The Heart-Enchanting Chaos

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Blurb:

When Fu Shiqing was young, she was kidnapped and ended up in the Miao frontier. The only skill she learned was how to use love bugs.

Two years ago, she happened to rescue an injured man. Remembering that her mother-in-law's love bug could make someone stay, she acted on impulse and planted one in him.

When he was in pain, she stayed up all night tending to him.

When he was sad, she controlled a puppet under the bug's influence to make him smile.

When he missed home, she played the Miao flute to ease his homesickness.

She had only treated him kindly because she felt sorry for him, never imagining that someone's gaze would grow more and more strange.

Then one day, when she came home, she saw a burning look in his eyes.

Fu Shiqing fled in a panic, only then realizing that the love bug... was that kind of bug!

Still, she wouldn't mind becoming his wife. Resolving herself, she returned to the stilt house, only to find it empty.

Had the man she had chosen as her husband run away?

Two years later, Fu Shiqing is found by the Fu family. Determined to forget the past and start a new life, she is stunned when she meets the Crown Prince, famed for his ascetic ways and aversion to women. He... isn't he the husband who ran away from her?

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The Crown Prince, Ji Yunze, is noble and refined, handsome and dignified, with the ethereal beauty of a celestial being.

He is kind and benevolent, cherishes his people, and treats men of talent with respect. He is a paragon of virtue.

He is also the dream lover of the capital's young ladies.

Yet beneath the dazzling exterior of this gentleman lies a past he never wants to mention.

Two years ago, while leading troops to suppress bandits in western Hunan, he was injured and rescued by a woman. The infuriating part was that she exploited his debt of gratitude and planted a love bug in him, forcing him to get along with her!

He endured the humiliation and pretended to go along with her, finally managing to escape.

After returning to the capital, the love bug gradually faded, and the Crown Prince forced himself to forget the whole affair.

Who could have known that when the long-lost daughter of the Grand Tutor was found, the love bug would start acting up again!

Faced with his body's involuntary reactions from time to time, the kindhearted Crown Prince felt the urge to kill for the first time.

However

The capital's foremost talented woman, Bai Chaoyan, sneered at Fu Shiqing: "The Fu family's young lady knows nothing of poetry or books. Bringing her to a poetry gathering will only make her a laughingstock."

The Crown Prince agreed, though he thought Bai Chaoyan's words were rather harsh.

The capital's foremost noblewoman, Commandery Princess Dening, pushed away the invitation: "The Fu family's girl is vulgar and ill-mannered. She has no place at my banquet."

The Crown Prince furrowed his brow. Since when were innocence and liveliness the same as vulgarity? Even if she were vulgar, she would still be better than these affected women.

...Wait, why did he think Fu Shiqing was innocent and lively?

The newly appointed top scholar pointed at Fu Shiqing in front of all the noble ladies and laughed: "For the Fu family to have a daughter like this is a disgrace to their name."

The Crown Prince was furious. The top scholar was debauched, mean-spirited, and lacking in personal virtue. He was unfit for office!

Fu Shiqing was grateful that he had stood up for her, and finally lifted the bug's spell.

A few days later, though, he cornered her in an alley and begged her to plant the bug in him again.

"If this bug can make you look at me, even just once, then I would gladly let myself be captured by insects."

*Entirely fictional, with a mountain of original worldbuilding~

Reborn Beauty Wins Back Her Young Lover

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A piece of news shook Jiangzhou City.

The eldest daughter of the city's richest family, the Yan family, had suddenly broken off her engagement to the powerful Kangping Marquis's household in the capital. Day after day, she began pursuing Young Master Zhao Mingji, who was staying in Huainan Alley.

She moved in next door, bringing him chicken soup every day and asking after him without fail, rain or shine. She even spent a fortune to buy the largest residence in town and give it to him.

Zhao Mingji treated her coldly, showing no mercy.

She had played him once before. Naturally, he wouldn't fall for it a second time.

Then, one day, she abruptly stopped. No more chicken soup, no more solicitous visits. He never saw her around again.

His friend asked Zhao Mingji what was going on.

He glanced indifferently at the silent courtyard wall beside him and said lightly, "She's just playing hard to get."

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A little scene:

In the back courtyard of a newly opened charity hall, Zhao Mingji, furious, pinned Yan Ruoning against the wall and grabbed her wrist. Gritting his teeth, he demanded, "Didn't your teacher tell you that after you let someone go, you still have to catch them?"

Yan Ruoning shook her head. "I'm not catching you anymore. You used to be so highborn, and I'm just a merchant's daughter. I was never good enough for you, and I couldn't catch you anyway."

He took her hand and placed it on his shoulder, speaking in a low voice. "Now you've caught me. Are you going to keep me?"

She instinctively started to shake her head again, but his lips had already captured hers. He bit down angrily and said, "Whether you keep me or not is no longer up to you."

Theme: Take off the masks and look into one another's hearts to discover the beauty within