Fated to Meet

The blurbs for the upcoming novels Men Get in the Way of My Claiming the Realm and The Garbage-Picking Thief are below.

[Blurb]

A score-controlling oddball who can be sweet or salty & a cool, restrained demon hunter

Halfway through the semester, a transfer student arrives at First High School in Yu County. He’s good-looking, but his temper and behavior are a little strange.

Everyone thinks he’s a delinquent, but it turns out he’s just a lovable dummy.

[Ji Baiyun’s attitude toward monsters]

Before meeting Lin Xi: Demons and monsters, get away from me!

After meeting Lin Xi: Lin Xi can beat them, so I can let loose.

[Lin Xi’s transfer-student journey]

Week one: I want to exorcise demons. I want to exorcise demons. I want to exorcise demons.

Week two: Stay away from weirdos. The natural way is the strongest.

Week three: It’s not like I want this to happen, but he took me for a drive and up a mountain to see all the lights below!

[A little scene from adulthood]

The highly educated Ji Baiyun rises through the ranks at lightning speed.

Onlookers: Director Ji, parachuted in from nowhere, is a smiling tiger, all sweet words and sharp knives. Look what he’s made us do! Captain Lin is here. She’ll definitely put him in his place!

The Captain Lin they’re talking about: She walks into Ji Baiyun’s office with a cold expression, then gets coaxed into asking for a kiss by that sweet-talking knife.

Onlookers: So you two have two completely different faces, huh!?

[Reading Guide]

1. A slice-of-life story.

2. Some of the monsters in this story are the author’s inventions, while others are based on research, but they’ve all been creatively adapted. Don’t take things too seriously.

[Upcoming novel: Men Get in the Way of My Claiming the Realm]

A reborn heroine who takes her madness to the limit & a younger wolf-dog general

A more elegant title would be The Grand Plan. Since this is an alternate world anyway, my heroine is going to conquer the realm and become emperor.

In her previous life, Xie Yu was raised as a boy. When the empire began to crumble and war broke out, Madam Xie threatened to kill herself unless Xie Yu returned to living as a girl and went to Yongzhou to take refuge with her maternal uncle. But her uncle’s family had the hearts of wolves. They clipped her wings, hurt her loyal followers, and gave her away to powerful nobles. Xie Yu died with regrets. On the day the city fell, she laughed wildly, took up a bronze sword, and fought her way to the palace, sending the entire Xiao clan to their deaths.

When Li Ting led his troops into the main hall, all they saw was a woman laughing like a madwoman, blood still dripping from the bronze sword in her hand.

Sunlight streamed in from outside the hall. Xie Yu couldn’t make out Li Ting’s face. She dragged her sword forward one step, and the soldiers all drew their swords and advanced.

Xie Yu weakly tugged at the corners of her mouth, then collapsed, utterly exhausted. If she hadn’t been made to live as a girl, or if she’d been a little braver back then, could things have turned out differently? “The realm has really fallen into Li Ting’s lap!”

When Xie Yu woke again, she felt that Heaven had treated her well. Gazing at the endless yellow sands, she thought: Why shouldn’t I claim this realm for myself?

PS:

1. She doesn’t set out to become emperor right away. At first, she only wants to escape her imprisonment. Later, as her territory grows, she would have to hand it over if she placed herself beneath someone else. When she thinks about it, no one is worthy.

2. The leads have known each other since childhood, which is why the heroine chose Li Ting from among the many factions to help her in her previous life.

3. The heroine’s madness lies in the way she calmly plans step by step beneath a composed exterior, daring to defy the whole world.

4. The heroine isn’t kind. Any kindness she shows is something she has decided, after weighing her options, that she wants others to see.

Theme: There is love in this world.