My new book, The Village Girl Who Couldn't Read a Single Character, is a period novel beginning in the 1950s. Check it out in my profile, and if you like it, please add it to your collection. Thank you!
Blurb
[Marriage Before Love] Big-hearted, gorgeous inheritor of a Taiji boxing tradition x reserved, aloof tech-company up-and-comer in AI
1. Zhang Xuan has known since childhood that her elders had arranged her engagement. Their horoscopes were a perfect match: she could save him and bring him good fortune. At some point, nearly everyone on Mount Wudang knew that the inheritor of the Zhang family's Taiji boxing tradition had had a husband since she was a little girl.
When Feng Xu was ten, his entire family was in a car accident. His parents died on the spot, and his own life hung by a thread.
A certain master gave Old Master Feng a veiled hint: Find a girl whose birth date contains three identical digits and whose Five Elements are complete and prosperous, and she can help his grandson survive this calamity.
And then... they really found one, and Feng Xu miraculously woke up.
2. Feng Xu kept pushing back the wedding date agreed upon by their families, until Old Master Feng's doctor announced that he had no more than two years to live. With no way to delay any longer, Feng Xu reluctantly agreed to marry, just to put his grandfather at ease.
Before the wedding, Feng Xu laid everything out for Zhang Xuan:
(1) The marriage was only for show, to please his grandfather.
(2) To make it up to her, after the divorce she could take her legally entitled share of his assets.
(3) They could both pursue their own love lives without interfering with each other.
And so on...
Zhang Xuan summed it up in one sentence: He doesn't like her, and probably never will.
"Also, I'm a firm materialist. I don't believe in superstitions," Feng Xu added at the end, making clear his position and denying any connection between them.
Zhang Xuan: "Oh."
What did that matter? The only constant in this world is change. People change, and he'll fall for her.
Besides, she had her Taiji boxing legacy to build.
3. A celestial once said, "If there are virtuous and benevolent people in the human world, they can come to Wudang. Those who cultivate the Great Way can also become immortals."
In deep winter, snow fell on Wudang. The pure, sacred land looked like a heavenly realm. Red walls and green tiles were hidden beneath a curtain of white, and the stone mountain paths had disappeared. A fierce wind swept past. Through the haze, a figure could be seen climbing toward the Golden Summit. For the first time, Feng Xu believed in the power of the heart, longing for a sincere love.
[A Childhood Scene]
In a Taoist temple on Mount Wudang, the priests were performing a ritual, music and incantations echoing through the hall. Seven-year-old Zhang Xuan sneaked inside and hid under the altar table. She lifted the velvet curtain and saw a boy kneeling in front. His face was pale, without a trace of color. Sunlight streamed into the hall from outside, backlighting him and making him look even more sickly.
So this was her husband? Was he really about to die? But why was he so inexplicably handsome? Zhang Xuan clutched the velvet curtain and wondered to herself.
That evening, the boy sat alone beneath a tree halfway up the mountain. Zhang Xuan sneaked over again, gripped the hilt of her sword, and pressed it hard against his chin. Frowning disdainfully, she said, "I'm supposed to marry you?"
The boy only saw a huge dark shape looming in front of him. When he finally made out the shape and the gleaming sword, he fainted on the spot.
Zhang Xuan: ...?
[Why the Male Lead Is Afraid of the Female Lead]
As a child, Feng Xu was falling apart inside: She's so fierce, and fat and fierce! And she wants me to be her wife in some knockoff marriage! Unacceptable!
Note: When she was a child, the female lead was a fierce, domineering chubby girl. The horoscope details are made up to serve the plot.
Blurb saved on February 5, 2023, revised on August 21, 2023
Theme: Promote Chinese culture
Haha, hero, it's time for you to suffer. The second male lead is pretty good
Why is it written like this? Why can't someone who likes the female protagonist come out to humiliate the male protagonist? She has to be a woman to like the male protagonist, and then target the female protagonist in various ways? The heroine is also excellent! Why do you have to be so arrogant?
Damn, I like your article very much. I read it in one go. When will it be updated?
The crematorium can be arranged
I am going to write a chronicle "Little Village Flower, She Is Illiterate" starting from the 1950s. If you are interested, you can click and add it to your collection~~ Zhen Tao has never been to school and does not know a word, but she has an exquisite heart with seven orifices, a quick mind, and hidden things in her eyes. Her family is a foreigner in the village and has no one to rely on. She no longer wants to work in the fields and wants her brother to learn a trade, but what should she do if she has no money? Therefore, when a piece of marriage paper was handed over from the Zhang family in the same village, Zhen Tao, who was only 18 years old, agreed without hesitation and got married! Everyone in the village felt pity for Zhentao. She was so good-looking and could have married into a better woman. Moreover, the Zhang family was poor. The eldest brother, Zhang Linyi, had been a "gai" since he was a child and was unreliable! But only Zhentao knows that although the Zhang family is poor and Zhang Linyi is just like that, "gai Liuzi" went out to learn tailoring. Now he can make good clothes, and he also keeps himself clean and fresh, unlike those men with rolled up trouser legs and muddy legs. What's more important is that her brother has a free teacher and has mastered his craftsmanship. Later, Lin Zhangyi became the first 10,000-yuan household in the county. People in the village were jealous. They all said that he had a sharp eye and was very accurate in selecting people. They had spotted Zhang Linyi's superb craftsmanship at a glance. Later, Zhang Linyi opened the first clothing factory in the city, and people in the village gathered in groups to find a job. Zhang Lin smiled reservedly, a rare shyness, and said, "I can't make the decision at home."
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The male protagonist is also a comedian, right?
Ahhhhhh finally!!
Hum hum little sweet daily life!