How to Get Yourself a Sickly Beauty

The blurb for the next historical danmei novel, Matchmaker, But Make It Heartbreak, is at the end! The historical romance novel Unrestrained Joy is now available.

#Puppy Dog and Flirty Beauty#

People say that a Demon Lord who kills without batting an eye lives in Phoenix Flame Valley outside the city. When Lu Chengjin fell from a tree, he thought he would die in the valley. But when he looked up, all he saw was a sickly beauty.

The beauty was called Xiao Zhezhu. Frail and breathless after just a few steps, he looked nothing like the vicious Demon Lord. Lu Chengjin simply couldn't see a trace of menace in that pale, gentle face.

But Xiao Zhezhu reached out to him, using the promise of curing his little sister's frail constitution to force him to stay in the valley. Lu Chengjin took that cold, pale hand, and finally learned that appearances could be deceiving.

Having heard so much about wicked demons and heretics, Lu Chengjin entered the valley ready to die. Who would have guessed that Xiao Zhezhu would grab his hand, lead him to his bedchamber to live together, and even embrace him?

Lu Chengjin: "?!"

He had imagined every possible motive Xiao Zhezhu might have, but never that the man simply wanted his body, in the literal sense.

The Demon Lord was afflicted with a cold poison and needed someone with an extremely yang constitution to save him. And Lu Chengjin was the lucky person Xiao Zhezhu had chosen.

Though Xiao Zhezhu was terribly frail, he insisted on teaching Lu Chengjin swordsmanship himself. As frost glinted across the bamboo grove, Lu Chengjin glimpsed the elegant gentleman who had once stood alone against the world's malice.

When Lu Chengjin learned that this kind of devoted companionship could only treat the symptoms, not cure the root cause, he rested his head on Xiao Zhezhu's lap, wrapped his arms around his waist, and murmured, "Do you have to refine me into a human pill to save you?"

A cool, gentle hand settled on his forehead. Xiao Zhezhu's voice was languid. "Don't let your imagination run wild..."

"Dual cultivation works too."

Lu Chengjin: "!"

#I Suspect He's Flirting With Me, and I Have Proof#

[One-on-one, mutually devoted]

Loyal, upright puppy gong x gentle, flirtatious, sickly beauty shou

[Reading Guide]

1. A slice-of-life story. The shou is beautiful, powerful, and tragic; the gong grows over time. The romance is sweet, but no promises about the plot. Not a wish-fulfillment novel.

2. Please don't project characters' actions onto the author.

3. Reasonable content warnings are welcome. Please don't make personal attacks.

4. The gong calls the shou "you" in a respectful way most of the time. It's a personal preference, so please be aware if you dislike that.

Matchmaker, But Make It Heartbreak by Yan Xingze

#He Lost His Memory and Still Had to Get Married. I'm Actually Crying#

Shocking news from the Celestial Realm! The Little Matchmaker's spouse has run away from the wedding!

Fushu had been a matchmaker for thousands of years, tying countless red threads. Yet the thread on his own pinky had never connected him to any god or immortal.

Until one day, Fushu woke from a nap, bleary-eyed, and saw a red thread stretching from his bed all the way to the ancient vine in the Matchmaker's Hall.

It was the one on his pinky.

Fushu: "?!"

Was his partner a vine?

As a matchmaker who had tied red threads between different species, Fushu didn't consider species a problem. He dutifully watered the ancient vine and chatted with it every day, waiting for it to take human form so they could marry. But just as the vine was about to transform, Fushu woke up one morning to find the red thread had snapped.

The ancient vine had become an empty husk. Furious, Fushu raced down to the mortal realm to find his partner. On a mountain, he ran into a mountain god's wedding procession, and they tried to tie him up and stuff him into the bridal sedan.

Just as he was about to fight back and defend the dignity of an immortal, the red thread on his pinky suddenly connected again.

Fushu: "?"

With his escape plan canceled, Fushu let the mountain spirits bind him and carry him off in the bridal sedan. When he met the mountain god, whose transformation had turned out exceptionally handsome, he was just about to demand an explanation when a veil was dropped over his head. No matter what he asked, the man only called him "wife."

Fushu: "..."

The good news: he found his spouse, and they're getting married.

The bad news: the man seems to have lost his mind.

[One-on-one, mutually devoted]

Somewhat righteous, somewhat wicked, slightly unhinged, love-struck, split-personality gong x feisty, spoiled Matchmaker shou

Theme: Good and evil come from the human heart.