Silken Threads in the Clear Sky [Republican-Era EABO]

‖Scheming, proud young heiress + bewitchingly beautiful leading lady of the boudoir‖

Jiangnan, a crescent moon like a hook, on the night of the wedding.

Wu Jingyi, the young lady of the Wu family, dressed in a groom's outfit, picked up the freshly brewed peony tea and smiled. "Now that you've married into my family, whether I'm a man or a woman, you can't get away from me."

Across from her, a pair of almond-shaped eyes widened, willow brows knit together. On closer inspection, she was a beauty as lovely as a pear blossom. After trembling for a long moment, she finally replied, "Then... that's just perfect."

She bit her lip, thinking herself very stubborn.

But she looked so docile, so coy and lovestruck, that Wu Jingyi couldn't help laughing.

Years later, when the First Young Madam of the Wu family, Li Yang, sat beneath the veranda, waving a gold-flecked fan as she watched the amorous butterflies fluttering around the courtyard, she couldn't help wondering to herself.

They had agreed she would leave after a year. Did that agreement still count? Besides... She unconsciously touched the bite mark on her neck, her heart pounding.

What a black-hearted beauty she'd gotten involved with! She only bites where it hurts. Who knows if I'll make it out alive?

Wu Jingyi: Because I have a rare blood type.

Wu Jingyi, the new heir to the Yuya Tea Garden, gazed at the green tea fields steeped in the colors of late spring, her eyes full of smiles. She had traveled thousands of miles to get here for the sake of the Wu family's century-old estate.

She accidentally rescued a young woman and couldn't bear to watch her marry her uncle, a man on the verge of death. So she married her instead. But her new wife didn't know one secret: besides disguising herself as a man, she was also an Alpha.

No, a slender, bony hand brushed her lips. Her pheromones surged like a tide, forcing the Alpha across from her to retreat again and again. Wu Jingyi lowered her gray eyes. "Actually, I'm an... Enigma."

She smiled, then suddenly remembered she had to go to Eighteenth Street to buy her wife's favorite osmanthus candy. She had to make it up to her. Lately, her wife kept talking about going to the capital to look for her first love, her senior fellow apprentice. She had promised her, after all, and she couldn't break her word.

But that senior fellow apprentice was already dead. A dead man couldn't steal her wife from her.

Bound by a marriage contract, they advanced hand in hand. The farther they walked, the harder it became to part.

"A wisp of clear breeze drifts through the quiet courtyard, carrying pear blossoms, and steals half a face."

① Married first, fell in love later; an alternate Republican-era setting; revenge; she has her reasons for disguising herself as a man; the first love is just a plot device.

② Enigma: a rare sex that can mark an Alpha.

③ As usual, if you like ABO stories, give this a try. If you don't, there's also a complete story line that doesn't depend on it, so it won't affect your reading.

Theme: Hand in hand, they step into a new life.