A royal decree commanded Tang Yun to marry up into the Jiuyuan Marquis household. She did not want to marry.
The two families were political enemies, constantly at each other's throats in court. Besides, the young marquis, Song Lin, had nothing going for him but his looks. His behavior was more like that of a child.
On the day the decree was issued, she knelt outside the palace hall and begged His Majesty to take it back.
Song Lin had been doted on by everyone since birth. His father was a marquis, his mother a princess, his aunt the empress dowager, and his older brother the emperor. They all revolved around him.
When he was rejected for no reason, he felt so wronged that tears streamed down his face. "This is so humiliating!"
By evening, he had managed to obtain a decree and delivered it to Tang Yun.
"Please stop hating me."
*
After they married, Tang Yun discovered that the young marquis was no good-for-nothing. On the contrary, he was clever and kind.
He treated her with respect and affection, and protected her in every way.
As they spent day after day together, she fell for him.
Only years later did Tang Yun understand
that from the very first moment they met,
a man named Song Lin had already made a home in her heart.
A warmhearted, clever noblewoman x a single-minded, clueless pretty boy
* The story takes its time setting things up and is a slow burn.
* Marriage first, love later; a bickering couple.
* An alternate world with plenty of creative liberties. Please don't overthink it.
Coming next: Entering the Imperial Capital
That night, beneath the alluring moonlight, she saw Qingxiao meditating in the forest and gently laid her head on his lap. His brows furrowed slightly, his lashes trembled, and his distinctively jointed fingers rolled a string of glass prayer beads.
They were a gift from her.
Jiang Xun was seventeen. To secure an advantageous alliance, a neighboring kingdom sent an envoy to ask for her hand in marriage, intending to make her crown princess. The emperor and empress could not bear to part with her, so they came up with a plan to send her to Qinglong Temple to practice Buddhism as a laywoman, thus avoiding trouble.
On the day she entered the temple, the abbot told her to choose a learned monk to teach her sutras and Buddhist rites. She shut her eyes and picked Qingxiao on a whim.
He was an orphan, tonsured and initiated into Buddhism as a child. He practiced the Dharma and had trained his body to be exceptionally tough. He roamed the martial world, punishing the wicked and helping the weak.
In the eyes of the world, he was like a golden Arhat: proud and aloof, with an extraordinary air of Buddhist wisdom.
When her time of practice was over, she secretly followed him out of the temple to endure hardship. She slept in snow and frost, survived on wind and dew, and was content with it all.
Along the way, they debated sutras by lamplight, meditated in the forest, fought epidemics, dealt with local tyrants, and gathered the bones of the dead...
His senses were pure, his worldly ties long severed.
Even he himself did not know
when he had fallen for the princess.
*
Later, they each returned to their place in the world. Though he recited sutras and worshiped Buddha day and night, he felt lonelier than ever.
Before long, he was ordered to enter the palace and translate Buddhist scriptures.
At dusk, amid the rosy clouds,
a young woman swung beneath a wisteria trellis.
Fragrant breezes filled the courtyard, and flowers fell like rain. It was like a dream.
He rolled the glass prayer beads between his fingers. Gradually, gradually, his expression softened. His eyes brimmed with affection, and he fell into the mortal world.
A black-hearted, white-faced, flirtatious little temptress x a hot-tempered Buddhist who loves and hates without reservation
Xun: to scheme, to inquire, to believe.
Xiao: clouds.
Both are virgins; happy ending.
Content warnings:
1. The heroine is mischievous in a childlike way. At first, she will stop at nothing to get what she wants, but she becomes a better person under the hero's influence.
2. The hero is exceptionally powerful. He keeps others at a distance, and if pushed too far, he will kill them.
3. He slowly breaks his vows and learns to accept his desires.
Upcoming modern crime procedural: L or at Daybreak
Li Linlang, the Su City Public Security Bureau's new technician, is twenty-six, gorgeous and radiant, with a nonstop stream of outrageous banter. She was recruited after hacking through the government's firewall.
On her first day, she recognizes her new boss as the man who saved her life during a serial murder case.
Bai Shuhong is thirty-four, head of the profiling unit, and widely regarded as an all-around powerhouse. Mature, steady, and permanently stone-faced, he nevertheless retains the purest and most generous kind of innocence.
At one field team's meeting, he borrowed a teammate's phone to call Linlang, with the speaker on. She launched into a long, rapid-fire introduction:
"Li Linlang from the Su City Public Security Bureau's Technical Section, aka L, at your service, my prince. Just tell me what you need."
Bai Shuhong said awkwardly,
"L, could you look something up for me..."
On the other end, Linlang panicked.
"As you command, my little capt!"
After that, Linlang was so mortified she wanted to crawl into a hole every time she saw Bai Shuhong.
He noticed, but assumed she was having trouble at work. One morning, as he passed her desk, he offered some encouragement:
"You've been doing well lately. Keep it up."
Linlang said nothing, but her face inexplicably flushed red.
Later, Bai Shuhong kept thinking about that moment and her slightly reddened face. After analyzing himself and comparing the signs again and again, he reached a conclusion: he had fallen in love.
1. Computer expert x profiler
2. Both are virgins; level one; mutual pining; a warm, grounded story.
3. Two storylines run in parallel: L's growth and the mystery investigations.
Completed Republican-era novels: Half a Lifetime, You and Me; A Lai
Theme: Love.
Is the heroine a fool? Baffling
If you want to write about the heroine looking to save each other instead of the competition between females, then don't make the heroine and the heroine's mother so disgusting, write a slightly more three-dimensional one. Saving such a disgusting woman is not an idiot, nor is she a holy mother.
The heroine is written to treat concubines differently, and she is different from other heroines, but she only feels stupid. To put it nicely, she is a "holy mother", which does not give the heroine the feeling of being knowledgeable about the overall situation. I just feel like a fool
The male protagonist should be born with face blindness.
This grandmother and the heroine, the Holy Mother, actually asked the Queen to recognize the concubine as her daughter. Ridiculous!
It's over, why don't I like this Chu Yuan?
I don't quite understand why Cui Pinglu likes this Chu Yuan. Can anyone analyze it?
The couple Jiu Yuanhou and Princess remind me of the couple played by An Yixuan and Xu Zhengxi in "Dugu Tianxia"
I originally thought it was a good article with good characters, so I bought the whole article. But the more I read the ending, the more I felt depressed. First, the prince. Inexplicably crazy, he wanted to steal the third sister-in-law, and the third sister-in-law was placed under house arrest. The incident was over without incident. The male protagonist did nothing after knowing it. He only expressed his love for the female protagonist. Moreover, there was a male protagonist who had clearly achieved military merit and was being favored. The female protagonist was bullied by Xiao Zhaoyi, who had never appeared in the previous article, and almost had an abortion. The emperor gently took her away, and the male protagonist did nothing. At the end, he forcibly labeled the male and female protagonists as virgins.
Is the male protagonist a virgin (just personal preference, no offense intended)