The Beauty of Jiangnan

Next up: After Being Ordered to Marry the Tough General (Lively sweetheart x tough-as-nails great general, marriage first, love later~)

Synopsis

In the third year of Xiao Tinglan's reign, he followed his adviser’s suggestion and traveled south to Jiangnan, hoping to persuade the scholar Song Baiyan to leave seclusion and gather the literary talent of the realm.

Amid the curtains of drizzle, he met Su Huaiyue.

Gentle and lovely, with the grace of a poem.

Standing beneath the eaves, she was like a lingering Jiangnan melody.

At that fleeting first encounter, the new emperor, who had conquered the realm on horseback, became trapped in the plum rains of Jiangnan.

But he never expected that she was already betrothed to someone else.

Su Huaiyue remembered the first time she heard the name Xiao Tinglan.

Everyone said he was a living god of war, destined to drive the Mohe tribe out of Jinshui.

But her father cursed him as a treacherous man with the heart of a wolf.

Later, she received Xiao Tinglan’s letter proposing marriage, a letter he treasured and sent with utmost sincerity.

It was filled with the clang of weapons and the ambition of a man who feared nothing.

But her father cursed him as a traitor who had usurped the throne, and said he was dreaming.

Everyone knew the Su family had made a bitter enemy of the new emperor.

On the day the orphaned daughter of the Su family was to be married, the emperor led the imperial guards in arresting the groom and taking the bride.

Everyone sighed in regret. The Su family’s young lady had beauty and talent, but would she be doomed to die young?

No one expected that this new emperor, who had dominated battlefields and spoke with cold indifference, would rush to Jiangnan during the relentless plum-rain season.

All because of a casual remark from her: she wanted to eat freshly ripened lotus seeds from the shores of Taihu Lake.

#Alternate history, no need to fact-check#

#A little forced marriage and a groveling pursuit#

#Both leads are each other's first, happy ending#

2023.4.7

Cover art: A Guang, by Yiye Shu (non-exclusive)

Coming soon: After Being Ordered to Marry the Tough General

(Marriage first, love later, light and sweet romance. Lively sweetheart x older, tough-as-nails great general)

The youngest daughter of the wealthy Shen family had been pampered and carefully raised all her life.

Her meals had to be served in the finest white jade bowls, and her clothes were made of Suzhou silk that felt warm to the touch.

The man she wanted to marry was a refined and graceful young gentleman.

She never imagined that the man she would end up marrying would be her former fiance’s elder brother:

Yan Ting, the tough-as-nails great general who had just returned to the capital from the northern frontier!

The young man was as imposing as a mountain, with stern features. Even dressed in wedding robes, he looked as fierce as a wolf.

Shen Menglang was already shedding tiny pearls in her heart: QAQ, sob, he’s so scary.

*

When Yan Ting, the eldest son of the Ding'an Marquis household, returned to the capital victorious, he had a dream.

He dreamed that his good-for-nothing younger brother had rashly married the youngest daughter of the Shen family, bringing about chaos, the destruction of their family, and death.

He had only meant to separate the two of them.

He never expected to end up betrothed to the young lady of the Shen family himself.

On their wedding night,

the young lady wore wedding robes and looked as radiant as the loveliest flower on a branch.

But from her expression, it seemed she was about to be frightened into tears by him.

For the first time, the imposing young man, who had always been cold and stern, found himself worrying over how to care for a flower.

*

One was a delicate young lady who burst into tears at the slightest thing. The other was a rough young man who spent his days hammering away in the military camp.

Everyone secretly waited for the two of them to become a laughingstock.

But year after year, all they saw was the imposing young man bending down to nuzzle Shen Menglang’s ear.

“What’s wrong? Do you hate me again?”

A little scene:

At first:

Menglang: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!

Yan Ting: Hmph. I, Yan, don’t need you to like me.

Some time later:

Menglang: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!

Yan Ting (clenching his fists): I’ll change. One day, you won’t hate me anymore.

Another day:

Menglang: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!

Yan Ting (ears turning bright red): .

#From the heroine’s perspective, it looks like forced marriage at first. The misunderstanding is cleared up later#

#The hero is a blunt, clueless man who has never been around girls, so Mengmeng misunderstands him at first. But he’ll learn!#

#Size difference: tiny sweetheart x big, devoted wolfhound#

#The political intrigue is kindergarten-level, don’t take it seriously#

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The Childhood Sweethearts of a Scheming Bamboo Horse (Oblivious girl x cunning, scheming man)

Their engagement was over.

Lin Shuanghan believed that all she and Shang Yun had left was the affection of old friends.

But after ten years apart, her old friend was quite different from the person she remembered.

The night breeze stirred, and ripples shimmered across the water.

The boy she had known since childhood had grown into a graceful young man.

He leaned close to her ear and murmured,

“I used to wonder what you would look like on your wedding day…”

Her hand trembled, and she knocked over her wine cup.

After that, her dreams returned to him again and again, and she could not stop herself from developing…

A hope too embarrassing to confess.

After their childhood betrothal was called off,

Shang Yun thought he would never see Lin Shuanghan again.

Who could have guessed that ten years later, his former fiancee would return to his mountain estate

with her new fiance in tow?

Shang Yun was annoyed.

Very annoyed.

When it came to the field of “fiances,”

wasn’t he something of a veteran?

#Who says an ex belongs in the past?#

#A “good” ex should… deliberately tempt you~#

[Oblivious, slow-witted princess x scheming, flirtatious, lovesick sect leader]

Theme: You can draw strength even from the ashes