I Waited So Long for You, but You Never Came

● A powerful, high-ranking female chancellor x a delicate flower perched on a lofty peak

● A groveling-after-the-breakup story, an old-school, angsty, melodramatic romance. Thirteen-year age gap, older ambitious woman, older woman romance, an older woman who plays dirty.

Jiang Qionghua, the infamous chancellor, raises the orphaned daughter of her enemy so she can one day shove her into the abyss and take revenge all over again.

Who could have guessed that the girl would keep believing in her without reason, looking up to her with nothing but admiration and affection?

Years pass before Jiang Qionghua finds herself growing tender toward her. She conceals the truth about what happened back then and resolves to keep being a good guardian, protecting her for the rest of her life.

That is, until she realizes the girl has mistaken her for someone else.

When Ming Yishu transmigrated into a book, she was feverish. She didn't hear the System's mission clearly, but remembered that she had to help the protagonist, who was one of her benefactors.

The next day, she woke up after her fever broke to find Jiang Qionghua, a powerful court official, sitting beside her bed. Jiang Qionghua claimed to have saved her life, so Ming Yishu decided she was her benefactor. From then on, she stood by Jiang Qionghua unconditionally.

The whole world gnashed their teeth and cursed them.

Ming Yishu kept insisting that Chancellor Jiang was a good person.

Everyone said Jiang Qionghua, the right chancellor and the most powerful official at court, was ruthless and cruel.

But everyone knew that the eyes of this ruthless killer softened with tenderness whenever she looked at Ming Yishu.

One time, when she was drunk,

Ming Yishu let the truth spill out and clutched Jiang Qionghua's sleeve as she rambled on.

Jiang Qionghua's heart turned cold. She had mistaken her for someone else.

The person Ming Yishu was talking about had been destroyed by Jiang Qionghua long ago.

Later, after learning the truth, Ming Yishu packed her things and prepared to leave in the middle of the night.

When she opened the door, she saw someone standing in the heavy snow, dressed in splendid robes and radiating solemn authority. It was Jiang Qionghua, there to block her way.

Jiang Qionghua calmly draped a cloak over her shoulders and whispered, "Stay, and I'll let bygones be bygones."

● Major warning: This is a truly old-school groveling-after-the-breakup story. The love interest doesn't change. The love interest doesn't change. The receiving partner suffers in the first half, the pursuing partner in the second, with the pain split evenly.

● A reckless writing style, but the ending will be happy (and the extra chapters will confirm both leads are virgins).

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Cover art used with permission. Many thanks to Mo Yao Ling Azang.

■ Currently serialized: "The Third Year After I Killed My Senior Sister"

Le Rao often thought that without Senior Sister Ye Xijun, she would surely be the most outstanding disciple in the Immortal Realm.

She was always jealous of her senior sister.

Her jealousy built up until, at last, when her senior sister was in mortal danger, Le Rao pushed her into the abyss. At that moment, the wind howled, whipping her senior sister's long hair around. Le Rao was feeling triumphant when she heard her senior sister say she liked her.

Flustered and confused, Le Rao ran back to her room and tried to calm herself by tidying up.

Then she found a love letter at the bottom of a trunk. It was one she'd written to her senior sister many years ago.

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The first disciple of the Immortal Sect and a heaven-blessed prodigy, Ye Xijun returned after going missing. In the third year after her return, everyone in the sect rejoiced, except for her most beloved junior sister, Le Rao.

Le Rao watched her senior sister come back from the dead, trembling all over.

"Don't expose me."

She didn't want to be thrown out, so she could only beg her senior sister for forgiveness. "Please, Senior Sister."

But when she knelt by her senior sister's skirt, she learned that Ye Xijun didn't remember what had happened before.

So Le Rao cruelly tricked her senior sister into going to the edge of the abyss again, planning to use the same trick. This time, though, Ye Xijun grabbed her wrist and held on tight.

"Junior Sister, I gave you a chance." Ye Xijun smiled faintly and looked into her eyes.

■ A dark, unsettling historical girls' love story

Theme: Reform a villain and learn to be a decent person.