The Mingcan Chronicles

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To outsiders, Ming Can, the legitimate daughter of the Chief Justice's family, had a lovely, peach-blossom face framed by cloudlike hair. With her beauty and family background, she was sure to have a good marriage and a smooth, happy life.

Only Ming Can knew that beneath her seemingly rosy life lay enough torment to make her feel as if she were being fried in oil.

Her parents, who had once been a married couple, had torn each other apart before divorcing, loving and hating one another. Her father remarried a princess, while her mother married into a prosperous family in another region and started a new household.

In the Ming family's inner quarters, her half-siblings either had their mothers or their concubine mothers. Every one of them had a birth mother to protect them. She alone was a little cabbage with a father who didn't care and a mother who didn't love her.

Ming Can was used to enjoying a comfortable life and didn't like suffering in silence. So she quietly clenched her fists and vowed to herself that once she had saved enough money, she would get as far away from the Ming family as possible.

But her unreliable father actually told her to marry the capital's famous sickly Fifth Prince as a bride to bring him good fortune. Ming Can felt she was terribly unlucky.

She had no choice but to marry Xie Yu, the Fifth Prince, who was out of favor with the emperor, had been given a poor estate, and had little money of his own. He looked so sickly that Ming Can thought she might well be widowed young, and just wanted to lie flat.

But Ming Can gradually came to feel that making the best of things and becoming a pair of "poor, idle nobles" with the gentle and approachable Fifth Prince was much better than fighting with her half-siblings at the Ming household like two cocks with black eyes.

She had thought the unpopular Fifth Prince would stay unpopular forever. But fate, which loved to play tricks, took an unexpected turn. By a stroke of luck, Ming Can ended up marrying the future emperor, who had won the battle for the throne. It was enough to make everyone green with envy.

The more she interacted with him, the more Ming Can realized that the Fifth Prince was nothing like he seemed...

Beneath his refined, gentle, and gentlemanly exterior was a black-hearted glutinous rice ball with a sesame filling ╮(‵▽′)╭

Tips:

A beautiful legitimate daughter x a scheming emperor with a gentle exterior and a dark heart

One-on-one, both leads' first time, happy ending; marriage before love; sweet romance; farming and household intrigue; heroine grows over time

Ming Can means "bright and radiant"

They grow up in Chapter 24

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Blurb for The Powerful Minister's Young Stepmother:

Zheng Rou was a daughter of the Xingyang Zheng clan. With her fair skin and flowerlike beauty, she had been the apple of her family's elders' eyes since childhood, and their doting had nurtured her into a kind and gentle young woman, pure as fine jade.

When she came of age, she became engaged to the refined and noble heir of Prince Ping's household. They were a perfect match, a union everyone envied.

After trusting the wrong person, Zheng Rou was framed by someone secretly jealous of her. She spent a night with Lu Chengyuan, Prince Wei, the powerful regent who assisted the young emperor.

She thought that after ending her engagement with the man she loved, she would have to cut off her hair and spend the rest of her life beside the Buddha's lamp.

But she had no idea that from then on, a pair of obsessive, cold eyes would secretly watch her, plotting to pluck her, newly come of age and still inexperienced, from the branch, to spend night after night entwined with her in endless intimacy...

Tips: There is a large age gap between the leads. The male lead is an older man whose dormant passions have caught fire. Marriage before love.

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Lu Wan was the legitimate daughter of the Fanyang Lu clan, cherished by her parents from childhood.

With her fair skin and beautiful face, and her kind nature, she was highly regarded by the young women of the capital.

When she came of age, she became engaged to the second son of the equally prominent Xie family. They were a perfect match, a union everyone envied.

After trusting the wrong person, Lu Wan was framed by someone consumed with jealousy and sent to the bed of Xie Xingzhi, head of the Xie family and the powerful regent who held the reins of power.

She thought that after ending her engagement with the man she loved, she would have to cut off her hair and spend the rest of her life beside the Buddha's lamp.

But who could have expected that the powerful, cold, and ruthless regent would marry her as his second wife, with a grand bridal procession stretching for miles?

Tips: The leads have a large age gap, with the male lead being older. The male lead is an older man whose dormant passions have caught fire. The heroine is clever and clear-headed, and always repays a grudge. She's no pushover. Marriage before love.

Premise: Making yourself happy is what matters most.