A Full Moon Over Chang'an Road

[A love story between a princess of the flourishing Tang Dynasty and the most talented scholar in Yangzhou]

[Please add my next historical romance, Bright Moon, Follow Me Home, to your collection!]

The Tang Dynasty’s seventeenth princess, Li Xuanxuan, was framed for having an affair with Song Qingchen, the “most talented scholar in Yangzhou.” In a fit of anger, she entered a Taoist temple and went into seclusion in the mountains.

One day, she happened upon a young gentleman named Yuan Meng. They shared a brief, innocent romance, but before their feelings could blossom, the ill-fated young man died.

She traveled far away to Yangzhou to clear her mind and forget the past, only to run into Song Qingchen, the rumored lover she’d been linked to.

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Someone told him, “Song Qingchen’s courtesy name is Yuan Meng.”

Li Xuanxuan: “A Meng, put me down, all right?”

Song Qingchen: “No! I know you’re too tired to walk.”

Li Xuanxuan: “Oh... Then how did you convince them?”

Song Qingchen: “I cried and told them how much I love and adore my little wife. I said that if anything happened to her, I’d go throw myself off the Huayue Tower tomorrow. They were so scared they let her go.”

[Princess older sister + puppy-like scholar younger brother]

Reader’s guide:

1. The original title was I Transmigrated Back to the Tang Dynasty to Become a Taoist Nun, but she has nothing to do with being a Taoist nun, so I changed it. Only the first two chapters involve transmigration. The rest is a historical romance, not an alternate world.

2. There are plenty of details about Tang Dynasty life, including food and geography, all based on reality. If you like the Tang Dynasty, give it a try.

3. There really was a princess named Li Xuanxuan in the Tang Dynasty, and she was close to both Li Bai and Wang Wei. The great scholar Song is a fictional character, created by combining Li Bai and Wang Wei.

4. Although this is my second book, it’s actually not bad.

Please add A Clear Song Heard on Cold Mountain to your collection!

Hua Qingmian transmigrated into a revenge novel, becoming a cannon-fodder supporting female character who was supposed to change the male lead’s fate.

When she came to her senses, she was in the middle of selling the male lead, Baili Fengji, to a brothel to haul away night soil.

She gasped. No!

In the original story, she was a general of the Huayue Kingdom who captured the male lead. She humiliated him in every way, forcing him to sell his body and perform, and making him her imprisoned plaything, subject to all manner of degradation and abuse.

Baili Fengji had the tragic, beautiful, and powerful protagonist’s life. After three years of lying low and biding his time, he finally escaped her clutches.

When he returned in triumph, he first killed the foolish emperor to avenge his family, then killed Hua Qingmian to avenge his humiliation, and ultimately became ruler of the world and unified the northern frontier...

Remembering how the original Hua Qingmian ended up sliced like a roast duck, Hua Qingmian dragged Baili Fengji back with her.

At the time, Baili Fengji’s exquisitely beautiful face was furrowed as tears streamed down his cheeks. “General, spare my life! I’ll be your ox or horse and serve you well!”

Hua Qingmian: “He’s pretending! He’s lying! He didn’t act like this when he was slicing the flesh off my body!”

Her attendant was bewildered. “General, where are you going? Weren’t you going to teach that man a lesson? Torture him until you’re satisfied, then kill him?”

Hua Qingmian: “I’ve read the signs. Today is full of ill omens, so it’s not a good day for me to kill anyone.”

One day passed without killing him...

Then two...

After that, Hua Qingmian treated Baili Fengji as an honored guest and cherished him like the moon in her palm. All she wanted was for him to spare her life when he rose to power and conquered the world.

Three years later, Hua Qingmian had finally lived to the end of the story and was ready to leave with her mission accomplished. Unexpectedly, Baili Fengji still had her dragged back to his enemy country.

She couldn’t understand. Was she doomed to be sliced up like a roast duck in this life, too?

But then Baili Fengji put on that same tearful expression from years ago. “Don’t go. Didn’t you say you’d spoil me? Didn’t you say you’d dote on me every night?”

Hua Qingmian was at a loss for words. “I only said that as a temporary measure. It doesn’t count, so don’t believe it.”

“I believed you,” Baili Fengji said. “What are you going to do about it?”

[Bewitching, unhinged female general VS crafty, many-faced revenge-seeking man]

[Female lead who puts survival first VS male lead who loves and hates with equal candor]

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[The male lead’s perspective]

Baili Fengji was captured and given to General Hua as a male favorite.

He refused, so they were going to sell him to a brothel as a slave.

He’d already lost his family. Could things get any worse?

Just as he was prepared to die, Hua Qingmian changed her mind at the entrance to the brothel.

After that, everything changed...

When Baili Fengji fell ill, she treated him.

When Baili Fengji killed someone, she helped bury the body.

When Baili Fengji ran away, she gave him travel money.

Baili Fengji was finally so moved that he loosened his robe. “Why don’t I just give in to you, General?”

Hua Qingmian covered her eyes. “No, no! I know a little about the Book of Changes, and I’ve cast a fortune for you. Young Master Baili, your life will be full of blessings. You’ll have eight wives and concubines and a bright future. It’s best if you get on your way!”

Later, when he became a powerful warlord and ruled over a vast territory, his heart belonged only to the girl who had taken an arrow for him and sung a clear melody to him when he was gravely poisoned.

With the enemy at the gates, he stood on the mountain road at Qingye and said to the girl betrayed by her friends and family, “Mianmian, come home with me...”

Theme: No matter what difficulties you encounter, you can always start over. Just keep living your life and enjoy the present.