She Is Not Pan Jinlian

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The Yao family was bustling with preparations for Second Master Yao's marriage. He rejected every candidate, saying the plain ones were too ugly and the beautiful ones were a curse. He nitpicked and found fault with everyone; none suited him.

One day, while he was meeting a young lady in the small reception hall, his mother came in with an errand. “Your Sixth Aunt's boat has reached the dock. Get a carriage and bring her here.”

Only then did Second Master Yao remember that he had a Sixth Aunt. She was the daughter his maternal grandfather's second wife had brought into the family when she remarried. Although they did not share a father or mother, she and his mother were sisters.

His Sixth Aunt had just lost her husband. People said she had carried on an affair and plotted to kill him. It had taken great effort to clear her name, but rumors still swirled, and her husband's family would no longer keep her. She had no choice but to seek refuge with her mother's relatives.

With so many scandals clinging to her, she was sure to be a seductive, wanton woman!

Full of disdain, Second Master Yao went to the dock. He gave the quiet figure on deck a careless bow. “Greetings, Sixth Aunt.”

She turned around. Her face was as cold and pale as a frozen pink rose on a white wall, her eyes like a black stray cat in an alley, clinging to life. Every last ounce of strength she had was devoted to making herself beautiful.

*

Pan Xiping was reserved and quiet. After she first returned to the Yao family, she watched her convenient “nephew,” a head taller than her, come and go each day without saying much to him.

One day she could bear it no longer. She pushed him down onto a stool, picked up a comb, and straightened his slightly crooked bun. At last, her restless heart found some peace.

After that, the nephew became even more careless. He often tied his sash wrong or put his shoes on the wrong feet. Mistakes were one thing, but he would even swagger around in front of her, flaunting them. She loved neatness and order, and could not tolerate even the smallest imperfection!

Until one day, he lounged in a chair and said with a carefree smile, “I know some things are wrong, but I don't care. For you, I'm willing to keep doing wrong forever.”

Note:

The heroine is a perfectionist and a black lotus.

Don't worry, the hero is mud fit for growing flowers.

The leads are the same age, with no blood ties or continuing family relationship.

Upcoming story: Rebelling Against Uncle

Jiu Li grew up in the Yu household. Everyone in the residence called her Miss, but she was not a member of the Yu family. She was an orphan her uncle, Yu Qi, had brought home.

When she reached marriageable age, many families came with proposals. Asked which man she liked, she smiled meaningfully. “That Young Master Qi seems pretty good.”

Her uncle frowned. “That man seems to have ulterior motives. Why not pick someone else?”

Jiu Li stubbornly shook her head and giggled foolishly.

It was him. He looked a little like her uncle.

*

Yu Qi was steady and sensible, well-read and scholarly. Outsiders thought there was nothing he didn't know, yet he could never figure out why Jiu Li had chosen the unscrupulous Young Master Qi.

He couldn't stand by and watch the girl he'd raised fall into ruin. Slamming a hand on the table, he said, “No! You're not allowed to see that man surnamed Qi again!”

Jiu Li rolled her eyes. “Why not? You want to control everything under the heavens, and now you want to control my heart too?”

“You!”

He realized that Jiu Li, who had always depended on him, was suddenly no longer listening to him. Perhaps he'd spoiled her too much. He decided it was time to show her a little authority.

But the next day, a servant came to report, “Master, Miss eloped with Young Master Qi!”

Theme: Life is fleeting, yet suffering goes on without end.