My Brother Is Handsome and Sweet

[The new novel next door, The Begonia Youth and the Miaojiang Gu, is now available.]

Female Lead's Blurb:

She woke up to find that she had gone from being a princess to a fugitive.

Song Jueshu was furious. In her heart, she cursed the culprit, Song Xuanzhu, up and down: "You could have kidnapped me any time, but you had to do it on my wedding day! Even the emperor isn't as impatient as you!"

So she secretly plotted an escape. But before she got far, she was caught and brought back, then poisoned.

A believer in enjoying life, Song Jueshu decided to stop trying. You can live anywhere, right? Hey, brother, you're blocking the sun. I'm not done sunbathing this side yet. I still have to turn over.

One day, after eating and drinking her fill, Song Jueshu suddenly felt like sharing her thoughts. "I miss my little husband, whom I've never even met, all the way over in a foreign land. Sigh!"

The air suddenly froze, and the atmosphere turned ominous. Song Jueshu felt a chill at the back of her neck.

A dark, sickly young man grabbed her by the scruff of her neck. "Say that again. Who do you miss?"

"Haha, you must have misheard." (Song Jueshu was sobbing inside. The road to surviving as a lazy fish was long. Please spare me, mighty one!)

Male Lead's Blurb:

After enduring hardship and biding his time for years, Song Xuanzhu returned to his homeland, filled with hatred. He set up a game big enough to ensnare the whole world, determined to make everyone pay!

The King of Song was cruel, slaughtering his mother's clan and sending him to the royal capital as a hostage? Fine. He would wipe out the king's descendants, set fire to his palace, and let him die in agony amid the flames!

Ji Yan was treacherous, poisoning him and using him to achieve his ambitions? Fine. He would scheme in secret, forge alliances, and shatter Ji Yan's dreams of greatness!

With his revenge complete, he was utterly disillusioned with the world and had nothing left to hold on to. He never expected a girl who said one thing and meant another to come storming toward him, cursing all the way.

He smiled and rubbed her head. "The world is heartless. Let's go to hell together..."

A white rabbit heroine who acts gentle to stay alive but is hot-tempered inside and a master of snark × a big bad wolf hero who acts mild-mannered for revenge but is a deranged, sickly man inside

Heroine: Let me live!

Hero: Everyone die!

Reading Guide:

1. [The leads are not related by blood in any way! They both know this from the start! Their relationship is romantic, not familial!]

2. [The hero is sick, born with a deranged streak. Beware of confinement!]

3. A completely fictional setting, with a background resembling the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. It includes inspiration and original elements, so please don't scrutinize it too closely.

4. One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins, happy ending.

5. The leads are childfree. They only date and don't have children.

Next book: The Begonia Youth and the Miaojiang Gu

Blurb:

A hardworking female corpse driver vs. a Miaojiang youth skilled in gu and poison

Shuangli was an unwanted child, dug out of a pile of corpses by her master, an old corpse driver.

When she grew up, she inherited her master's trade and became a proud corpse driver.

One day, while taking on a job, she happened to find a handsome young man with a powdered face and greasy hair.

At first, she thought he was dead. She was just thinking of doing a good deed by using his corpse to send him home when... he came back to life.

Shuangli: ...In all my years on the job, this is the first time I've seen a corpse come back to life. Sure, he's good-looking, but he scared me half to death.

The young man, now alive, said he'd lost his memory and insisted on staying by her side.

Shuangli looked at his thin little frame with concern and warned him, "If you follow me, you might get scared to death."

The young man: "I'm not afraid."

Shuangli: "I'm poor. If you follow me, you won't get enough to eat."

The young man: "That's fine. I have money."

Even after she put it that way, he still wouldn't leave. Shuangli threw him to the ground. "I'm a lecher. If you follow me, aren't you afraid I'll take your innocence?"

The young man smiled even more brightly. "That... would be even better."

Looking at his beautiful, innocent face, Shuangli admitted that her heart fluttered for a moment. But she never imagined that he was black-hearted, and only followed her because he wanted her body.

The young man looked at her fine figure and thought: A perfect vessel for cultivating gu.

Shuangli: ...Do you have any manners?

Not realizing that he was a wolf in sheep's clothing, she took him home anyway. Two days later, she mysteriously discovered that after he appeared, her "corpse brothers" became unusually obedient. Every time she went out to take a job, things went especially smoothly. If any corpse brother, dead in body but not in lust, tried to get handsy with her, the consequences were always gruesome.

The young man: How could I let those filthy things touch my precious gu-cultivating treasure?

Later, after learning the truth, Shuangli looked at the young man in a gorgeous begonia-red robe and pondered for a long while. "Maybe... I should find a matchmaker and sell you. With looks like yours, you could find a rich woman wealthier than me. Then I could use the money to buy a few more men at the brothel..."

The young man went cold. He set down the spatula he was using to fry rice and smiled chillingly, deliberately scaring her. "I think your body's recovered enough. You don't need to eat anymore. It's time to start cultivating gu."

Shuangli dropped to her knees. "Husband, I was wrong."

"Jiuxika, I like you."

"Big sister, you've been poisoned by my gu. From now on, you can only like me."

Theme: "I was a wanderer beneath a lonely lamp, never to return, yet the muddy wine kept me in this world of dust."