South of the Twisted Tree

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[Blurb]

The prestigious Xiao family of Yujing has produced two empresses in a row.

In the fifteenth year of Yuan’an, Xiao Jiuer, the Xiao family’s only daughter, was born. For fifteen years, she never set foot outside the manor.

At the Crown Prince’s birthday banquet, she played a song that captivated the city, making her famous throughout Yujing.

The people of Yujing didn’t know that a down-and-out young master lived in the Xiao manor, accompanying her for three years, his identity unknown to all.

When she came of age, he had reached twenty, but he could not keep the promise he had made back then.

When they met again, he said the very same thing: "Your Highness, you are too noble to look up at a servant like me."

Yet his gaze was deep and dark, like a green bamboo viper sinking its teeth into its prey.

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Cold, mad beauty x wicked, mad regent

Yun Yi had lived a lonely life, with no one by her side.

Abandoned as a child, she grew up in an orphanage and experienced the world’s kindness and cruelty firsthand. She thought herself untouched by the emotions of others, yet the only time in her life she reached out to help someone, she met with disaster.

Reborn in a new life, Yun Yi woke up as the legitimate youngest daughter of the General Who Guards the Nation’s household, born with a silver spoon in her mouth. The Yun household had no concubines; she had an elder brother and an elder sister, breathtaking beauty, and every ounce of affection and honor.

Others would call it a blessing, but Yun Yi knew that places of splendor were full of trouble. Every title and honor was a shackle she had no choice but to wear. She wasn’t Yun Yi, either. All that affection had been stolen from its rightful owner. So she tried every way she could to avoid trouble, but trouble kept finding her.

As Jing Ze closed in on her, step by step, she kept retreating, trying to put distance between them and escape the capital’s biggest source of trouble.

"Your Highness, Yun Yi, the youngest daughter of the general’s household, has made up her mind. I’ll shave my head and become a nun, devoting my life to the Buddha. I will never enter the mortal world again."

But he strode forward and pulled Yun Yi to his side, his gaze burning as he whispered in her ear.

"Yun Yi, with me here, you’re entering the mortal world whether you want to or not."

Reading guide: Happy ending + both leads are each other’s first and only.

The male lead is completely unhinged throughout (and occasionally goes mad at the heroine). The heroine becomes unhinged later on, even more so than him.

Read the prequel and bonus chapters here: "Late Spring in Shanglin"

Theme: Defy fate, rise above adversity, and live for freedom