A Stunning Flower Has Come to Town

In high school, Jin Lize was addicted to the internet. His father, a variety-show director, kicked him out to a remote mountain village and confiscated all his electronic devices and credit cards, claiming it was to "experience life."

Just a few days after filming began, Jin Lize had punched two cameramen, kicked three cameras, cursed out every man, woman, and child in the village, and made countless escape attempts.

After being caught and dragged back time and again, he could only resign himself to his fate.

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During filming, Jin Lize stayed with a local family. The homeowner's granddaughter, Xiaohua, was a super-strong little girl who could lift a massive cauldron. People called her the Peony of Nantang.

Xiaohua respected her elders, cared for the young, and was kind and simple-hearted. Compared with Jin Lize, whom everyone hated, she was much more popular with the villagers.

But no one could have imagined that this young master, whom even dogs ignored, would later become Xiaohua's husband.

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At the wedding banquet back in the village, the newlyweds went around toasting the guests.

Looking at the villagers around the table, all holding their glasses and grinning knowingly, Jin Lize, the live-in son-in-law, suddenly understood a lesson about life:

The swagger you put on when you're young will eventually come back to collect its due.

Simple village girl VS proud peacock

Note:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads' first relationship, happy ending.

2. The main story takes place at university, with the variety-show portion appearing in flashbacks.

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[Coming Soon] Matchmaker's Mission

Yun Yao transmigrated, and to return to the modern world, she had to complete a matchmaker mission.

The mission had three complications:

1. The heroine's father was the chancellor. He claimed to support the Jin dynasty, but in truth he was a traitor who meant to steal the throne. The hero was a frail emperor with no real power, bullied by the treacherous chancellor.

2. Yun Yao had transmigrated as the lowest-ranking maid in the Sikong household, and couldn't even get close to the heroine.

3. When she arrived, the heroine had just finished beating up the emperor after stuffing him into a sack.

Yun Yao: "..."

If you want her dead, just say so!

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After working tirelessly, Yun Yao finally got promoted to the heroine's personal maid. Just as she was about to bring the heroine and the emperor together, disaster struck.

Xiahou Qing, a warlord from Xiliang, invaded Chang'an with a hundred thousand cavalry and demanded the heroine's hand in marriage.

To ensure the mission's success, Yun Yao had to sacrifice herself for the cause. Disguised as a man and posing as a stable hand, she went undercover by Xiahou Qing's side to sabotage the wedding.

From then on, whenever her lord rode, she held the reins; when he was thirsty, she brought him tea; when he was tired, she made his bed. She also took the opportunity to whisper things like, "The chancellor's daughter is ugly and wicked. My lord absolutely must not marry that monster."

As time went by, Xiahou Qing began looking at her strangely.

One day, he found her in the stable, holding freshly picked flowers. "Yao Yao, I want to break off my engagement with the chancellor's daughter and marry you instead. What do you say?"

Good grief. Has he been single so long that even a stable hand looks pretty to him?

Never mind. If you look at it one way, this counts as a successful defection.

Yun Yao gritted her teeth and gave in to the bandit.

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Years later, the heroine and the emperor finally married, and Yun Yao had completed her mission. She slung her bundle over her shoulder and prepared to run.

On the day she left, she stood atop a high altar and saw Xiahou Qing galloping toward her through a billowing cloud of dust, with thousands upon thousands of troops behind him.

"Yun Yao, you dare to leave!"

His eyes red, he cracked his whip and shouted at her from below the high platform.

The last thing Yun Yao saw was the fearsome god of war from the northwest tumbling from his horse and rushing toward her without a second thought, reaching desperately for her sleeve.

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She had forgotten that many years ago, she had been the Red Luan goddess, in charge of love between men and women in the world. The stars of the Milky Way filled her eyes, and the bustle of the mortal world could not touch the hem of her robe.

He was a little white dragon from the Eastern Sea. On his way to the Buddhist assembly in the thirty-third heaven of the Western Paradise, he happened upon her drinking beneath a bodhi tree. One glance was enough to take his breath away, and desire took root in his heart.

Later, dressed in a fiery red robe, she stood atop the clouds, her beautiful features as cold as ice, her robe fluttering in the wind.

"Demon, surrender!"

The Houyi bow blazed with golden light. She nocked an arrow and shot it straight into his heart.

"A dragon's scales are the hardest armor, yet dragons have the softest hearts in the world. I'm giving you my heart-protecting scale. It means I'm offering you my life with both hands."

That day, the young Dragon King, his heart aching beyond endurance, let out a piercing dragon's cry. The Four Seas trembled, the divine palace fell, and black energy surged through the Dragon King's deep blue eyes as he became a demon.

One day after that, the Red Luan goddess, now reborn as a mortal, had a dream. She dreamed she was riding on a dragon's back and heard the white dragon's clear voice:

"I'll take you soaring through the sea of clouds, to see the rivers and mountains stretching for ten thousand miles."

Present life: Clever maid VS devoted lord

Past life: Red Luan goddess VS Dragon King of the Four Seas

Note:

1. Both leads' first relationship, happy ending, with a past-life storyline.

2. The setting is a fictionalized Wei-Jin era. Please don't nitpick the history.

Theme: Building up one's hometown