Becoming the Marquis's Wife After a Matchmaking Meeting

Cover art credit: artist Taorong

Blurb:

Everyone said Zhu Jiugen was a hibiscus in full bloom, a beauty of incomparable grace.

But when her father died, her fiance broke off their engagement, claiming she had brought about his father's death.

Her mother wept over her marriage prospects, but Zhu Jiugen couldn't help laughing. "At last, I don't have to marry a man five feet tall."

Her mother: "..."

Later, to keep people from gossiping about her mother, Zhu Jiugen had no choice but to seek a suitable husband at the town's matchmaking fair. She prayed to the Buddha in her heart: "Please bless your faithful devotee with a good husband this time."

*

Chen Fan thought he would be alone for the rest of his life. His family had fallen apart, and both his parents were dead.

Unable to remain in the capital, he bid farewell to his mentor and set off on a life of study and travel.

But later, he began having the same dream over and over. In it, he was entangled in passion with a woman.

He thought it was just a physical problem, but one day, when he looked up, he found a young woman smiling at him.

On the day of the matchmaking fair, he saw the woman's smiling eyes and lips three shades redder than flowers.

Chen Fan's lips curved slightly as he held out a flower to her. "I like you."

*

Zhu Jiugen was utterly astonished. The young doctor who had pulled her tooth that day had come to meet her as a potential husband.

She instinctively wanted to refuse, but when she saw his peerlessly handsome face, the kind that made her heart race and cheeks flush at a glance, her words suddenly took a different turn. "Dr. Chen, it'll be you."

Not long after they married, the young doctor said the court was in turmoil and he had to return to the capital to bring his family back.

She didn't want him to go, but she couldn't make him abandon his family, either. All she could do was wipe away her tears as she saw him off at the edge of town.

Half a year later, Zhu Jiugen, now heavily pregnant, stared at the people kneeling respectfully before her: "..."

She was completely dumbfounded.

Only when she saw Chen Fan in white jade robes, radiating noble elegance, did Zhu Jiugen realize that what she had once thought were lies to placate her had all been true.

[Bonus Scene]

The day he pulled her tooth, Chen Fan picked up a tool and brought it to her mouth. "Open wide."

Staring at the sharp instrument in his hand, Zhu Jiugen asked with a trembling voice, "Dr. Chen, would it be all right not to pull this tooth?"

Seeing her shaking her head vigorously, Chen Fan instructed his assistant, "Hold her head still for me."

Zhu Jiugen: "..."

I'm not getting this tooth pulled!

Blurb for the new novel, Will the Princess Say Yes to Marriage Today?

Xie Wan was born a princess of Qin and the apple of the Emperor and Empress's eyes.

The palace staff all said that Princess Duanmin was like the moon in the sky: cool, noble, and beyond anyone's reach.

But only Song Yu, the hostage prince from Song, knew how wild Xie Wan could be in private.

She teased maids, visited brothels, played majiang, and had a knack for almost every dissolute pastime.

That night, Song Yu, dressed in black, traversed the skies above the capital.

Suddenly, he heard a sobbing voice. He stopped.

"P-please, young master, spare me..."

"Good girl, I, Master Xie, won't let you down."

Song Yu: "..."

*

Everyone said that Song Yu, the seventh prince of Song, was a useless idiot. He had been sent to Qin as a hostage at six, couldn't recite the rules for students at eight, and still couldn't use a bow at ten.

Though handsome and charming as an adult, he had barely a drop of ink in his belly.

Even after the Emperor of Qin betrothed the eldest princess to him, people still said the old emperor must have been blackmailed by the idiot into giving his eldest princess to him.

Who could have guessed that one day news would arrive from the front lines: the general who had destroyed Song was none other than that useless idiot, Song Yu...

Everyone: "..."

Best not to provoke him, best not to provoke him. When that idiot gets ruthless, he even wipes out his own people.

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