Coveting the Bright Moon

My next work, "The Great King Crashed and Burned," is available for pre-order. You can add it to your favorites through my author's page.

Many years later, after Jiang Wanshu left a banquet, tipsy, someone steadied her. Her fingers brushed upward, accidentally touching the sharp contours of his cold, pale jaw. She looked up and inexplicably wanted to reach out and push up the slender-rimmed glasses resting on his nose.

But she didn't.

She touched his throat.

And heard his faint, strange panting.

Heroine: Founder of a very low-profile law firm.

Hero: A celebrated mathematician.

Every late night in the deep ravines of the wilderness, I caught glimpses of your glory in the heavenly palace through the cracks in fate.

We were never meant to share this life. Why did you fall before my eyes again, tempting my ambition and stirring my desire?

Adults don't need rules. They only need to tug at each other's desire and affection.

Here's the synopsis for my pre-order story, "The Great King Crashed and Burned."

The deposed crown prince Qiaoda Junwu endured humiliation and hardship, then spent tens of thousands of taels of royal money hiring an assassin to rescue him from a brothel. He waited and waited, until a beautiful, murderous demoness from the demonic cult finally arrived.

The rumors about the demoness were terrifying. They said she could stop children from crying, but the truth didn't quite match her fearsome reputation.

Beneath a tree, the deposed crown prince was digging away with all his might.

The demoness asked, "Are you done yet? Where exactly did you bury your fortune?"

The deposed crown prince said, "Wait, let me switch to another tree. Please take your sword off my neck, thank you."

The deposed crown prince /(ㄒoㄒ)/: The rumors never said she was greedy and stingy!

Later, word spread that the demoness had died a horrible death, skinned by the righteous warriors of the mortal realm and burned alive in a lantern, until her blood ran down the cliff face.

He wanted to retrieve her bones and grind them to dust. So he slaughtered his way across the mortal realm, leaving corpses everywhere, and led a hundred thousand cavalry to crush the sacred land of Little Kunlun.

Then, three hundred years later:

The little Dragon King of the demon clan, Yu Qing, said, "That lousy emperor must have cultivated for at least ten thousand years. How dare he, an old bull, try to eat young grass and arrange a marriage with me? Shameless. Doesn't he fear getting struck by lightning?"

She didn't mention that she had once come down to the mortal realm with a thousand years of cultivation and taken the form of a young, beautiful demoness from the demonic cult. While brutally teaching the arrogant little crown prince martial arts, she had also tricked him into falling for her, then cruelly abandoned him. Not only had she abandoned him, she'd also schemed to steal his fortune as the Emperor of Humanity, setting herself on the path to the pinnacle of demon life.

The handsome fox demon smirked inwardly and popped a grape into her mouth, but said gently, "Your Majesty is absolutely right."

A summary of the lives of two overpowered troublemakers:

Heroine: Crashes and burns.

Hero: Crashes and burns +1.

Reading Guide: A funny, sweet cultivation story. The heroine is awful, and the hero isn't exactly a good person either. The early story is martial arts, and the later story is xianxia.

P.S. The early story takes place in the mortal world of Little Kunlun, amid its dynasties and martial arts world. The later story takes place in the immortal realm of Greater Kunlun, where immortals and demons gather. A whole cast of monsters and demons are better actors than one another, and they go through their trials of love like a third-rate stage play.

Theme: Life requires hard work, whether you're in Rome or a deep ravine.