Peach Blossom

[Seductive, Unhinged Beauty × Fake Aloof Flower, Actually a Sickly Brother]

Gu Yuan Zhao was born a concubine-born daughter of the marquis's household. She had never been favored, and even the servants deliberately made things difficult for her. But everything changed dramatically after the Marquis of Anning brought home an adopted son.

Rumor had it that her brother was like the moon high above the clouds: cool, noble, and a prodigy admired by everyone.

But only Gu Yuan Zhao knew that this refined and radiant brother would take her hand without changing his expression during family banquets, gently scratching her palm beneath the table.

The candles in the room had burned halfway down. The gauze curtains swayed lightly in the breeze, making the figure seated at the very center seem all the more indistinct.

Gu Yin Bai rested his hand against Yuan Zhao's cheek, tenderness in his eyes. "Your eyes are beautiful. I want them to look only at me."

Yuan Zhao lifted a hand to his neck and leaned into his arms as if she had no bones.

"Have you forgotten, Brother? I was never a goldfinch in a cage. I..."

Yuan Zhao lightly bit his earlobe, her words laced with a coy laugh. The hand at his neck gradually tightened. Her voice was soft as she spoke, one word at a time.

"Am deadly poison wrapped in sugar."

"Honey or deadly poison, it makes no difference. Yuan Zhao, don't even think of letting your gaze fall on anyone else. You can look only at me. You belong to me alone."

Note

[The male and female leads are not blood-related. They have ended their brother-sister relationship before they fall in love.]

1. This story is set in a fictional world, with plenty of original worldbuilding. No nitpicking about historical accuracy.

2. Both leads are each other's only romantic partners, and it has a happy ending.

3. More notes to be added if I think of any.

Below are blurbs for upcoming works:

"Bound by Spring"

[Keywords: possessive love, burning-the-bridge regret]

Word has it that the Prime Minister's residence has welcomed a new lady of the house. Prime Minister Xie, as radiant as the moon, pampers her every day with countless treasures, afraid she might suffer even the slightest grievance. She is the person he holds dearest.

Everyone knows Xie Hengzhi is devoted to his wife, and countless people envy her. But only Shen Fuyao knows that she is merely a caged bird. Beneath her seemingly splendid life, she has no freedom at all.

Xie Hengzhi keeps her imprisoned at his side, whispering his endless affection into her ear again and again. Yet it is precisely the love he speaks of that destroyed her family and made her fall from the treetops into the mire.

And he blames it all on love?

Absurd!

Xie Hengzhi drew her into his arms, holding her with absolute possessiveness, their fingers interlocked. He lowered his head and gently bit her earlobe, murmuring his nearly pathological love as they nuzzled close.

"You are the lady of the Prime Minister's residence, and the wife I formally married. A Yao, you and I are destined to be entangled for the rest of our lives."

"After Transmigrating into a Book, the Villain Became Love-Brained"

[Keyword: the male lead's counter-conquest across countless rounds]

Shen Qingmiao transmigrated into a book. The good news was that she had become the only daughter of the lofty sect leader of a prestigious orthodox sect, cherished like a pearl from childhood.

The bad news was that she was a cannon-fodder side character who died at the very beginning.

This minor character, mentioned in only a few lines of the original story, had bullied the villain since childhood. More than a decade later, after Lu Junze fell into demonic cultivation, he slaughtered her entire family.

After transmigrating into the story before the villain's corruption, Shen Qingmiao worked diligently to cling to his coattails and hoped to reform him with love, so she could save her own life. But why was this decisive, ruthless villain, the biggest antagonist in the original story, still such a hopeless romantic?

Watching Lu Junze refuse to be apart from her for even a moment, Shen Qingmiao couldn't help questioning his reputation as a villain.

By the time she had carefully kept her head down, she had somehow acquired a little shadow who followed her everywhere.

"Moonfold" Keywords: a male stand-in rises to the top

"A Tortoise's Heart Beats Like an Arrow" Keywords: the whole world goes berserk after the heroine dies

"Suspended" Keywords: men are dogs (complete)

Message: Our fate is in our own hands.