The Moon Over the Spring Terrace

Blurb:

Wei Shu was once the pampered legitimate daughter everyone envied.

After her maternal family suffers a disaster, she becomes someone anyone can bully. Her once-loving father reveals his vicious side and makes her take her half-sister's place in an arranged marriage to the palace, where she is to become a consort.

The emperor is incompetent, and the treacherous eunuch Xie holds power.

Entering the palace is no different from walking to her death.

Wei Shu is consumed by despair. One night, as she tries to hang herself, a young servant from her courtyard saves her.

The servant, Wen Jiu, is someone she once rescued and taken in.

He says, "If you enter the palace, Miss, I'll make sure you're safe."

Wei Shu cannot imagine how a lowly servant without power or influence could defeat the treacherous eunuch who holds all the cards.

So when he tries to elope with her, she firmly wrenches her hand away and says coldly, "Even if I were to elope, it would be with my fiance. Who are you to me?"

She ruthlessly sends the young servant away, then turns and steps into the palace, a dragon's lair and tiger's den.

When Wei Shu enters the palace to attend the emperor, she meets the dreaded treacherous eunuch Xie.

To her surprise, he is the young servant she drove away: Wen Jiu.

The man's lips curl in a mocking smile. "Didn't Your Highness say you were going to elope with your fiance? Why did you come to the palace?"

"Or did your fiance abandon you, Miss?"

[Little scene]

Candlelight flickers in the bedchamber.

Wei Shu reclines on the chaise, her body soft as boneless silk.

Xie Bing'an's long, cold fingers brush across her cheek. "I hear Your Highness wants to go to Chengqian Palace to serve His Majesty."

"His Majesty is right outside. Why not call for him and let him come in for a look?"

Wei Shu's eyes are red at the corners, her expression pitiful and helpless as she sobs, "Y-you wouldn't dare..."

① One-on-one romance, both leads are inexperienced, happy ending

② The male lead is a fake eunuch

My next book, Spring in the Cage, is coming soon. Please add it to your reading list~

Blurb: (Chief Cabinet Secretary's wife x scheming emperor)

Song Yu has a secret.

Before she married Lu Huafeng, she was a kept woman, hidden away from public view.

The man was a frail, aristocratic young lord. She seduced and beguiled him only to find a safe haven amid the pack of wolves closing in around her.

Later, she met Lu Huafeng, the current Chief Cabinet Secretary, handsome and refined, gentle as jade. She left the young lord and followed Lu Huafeng.

She thought the past would remain buried forever.

She never expected that when she accompanied her husband to a palace banquet, she would see that the current emperor was the very young lord she had abandoned.

The emperor's cool, fathomless gaze settles lightly on Song Yu, his lips curled in mockery.

"Madam Lu reminds me of someone I once knew."

[Little scene]

After her husband suffers one attack after another, Song Yu knows they are the emperor's doing.

At night, she puts on her cloak and climbs into the carriage bound for the palace.

Silver pearls glitter in the great hall. Song Yu clenches her sleeves and looks up at the emperor on his high throne. "What must I do for Your Majesty to spare my husband?"

The man takes a gold-and-jade chain from the box beside him and tosses it to her. "I want you to please me just as you did before."

That night,

Lu Huafeng is released from the Ministry of Justice's prison.

Returning home, he sees his wife reclining on the chaise. A ring of red marks circles her snowy-white ankle, visible beneath her skirt, which drapes over her jade-white feet.

The Little Widow of the 1970s

Blurb:

Jiang Nian wakes up to find herself inside a period novel, as a widow whose husband has just died.

Though the character appeared only a few times, Jiang Nian remembers her vividly. Just days after her husband's death, local thugs from the village harass her. Unable to bear the humiliation, the original woman throws herself against the doorway and dies.

And this cannon-fodder character is the male lead's sister-in-law.

It is precisely because the original woman dies that the male lead returns from the army, deals with the thugs who bullied her, and buries her. Then, on the train back to the city, he happens to meet the heroine. They fall for each other and naturally go on to marry.

When Jiang Nian arrives, the plot has reached the point where she has fallen into the thugs' hands and is about to be humiliated.

Jiang Nian: !!!

I just died, and I'm about to die again?

Am I visiting the King of Hell's book of life and death?!

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The greatest regret of Lu Yu's life is that he never got to see his older brother one last time. Even worse, he didn't get the chance to save his poor sister-in-law.

During a mission, Lu Yu is gravely wounded and returns to the past, fifteen years earlier. The first thing he does is rush home overnight. He doesn't make it in time for his older brother's funeral, but he does save his young widowed sister-in-law from being harassed by the local thugs.

His sister-in-law is all alone at home.

To keep the tragedy from his previous life from happening again, he takes her to the military base and settles her in the residential compound for military families.

His comrade Song Bai visits to catch up. Seeing Jiang Nian, with her fair skin, lovely face, and slender waist, he quietly asks, "Your sister-in-law?"

Lu Yu: "Hm?"

Song Bai rubs the back of his head and chuckles. "Would you mind if your sister-in-law remarried? If you do, I could marry into her family."

That very day, Song Bai is kicked out before he can even have a hot meal.

And his words awaken the desire Lu Yu has kept suppressed in his heart.

Every time he comes back from training, he breathes in the warm, homey scents and watches the woman moving about the house. Night after night, it feels as though his heart and bones are being scorched.

Especially when Jiang Nian walks around in front of him in a thin camisole after every bath.

Lu Yu breathes in the clean scent of soap on her skin, unable to stop his Adam's apple from bobbing. His dark eyes churn with a frenzied possessiveness.

He knows there is a barrier between him and Jiang Nian that he must not cross.

But he wants to tear that barrier up by the roots and keep her inside his territory, where no one else can covet her.

People say rabbits don't eat the grass at their own doorstep, but this is the grass he craves.

Theme: Strive to better yourself every day.