Spring Is Still Far Off in the Deep Snow

When Li Shaoning was eleven, disaster struck her family. She fled with an old servant of her mother's to the Cheng household and entered the service of Old Madam Cheng. Her intelligence and literary talent won the old madam's favor. She lived up to that favor, too. From the moment she entered the Cheng household, she learned to read people's expressions and lived cautiously. Her one wish was to marry a poor scholar and become his proper wife.

Later, the eldest young master of the Cheng family, long neglected, returned home from the south. Old Madam Cheng told her to call him "Elder Cousin." He was handsome and graceful, and he took good care of her, saving her from danger time and again. She was constantly grateful to have such a wonderful older brother.

But later, he no longer wanted to be her brother. When they were alone, he cornered her behind a rockery. The warmth of his palm seeped through her clothes. Shaoning saw the dark emotions roiling in his eyes, and the corners of them reddened...

Next novel: She Took the Fierce Minister Prisoner

The Lu family was confiscated for treason, and Yun Sheng, the Sixth Concubine-born Daughter and the only surviving woman in the family, was sold into a government entertainment house.

To escape, she actively searched for a target, until she met Jiang Huan, a cold-hearted, ruthless commander of the Imperial Guards.

At a banquet, he shielded her from unwanted toasts, stood up to the others for her, and even drew his sword.

Yun Sheng secretly made up her mind.

But after a night of passion, the man left her with the words, "The daughter of the Lu family is nothing special after all!"

Yun Sheng: ...

Two years later...

On a secluded island, in the hazy lamplight, the man opened his eyes.

The young woman sitting cross-legged in front of him glanced at the chains around his body, turned to complain to her companion, "This is the pretty boy you caught? What's handsome about him? I think he's nothing special!"

Theme: Adversity tempers the heart. Respect and loyalty go hand in hand. Be brave and keep moving forward.