Mistaking My Childhood Friend for My Husband

This novel is tentatively scheduled to take part in a limited-time free promotion on August 21! Upcoming novels: The Princess Is Feeling So Melancholy Today and Betrothed to My Mortal Enemy. Currently serializing: After My Early-Dying First Wife Was Reborn. Blurbs below. If you enjoy it, please show your support. Thank you!

This novel's blurb

Everyone in Shengjing knows that Commandery Princess Zhao Yanyan and the young general Cheng Xun are childhood sweethearts, bickering lovers!

The two have been rivals since childhood, each determined to make the other lose.

Over time, even Zhao Yanyan's Persian cat would claw at Cheng Xun's hunting dog whenever it saw it.

Just as Zhao Yanyan thought they would go on like this forever, she began having strange dreams...

Then, just as in her dreams, rumors began spreading in the capital that Cheng Xun had caused trouble over a woman and had been banished to the frontier.

Under the astonished gazes of those around her, she pretended to be nonchalant. "This is a major life event. I absolutely can't let him get ahead of me!"

But when she was alone, she couldn't hold back. Clutching a jade box full of memories, she cursed and wiped away her tears.

She decisively set up a competition to choose a husband, determined to settle her marriage before Cheng Xun found his match.

She'd lost in her dream, but this time, she had to win!

When the winner was finally crowned, Zhao Yanyan forced a smile and asked awkwardly, "You? Are you to be my future husband?"

The gentleman turned at the sound of her voice. He was none other than Cheng Xun, whom she would recognize even reduced to ashes. He bluntly told her that if she backed out, he'd tell the whole world how she had spied on him while he bathed...

Well then! Can someone tell her whether that dream was accurate or not?

---------A little post-marriage scene------------

After the wedding, Zhao Yanyan followed her husband to the frontier. As she strolled through the rear courtyard, she heard an attendant mimicking someone with remarkable accuracy.

"I've had a childhood sweetheart at my side since I was little, and I've long cherished her. She's always had a temper, so she certainly won't tolerate another woman within three paces of me!"

Only then did Zhao Yanyan realize that someone was even more stubborn than she was!

A few reading notes:

Both leads are virgins. All the twists and turns are the author's craziness, and have nothing to do with the morality of these two little darlings!

A daily-life story about two ancient-era kids who are secretly in love but too stubborn to admit it!

The setting is fictional, so don't worry about historical accuracy!

There are side couples in the story. Feel free to skip those parts if you mind. (Ruyi Niang's couple is a woman-not-man pairing, so please stay away if you dislike that!!!!)

Upcoming novel: The Princess Is Feeling So Melancholy Today

With a sudden flip, the disheveled little princess dragged her quilt behind her to the desk, grabbed a split-tipped brush, and wet it in her mouth.

That night, the little princess, considered useless by the world, stayed up late writing by lamplight.

When dawn broke, Jiang Yaozhi crouched on her chair, biting the brush and staring blankly at the mess of ink before her.

As she had seen in her dream, her elder brother the Crown Prince went south to Jiangnan and met a beautiful white lotus, no, an exceptionally beautiful woman. He lost his self-control and, concealing his identity, began an affair with her.

Her brother brought the white lotus back to the palace and took her as a low-ranking consort.

After that, the Eastern Palace put on a spectacular show: "The low-ranking consort cries, and the favored consort suffers; the low-ranking consort flees, and another consort is demoted; the low-ranking consort smiles, and the Crown Princess dies of sorrow."

And that low-ranking consort even became the new Crown Princess, living happily ever after with her Crown Prince brother as his one and only??!!

Jiang Yaozhi ground her teeth in fury, biting the brush until its tip frayed and staining her lips black, ah, she'd forgotten to wash the brush!

Her brother had bullied his Crown Princess and committed such a shameless, disgraceful act. Did he think Father and Mother were already dead?

As she plotted how to poison her father's mind against her brother, her eyes fell on another name.

Huo Yunji, the Crown Princess's younger brother, her mortal enemy, and the "villainous mastermind" in that whole drama. After his sister died young, he broke off his engagement to Jiang Yaozhi and became the Crown Prince's sworn adversary.

She'd wanted to break off the engagement with him for a long time, but he was her childhood sweetheart!

She wasn't like her brother, heartless and disloyal enough to turn around and betray his childhood sweetheart.

She had to help Huo Yunji get even!

