Childhood Friend Knows How to Flirt

Hua Rouzhi enters the capital when her father is promoted. At the royal hunting grounds, everyone tries every trick in the book to win the Crown Prince's favor. Yet the future emperor's gaze falls on just one person. With no one else around, the little girl runs into his arms, crying, "Brother, why did you leave Rouzhi behind?"

Not long afterward, an imperial edict announcing their betrothal shocks the entire capital.

Everyone wonders: The Crown Prince has been gloomy and aloof ever since he was found after going missing, so why choose the fourth young lady of the Hua family, a childish girl from a remote border town with no distinguished family background?

Only Wen Zhuoguang knows the truth. He likes Hua Rouzhi best because he taught her everything, little by little. She learned the etiquette he taught her and read the books of poetry he introduced her to. Even her innocent, sunny nature was something he had painstakingly preserved.

"Everyone says I'm not good enough for you, Brother..."

"Nonsense." He kissed the little girl's cheek. "Rouzhi is the best girl in the world."

Few people know that in the spring of Bingchen, Hua Rouzhi, the most doted-on youngest daughter of the Hua family, met Xu Zheng, a taciturn boy brought home by her father.

Others called him the son of a concubine, born low and base. But Hua Rouzhi loved him most, and Xu Zheng cherished her like a precious jewel.

They lived together for years, until Xu Zheng vanished one night. It was as if no one had ever lived in Qinghui Court. The whole Hua family kept silent about what had happened.

At last, they meet again.

He is unmarried, she is unwed. They become husband and wife, a match made in heaven.

Reader's guide:

1. This is a slow-burn story with a semi-raising romance. The heroine is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, and frail, frail, frail. Please don't complain that she holds him back.

2. A sweet romance with almost no angst. Read without worry.

3. Everything in the story serves the sweetness. Writing advice is not welcome. If it's not for you, please click away.

------- Blurb for the new novel, Swallows Return -------

At fourteen, Yu Jixue is forced to take her cousin's place in a marriage. She runs away alone and, along the way, saves an amnesiac young man on the verge of death.

To evade her pursuers, she tricks him into believing she's his fiancee. They rely on each other for several days, and she uses her silver tongue to lead him around by the nose. Then, overnight, she disappears without a trace.

She wakes up in a carriage on the way back to the capital and learns that she's the true daughter of the Duke of Rongguo, who disappeared many years ago.

After she returns to the capital...

Her mother brings out gorgeous new clothes, her father prepares fine horses and estates, and her older brother takes her to see all the handsome men in the capital...

Even the fake daughter, whom she thought would oppose her at every turn, follows her around every day, gazing at her with sparkling eyes. "Big Sister is so beautiful! I like Big Sister best! Anyone who goes against Big Sister is going against me!"

Her only little problem is that the Duke of Rongguo's family spoils her too much, and people in the capital say she's unruly and arrogant, making her difficult to marry off.

The Duke of Rongguo's family: No one is good enough for my daughter (older sister) (younger sister)!

Ye Lingqing: Marry me, and you'll get to be Crown Princess, too.

Only when Yu Jixue turns around does she realize that the frail, pale man who coughed blood so dramatically was none other than the current Crown Prince: a shrewd schemer who can kill without spilling a drop of blood. She had used and deceived him, claiming to be his fiancee.

And yet he gazes at her with a smile. "Yanyan, you said we'd been engaged since childhood, and that your heart was full of sincere affection for me. If that's true, why did you run away?"

------- Blurb for the upcoming novel, Beauty Spoiled Rotten -------

Yan Lingyi is a princess born to a concubine. Her father never loved her, and she has no mother to care for her. Yet by the age of sixteen, she has blossomed into a stunning beauty, delicate and captivating.

As a child, she was frail. After one bout of the common cold, her breath grew as faint as a kitten's. The taciturn young Crown Prince held a bowl of medicine and fed it to her, spoonful by spoonful, wresting her life back from the heavens.

The day the emperor orders his ninth princess to marry into the empress's family, the Crown Prince bathes the palace in blood. He walks toward Yan Lingyi in her wedding dress, a longsword in hand, and calls to her, "Congcong, come to my side."

The girl lifts her bright red skirt and throws herself into his arms.

Even though the sword is still stained with the blood of her new husband.

She yearns for freedom, so he makes the whole world her cage, imprisoning the songbird he loves.

A delicate beauty x a ruthless, powerful, handsome elder imperial brother

Theme: Supporting each other and striving to learn and improve