Rich Wine and Springtime

The possessive romance novel in my author page, The Obsessive Treacherous Minister's White Moonlight Runs Away, is currently updating. If you're interested, come check it out! Blurb: After returning to age fourteen, Xiangsi is still the young lady of the general's household, lost for years and finally found again. She is noble, adored by everyone, and has gone to the prison. In the cell is Lu Zheng, the future power behind the throne of the Great Jin dynasty, a demonic mentor feared by all. Lu Zheng is now a caged beast: fallen, sinister, and covered in wounds. His narrow eyes are filled with a heavy, lifeless gloom. When he sees Xiangsi, he still coldly tells her to get lost. But Xiangsi knows that he is the brother who protected her and helped her grow up safe, the brother who returned alone to avenge her when he learned she had been murdered in her previous life, the brother who saved good things for her and pushed her far away when he fell on hard times. The only thing Xiangsi doesn't know is that her brother has loved her for two lifetimes. - Lu Zheng was born into a bad family and cursed with bad luck. At first, he studied hard and passed the provincial exam at sixteen. People called him a prodigy and said his future would be bright. But his father was framed, a friend betrayed him, he missed the metropolitan exam, and then he was thrown in prison. His proud spirit was broken, and he became a stray dog with no future. Xiangsi cried harder than anyone. She was the treasured daughter of a great general, yet foolishly came running back to call him her brother. Later, Lu Zheng joined the army. He had no lofty ambition to defend his country. He fought tooth and nail for power, to fulfill his wrongfully deceased father's wish to bring honor to the family, and, more than anything, for Xiangsi. When he finally climbed to the top, returned home in glory, and no one dared to bully or slight him, he thought he would see Xiangsi smiling brightly. Instead, she was indeed smiling, but she was holding the hand of a refined young man, who called him, "Hello, brother." Lu Zheng's face darkened, and his heart felt painfully constricted. But Xiangsi liked him, so never mind. He forced a smile and answered "brother" with great reluctance. Until Lu Zheng accidentally learned what had happened in his previous life: Xiangsi had been deceived and killed by her fiance's arrow. Brother? What the hell did it matter that they weren't related by blood? He wasn't her brother! He wanted to be Xiangsi's husband. Note: Childhood friends posing as siblings, with no blood relation. While their familial bond remains, they are like brother and sister. Their romance only begins after that bond ends. The brother is cunning and calculating, a dark, powerful figure who rises from adversity in both lifetimes. He is no good person. - Blurb for The Obsessive Treacherous Minister's White Moonlight Runs Away: When she was young and naive, Bo Ye Huanhuan fell for a refined, gentle gentleman who seemed as pure as a moonlit breeze. She secretly gave him her heart and swore she would marry no one else. Who could have known it was all an act? She never imagined that a man whose voice was so gentle it seemed almost honeyed would one day become the ruthless, sinister villain people spoke of, a man who killed without blinking and committed every evil imaginable. She was afraid, but it was too late for regrets. Her father and brothers' lives were in his hands. She had to marry him. After ten years of a miserable marriage, with no children and constant quarrels, his nearly pathological need to control her ended with her being imprisoned in the manor and dying a wretched death by poison. When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to three months after their wedding. Looking at the man before her, gentle and handsome on the outside, but hiding a dark and calculating heart within, Bo Ye Huanhuan struggled to conceal her fear and her reluctance, then called softly, "Husband." * Recently, Si Rang could not understand why his wife, who used to make a scene and speak of divorce at every turn, had changed her mind. She was always acting coy and wiping away tears, sweetly calling him "Husband." Like rain after a long drought, like spring wind after a bitter winter. Even the cunning and suspicious regent gradually fell for her tenderness. After several nights of passionate lovemaking, he returned from a trip to find that his beloved wife, who had tearfully clung to him at their parting, had become a corpse too disfigured to recognize. The servants trembled. "Please accept our condolences, Your Highness!" Condolences? Si Rang's face turned icy. The jade bracelet and gold hairpin he'd carefully picked out were crushed to pieces in his hand. Even if she became a ghost, he would drag her back from the road to the underworld! A short scene A border town. Si Rang came to a crude farmhouse with a bloodied sword in his hand. The other man lay at his feet, barely alive. With a sinister smile on his lips, he spoke in the gentlest possible voice to his beloved, who was backing away in terror inside the courtyard. "Huanhuan, come here." "Call me husband, just like you used to." If they were going to keep up the act, they would keep it up for a lifetime. Unrequited love can drive a person mad. Theme: The road is winding, but the future is bright.