Gathering All the Finest Blooms

In her previous life, the noblewoman Yu Youwei had a fiance famed as “the fair-robed minister, the young chancellor.” His name was Pei Mingshuo. She loved him deeply and swore she would marry no one else.

Who could have known that after a palace coup killed the emperor, the ruthless minister Han Ji would seize power? The man coveted her beauty and tried to force her into bed. She fled in panic to seek shelter at her fiance's home, only to be drugged and delivered straight into the treacherous minister's bed. Three years later, she died young.

Fortunately, Heaven gave her another chance at life. To avoid the calamity of her previous life, she first decisively broke off her engagement to Pei Mingshuo, then set her sights on Liang Shao, a general stationed in the Northwest, where he was breathing dust and eating sand.

She remembers that in her previous life, he was the one who led the army that stormed through the Nine Gates and drove Han Ji to his death.

She invites him out and flashes him an ingratiating smile. “General, are you married? What do you think of me?”

Fine, I'll marry her, then. My soldiers will have food to eat, Liang Shao thinks at first.

He puts on an air and replies, “All right.”

The day after the wedding, a male guest comes to their home. One of the servants says right in front of his young wife, “This man is better-looking than our Marquis.” Liang Shao happens to hear and is so angry he doesn't eat for three days.

*She turned love into a remedy to fill the void left by her family, but that remedy would eventually lose its effect.*

*He said, “I was born in Youzhou and raised in Qiangcheng. I now defend the western frontier, where the long river meets the setting sun and the wilderness stretches on. I dare not claim to carry the whole world in my heart, but neither am I so narrow-minded that I'd reject you over something so trivial. We have already made our pact, and the northern campaign is not yet won. There is no reason to change our agreement.”*

Currently updating:

[Spring Is Still Young Beneath the Deep Snow]

Blurb:

When Li Shaoning was staying with the Cheng family, she had an older cousin who was as graceful as an orchid tree, strikingly handsome, and always took good care of her.

She was endlessly grateful to have such a wonderful older brother.

But later, her cousin no longer wanted to be her brother. When they were alone, he cornered her behind a rockery. His warm palm pressed against her through her clothes. Seeing the turmoil in his eyes, Shaoning asked in a hoarse voice, “Why are you avoiding me?”

She lowered her head, and two streams of tears fell.

Shaoning pressed her soft lips together. Her eyes were as clear as autumn rain, painfully moving. “I... I won't be a concubine.”

“Who said I wanted you to be a concubine?”

I promised you the place of principal wife, the title of a noblewoman, the position of princess consort.

Currently updating: [She Banned the Fierce Minister]

The Lu family was executed for treason. Yun Sheng, the sixth daughter born to a concubine and the only female survivor, was sold to a government-run entertainment house.

To escape, she actively searches for a target, until she meets Jiang Huan, a cold-hearted, ruthless commander of the Imperial Guard.

At a banquet, he shields her from unwanted drinks, stands up to everyone on her behalf, and even draws his sword.

Yun Sheng silently makes up her mind.

But after a night of passion, the man tosses out a remark: “The Lu family's daughter is nothing special after all!”

Yun Sheng: ...

Much later...

On a secluded island, in the dim light, the man opens his eyes.

The young woman sitting with her legs crossed in front of him glances at the chains on his body, then turns to complain to her companion. “How is this pretty boy handsome? He's nothing special to me!”

Theme: Love and forgiveness