Beneath the Beauty's Skirt

Upcoming: Cousin, Sweet and Obedient. Visit the author's page to see it~

Blurb:

Xie Jiu was a “Yangzhou skinny horse,” trained to please men. Since she never learned how, she was beaten and left hungry every day.

One day, the women at the establishment were training a new beauty. She was beautiful, certainly, but her proud, aloof gaze earned her plenty of suffering.

Xie Jiu liked her face and secretly looked after her, sharing what little food she had saved and eating and sleeping alongside her.

At night, with her head resting against the beautiful older sister's chest, Xie Jiu would always worry as she drifted off: She was beautiful, sure, but why was her chest so flat?

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Song Rong, the Grand Secretary's second-in-command, was the most dazzling man at court.

To rescue innocent women, he disguised himself as a woman and infiltrated a brothel. But he was rejected for being too tall and ended up in the government entertainment quarters, where he was trained to please men.

He thought things would be miserable, but every day a little fool would go hungry to bring him food.

Watching her sneak pastries out of her undershirt to share with him, and seeing her beaten and starved because she didn't know how to please men, Song Rong was exasperated by her foolishness. So he taught her how.

In the end, Xie Jiu didn't fall for him. He fell for her instead. After shutting down the skinny-horse business, he tricked Xie Jiu into coming home with him.

On their wedding night, he lifted his skirt.

His dear sister was a man. Xie Jiu cried for three days and nights, then ran away.

Song Rong: …

A little scene:

On a winter day, Xie Jiu's feet were always cold. Grand Secretary Song held them against his chest to warm them. “My lady, give me a chance.”

Blushing, Xie Jiu whispered, “But I only think of you as my older sister.”

Both virgins, one-on-one, sweet romance, an alternate setting with many liberties taken by the author.

Completed sweet romance: Beauty Among the Flowers. The male lead's beloved lives inside one of the flowers he grows.

New novel: The Crown Prince's Scheming First Love. Visit the author's page to see it~

Upcoming: Cousin, Sweet and Obedient. Visit the author's page to see it~

The third daughter of the Su family, Su Yuemian, was renowned as the greatest beauty in Jiangnan. Though still young, she had already grown into a woman of exquisite beauty, with a languid, alluring gaze and an enchanting manner.

But when she was fifteen, her father met with disaster while serving in office, and her mother followed him in death.

The girl who had been raised in luxury was left to depend on others. Even the childhood betrothal arranged for her was called off, and her uncles planned to offer her to their decrepit superior to advance their careers.

The timid beauty spent her days weeping. With no other recourse, she tried writing to her maternal grandfather in distant Chang'an for help. As luck would have it, her cousin was passing through Jinling on imperial business and brought her back with him.

Her cousin was as refined as moonlight and a breeze, and so highborn that the noble ladies of Chang'an could only dream of him.

He was gentle and courteous to everyone. Only Su Yuemian, who spent every day and night with him on their journey, knew what an indecent side lay behind her cousin's noble, radiant appearance.

By day, he acted sacred and untouchable.

At night, he shed the detached gentleman's facade, his eyes darkening. “Mianmian, did you look at Erlang a little too long today?”

“I told you, Mianmian's eyes should only look at me.”

He gripped her delicate chin, his cold fingertip stroking her cheek like a sinister snake's tongue. “Mianmian, do you love me?”

How, how shameless!

Mianmian's face turned red. She whispered, “We're just cousins...”

He straightened and gently wiped the rouge from his lips with his thumb. “What kind of cousin would let her cousin...”

“Don't say it, don't say it! I love you, okay? Mianmian loves you most!”

His gaze brimmed with tender affection. He lifted her soft hand and rewarded her with a kiss on the palm. “Such a good girl, Mianmian.”

A little scene:

At the Grand Princess's banquet, Su Yuemian sat off to the side where the lights grew dim, frowning and sighing.

She had been in Chang'an for half a year, and the young men there were all eyeing her. Yet her marriage prospects were going terribly. Her childhood friend, who had disguised herself as a boy since childhood, had only recently arrived in Chang'an. Thinking that was what troubled her, the friend came to comfort her. “They're blind! I'll marry you!”

Just then, the Grand Princess's son shot her a hostile look from nearby. The childhood friend frowned. “Your cousin looks fierce. He really doesn't seem to like me.”

Mianmian sighed. What was she supposed to do about her lover-cousin getting jealous so easily?

Several young gentlemen had just come by one after another to ask for her hand. She wondered which dark alley her cousin would drag them into after the banquet to beat them up.

She looked at the foolish childhood friend before her with pity. “Why don't you run away? Quickly.”

“?”

A tiny scene:

Her cousin sneered. The hunt began.

They ran, he chased, and they couldn't escape even if they grew wings.

Pure, sweet romance.

A clingy, possessive beauty on a high peak who craves love x a sweet, obedient little fool who is completely wrapped around his finger.

A completed novel by a friend~

Do You Want This Sweet Romance? [Quick Transmigration] by Sui Yan

After the bewitching beauty Chen Yu drowned in the cultivation world, she was bound by a System.

The System said, “This System is a sweet-romance System. As long as the Host plays the heroine well and enjoys the male lead's affection, the System can bring the Host back to life.”

Chen Yu looked at the System, then at the male leads in the worlds where she was supposed to play the heroine.

The school heartthrob who changed girlfriends as often as he changed clothes;

The phoenix man with parents who belonged behind bars;

The businessman who abandoned his first wife to marry his stepmother;

The playboy who spent all his time among women and was a regular at brothels;

The award-winning actor who had dated six women in the seven years since his breakup;

The CEO who had an illegitimate child despite being in his first marriage;

And the heroines Chen Yu was supposed to play had to remain pure in body and mind for the male lead, no matter what he did.

Even if the heroine had a boyfriend of three years, her first kiss still had to be the male lead's;

Even if the heroine's friends had all been abducted and sold by the male lead's parents and died horribly, she still had to forgive his parents and live happily with the whole family;

Even if the heroine was a concubine forcibly taken by the male lead's father, all sorts of reasons would ensure he couldn't touch her until the male lead took an interest in her;

Even if the heroine was a former courtesan, she still had to wait until the male lead first laid eyes on her before taking clients;

Even if the heroine had already broken up with the actor seven years ago, time had to stand still for her throughout those seven years, and she couldn't have dated anyone else;

Even if the heroine had already been married once, her former husband just happened to suffer from impotence.

Chen Yu: “This is a sweet romance? These trashy men can be male leads?”

The System: “That's right! The male leads simply hadn't met the heroine before. Once they do, they give her all their sincerity and remain completely loyal to her.”

Chen Yu: “Sorry, I refuse. They're disgusting.”

The System: “If you don't complete your tasks, the Host will be erased.”

Chen Yu: “Then I'll just have to kill you first.”

The System was done for!

And in the so-called sweet-romance worlds Chen Yu was forced to transmigrate into...

The soft, delicate heroine accidentally crippled the scumbag who harassed her.

The heroine who'd been abducted escaped the mountains and sent all the traffickers to prison.

The heroine in the stepmother's-lover story ran away before the male lead could take an interest in her.

The courtesan heroine chose the male lead's nemesis on her very first day on the market.

The heroine in the rekindled-love story exposed the male lead's true womanizing nature, then worked hard and became a huge star in the entertainment industry.

The secretary heroine refused to divorce her husband, who suffered from a private affliction.

Chen Yu: Don't pick up boyfriends from the trash!

Theme: Great ideals require selfless struggle.