Ying Liuniang

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The peachwood spirit Liu Ying was not originally called Liu Ying.

She was the sixth child in her family, and her name was Ying Liuniang.

Ying Liuniang was beautiful, but her family was poor. She lived in a small village outside Luling City. One day, she went into the city to sell vegetables, and the Prince of Luling, riding through the streets on horseback, took a fancy to her and abducted her.

The Prince of Luling violated her, then gave her the name Liu Ying because of her clear, melodious voice.

Ying Liuniang became Liu Ying. He kept her in a residence outside his estate, surrounding her with fine food, clothes, and possessions. But like a golden songbird caged, she had lost her freedom.

The Prince of Luling was utterly besotted with her. She thought this would simply be her life from then on, but in the end, the Princess of Luling discovered his mistress.

Content warnings: The male lead is a virgin; the female lead is not. Bad ending.

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Blurb:

Jiang Fanyin has fair skin and striking beauty, yet she is the least favored concubine-born daughter in her household.

When the time comes for her to marry, her legitimate elder sister painstakingly chooses and marries Huo Xunchu, the eldest son of the prestigious Huo family.

Jiang Fanyin, meanwhile, is casually married off to a butcher. After the wedding, her husband joins the army, and before long, word arrives that he has died.

After the funeral, two parties come to take her away.

One is her elder sister, who has been married for three years without conceiving and wants Jiang Fanyin to join the Huo household and help secure her place in her husband's favor.

The other is her father, eager for a promotion and transfer, who wants her to become the concubine of a marquis more than fifty years old.

Jiang Fanyin refuses them both and drives them out.

That night, her father has her bound and sent to the marquis's residence. After enduring every manner of humiliation, she dies.

When she opens her eyes again, she has returned to the day her husband's funeral ends.

Jiang Fanyin's face turns deathly pale as she clutches her elder sister's sleeve.