Jade Branches Entwined in Spring

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Blurb:

“Debauched, scheming son of a noble family x clever, calculating beauty”

Xie Churou was born into the Duke of Dingguo's household. With skin as fair as jade and a quick, clever mind, she was beautiful inside and out.

At a flower-viewing banquet, she meddled in someone else's business and rescued a young man who was being held underwater.

The young man had delicate, handsome features. Soaked through, he gripped her sleeve, calculation roiling in his eyes as he said, “Sister, remember this. I am Shen Zhixian.”

Rumor had it that Shen Zhixian was cursed by fate: he caused his mother's death, poisoned his father, and was once driven into the snow to fight wolves for food. He was a thoroughly wicked creature.

Only she knew that in front of her, he was always gentle and harmless, smiling softly: “Sister, you're the best.”

At the hunting grounds, Xie Churou carefully arranged things so she could marry the Crown Prince.

But Shen Zhixian seized her ankle with his bare hand, laughing with wild abandon.

“Sister, if you insist on marrying someone... why not marry me?”

After years of watching her hopes fall through time and again, Xie Churou pulled out a hairpin and stabbed at him. “If you keep pestering me, we'll die together!”

He only smiled and stepped toward her, letting the blood stain his brocade robe. “If I die, who will help you take your place in the Eastern Palace?”

On the Crown Prince's wedding night, Xie Churou happily drank the nuptial wine and soon fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, she opened her eyes. The disheveled man before her was no Crown Prince. It was Shen Zhixian, the notorious troublemaker.

She had only just tried to get up when he caught her by the wrist and leaned close to whisper with a laugh, “Sister, we held a wedding ceremony, so you're mine now. You won't escape me in this lifetime.”

#Three-year age gap#

#A melodramatic tale of a nobleman's son, gentle on the outside but cold-hearted and scheming within, secretly in love with a beautiful older sister#

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Blurb for A Joy with You:

“Lively, sweet young lady x aloof, proud minister”

Gu Yunchu had a secret love, but no one had ever guessed her feelings.

When she turned fifteen, her parents arranged a marriage for her and sent her to stay with her maternal uncle's family in the capital until the wedding.

Desperate to escape the match, she tried every way she could think of, but her cousin Lu Yuanzhen always caught her and brought her back.

Lu Yuanzhen was meticulous, proud, and aloof.

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

So she threw propriety to the wind and openly expressed her admiration for Lu Yuanzhen. On a snowy day, she even knelt for a long time on the mountain to pray for a talisman to protect him, all so he could have a moment of peace.

At last, even his stony heart began to soften.

He wiped away the tears at the corner of her eyes and gently comforted her: “It's only a marriage arrangement. Your older brother will help you break it off.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the young woman looked up at him through tearful eyes and leaned shyly against his sleeve. “Yunchu trusts you most in all the world, Brother.”

The night the engagement was broken off, Gu Yunchu got drunk and, on a whim, told Lu Yuanzhen what was on her mind. “Brother, now I can finally go find the person I love.”

At her words, Lu Yuanzhen felt as if a needle had pierced his heart. The wine cup slipped from his hand and shattered, scattering shards everywhere.

He forgot all propriety and grabbed her wrist, his calm gaze suddenly breaking apart. “Look at me and tell me: who is the person you love?”

Completed novels on my profile: Spring on the Huai River, The Guard's Special Treatment of the Little Princess, and Indulging in Joy.

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