The Fragrance of Dust, the Flowers Yet to Fade

The companion novel, "The Bandit Girl and Her Purehearted Darling Husband," is complete. If you're interested, click on the author's profile and scroll down to the blurb. Mwah~

Blurb:

A delicate, bashful young princess vs. a stern, alluring valley master

A military coup destroyed Princess Huan'er's kingdom and family. While being escorted out of the capital, she was poisoned by a rebel general and collapsed on Qishan Mountain. Fortunately, Li Beichen, master of Wuyou Valley, saved her.

The first time she saw Li Beichen after waking up was in a pitch-black secret chamber filled with the smell of blood. Dressed in black and holding a candleholder, he looked at her with a gaze cold enough to pierce to the bone.

At first, she thought he was a cruel and ruthless man, so she deliberately kept her distance.

But she never expected that the year she spent with him in Wuyou Valley would be the happiest time of her life.

Li Beichen had once been a lively young master who loved to joke around. When he was sixteen, a mysterious blank letter led to the brutal deaths of his entire family. His personality changed completely after that, until he rescued a frail woman on the brink of death on Qishan Mountain, and his icy soul gradually warmed.

The truth behind the national feud and family vendetta was revealed by the blank letter from eight years ago.

After fighting side by side time and again and enduring countless hardships, they finally executed the rebel general and restored the heir to his throne.

She didn't want to be a princess again.

All she wished for in this life was to stay by his side on Qishan Mountain, wholeheartedly devoted to each other.

A lighthearted scene:

The delicate young princess had planned to spend the rest of her days reading and painting in the valley, but her stern senior forced her to practice martial arts. After she made a mess of things time and again, she waited for a chance to get her revenge.

Li Beichen:

"Mm, you fell with just the right amount of force."

"You can't jump as high as you can crawl. I only had to rise onto my toes a little to pull you down!"

Huan'er:

"Senior Brother, that bowl of medicine I made you at noon... I got it wrong. I'll go look through the books again. It'll be ready soon!"

"You've just got an ordinary deficiency. It's easy to treat. I checked the books, and I promise I won't get it wrong this time."

Li Beichen: A deficiency... Hmm?

"The Bandit Girl and Her Purehearted Darling Husband" is complete. It's the second book in the Chenxiang series and tells the story of Li Beichen's parents.

Blurb:

Tang Di is the daughter of the chief of Congqi Mountain and a young lady from a marquis's household. Raised by her mother to be well-read, she is talented and beautiful, though she inherited a hint of her father's bandit spirit.

One rainy day, she took shelter in a teahouse at the foot of the mountain and happened to meet Li Shanpu, who was enjoying tea by the window. She was instantly smitten and wanted to abduct him to the mountain and make him her husband.

Li Shanpu, the young master of the provincial governor's household, was handsome and graceful, and excelled at both his studies and military command. But even though he was over twenty, he had never spent time with a woman.

Tang Di paid him a visit. She only had to move a little closer and stare at him for a few moments before his ears turned bright red with embarrassment.

To help him gather military secrets, she tricked him into going to a brothel, making him scold her softly: "How can a young lady behave like this!"

She accidentally got him drunk and stayed by his side all night. Only when their feelings were at their most intense did she learn that he was already engaged.

She sat alone by the window, weeping, while he hid the handkerchief embroidered with the character "Di" at the bottom of a chest.

By chance, they encountered assassins outside the city together. Li Shanpu risked his life to protect Tang Di.

It was the first time in his life he'd touched a woman. He was too rough, leaving her covered in bruises. She cried and called him a blockhead.

He carried her back to Congqi Mountain. Unable to forget her, he decided to break off his engagement and follow his heart.

Tang Di had thought she'd found sweet love, but she never imagined that being with this purehearted young man, as wooden as a block, would be such a headache.

As time went by, Tang Di finally accepted her fate. "What else can you do with such a handsome, devoted blockhead? Spoil him, of course~"

Li Shanpu: "I'm slowly catching on. Besides, which one of us is spoiling the other?"

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Theme: Walk hand in hand, and eventually the hard times will pass