The Young Miss Is Far Too Delicate

In response to people attacking and insulting the author and their family over the different ending in the pirated version of Brother, I fired back first.

The neighboring novel, After the Bad Ending, the White Moonlight Doesn't Want Him Anymore, is updating now.

Completed, with typos being corrected.

Upcoming: The General Has a Complicated Mind and The Villainess Is Delicate and Frail.

A plain-looking young lady from a branch family has arrived at the Duke of Ning's estate in Su Yu. She is bedridden with a wasting illness, so frail she can barely manage anything.

Everyone knows that the young heir of the Duke of Ning's estate is a born rebel, skilled at everything from taming wild horses to training hawks. His tongue is especially sharp and vicious, and he has always hated delicate beauties.

Jiang Sheng has heard about him. She looks down at herself, out of breath after taking just a few steps, and can't help feeling worried.

Sure enough, he dislikes her at first sight. Before she can even greet him as her cousin, he says with a look of disdain, "How did you get even skinnier than the monkey I keep?"

Jiang Sheng stands there, bewildered and at a loss. If her second cousin hadn't gently smoothed over the awkwardness, she wouldn't have known what to do.

After that, afraid of provoking him and making him dislike her even more, she avoids him even when walking around.

When she can't avoid him, she musters her courage to greet him. "Greetings, Young Master."

Every time, he furrows his brows, making Jiang Sheng tremble with fear. At last, she reaches sixteen, the age of maturity. After years of being pampered, she has blossomed into an unrivaled beauty, and suitors come to her door without end. She thinks she can finally escape this "cage," but instead receives a bolt from the blue.

"Miss! Wonderful news! The young master has asked your aunt for your hand in marriage."

With a clatter, the jade-bead bracelet in Jiang Sheng's hand falls and shatters across the floor.

In the bridal chamber

Jiang Sheng looks at the man before her with red-rimmed eyes. She can't help letting out a hiccup, and fear makes her cough uncontrollably.

As she panics, he offers her a cup of warm tea, gently rubbing her back as he comforts her. "Why are you still so afraid of me? Am I going to eat you?"

Shenghe looks up in alarm. The moment her coughing stops, the man's burning gaze locks onto her.

The red candles burn low. Beneath the wedding quilt, candlelight flickers in the bridal tent decorated with double happiness symbols.

The man coaxes her again and again. "Good girl. Call me Cousin Wen Yu. I love hearing it."

Heaven knows how jealous he gets whenever he hears her call Zening by name.

A delicate, soft-spoken beauty * a foul-mouthed young master with a dark expression

One-on-one, both leads are each other's first and only

Childhood sweethearts

A story about a frail young lady from a branch family and her frosty, sharp-tongued cousin

Upcoming novel

A Bite of Sweetness

Sheng Hua, the young lady of the Grand Secretary's household, is thought by everyone to be unlucky and short-lived. When she was four, in the depths of winter, someone pushed her into a river. After she was rescued, she was left with a host of illnesses and bedridden for months on end. Everyone knows she won't live to see her sixteenth birthday.

The old Grand Secretary dotes on this granddaughter the most. When he hears that a wedding to a man might bring her good fortune and save her life, he sets out to find her a husband.

After much deliberation, he chooses Shen Lianchan, a young man from Prince Kang's household.

But the boy is proud and unyielding. He resents being stuck in the inner quarters to look after such a sickly girl, becoming a live-in son-in-law and childhood husband.

Back then, what Sheng Hua hears most often are the boy's resentful, aggrieved complaints.

"Sheng Hua, if you're going to die, do it soon. Don't drag me down with you."

"Sheng Hua, you've ruined my life!"

"Sheng Hua, why don't you just never wake up?"

Hearing this, Sheng Hua only gazes at him coolly and coughs. "Sorry. Please bear with me a little longer."

Spring turns to winter, and four years pass. In the end, Sheng Hua doesn't make it to her sixteenth birthday. She closes her eyes for good without seeing the boy's bloodshot eyes.

