The Tower of Clear Lamps, Flute, and Moonlight

[Please add my next historical romance, Returning with the Bright Moon, to your collection!]

Yun Xingxuan was born with half an immortal's bone and could see ghosts and gods. If she gathered five Purple Thought Bodhi Seeds and activated the Five-Element Lotus Cup, she could complete her spiritual essence and become immortal, or split her immortal bone and become mortal.

Everyone wanted to become immortal, but she was determined to change her fate for love and give up her immortal bone, all so she could wait for Young Master Tao to return.

Everyone said Young Master Tao had died in a fire three years ago, but Yun Xingxuan refused to believe it. That night, he had clearly dressed her in a wedding gown and promised to return to marry her...

[Martial arts master who splits her immortal bone, young Daoist sect leader x scheming and sinister, few words and ruthless, heir of the Southern Dynasty]

Yun Xingxuan was once betrothed to someone from the prestigious Mo Chu family of the Southern Dynasty. She went alone to the heir's residence, intending to take the Bodhi Seed and leave on her wedding night. But when the red veil was lifted, she discovered that the heir of the Southern Dynasty had a face exactly like that of her dead lover...

What are matters of love?

Do you really want to know?

Am I not allowed to know?

If you want to cultivate immortality, it's something you absolutely must never do.

What is it?

I'll tell you when you no longer want to become immortal.

Next book: Returning with the Bright Moon

[Sweet, innocent, black-hearted princess x black-hearted, ruthless general]

When Bai Fufu left the grasslands to marry into another state, she was only a sixteen-year-old girl. She married Pei Yuncheng, the great general of Yan, known to its people as the Killer Yama, under her title of princess.

At first, she pretended to be a sweet, shy little flower:

"Oh! Big Brother, your sword is so sharp. Fufu is scared!"

"Fufu is still young and can't serve her husband. I think of the general as an older brother. Is that all right?"

For two years after she entered his household, Pei Yuncheng treated her like one more mouth to feed and never took the little brat seriously.

If he hadn't seen her climb onto the roof to pick fruit one day and land without a sound, showing astonishing mastery of lightness skills, she might have fooled him.

Later, on their wedding night, Pei Yuncheng lifted her red veil with his sword. Fufu faced him with a jeweled dagger in hand, her expression all innocent and meek. "My grandfather said Yan is a land of etiquette, and if you don't like someone, you can divorce them. You'll let me go, right, Big Brother?"

Pei Yuncheng looked at his young bride with interest and smiled. "Let you go? That's impossible. But if you can escape my territory, go ahead and try!"

*

She ran, he chased. Every time he caught the little pony, he tied her to the bed.

Bai Fufu: "Husband? Ah Huo? Brother Yuncheng? Uncle? Please let me go. I won't run away again!"

Pei Yuncheng: "I'll believe you when we're truly husband and wife."

One day, Bai Fufu made it all the way back to the grasslands. Pei Yuncheng led a hundred thousand troops after her.

Bai Fufu put on a meek, terrified expression. "Husband, the soldiers have knives. I'm so scared..."

Pei Yuncheng propped his chin on his hand. "Keep making things up! When you were swinging that whip and knocking my deputy general off his horse just now, you seemed pretty tough."

Bai Fufu's eyes filled with tears. "Husband, I'm pregnant."

Pei Yuncheng: ...

*

Over three years, General Pei returned victorious from a hundred battles and seized sixteen commanderies. Whenever the emperor asked what reward he wanted, he asked for no rank, no title, and no beautiful women, only gold.

The ministers all said he knew how to keep his place and wasn't arrogant or extravagant.

The emperor asked, "Why do you only want gold?"

Pei Yuncheng replied, "My wife is keen on running away. I promised to let her go wherever she wants. To avoid going back on my word, I have to buy land wherever she runs to."

Theme: Face life's problems with optimism and work toward building a better life.