitude and starts calling him “big sister” all day long...
“My cousin is a lecherous womanizer. He once harassed a respectable young woman in the street... and he doesn't even spare married women...”
Meng Yuanming: “...”
“My cousin doesn't brush his teeth before bed, and he doesn't wash his feet at night. His quilt reeks.”
Meng Yuanming: “...”
“Actually, my cousin... likes men.”
The hand holding Meng Yuanming's book trembles slightly. He says helplessly, “Does your cousin know you're slandering him behind his back?”
Chu Yu: “Big sister, what did you say? You're holding your book upside down.”
“...”
Theme: Joining hands to overcome hardships
The Person My Sister Likes Is Mine Now
After Losing His Memory, the Young Lord Became a Manservant
My Love Rival Is Actually a Man in Disguise?
The Timid Beauty and Her Powerful Husband
The Fake Cousin: Extra Stories from the Marquis's Household's Downfall
The Green Tea Wife's Mask Fell, and She Regretted It Too Late
I Have No Choice
The Trouble-Making Prince and His Unreliable Princess Consort (Goofy)
The Lovely Oriole in My Palm
I Hear the Princess Always Brings Misfortune to Her Husband
The Empress Who Came for a Political Marriage Wants a Divorce
Miss Yan, Who Gets Away with Murder on Her Beauty
To summarize the whole story: the heroine is persecuted by her scumbag father and escapes from marriage. She meets the hero on the road and is taken back to the prince's mansion to pretend to be her cousin. A white lotus blooms from the beginning to the end. All bad guys can have a happy ending. Then the heroine relies on her brilliance as the Holy Mother. She and the person she likes are slapped by the evil stepmother and can't stop them. But they can win the war between the two countries. The story of the real male protagonist being both civil and military. I don't quite understand why the second sister can be so natural and ask Yan Ran to pay off her debt and raise a child for her. He also betrayed the heroine. If you use your brain a little, you all know that there is a risk of being killed if you assume the identity in the Hou Mansion. Didn't the second sister betray her and make a choice between the life of the heroine and her daughter? Okay, I can understand choosing a sister between a daughter and a half-sister. Then the heroine can actually forgive her without any grudges and continue to love each other? The radiance of the Virgin Mary shines upon the earth!!! The heroine didn't make much progress in the whole story. She was beaten and scolded by Mr. Liu from the beginning to the end, and then Mr. Liu's son accepted the title 666 Skipping chapters didn't relieve my confusion about the plot. I just wanted to see the ending to see if there would be any twist. This is the result??? The female protagonist was slapped in front of the male protagonist. After she was slapped, the male protagonist went to stop her. It was just a waste of time to take off her pants and fart. She didn't see the male protagonist's attempt to make her stand out. After that, the fake cousin died without explaining why she died. She didn't know what the heroine was feeling guilty about. It was originally a transaction of money and goods from the beginning. She didn't get any credit for the male protagonist's grandmother being good to her? After I left, I didn't even take half a dime. Jesus looked at it to the point where he would shed tears. I reflected on myself again. I shouldn't have stayed up so late at night to torture myself. I had to hold on to a little hope that there would be any reversal. I'm guilty!
The heroine's character was silent to me
I really like the heroine who is sober and unpretentious hahahaha
"I don't want to let" give the author a big worm~ Phase
Pre-receipt of [Beauty in Troubled Times] please collect it Jiang Li was pushed out of the carriage and thought she would die on that winter night. But by accident, she was found by the Qilin Army who was cleaning up the battlefield. She was overjoyed: "My father is the governor of Dongchang, and I am a citizen of Dongchang!" "Your father abandoned the city and fled. Now you are a traitor to the city. I will kill you tomorrow to sacrifice the flag!" Her heart sank and she thought it would be better to freeze to death in the snowy night! But the man changed his words and put her on his shoulders: "Unless you can make our coach pity you and let him keep you tonight!" The head coach of the Qilin Army is the cold-faced Yama who is rumored to be bloodthirsty - Ye Qiluo Sure enough, as soon as he saw Jiang Li, he told her to get out! Looking at Xue Ye who couldn't see her fingers, she thought that she wanted to live more than freezing to death and sacrificing flags. So she used all her strength and stayed shamelessly, but Ye Qiluo still had a heart of stone and told her to get out! She endured it again and again, showing her gentleness, obedience and etiquette, and Ye Qiluo's frequency of asking her to leave became less and less. Later, Jiang Li returned to the capital with the army, and unexpectedly met his childhood sweetheart cousin. She said goodbye to the cold-faced Yama happily: "Thank you, coach, for taking me in. I've been bothering you so much. Now I want to get out!" We will meet again indefinitely! No need to be frightened by his roll anymore! The cold-faced Yan Luo's expression became complicated for the first time: "Where are you going?" Anywhere is fine, as long as I can't see you! But things didn't go as planned, and the cold-faced Yama detained her in the house, and she was not allowed to go anywhere! He made a drunken slip once and murmured: "I asked you to leave in the past, but you insisted on dazzling me in front of me. With such a face, I really... Really..." Jiang Li was curious: "What is it really?" "I really... Like you so much..."
My sister is really selfish, leaving a child for her unmarried sister
The heroine is cute but she has to work hard to make money
How did my mother die?
"Fu Changfeng's smiling face" really caught the author's eye~ seek
"Open your eyes" is a big bug for the author~ open