Gentle Spring Waters (Female-Dominated World)

Lin Yuyao opened a women-focused romance novel about the love-hate relationship between the Xiye imperial consort sent to Liang as a political bride and the female emperor of Daliang. The Grand Phoenix Consort Xiao Qingyao was the mastermind behind many of their misunderstandings.

Lin Yuyao (confused): Why? Why does a women-focused romance novel have to use the evil mother-in-law trope too...

She had read half of it and thought the plot was far too melodramatic, so she planned to put it down. Who could have guessed that after falling asleep, she would wake up as the Second Miss of the Yu clan, a prominent family?

And Second Miss Yu was on her way to Lantai Palace, about to become the evil mother-in-law's favored companion...

Lin Yuyao (screaming internally): ??????????????

On the day Xiao Qingyao was installed as Grand Phoenix Consort, he looked back on his fifteen years in the palace. He had lived like a bodhisattva, pretending to be unfeeling and blind to everything. Now that he had outlasted everyone, he felt no joy at all. His heart was hollow.

The new emperor had only ascended the throne with his help. Perhaps to repay him, she had actually sent the Second Miss of the Yu family, the family of the deposed crown princess, to him.

The Second Miss Yu was cool and refined, and at just nineteen, she had once been the dream wife of countless young men in the capital.

Xiao Qingyao had meant to refuse, but when he saw her peerlessly beautiful face beyond the glazed screen, a gentle breeze seemed to sweep the dust from his heart.

Still, he knew his place. He was only ordinary-looking, twenty years older than Yu, and their families had old grievances between them. How could he force her into this and break the wings of a heavenly crane?

But this late-arriving love was like a fire, burning hotter and hotter in his heart.

Even after he resorted to tricks to keep her by his side, he still felt insecure. Late at night, he would speak to her sadly: "Yu, did you never intend to stay by my side forever?"

[Cool, perceptive, dignified, and restrained male lead vs. contented, sweet-tongued, cheerful female lead]

- A wildly arranged match, yet they hit it off at first sight

- Their relationship looks complicated, but they are actually very shy

- Editing books at the Hanlin Academy by day, reading to his husband by night

- Can a twenty-nine-year-old celibate man finally find love?

Male lead (29), female lead (19)

Both are each other's first

(The best age, meeting the most irresistible you (not really))

[Reading tips]

1. A slice-of-life story, with plenty of sugary romance

2. There shouldn't be any upsetting tropes (probably)

Theme: Be an optimistic person