The Childhood Sweetheart's Hidden Love

This novel will officially go VIP on August 11. I hope you'll support it. Thank you, everyone! My new novel, The Max-Level Celestial Master Refuses to Be the Abused Novel's Female Lead (Entertainment Industry), is now open for follows. Please add it to your reading list! The once-glorious residence of the Censor-in-Chief is struck by disaster. Its master is sent away, the house burns down, and evidence accusing the family of treason is brought to light. The entire family is wiped out. Yet the officials handling the case all know the truth: one body is missing. It belongs to Gu Rongya, the beloved daughter of the Gu family, once hailed as Jiangling's most beautiful woman. Gu Rongya went to a temple to pray for blessings, and in the blink of an eye her family was destroyed. With no way to seek justice and nowhere else to turn, the unmarried orphan is treated with disdain. Just then, the imperial court issues a call for soldiers. She simply disguises herself as a man and enlists. But why does the general sent by the court look so familiar? Isn't he her former fiance, to whom she was betrothed as a child? He's also the sworn enemy she's been bickering with since they were little. Sheng Huaian, Jiangling's most notorious playboy. In the capital, all it takes to stop a crying child is to say, “Sheng Huaian is coming.” Worst of all, her sworn enemy not only lets her stay, but keeps her at his side as his deputy. * When officials in the province try to bully and intimidate him by flaunting their seniority, Sheng Huaian says, “My father, Sheng Xun, is a vice chancellor, and my aunt is the current imperial consort... Are you trying to tell me what to do?” When the transport commissioner holds up the provisions to blackmail him, Sheng Huaian says, “I don't know the market price. How much do you think your head is worth?” When an envoy from an enemy state brings gifts and tries to bribe him in secret, Sheng Huaian says, “Leave the gifts. Drag the man out and behead him. What's that saying? In war, the first thing you do is execute the envoy.” Gu Rongya says, “None of this has anything to do with me.” Sheng Huaian says, “How can that be? Since we've shared hardship, we should share life and death too.” * On the day the army returns to the capital, Gu Rongya is on edge. But instead of hearing that Sheng Huaian has been dismissed and put on trial, she receives two imperial edicts. One clears the Gu family's name. The other grants her a marriage decree. Looking at Sheng Huaian in his wedding robes, Gu Rongya says, “Why do I feel like you've been plotting against me this whole time?” Please add it to your reading list! Love you all, mwah! Below is the blurb for a novel coming soon. Chu Xiao, a genius of the occult arts, is framed by a fellow disciple and dies young. When she wakes, she finds herself in the role of the white-moonlight female supporting character in an old-fashioned angst novel. The plot has reached the point where the stand-in heroine runs away while pregnant, the male lead comes to his senses and breaks off his engagement to Chu Xiao, and his wealthy family throws her out. To escape the melodramatic plot, Chu Xiao decides to become independent as soon as possible. Unfortunately, her original body is a frail beauty, as delicate as a porcelain doll. She's nearly left penniless and homeless. Just then, a psychic reality show called Spirit Medium offers a million yuan to recruit people with extraordinary abilities. Chu Xiao: “Psychic powers? That's my old line of work!” * After the show announces that Chu Xiao is joining, netizens rush to comment: [Why can anyone come here to chase clout now?] [She's joining a psychic show? If she doesn't end up crying in terror, I'll change my name to the production team's!] But no one expects this delicate rich girl to be an expert in fortune-telling, astrology, the five elements and the Eight Trigrams, the Book of Changes, and Liu Ren divination. A famous rich second-generation heir follows her advice, and his business, once on the verge of bankruptcy, makes a miraculous recovery. A hugely popular celebrity asks her for a talisman, and all the bad luck that nearly cost him his life disappears. Even her former fiance, who broke off their engagement for the sake of true love, comes back in tears to beg her to take him back, just so she can check the feng shui of his home. Chu Xiao: “Sorry, I don't know you. Don't drag me into this.” One of her talismans sells for an astronomical price on Xianyu. An occult master is invited to authenticate it, and after seeing the talisman, he exclaims: “Who is this senior? I can only admit that I fall short!” * Chu Xiao becomes a sensation across the internet thanks to the psychic show. Then a man so handsome it's almost unfair shows up at her door. “I hear you're an expert in divination, Sister,” he says, his beautiful, foxlike eyes blinking. “Why don't you tell our fortunes and see if we're destined to be together?” “Your fox tail is showing.” Chu Xiao grabs him by the scruff of his neck. A snowy-white fox gazes up at her innocently, its front paws resting on her shoulders. “Don't throw me away. I'm really easy to take care of.” Theme: Even when you live in a gutter, keep your eyes on the stars.