Seeking Pleasure

My next novel will be You Bring Me Joy. Please add it to your reading list, everyone!

Novel blurb:

"A well-bred young lady from a scholarly family x a dashing young man"

The day Jiang Zhimiao was thrown out of the Number One Scholar's residence, a servant tossed out the divorce papers from above and scolded her harshly: "Get as far away as you can, and don't ruin our master's bright future!"

When she was down and out with nowhere to turn, the man who had once been her moonlight came to her.

They had been entangled since childhood. Jiang Zhimiao knew he never let anyone get away with being in the wrong, and had long prepared herself to endure his scorn.

As they traveled together through the snow, he forcibly took her hand. She trembled and tried to pull away, desperate to explain herself.

But she heard him say, sounding quite displeased, "Your hands are so cold. Why didn't you say you were cold?"

Jiang Zhimiao: "?"

Song Chenze is the Crown Prince's study companion. His father is a senior minister who served two dynasties, and Song Chenze himself is Jiang Zhimiao's childhood friend and schoolmate.

He's handsome and upright, loyal and honorable, but Jiang Zhimiao knows all too well what he was like as a young man: a spoiled libertine, wild and carefree.

At a palace banquet, he takes the initiative to ask the emperor to grant their marriage, claiming that he and Jiang Zhimiao are mutually in love and understand each other's hearts.

Jiang Zhimiao promptly kneels. "I beg Your Majesty to grant our wish."

Little does anyone know, it is merely a scheme the two of them planned in advance.

And no one knows that from beginning to end, all Song Chenze ever wanted was Jiang Zhimiao.

After their wedding, Jiang Zhimiao carefully plays her part, keeping her distance even when she speaks to him. She knows that the person he holds in his heart is someone else.

After a drunken night together, she clutches the quilt and whispers, "You... you bully me too much."

Song Chenze considers this. "Then why don't you bully me back?"

Jiang Zhimiao: "???!!"

The former top scholar loses out in his career and in love. At last, when he finally catches up to Jiang Zhimiao's carriage, the curtain lifts to reveal Song Chenze's cold, mocking face. "Someone throw this man far away. Don't disturb my wife's rest."

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Please add You Bring Me Joy to your reading list!

Blurb:

"Lively, sweet young lady x cool, aloof powerful minister"

Gu Yunchu has someone she considers her moonlight, but unfortunately, he has never felt the slightest spark for her.

At fifteen, when she comes of age, her parents arrange a marriage for her and send her to stay with her maternal uncle's family in the capital until the wedding.

To escape the match, she tries everything she can think of, but her cousin Lu Yuanzhen always catches her and brings her back.

Lu Yuanzhen is meticulous, proud, and aloof, and never gives anyone special treatment.

Hoping to break off the engagement, Gu Yunchu decides to start with her cousin.

So she disregards proper etiquette and openly expresses her admiration for Lu Yuanzhen. She even kneels in the snow on a mountain to pray for a talisman to protect him, all for the sake of giving him a moment's peace.

At last, even his heart of stone begins to soften.

He wipes the tears from the corner of her eye and comforts her. "It's only a marriage arrangement. I'll help you break it off."

The moment he finishes speaking, the young lady's eyes light up. She nods shyly. "Thank you, Brother, for helping me."

On the night the engagement is called off, Gu Yunchu gets drunk and, on a whim, tells Lu Yuanzhen what's on her mind. "Brother, now I can finally go find the person I love."

Hearing this, Lu Yuanzhen feels as if a needle has pierced his heart. The wine cup in his hand slips to the floor and shatters, its fragments flying everywhere.

Forgetting all propriety, he panics and grabs her, his face darkening. "Look at me and tell me: who is the person you love?"

Upcoming novel 1: Entangled in Love, a forced romance, with a ruthless younger brother x a delicate older sister

Upcoming novel 2: You Bring Me Joy, a cool, aloof cousin goes mad with love, then chases his wife to the crematorium

Upcoming novel 3: Cherishing You, a seemingly gentle but secretly ruthless young master raises his beloved wife

Theme: Don't wait until you've lost something to realize how much you treasured it.