When Hui Moves as Though Still

- Coming soon: Snow at Dusk. Blurb at the very bottom. Please add it to your collection~

My neighboring novel, Bright as Day Through the Long Night, is currently updating.

When Gu Huizhi first returned to Shengjing, everyone mocked her for being uncouth and illiterate, saying she had lucked into a lofty marriage with the Minister's residence.

But she didn't see it that way.

Rather than live as a noble daughter of the Gu family, she would rather return to the Investigations Office and enjoy the freedom of a life without anyone controlling her.

As for the Investigations Office, its director, Cheng Qi, was the most powerful minister in the court. Gu Huizhi was the adopted daughter he had cautiously raised for twelve years.

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Beneath the tranquil surface of Shengjing, undercurrents had long been surging.

Xie Yaoxu had devised all sorts of plans: how to keep Gu Huizhi out of it, and how to ensure she wouldn't be implicated.

Then, one late night on the main street, he saw the bright-eyed, delicate young woman kneeling on the ground, her plain white dress soaked in blood.

She dropped the sword in her hand and walked toward him over the corpses.

"Xie Cheng'an, I have nothing left to give up."

But you... will you despise me like this?

Reader's guide:

1. This is a fictional setting. Please don't treat it as historical fact!

2. Two strong leads, both serious about their careers.

3. Both leads are sexually inexperienced.

4. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

Coming soon: Snow at Dusk. Blurb:

In the thirteenth year of the Shu He era, the emperor died, leaving behind an orphaned girl.

By the late emperor's decree, Grand Tutor Shen Qingyan was to assist Princess Yongning, Cheng Zhuoxue, in overseeing the court and governing the realm.

At the time, the Shen family was at the height of its power. Shen Qingyan could have killed her and taken the throne for himself. But Cheng Zhuoxue was guileless, weak, and utterly trusting of him.

Shen Qingyan thought he might as well keep her as a puppet emperor for now. Once the time was right, he could always take her life.

Then, in the fifteenth year of Shu He, a major case suddenly came to light. Nearly the entire Shen family was implicated, and Shen Qingyan was thrown into prison and sentenced to exile.

The Cheng Zhuoxue he had thought so lonely and delicate personally marked his case file with her vermilion seal.

On the eve of his exile, she came to visit him in the imperial prison.

The young woman spread her lips in a bold, radiant smile, but her voice was as cold as frost.

"The Cheng family's realm must naturally be ruled by someone from the Cheng family."

"The frontier is bitterly cold, Grand Tutor. Do take care of your health."

1. The female lead is the strongest character in the entire story, a full-on madwoman who can act and deceive.

2. In the early and middle parts of the story, both leads want to kill each other.

3. Later on, the female lead forcibly claims the male lead.

4. One-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads sexually inexperienced.

5. A mad, scheming empress and an aloof, high-ranking minister.

Theme: Hold fast to your convictions and don't let the outside world sway you.