After the Eldest Princess Divorced

[Complete] Nangong Jingyao has admired Ji Changfeng for years, but has always kept her feelings hidden. She thought it would be an unrequited love that came to nothing, but an imperial decree arranging their marriage gave her the wish she had longed for.

But while some celebrate, others grieve. Compared with Nangong Jingyao's joy, the General's household was in a very different mood.

After receiving the imperial decree, Ji Changfeng shut himself in his study for three full days. From that day on, he put away all the weapons and bows in the storeroom, and hid the armor his mother had sewn for him at the very bottom of a trunk. He never looked at it again.

Every year after that, he could only accompany his mother as she saw his father and elder brother off to war.

This arranged marriage determined not only his marriage, but also Ji Changfeng's future. After marrying Nangong Jingyao, he joined the Ministry of Rites and took charge of ceremonial rites. The hands that once drew bows and shot arrows proved just as skilled at writing elegant prose.

In outsiders' eyes, he had it all: a beautiful wife who put him first in everything. Everyone said Ji Changfeng was blessed, and everyone forgot the dashing young man he had once been. Even Nangong Jingyao forgot.

After their marriage, they got along harmoniously. They were not exactly deeply in love, but at least they treated each other with respect. Nangong Jingyao always comforted herself that compared with those miserable couples, their life together was not so bad.

That was until the autumn hunt, when the newly crowned military champion displayed his prowess and took first place. A few troublemakers egged Ji Changfeng on to join the hunt and compete with him.

Looking at Ji Changfeng's indifferent expression, Nangong Jingyao caught the cold smile at the corner of his lips and finally understood: he did care.

All the things she had thought were good, all that mutual respect, were not born of love, but of her status.

Ji Changfeng's weapons and bow were locked away in the storeroom, his armor buried at the bottom of a trunk. At that moment, Nangong Jingyao understood that Ji Changfeng would never love her. She had clipped his wings with her own hands. Her very existence was the original sin.

He had hated her all along.

A groveling husband wins back his wife, 1v1 sweet romance. The male lead loves only the female lead, loves only the female lead, loves only the female lead. (Important things must be said three times!)

Blurb saved on December 21, 2022.

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Coming next: Breaking Off My Engagement with My Cousin

Blurb:

After her parents passed away from illness, Shang Yunzhu went to live with the Jiang family, growing up alongside her childhood friend and cousin, Jiang Zilin.

Jiang Zilin was not only Shang Yunzhu's cousin, but also her fiancé. Since childhood, she had known that she would marry him when she grew up.

Her cousin had promised that once she came of age, he would marry her in a grand ceremony.

But when Shang Yunzhu turned sixteen, she did not get the marriage she had been waiting for. Instead, her cousin betrayed his promise.

When the Jiang family fell on hard times, his mother, Madam Shang, had swallowed her pride and begged her brother to arrange the marriage for her son's future. But fortunes changed: her brother and sister-in-law passed away one after the other. Once Jiang Zilin entered officialdom, Madam Shang began to despise her orphaned niece. She wanted to break the engagement and marry her son into a more powerful family, but feared damaging his reputation.

So she repeatedly schemed to take Shang Yunzhu's life.

But Jiang Zilin was indecisive. He could not give up his future, yet could not let go of his cousin. To put an end to his feelings, Madam Shang deliberated and came up with the vicious plan of ruining Shang Yunzhu's virtue and forcing her to become a concubine.

Prince Chen, Rong Jue, is the present emperor's youngest uncle. He is exceptionally handsome and holds a position above all others.

Unfortunately, he has stayed aloof from worldly affairs for years. The Prince Chen's residence has no princess consort, let alone a maidservant in his bedchamber. Remembering his late father's final request, the emperor has worried himself sick over it.

Who knew that after a trip to Yangzhou, Rong Jue would take an interest in a woman? The emperor was overjoyed and immediately ordered an investigation. When the results were placed before him, His Majesty was troubled. “Uncle, this woman is already engaged. It may not be proper.”

But Rong Jue only smiled faintly. “Neither of them is married. What's the problem?”

Rong Jue went to Yangzhou on official business and unexpectedly rescued a young woman. She was gentle and well-mannered, but naive enough to mistake wolves for benefactors and fall victim to their schemes again and again. Rong Jue found her so foolish that he could not help stepping in to solve her problems, doing one good deed a day.

But gradually, kindness became habit, and chance encounters became deliberate. When his work in Yangzhou was done, Rong Jue found himself wanting to take her back to Jinling.

So what if she was engaged? He would simply break it off.

1v1 sweet romance, a scumbag gets his comeuppance, and the scheming male lead spoils his wife without limits.

Second book: Joy in Meeting You

Blurb:

Shen Ci is the only daughter of the Shen family, military governors of Pingjiang. Born into privilege and loved by her parents, she should have enjoyed a peaceful and happy life. But misfortune struck when her parents died in a shipwreck, and overnight she went from a noble young lady to a lone orphan.

Her maternal uncle pitied her as the only child her mother had left behind, so he took her to live with him at the Earl's residence and raised her there.

Living under another family's roof, Shen Ci was careful and cautious in everything she did. She served her aunt from morning to night, willingly keeping herself in the shadows of her older and younger cousins, never standing out. Her aunt appreciated her good sense and found her a match from a respectable family. Though the young man came from a humble background, he was hardworking and ambitious.

Shen Ci was content.

She only wanted to wait quietly for the wedding and soon have a home of her own.

But things did not go as planned. She had no idea when she had caught the eye of a powerful man, and from then on, her marriage plans became fraught with obstacles.

Pei Heng, heir to the Marquis of Yongning, was born to a noble family and excelled at literature. He was the youngest top scholar in all of Great Qi. Once selected for the Hanlin Academy, he became a close aide to the emperor, with a dazzling future ahead of him.

On the day the imperial examination results were announced, his aunt extended an olive branch, hoping to celebrate the good news by joining their families in marriage.

Pei Heng thought nothing of it. In his eyes, a cousin was just a cousin. How could she be a wife? But unable to refuse his aunt's earnest invitation, Pei Heng had no choice but to attend a banquet at the Earl of Zhongyi's residence.

He expected to go through the motions, but unexpectedly met a delicate beauty, as fragile as her name suggested.

For the first time, the heir to the marquis understood what it meant to fall in love at first sight.

Cousins may indeed be a match made in heaven, but Pei Heng fell for his cousin's cousin.

From that day on, the still waters of Pei Heng's heart rippled for the first time in his life. He schemed with all his might, just to break off Shen Ci's engagement.

1v1 sweet romance, the male lead falls in love at first sight.

The refined heir to a marquis VS the delicate young lady

Theme: Two hearts reaching for each other, building a future together.