Later, the boy becomes the empire's bravest and most capable general, rising to the first rank in the official hierarchy. He never marries, and in the ancestral hall stands a memorial tablet inscribed, "My wife, Lady Sheng."

Unexpectedly, fate plays a cruel trick. After living a glorious life, he wakes up back in the year he was ten.

The year the Sheng family's daughter is to choose a husband, his heart trembles and his eyes turn eagerly toward Sheng Hua on her sedan chair. He waits for her to choose him.

But the girl doesn't even glance at him. Instead, she looks at a young scholar nearby, who is rather handsome. "Young Master Chu, would you be willing?"

He is stunned, staring blankly as she chooses someone else.

But he doesn't believe it. He only wants one more chance to stay by her side.

He comes up with every excuse to visit the Grand Secretary's residence, just to see her, but is turned away on the grounds that men and women should not touch. Unable to accept this, he stops her, his hands trembling as he lowers his voice. "Miss Sheng, I love you. Please don't choose him!"

Sheng Hua takes a step back, her eyes reddening beneath her veiled hat. After a long pause, she says, "I am unlucky and unworthy of you, sir. You are destined for greatness. I wish you success and hope your dreams come true."

She has no idea that she herself became his lifelong dream long ago.

Content warning: one-on-one

Sweet and satisfying romance

The female lead's health will improve

The male lead tries to win his wife back

Both leads are reborn

A passionate, tender general * his delicate, pampered young wife

Thirteen-year age gap, with the wife raised and pampered by the male lead

The Villainess Is a Sickly Girl

She has a change of heart / delicate and precious / villainess * refined and self-controlled / noble and composed / Young Master Wen

Question: How should a sickly girl with little time left make the most of life?

Answer: There are plenty of fish in the sea. Why fixate on An Qishan?

Everyone in the capital of Luojing knows that the young lady of the Marquis's household is in love with the Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review. But whenever people hear about it, they shake their heads and lament that Lord An is truly unfortunate.

The young lady of the Marquis's household is notorious, but not for anything good: she's arrogant, spoiled, and willful!

At first, Liu Zhouzhou scoffs at the rumors, until she suddenly discovers that she is a villainess, and a short-lived, sickly one at that...

A short-lived villainess who won't even get a glance from him before she dies.

Question: How should a sickly girl with little time left make the most of life?

Answer: There are plenty of fish in the sea. Why fixate on An Qishan?

She suddenly comes to her senses and stops focusing on him. All she thinks about now is enjoying life while she can.

**

Liu Zhouzhou's mother anxiously advises her: "Zhouzhou, the new top scholar is in love with you. Why don't you..."

Liu Zhouzhou, who should have flown into a rage, unexpectedly nods gently. "I'll leave it to you, Mother."

Liu Mother: "?!"

How many hundreds of times has she tried to persuade her? Why has Zhouzhou suddenly come around?

**

Liu Zhouzhou has let go, but An Qishan is driven to despair.

The woman who used to run into him three times a day suddenly disappears from his sight altogether?

When he first hears she's meeting the new top scholar, he only laughs coolly. It's just a ploy to make him chase her!

When he next hears she's checking their birth charts for compatibility, he narrows his eyes. She's just pretending to give him the cold shoulder!

Only when his subordinate says with a troubled expression, "My lord, it seems they've set the date! The eighth day of the eighth month..."

The man's lips press together, and the jade thumb ring he has been turning over in his hand shatters to pieces.

"Bring her here!"

The man stares darkly at Liu Zhouzhou, radiant as the moon, and takes her white jade hand. "What, you started flirting and now you're stopping?"

Liu Zhouzhou: "?!!"

An Qishan gives a soft laugh. "Did I agree to that?"

Liu Zhouzhou stares at the possessiveness in the man's eyes, blinks, and bites her red lip. This... doesn't feel right.

Content warnings:

One-on-one, both leads are each other's first and only

The villainess might need a question mark

The male lead is devoted to one woman

Theme: Be strong and value yourself. Others won't be able to bully you