Next up: Can This Really Be a Match Made in Heaven? A gorgeous beauty who's all bark and soft-hearted vs. a scheming, vengeful ex-husband
Blurb:
A slow-burn story of healing.
A resilient, ordinary heroine vs. a cool, aloof sword cultivator hero
Shen Tian was born into the cultivation world, but as a mortal with no chance of cultivating immortality.
Fortunately, her parents loved her and she got along well with her neighbors. She lived a warm, carefree life running a little shop.
She thought her days would pass peacefully, until one day she found a man covered in blood at the foot of a mountain.
He was still breathing, so Shen Tian couldn't bear to leave him there and brought him home.
But the first thing the man did after waking was raise his natal sword to cut his own throat.
Shen Tian couldn't help slapping him.
Only later did Shen Tian learn that the man she'd hit was Pei Anxun, a sword cultivator who had once stood at the pinnacle of the sword path and was only one step away from ascending to immortality.
He had failed his tribulation and his Dao Heart was shattered. Even his own father had expelled him from the sect. Everyone pitied him and called him a useless failure.
Shen Tian was the only one who didn't see him that way.
All she saw was a battered man still struggling to breathe, clumsily learning how to "live."
Her friend teased Shen Tian, saying she'd found herself a good husband.
Shen Tian thought that she couldn't cultivate immortality and had a limited lifespan. She was just an ordinary mortal woman, and a heaven-blessed genius like Pei Anxun, who stood at the top of the cultivation world, would never fall for her.
She had no idea that the taciturn man had already made room in his heart for no one else.
A few notes about life in the mortal world:
1. SC, 1v1, HE
2. The hero is insecure early on, but becomes devoted later
3. Not a power-leveling wish-fulfillment story. This is a cultivation setting, not an immortal-hero setting, and the heroine remains mortal throughout the main story
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Can This Really Be a Match Made in Heaven?
[Second chance romance, a gorgeous beauty who's all bark and soft-hearted vs. a scheming, vengeful ex-husband]
Zhou Shuran was the daughter of a small-time merchant. She had a beautiful face but couldn't read a word, and was sharp-tongued and brash.
In hopes of attaching herself to the rich and powerful, she tore up her marriage contract with Zheng Lan, a poor scholar.
She didn't just break off the engagement. She went to his home and mocked him, too.
Later, she failed to land a wealthy match, while the poor scholar went to the capital to take the imperial exams and vanished without a trace.
Her older brother ridiculed her, saying she was so crude she'd never marry a nobleman in her life.
Zhou Shuran refused to believe him. She would marry, and she'd marry someone everyone envied.
She'd heard that Zheng Mingqian, the newly appointed deputy minister of the Court of Judicial Review in the capital, was the chief minister's son, handsome, and a top scorer in the imperial exams. He was the ideal husband in the eyes of the capital's elite families.
With faith in her own beauty, Zhou Shuran packed her bags and headed to the capital.
But on her very first day there, she ran into the scholar whose engagement she'd broken off.
He was dressed in plain clothes and still looked as poor as ever.
Zhou Shuran breathed a sigh of relief. Good, he hadn't made it big.
She pretended not to recognize him and hurried into the crowd, never hearing the respectful voice behind her call out, "Lord Zheng."
She'd planned to keep her distance from the scholar, but through a twist of fate, the two of them ended up in bed together.
Afterward, she lay in his arms, weeping prettily. "It's all your fault. How am I supposed to seduce Zheng Mingqian now?"
The scholar calmly tied the strings of her underclothes, wearing a faintly mocking smile.
"Then you'd better think of a good plan, Miss Zhou."
"After all, a poor scholar like me can't be of much help."
All of the capital heard that Zheng Mingqian was keeping a mistress. She couldn't read and was terribly vulgar, but Lord Zheng stayed with her every night and doted on her.
Only the so-called "mistress" herself still had no idea who she was sleeping with.
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Zheng Mingqian hated Zhou Shuran.
He hated that she'd been so vain and heartless back then.
But what he hated even more was that after seeing her again, he still couldn't let her go.
Zhou Shuran, since you've come to tempt me again, don't think you can leave.
If you want to marry someone everyone envies, then marry me.
And only me.
1v1, SC, HE. The heroine grows as a person later on.
Theme: Find extraordinary meaning in ordinary things.
It's so warm ~ Finished with flowers
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I like bland fairy tales very much, and I like the cold and aloof character of the male protagonist. I rarely see this kind of character anymore. I really like it—! Although the boss's psychological description is sometimes a bit long and cumbersome, it does not affect the viewing. After reading the whole article, the viewing experience is very good! It's been a long time since I've seen such a fresh and refreshing fairy tale. Woohoo, I like it—!!!!!
I wiped it, drinking spoonfuls of bitter Chinese medicine was like being tortured...[Fear][fear][fear]
ShanOS: The life of the mountain is not life...
I almost thought his father, an old man, didn't know the difference between right and wrong.
Hey, I finished reading the whole article in a short time, and I feel the body is warm. What's wrong with mortals, what's wrong with cultivators, they're not all human! Although the previous development is a bit fast, our space here is not a big problem. What surprised me more was Senior Brother Sun. He was able to face his own demons and tell the truth at critical moments without falling into the trap of clichés. Shen Tian was cured by her mortal parents, and Pei Anxun was also cared for by the villagers in the village. This is a positive cycle. In that world, there is love and a future. Oops, Jiligulu said so much, I wish the author a happy day [laughing haha][laughing haha][laughing haha]
"A man creates his sect." This is a big bug for the author~ Breaking into his sect
I came across an article by chance. I clicked in and read it because I thought the character design was interesting. Unexpectedly, I stayed up all night to read it. Although I can feel that the author's writing style is still a little immature, and sometimes I feel that the plot advancement and presentation are not smooth enough, but I quite like the story itself. After reading it, please leave a comment to express your support.
It's really well written, I like it so much