Entwined with the Golden Phoenix

Originally titled My Imperial Brother

My next book will be I Absolutely Won’t Fall in Love with Him. If you’re interested, please add it to your favorites~

Going into reverse V from Chapter 24 on March 4~

Male lead is reborn + has been plotting this for a long time

Jiang Liyu is a princess with an unofficial and dubious status in the imperial harem.

One day, she suddenly dreams that she is sent far away in a marriage alliance and dies miserably in a foreign land.

At first, she thinks it is only an absurd dream, until its events begin coming true one by one.

Only then does she realize what is happening.

The emperor has ulterior motives, and her mother watches with indifference. The only person who seems able to save her

is her imperial brother Jiang Qu Xian, the man from her dream who bent over the palace wall and gathered her remains into his arms.

So in summer, she waves a palm-leaf fan for him; in winter, she adds charcoal to the fire.

When Jiang Qu Xian is ill, she tends to him and brings him medicine. When he is hurt, she bandages him herself, caring for him in every way.

She follows him day and night, calling him “Imperial Brother” again and again.

She must make sure they have a deep sibling bond, so that when Jiang Qu Xian ascends the throne, she can escape disaster.

Jiang Qu Xian seems to truly regard her as a younger sister.

He grants her outlandish wishes and even bares the most vulnerable, fatal wound in his heart to her: “Of course we are close as siblings.”

Jiang Liyu thinks she has everything under control,

until she stumbles upon Jiang Qu Xian, blood staining his brow, calmly strangling their father, the emperor.

Only then does she realize how terribly wrong she was.

Jiang Qu Xian was never a refined gentleman. He is a demon from hell.

*

Jiang Liyu wakes from a deep sleep. Before she can feel afraid or bewildered, she sees Jiang Qu Xian keeping watch by her bedside, his chest drenched in blood and his face deathly pale as he points to the wound over his heart.

“Didn’t you say you wanted us to be close as siblings? Your brother is hurt. Won’t you help him?”

In a corner where no one can see, Jiang Qu Xian deftly unfastens his robe and tears open the scab that has already formed over his heart.

She said she wanted them to be close.

*

Jiang Qu Xian has been praised as a gentleman since childhood.

But only he knows what a sinister, ruthless demon lurks beneath that refined exterior.

His imperial sister, who is not related to him by blood, was an unexpected variable in his meticulous plans.

In the old imperial palace,

the girl who should have died in that catastrophe

now crosses the bustling crowd and gives him a graceful bow.

The demon has fallen for someone he should never have desired.

But he never imagined that after they parted, the next time they met, they would be separated by life and death.

Across ten thousand steps of blue brick, he carries her cold body, kneeling and bowing with every step,

willing to trade lifetimes of reincarnation for her one peaceful life.

When he wakes again, he finds himself reborn in the year he first returned to the capital.

That year, Jiang Liyu smiles at him. “Greetings, Imperial Brother. From now on, we’ll be one family.”

His gaze darkens. Of course they are one family.

A family who will be entwined, cheek to cheek.

Reader’s guide:

1. The leads are not related by blood.

2. The heroine is not listed in the imperial register, and they are not on the same household register.

3. The hero is a virgin in both lifetimes.

4. The leads’ relationship begins after their feelings for each other are no longer forbidden.

6. More may be added later.

I Volunteered to Be a Substitute

Puppy-love fiction + secret crush from the male lead’s perspective, with a happy ending

Yan Wenzhou is the youngest son of the Duke of Dingguo.

After defeating the Northern Di and returning to the capital to receive his title,

he discovers that his moonlight has married someone else.

The good news: His moonlight is now a widow.

The bad news: His moonlight is devoted to her late husband and has no plans to remarry.

Yan Wenzhou is devastated and drags an old friend out for a late-night drinking session.

His friend advises him to find someone else to like. “The living can’t compete with the dead, after all.”

Yan Wenzhou: Cries even louder.

One day, Yan Wenzhou accidentally enters the wrong courtyard.

In the courtyard, a girl whose features resemble his is nestled in his moonlight’s arms, calling her “Mother.”

Their eyes meet, and a flicker of panic crosses the eyes of his usually cool and composed moonlight.

Late that night, Yan Wenzhou gazes at himself in the mirror.

The more he looks, the more he feels that being a moonlight who resembles her moonlight is an honor.

Later, dressed in his wedding robes, he enters the home as the groom.

Facing the memorial tablet bearing the name of his moonlight’s late husband, he offers three cups of wine and advises him to find someone else down below. “The dead can’t keep the living company, after all!”

Yu Qingji: ...

At least her daughter takes after her.

Pre-release 2: I Absolutely Won’t Fall in Love with Her

It is an open secret in the capital that Prince Chu, Shen Xuandu, dislikes his wife, Jiang Yuesui.

Jiang Yuesui is foolish and cruel, flashy and overbearing, ambitious but incapable of hiding it.

What’s more, the two of them married only because of Jiang Yuesui’s vile scheming.

After the wedding, Shen Xuandu avoids her as if she were a snake or a scorpion. He shows no regard for her dignity,

becoming a sworn political enemy of the Jiang family and suppressing them at every turn in court.

Everyone says Jiang Yuesui brought this upon herself.

Even Shen Xuandu believes it.

Until one day, Shen Xuandu is poisoned in an accident and lies unconscious for several days, beyond the help of medicine.

Jiang Yuesui cuts flesh from her own body to make medicine, and only then does he wake again.

After waking, Shen Xuandu asks why she did it.

Jiang Yuesui smiles faintly. “That’s what a husband and wife should do.”

Shen Xuandu sits alone in his study all night.

The next day, he has someone hand over all authority over the household to her.

He knows he cannot love her as a devoted husband,

so he will repay her for saving his life with mutual respect and courtesy.

Shen Xuandu originally thought

that he and Jiang Yuesui would spend the rest of their lives tangled together in this lukewarm way.

But after the Jiang family falls,

his wife disappears along with most of the gold and silver in the prince’s residence.

Only then does he learn that, to her, he was merely a stepping stone, a weapon for revenge.

Even her sacrifice of flesh to make medicine was a scheme she had planned all along.

Shen Xuandu gives a self-mocking laugh

and crushes the lotus pastries in his arms, still warm.

She is only a woman. There’s nothing particularly special about her. He’ll naturally forget her in a couple of days.

Yet when he happens to hear that she is caught up in a lawsuit, he cannot stop himself from riding a thousand miles through the night and blocking her in the street.

“Instead of begging those useless fools, you might as well come beg me.”

It turns out that, from beginning to end, he was the one who brought this upon himself.

Theme: Don’t cry, though we must part in secret. Don’t speak, though our longing stays hidden.