Rubbing her chin, Jiang Yaozhi dashed out of the palace and stopped Huo Yunji, who sat upright in armor atop a tall horse.

"Aji, do you like white lotuses?"

Ever since childhood, Huo Yunji had known that his sister would become the Crown Princess for the sake of the troops in Jiangbei, and that he would become the consort of Princess Liancheng.

He had held that little hand and stayed by her side until she came of age, yet still felt that his feelings for her were nothing but an unavoidable duty.

Until the day she looked up in the warm winter sunshine, her eyes reflecting his image, and asked him,

"Aji, do you like lotus flowers?"

At that moment, his heart pounded like a deer's...

Upcoming novel: Betrothed to My Mortal Enemy

Huan Lingzi, daughter of the Grand Princess, was blessed with beautiful features and refined grace. She was the brightest pearl in the Eastern Capital.

Yet her lovely eyes held only one person: her chronically ill cousin, Prince Rui.

But at a palace banquet, Prince Rui chose the Imperial Tutor's youngest legitimate daughter as his princess consort, and Huan Lingzi finally gave up hope.

She shut herself away for some peace and quiet, sighing that her plan to soon become a widow had come to nothing.

Who could have guessed that barely half a month later, her mortal enemy Di Xi would arrive from the northern lands with armored cavalry, declaring that he had come to marry Huan Lingzi, who was already betrothed to him.

When he produced the betrothal token her father had given him while drunk, Huan Lingzi gritted her teeth.

Before she could think of a way to make Di Xi give up, Prince Rui appeared again, claiming that she was the only one he had ever loved.

Her escape was blocked. Huan Lingzi glanced at Di Xi, deeply troubled.

"I like men who are elegant and graceful, but you're naturally brutish. I like men who are courteous and kind, but you're deceitful and vindictive. I like men with faces as handsome as jade, but you..."

All right, she couldn't really find fault with Di Xi's face...

But Huan Lingzi simply didn't like Di Xi!

She'd disliked him since they were children. Even when he gave her the pony she loved most, she still couldn't stand him!

While Huan Lingzi fumed, Di Xi folded his arms and looked at Prince Rui, who was still pursuing her, his words dripping with teasing.

"Oh? You don't think I'm good enough and don't want to marry me. Then are you planning to marry him?"

She glanced behind her, silently cursing her rotten luck, then smiled coldly and bowed toward the palace.

"I only wish to petition to enter the Daoist order and become a female Daoist priest, praying for our dynasty's prosperity and its blessings to endure!"

Currently serializing: After My Early-Dying First Wife Was Reborn

Drunk and reeling, He Qiuniang fell into an old dream from her previous life.

The blind village girl who brewed wine, the first wife abandoned in a little courtyard by her childhood sweetheart of a husband, the lowly thing noblewomen deemed no better than grass, the woman who died in the wilderness carrying twins, all of them were her, He Wenhua.

The name her father had carefully chosen and the "Wenhua" her husband had whispered against her ear came together with a pain that pierced her heart. He Qiuniang awoke from the nightmare and wiped the tears from her face, pressing a hand to her flat belly... From now on, she would simply be He Qiuniang.

If she could brew the strongest liquor in the world, why should she get entangled with such a man again in this new life?

On her journey to find her father and return home, He Qiuniang once again met the person who had helped her so much in her previous life. Day by day, they grew closer and more familiar.

She put that old dream behind her and secretly gave her heart to him, drawn step by step to Fang Yanqing. But by chance, she discovered secrets that had been deliberately hidden.

When she confronted him, her Fang Yanqing left without a word, leaving behind the wooden hairpin her childhood sweetheart had carved for her with his own hands.

They met again when a new prefect arrived in this frontier city. The man shared a surname with her childhood sweetheart, Xu Yu.

Only then did He Qiuniang understand: the "Fang Yanqing" she had trusted in both her lives had lied even about his name.

Learning that her childhood sweetheart had long since died, He Qiuniang chose to let go of the past and present herself as Xu Yu's widow. She would no longer try to draw close to someone she shouldn't, and she didn't want to investigate what heart-devouring truth might still be hidden in that old dream of a life.

But the bastard who had deceived her time and time again grabbed her wrist and pressed her against the desk.

Just as they had once slept with their necks entwined, he held her hand, dipped it in wine, and wrote four characters, stroke by stroke.

"In the clouds and rain, Wenhua, you should call me your husband as you did before."

Theme: Face challenges with unyielding resilience.