A Secret Springtime

*Main story complete The eldest Miss of the He family has returned to the capital. This young lady is breathtakingly beautiful, but has no manners or upbringing. As soon as she returned to the capital, she began pestering Lord Shen every day. Everyone knows Lord Shen is upright, self-disciplined, and courteous. He became the commander of the Imperial City Department at a young age, and could never fall for a woman like her. Just as expected, Lord Shen never paid any attention to her advances. He Yan is in love with the Second Prince, and her lifelong wish is to marry him. Unfortunately, there are too many women who want to marry him, and her looks are her only advantage. Knowing that the Second Prince is especially fond of women who are devoted to someone else, and that the more tragically their love goes unreturned, the more his pity they win, she decides to draw his attention by creating the image of a lovesick woman. Shen Zhiheng is the man she chooses to use. The colder and more distant Commander Shen is, the more pitiful she seems. With that air of pitifulness, she finally moves the Second Prince, who arranges to meet her at Moonlit Bridge on the Qixi Festival. On the night of Qixi, she dresses and adorns herself with exquisite jewelry, then waits on the bridge until late at night. When Shen Zhiheng arrives, he sees her dressed in all her finery. A side of her he has never seen before. He Yan turns around, joy on her face giving way to alarm. "Why is it you?" Shen Zhiheng's expression is indifferent, his gaze dark. "Who else would it be?" In the pouring rain, he closes in on her step by step. "Who did you hope it would be?" Content warning: The heroine really does use the hero, and really is in love with the second male lead at first. She's a shameless love fraud. Coming soon: "If This Doesn't Work, I'm Leaving." Add it to your collection if you're interested~ Jiaojiao transmigrates into the heroine of a cultivation novel. Although the male lead is involved with women everywhere and treats her, his official wife, like a decoration, there's one thing... He has an unparalleled dual cultivation physique! If she sticks with him, she can ascend without lifting a finger! A year before she's due to meet the male lead, Jiaojiao, still weak as a kitten, decisively heads for his sect. Just as she's about to go in and find him, a blood-soaked man falls right at her feet. Sharp brows, bright eyes, handsome and broad-shouldered, with a tiny mole above his right eyebrow. This is the one. Jiaojiao carries him home, nurses him back to health with precious herbs and treasures, then persuades the man to cultivate with her. But strangely, even though she gains a little each time they finish cultivating, the results are nowhere near as incredible as the original novel described. After cultivating eight hundred times, she finally realizes she's found the wrong person. So, on the night he proposes, she runs away. When they meet again, she and the male lead have already decided to marry, so she accompanies him to pay a visit to the old ancestor of his sect. She kneels, looks up, and their eyes meet. Jiaojiao: ...Why does this old ancestor look kind of familiar? Male lead: Mm. Lots of people say I look a bit like him, especially because of the mole above his eyebrow. Jiaojiao: ...Ha. When Huo Xiao was gravely injured, a young female cultivator saved him. As they spent their days together, he gradually fell in love with her. The young cultivator was wonderful in every way, except that every time they finished doing that, she'd stare at him with a suspicious look. The old ancestor of a sect, who had lived for over a thousand years, felt insecure for the first time. So before each encounter, he would take a handful of spirit medicine. But no matter how hard he tried, the young cultivator only grew more and more dissatisfied with him, and in the end, she still ran away on the night he proposed. He thought she was dissatisfied with his abilities. But when he saw her appear with his grand-disciple, he understood everything. Huo Xiao: Heh. Theme: Persevere and strive to improve, and be a good person.