Snow Falls in Chang'an (Reborn)

My next book will be Jade Pass Ballad. Rolling around and begging you all to add it to your favorites!

Jiang Luan was the youngest princess of Great Wei and its only legitimate princess. The golden bell around her ankle had been fastened there by Emperor Wei himself.

When you heard the bell, you knew the princess had arrived.

When the little princess turned one, Wei and Liang went to war. Liang suffered a crushing defeat and sent its legitimate eldest prince, Li Zhao, to the Wei palace as a hostage.

One day, the little princess wandered into Li Zhao's bedchamber. She stared at him with wide eyes for a long while, then asked in a soft voice, "Are you a big brother too?"

The little princess was clever and beloved by Emperor Wei. He said, "If A-Luan were a boy, I could have named her Crown Prince long ago."

Before long, rumors spread that Emperor Wei intended to make the little princess Crown Prince. Who could have guessed that when she was fourteen, she would fall into the water and die...

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Jiang Luan woke once more, back at the age of eight. After she fell into the water, Li Zhao had carried her back to his Fuyun Hall.

She had dreamed that after she died, Li Zhao returned to Great Liang, became its Crown Prince, and eventually ascended the throne as Emperor Liang.

Emperor Liang Li Changyuan personally led his troops into battle. The iron cavalry of Great Liang took lives wherever it went, scattering the Wei army and leaving rivers of blood.

After occupying the Wei palace, Emperor Liang ordered the slaughter of the entire Wei imperial family and all the palace servants. He had the newly enthroned Emperor Wei hacked to pieces and fed to the dogs.

Everyone called him a tyrant, but Jiang Luan knew he wasn't one.

In the dead of night, the tyrant Li Changyuan clutched a golden bell wound with red cord in his palm.

Decades passed. The tyrant died without ever taking an empress, leaving no sons behind. The feudal lords rose up in revolt.

Emperor Liang's only final wish was to be buried with the golden bell.

Everything in the dream had felt far too real. Now Jiang Luan looked at Li Zhao, still a boy, and her eyes instantly filled with tears. She clutched his sleeve and called softly, "Big brother."

Big brother?

Li Zhao frowned as he studied her. He paused when he saw the tears at the corners of her eyes, then turned his gaze away and said coldly, "Princess, you've mistaken me for someone else."

A few things to know:

1. This is a fictional setting, very fictional, so don't expect historical accuracy.

2. The heroine is reborn. At first, she'll be a crybaby and play the sweet, cunning type. In his previous life, the hero was a tyrant. After occupying the Wei palace, he killed the people who had harmed the heroine.

3. Cai Qiao really is terrible at writing blurbs, so please look forward to the story itself! This book is definitely going to be sweet romance, all sweetness and doting. If you like power struggles and two strong leads, check out my completed historical romance, Fortunate to Have Met You (Young Marquis x Sickly Beauty), in my author page. It shares the same setting and dynasty as this one!

The cover background image was not purchased exclusively, so there may be others using it. Blurb captured on 2020.12.31, first revision on 2021.1.23, second revision on 2023.1.9.

Upcoming historical romance, Jade Pass Ballad: war on the frontier, a young married couple.

Please add it to your favorites. Here's the blurb:

A-Yao was born in the Northern Plains and grew up there.

She thought she would be trapped in that wasteland of the Northern Plains all her life, just like her mother, trapped behind Jade Pass.

That was until she met Huan Yin.

She found Huan Yin in the snow and dragged him home, like dragging Ah Huang, who had stopped halfway and refused to walk.

Though Ah Huang was a dog.

Huan Yin was different from everyone in the village. He was handsome, ate with decorum, did things with decorum, and even spoke slowly. Every time A-Yao talked to him, she was so impatient she'd stamp her feet.

Her mother said she was a wild, impatient girl. A-Yao refused to admit it. It was clearly Huan Yin's fault. Still, he taught her to read and write, so she forgave him.

The Northern Plains lay on the frontier of Great Yin, separated from the northern nomad cavalry by nothing but Jade Pass. Later, Jade Pass fell, war engulfed the land, and the Northern Plains became a wasteland.

Her mother died, and so did Ah Huang.

The village was burned down.

The decorous Huan Yin carried A-Yao, covered in blood, on his back, fighting his way through a path of blood for her. Again and again, he said, "A-Yao, don't fall asleep."

Theme: Saving each other.