The Building Block Game

Blurb

As a female detective, Xing Rou is sharp and decisive, with an uncanny knack for solving cases. Still young, she has already become the captain of her district’s criminal investigation team, with a successful career to show for it.

Unfortunately, though Xing Rou is successful at work, she has reached thirty while still single. As a result, her mother never misses a chance to lecture her and drag her to all kinds of matchmaking dinners.

On this day, following her mother’s orders as usual, she went to a distant relative’s wedding (which was really a matchmaking setup). She didn’t expect the beautiful bride to be murdered at the wedding banquet, her body dumped by the quiet lake beside the hotel.

As Xing Rou led her team through the investigation, she made a startling discovery: the bride wasn’t the only victim in this murder case...

Reader’s guide:

1. Not a game story or a wish-fulfillment story. Plot-driven, with a mystery-solving focus and a dark tone.

2. The investigation takes center stage, with romance secondary. Slow burn.

3. All criminal methods in this story are fictional and impractical. Do not imitate or learn them.

4. The characters’ values do not represent the author’s. Please obey the law and be good citizens.

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I. Historical romance, currently updating: Reflections of Snow on the Spring Terrace

A scheming, fake demure, wandering orphan x a compassionate, true gentleman, an injured general

Ji Shuyan married Qin Yin.

Everyone thought Ji Shuyan had gotten the short end of the deal, and even Qin Yin thought so.

But Ji Shuyan knew in her heart that she was the one who had married above her station.

The heroine’s introduction:

After Ji Chongshan, the governor of Liangzhou, was assassinated, his widow Qin Sixian returned to the capital with her stepdaughter and two children to seek refuge with her family, the General Who Guards the Nation’s household.

Ji Shuyan was that stepdaughter.

Knowing her status was unusual, Ji Shuyan was docile and considerate in the general’s household, careful with her words and actions. She never fought with anyone or drew attention to herself.

As she approached her coming-of-age ceremony, Ji Shuyan attracted three rotten love interests:

One was another woman’s fiancé, one was a flirtatious playboy, and one was a widower nearly fifty years old.

Ji Shuyan didn’t want any of the three.

If she had to marry, she would pick the best man herself.

The hero’s introduction:

After a devastating defeat in the Battle of Beichuan, Qin Yin, once the darling of the heavens, fell into the mire.

He lost an arm and his parents and family. After that, he shut himself away in the western courtyard.

The outside world said he was a demon god reborn, possessed by an evil spirit, and that this was why the court had lost the war and his parents had died.

Whether it was slander or fear, Qin Yin paid no attention. He neither cared nor gave it a thought.

He thought he would quietly live out his life as an evil spirit. Then one day, a little girl in a purple dress suddenly barged in.

From then on: “The bright moon is clear, and snow shines on the spring terrace.”

[I was a wandering ghost in this world, but for her, I was willing to enter the mortal realm.]

II. Contemporary romance, in the works: The Nightingale and the Rose

Do you believe that people can come back from the dead?

Zhuang Jing didn’t believe it.

Not until six months after her fiancé died,

when she met a man who looked exactly like him.

Romantic suspense, episodic cases, dark stories

Blurb screenshotted on June 1, 2023

III. Historical romance, in the works: Spring Fragrance, Dew Thick

Huo Yuan married Shen Wanrong to climb the social ladder and use the influence of her older sister, Lady Fu, to restore his family’s fortunes.

Shen Wanrong married Huo Yuan to avoid disaster and escape becoming a pawn in the court’s succession struggle.

In this marriage of convenience, and in the clash between an innocent fool and a cunning hunter, who will emerge the winner?

Huo Yuan thought that after marrying Shen Wanrong, all he needed to do was keep her like a chrysanthemum and tend to her carefully. He never expected that this chrysanthemum would eventually take root in his heart.

Shen Wanrong thought Huo Yuan kept his distance because he respected and protected her. It wasn’t until she regained her intelligence that she understood: Huo Yuan did respect and protect her, but he simply didn’t love her.

Also known as My Brother-in-Law Is the Emperor, I Lost My Wife After Rising to Power, and I Fell in Love with My Foolish Wife

* The heroine really is foolish at first. She has the innocence of a young child, not something wrong with her brain. She’ll get better later.

* The hero is scheming and calculating, and not a good person in the conventional sense.

* Overall, this is a conventional sweet historical romance.

The blurb may be revised later. This version was screenshotted on April 2, 2022.

Theme: Don’t do evil, no matter how small