Forbidden (Reborn)

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Coming soon: [Historical Romance, The Jade Paper Empress] Sultry and steamy, please add it to your collection!

This novel: [The Rugged General Strikes Back, and Rui'er Cries for Mercy!]

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Ling Jiarui was reborn. The first thing she did was break off her engagement to her faithless, heartless fiance.

Once a proper young lady from a distinguished family, she cast aside her former decorum and became spoiled and willful. Beautiful and delicate, she nevertheless became obsessed with martial arts, and fell for the unpopular general Lou Xiaochuan.

After centuries of peace, every dynasty had valued civil officials over military ones.

Lou Xiaochuan was brave and battle-hardened, with a tall, muscular build and a body forged like iron. But his once-great military family had fallen into decline, his salary was meager, and the Lou household was on the brink of ruin.

Fortunately, the Ling family was richer than kings. Ling Jiarui showered the impoverished General Lou with money, bought a marriage contract, and married him.

Ling Jiarui: "My lord, will you take me to the training grounds?"

General Lou: "The military camp is a restricted area. Outsiders may not enter."

Ling Jiarui: "I heard the weapons are in disrepair, the archery range is neglected, and the camp leaks when it rains..."

The cash-strapped General Lou: "A general's family may enter."

Later, General Lou returned victorious from the Northern Di, his body wrapped in blood and battered armor. The emperor spared no rewards, but Lou asked to study under the Crown Prince's tutor, just so he could learn a few sentimental poems and win that little girl's favor.

What he didn't know was that the deceased woman he had never forgotten, his white moonlight, had suddenly appeared at the Lou residence.

With the Ling family safe, Ling Jiarui had fulfilled her purpose and prepared to leave. She brought out a divorce agreement. "I wish you and your cousin a happy life together."

General Lou's eyes burned redder than they ever had on the battlefield. He seized Ling Jiarui by both arms and leaned over her, pinning her down. "I won't allow it!"

Reading Guide

1. The longest road the male lead ever took was the one laid out by the female lead.

2. The female lead is clear-headed and independent, and good at managing both her inner and outer affairs.

3. Older male lead, both leads are virgins in both their lives, and he's a devoted lion.

Coming next: The Jade Paper Empress. Please add it to your collection!

A sweet, naive little rabbit x a deranged big bad wolf [Possessive Romance]

Qiu Rou has a secret.

She was kidnapped at five and reduced to a sheet of jade paper.

Xia Zhuxiao never asked her name. For ten years, he used her body as a canvas, yet never once saw her in full.

After ten years in captivity, Qiu Rou's skin was smooth as jade, flawless and immaculate. She became the undisputed finest material for painting.

On the day she came of age, Qiu Rou escaped and happened upon a chance to impersonate Gu Yunzhi, the deceased younger sister of the Left Chancellor. A chance to impersonate Gu Yunzhi, the deceased younger sister of the Left Chancellor.

The maids and matrons bathed and dressed "Gu Yunzhi," tending to her so meticulously that they fussed over every strand of hair and the spaces beneath her nails. Qiu Rou thought her luck had finally changed.

One day, Qiu Rou was blindfolded and taken away.

As light and darkness shifted around her, she remembered how, when she was a sheet of jade paper, her eyes had always been covered with white silk.

The difference was that back then, beneath that one layer of cloth, she wore nothing at all.

But Qiu Rou didn't know that she had been brought before Xia Zhuxiao again.

And she wasn't the only one who looked like Gu Yunzhi. There were a hundred of them.

Eventually, one of the women claiming to be Gu Yunzhi was chosen as the real one.

Xia Zhuxiao ordered Qiu Rou and the other fakes destroyed...

Qiu Rou could never have imagined that before long, she would become a sheet of jade paper once more, bound atop the imperial desk in the Qianqing Palace!

Xia Zhuxiao pressed his lips to the jade paper, leaving a mark where the ink had not yet dried. His expression was lonely and sorrowful. "You really are so much like her. I want to make you my empress."

On her wedding night, Qiu Rou awoke with a start. The cold, ruthless emperor before her, decisive in his slaughter, was the very man who had bought her as a painting all those years ago!

She had not forgotten the ten years of humiliation, and she had no desire to be anyone's substitute.

Qiu Rou tried her old trick again, setting a fire to escape.

When Xia Zhuxiao heard, he laughed like a madman and immediately ordered the imperial city sealed off, then doused with oil and set ablaze!

"Want to escape? Then you'll die with her!"

Bonus Scene:

When the painting was finished, Xia Zhuxiao pressed his seal under a new name. "Rou'er, I'll use your surname as my given name. Even if I die, we'll be bound together for all eternity."

Qiu Rou pulled away the white silk covering her eyes. "Don't be ridiculous. How will you silence the remonstrating officials?"

Xia Zhuxiao kissed the red plum in the painting and said indulgently, "You don't like me killing people, so I'll cut out their tongues instead."

Theme: The things you can't hide include coughing, poverty, and love.