The Cold Mountain Hears a Clear Song

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[Blurb:]

Hua Qingmian transmigrates into a revenge novel as a cannon-fodder supporting female character destined to change the male protagonist's fate.

When she comes to her senses, she's in the middle of selling the male lead, Baili Fengji, to a brothel to clean chamber pots.

She gasps: No!

In the original story, she is a general of the Hua Yue Kingdom who captures the male lead. She humiliates him in every way, forcing him to sell his body and perform, then keeps him as her private plaything, indulging in every form of degradation and abuse.

Baili Fengji is given the tragic, beautiful, powerful hero's story. He bides his time for three years before finally escaping her clutches.

When he returns in triumph, he first kills the incompetent emperor to avenge his family, then kills Hua Qingmian to avenge his humiliation. In the end, he becomes an overlord and unifies the northern lands...

Remembering how the original Hua Qingmian ends up sliced like a roast duck, Hua Qingmian grabs Baili Fengji and turns back.

At that moment, Baili Fengji furrows his exquisite brows, tears streaming down his face. "General, spare me! I'll serve you well and work like an ox or a horse!"

Hua Qingmian: He's pretending! He's lying! He didn't act like this when he was carving me up!

Her attendant doesn't understand. "General, where are we going? Weren't we going to teach this man a lesson, torment him to our hearts' content, and then kill him?"

Hua Qingmian: "I've read the signs, and today is filled with murderous energy. It would be inauspicious for this general to kill anyone."

One day without killing him...

Two days without killing him...

After that, Hua Qingmian treats Baili Fengji as an honored guest, cherishing him like the moon in her palm. She only hopes that when he rises to power and conquers the world, he'll spare her life.

Three years later, Hua Qingmian finally lives to see the ending of the book. Just as she's about to retire after accomplishing her mission, Baili Fengji has her abducted back to his enemy nation.

She doesn't understand. Is she doomed to end up as roast duck slices in this life too?

But Baili Fengji puts on that same tearful expression as before. "Don't go. Didn't you say you'd cherish me? Didn't you say you'd make love to me every night?"

Hua Qingmian is at a loss for words. "I only said that as a temporary measure. It doesn't count, so don't believe it."

"I believed you," Baili Fengji says. "What are you going to do about it?"

*

Baili Fengji is captured and given to General Hua as a servant.

If he refuses, he'll be sold to a brothel as a slave.

His family is already dead. Could things get any worse?

Just as he's resigned to his fate, Hua Qingmian changes her mind at the brothel's door.

After that, everything changes...

When Baili Fengji falls ill, she gets him treatment.

When Baili Fengji kills someone, she helps him bury the body.

When Baili Fengji runs away, she gives him money for the road.

Baili Fengji is finally touched. He loosens his robe: "Perhaps I should just give in to the general after all?"

Hua Qingmian covers her eyes. "No, no, no! This general knows a little bit about the Book of Changes. I cast a hexagram for you. Young Master Baili, you are blessed with great fortune in this life, destined to have eight wives and concubines and an unlimited future. It's best that you get going!"

Later, when he becomes a warlord and rules his own territory, his heart belongs only to the girl who took an arrow for him and sang a clear melody to him when he was gravely poisoned.

With the enemy at the gates, he stands on the road through Qingye Mountain and says to the girl betrayed by her friends and family, "Mianmian, come home with me..."

[Bewitching, sickly-sweet female general VS cunning, many-faced revenge-seeking man]

My next novel, Return of the Bright Moon, is coming soon!!! Please add it to your favorites!!

[Black-hearted beneath a sweet exterior, spirited young princess + ruthless general who's sweet beneath a dark exterior]

When Huo Fuyue left the grasslands to marry into another country, she was only a sixteen-year-old girl. She married Pei Yuncheng, the Yan Kingdom's great general, known as "the man with a thousand graves beneath his sword," as a princess.

At first, she pretended to be a cute, shy little white flower:

"Oh! Brother, your sword is so sharp. Fufu is scared!"

"Fufu is still young and can't serve her husband. I think of the general as an older brother. Is that all right?"

After two years in his household, Pei Yuncheng thought of her as just another mouth to feed and paid no attention to the little girl. If he hadn't seen her climbing onto the roof to pick fruit one day, landing without a sound and displaying incredible lightness skills, he might have been fooled by her.

Later, on their wedding night, Pei Yuncheng lifts her red veil with his sword. Huo Fuyue faces him with a jeweled dagger in hand, wearing an innocent, vulnerable expression. "My grandfather said the Yan Kingdom is a land of propriety, and people who don't like each other can divorce. You'll let me go, right, Brother?"

Pei Yuncheng looks at the young bride with interest and smiles. "Let you go? Impossible. But if you can escape my territory, go ahead and try!"

*

She runs, he chases her. Every time he catches the little white horse, he ties her up and takes her back.

Huo Fuyue: "Husband? Brother Yuncheng? Uncle? Let me go! I won't run away again!"

Pei Yuncheng: "I'll believe you once we're a real married couple."

One day, Huo Fuyue makes it all the way back to the grasslands. That day, Pei Yuncheng leads a hundred thousand troops after her.

Huo Fuyue acts meek and looks terrified. "Husband, the soldiers have swords. I'm so scared..."

Pei Yuncheng props up his chin with one hand. "Keep making things up! When you were swinging your whip and knocking my deputy off his horse just now, you weren't scared at all!"

Huo Fuyue gazes at him with teary eyes. "Husband, I'm pregnant."

Pei Yuncheng: ...

Thesis: Keep moving forward through adversity, with your heart turned toward the sun