After I Started a Romance with My Nemesis and Dumped Them

This novel will go VIP on Tuesday, October 15. The paid chapters start at Chapter 23, so please don't buy them again if you've already read them. Thank you for all your support. It's not easy to keep a novel going as a VIP title, so I hope you'll continue supporting me. My next novels will be Jiang Li and The Sorrow of an Old Friend. Please add them to your reading lists. Currently serializing: I Set the Wayward Path Straight Blurb: In a storybook, a wealthy merchant chose a live-in son-in-law for his only daughter. But both father and daughter died, leaving behind only a young child. The son-in-law took control of the family fortune, brought back the woman he loved and their two children, and lived happily ever after. When the storybook world became reality, Bei Jiangzhao was, unfortunately, the young child left behind. Fortunately, her identity was extraordinary: she was a descendant of the Bei Jiang royal house, one of the four great kingdoms. But the greater misfortune was that she was a woman. To reclaim her family estate, she decided to seek an ally and chose Xicheng, the most powerful kingdom. She dressed as a woman and played the seductress. Once everything was settled, she would fake her death and slip away to Bei Jiang, where she could live as a carefree king. It was said that Xicheng's King Xicheng Ling was ruthless and had no interest in women. Yet one day, he suddenly went mad searching for a woman, even seeking out immortals and miracle cures. He was utterly devoted. Bei Jiangzhao: Oh. Then she made sure to keep her secret identity even more tightly concealed. But one day, a military coup took place, and Xicheng Ling pointed his sword at Bei Jiangzhao, who sat on the throne. His gaze roamed boldly over the delicate body beneath her royal robes. "Bei Jiangzhao, you actually dared to deceive me twice." Bei Jiangzhao was helpless too. When they were young, they had been classmates at the Sifang Academy for a year, and mortal enemies to boot. Who could have guessed it would be him again, all these years later? The King of Xicheng had abducted someone, and the person he'd abducted was the King of Bei Jiang. They were in a same-sex relationship. The person in question shook her head in a panic. That's not what happened. I didn't. "So you don't like men? You like women?" Bei Jiangzhao: ... P.S. The rise of the Empress of the Northwest. Upcoming novel 1: Jiang Li Blurb: The day the imperial tomb was unearthed, the buried history of a kingdom was revealed. Jiang Li was the last princess of the Kingdom of Jiang when its capital fell. She was born in the cold palace, when the pear blossoms were in bloom. No one knew her, no one recognized her. When the emperor died and the capital of Jiang fell, no one even knew there had once been a princess. But in the end, she took on the last of her people's hopes and walked alone into the royal palace of Chu, all to secure one final chance of survival for the people of Jiang. All for the words: If the kingdom falls, where is home? Only if the kingdom survives can she survive. For ten years, she struggled to stay alive, all for that one spray of pear blossoms. Yet when the palace of Chu fell and the Kingdom of Jiang rose again, she was left behind forever in the blazing flames. As scenes from a thousand years ago resurfaced, Shen Li stood in the imperial tomb exhibition hall. Her eyes drifted to a painting with no face. "Do you think that one day there might be no more wars, and everyone could live in peace and prosperity?" "I believe so." At eighteen, Heng Yi was the very picture of a heaven-blessed prodigy. Yet one night, he abandoned everything just to search for the Kingdom of Jiang from a thousand years ago. He searched for eight years. "I'll take you home. I promise." Why did the white figure in his dreams always make his heart ache? Whom had he made a promise to, and why was there such sorrow in it? A tangled love spanning past and present, a bond left unfinished in a former life. Can it finally find its happy ending this time? Upcoming novel 2: The Sorrow of an Old Friend Blurb: Shen Nanyin never expected to be told on her wedding day that she was involved in a lawsuit, and not just any lawsuit: a bigamy case. In her wedding dress, she watched the person glide toward her through the crowd. It suddenly came back to her: she'd apparently married him once before, though she refused to admit it. Shen Nanyin was the younger sister of Shen Qingchao, the notorious traitor known throughout Southern Xiao. She had always presented herself as well-mannered, gentle, and kind. Even her brother's sworn enemies spoke softly to her, afraid they might frighten her. But Shen Qingchao was a villain everyone wanted dead. He held the royal family in an iron grip, and even Princess Nan Yue was reduced to a pawn in his hands. His sister Shen Nanyin, however, had a good reputation. Everyone lamented that she had been unlucky enough to be born Shen Qingchao's sister. "Shen Nanyin, you were the one who came after me back then. Did you think you could marry me whenever you wanted and leave me whenever you wanted?" Xiao Jingyu looked at the most dazzling sight in the crowd, his eyes churning with emotion. Shen Nanyin merely smiled scornfully. "Why do you think I married you? Knowing what I know now, I wish I'd killed you instead." The hatred in Shen Nanyin's eyes was so intense that there wasn't a trace of warmth in her gaze. "You did it for Shen Qingchao." In Shen Nanyin's heart, Shen Qingchao was the most important person in the world. She watched him gain power over all beneath Heaven, but also keenly sensed that the situation was unstable. She thought that marrying Prince Chen would gradually resolve all their grievances, never imagining she would become the catalyst for his death. When he asked if she wanted to marry Prince Chen, she firmly said yes. Shen Qingchao gazed at her for a long time, then simply replied, "All right." She didn't understand then. But on her wedding day, when she ran toward him with all her strength and saw him lying on the ground, covered in blood, while her new husband still held a sword dripping with blood, she finally understood. In the end, her naivete and self-righteousness had become the very thing that sealed his fate. Shen Qingchao died, and Shen Nanyin was imprisoned for five years. Five years later, the world had changed. When she returned to the capital, she faced people she had once known and realized that her former kindness and obedience had all vanished without a trace. Bonus scene: "You're my wife. You can't go anywhere except stay by my side." Shen Nanyin looked at him and found it absurd. She turned away indifferently. "Is that so?" Xiao Jingyu had never known what heartbreak felt like. But when he saw her standing barefoot in the snow, swaying unsteadily, her face full of longing for the outside world, his heart clenched. She truly would rather die than stay by his side. P.S. Happy ending. Both the male and female leads go through some angst. Theme: Stay resolute and fearless, and never lose sight of your original purpose.