Chronicles of the Flower-Moon Beauty

The bonus chapter is out! While I'm at it, please add my upcoming historical mystery, The Princess Never Sleeps. The blurb is at the very bottom.

Blurb:

In summer, there are jasmine and lotus; in spring, peonies and late-blooming roses; in winter, narcissus and white plum blossoms; in autumn, golden chrysanthemums and sweet osmanthus. Flower seller Huo Manyue, however, has only a drunken, spendthrift father and a sickly younger sister who's a burden. To make matters worse, she's poor and has a weakness for handsome men. All she wants is to open a shop and make a fortune, so she can keep the devastatingly beautiful young man next door.

Who knew the beautiful young man would use his looks to get his way, flirting with her every day until her heart raced? In a moment of confusion, she forgot all about her plan to find a husband and delivered herself right to his door.

Yun Qiao: "You can look for a husband if you want, but my bride price is steep. Can you afford it?"

Huo Manyue: "I... I can save up."

The beauty sighed softly. "By the time you've saved enough, it'll be ages before I can marry you. Why not spare yourself the trouble and marry me instead?"

She thought everything would be settled once they were engaged, but one rival after another appeared: the minister's daughter, the Duke's cousin, and what? Even the all-powerful Princess Royal!

She's just a poor girl who sells flowers. She can't afford to offend any of these big shots. Please, leave her alone!

The beauty dropped his gentle mask, eyes flashing with menace. "Huo Manyue, how dare you seduce me and then abandon me?"

My next historical mystery, The Princess Never Sleeps, is up for preorder. Please add it to your library!

Blurb:

Born the most cherished princess of Great Qi, she is clever, beautiful, and brilliant at strategy. Her only flaw is her frail constitution, so her younger brother issues an imperial decree, granting her a hot-spring fief and permission to establish her own residence outside the palace.

She has barely left the palace, with all its undercurrents and intrigue, before one bizarre and baffling mystery after another lands in her lap.

Luckily, she meets him, and time and again he rescues her from danger.

Murong Zheng boasted smugly, "See? I've met countless men, and not one of them can resist me when I make a move. They act cold, but really, they're all dying to have me!"

Her attendants frantically signaled, "Your Highness, Captain Xiao is standing right behind you..."

Murong Zheng: "..."

If I say I was just talking big, will you believe me?

Xiao Ren: Heh.

A genius princess with zero social skills VS a highly skilled, ice-cold, handsome constable

One is terrible at flirting but loves to do it, while the other is cool and abstinent. She pursues him, and he... well, it's not as if he wants to run away that badly.

Solving mysteries is the thing she loves most, but who knew that he would turn out to be the hardest mystery of her life?

Theme: A poor girl faces hardships and fights for dignity and love, ultimately finding happiness.