A Sweet Springtime Slumber

[Officially revised edition. The pirated version is missing parts of the story] [Possessive pursuit + groveling reconciliation + rivals in love]

Upcoming novel, "After the Love Curse Is Broken, the Rugged Man's Regret Comes Too Late," blurb below. Please add my next pseudo-incest novel, "I Married the Wrong Brother," to your reading list!

Obsessive prince who longs for love X seductive, scheming assassin

On a snowy winter night, Pei Jingci found a beautiful, pitiful orphan girl.

He brought her back to his side and carefully trained her into the most useful pawn he could ask for.

By day, she eliminated his enemies and cleared away the riffraff, serving as his shrewd and capable subordinate.

At night, she would also slip into his bed. Her soft, smooth skin wrapped in silk bedding pressed against his firm chest as she called him in a sweet, gentle voice, "Your Highness."

No one knew that the proprietress of the Mingyue Pavilion and the Third Prince, two people with seemingly nothing in common, spent their nights curled up together, kissing.

Whenever passion overtook her, she would gaze at him with bright eyes and ask in a trembling, honeyed voice, "Your Highness, do you like A Yin?"

The curtains stirred. Pei Jingci held her dress and gazed at her with a smile. "A Yin, you must be good and do as you're told."

She was such a useful pawn, and she knew exactly how to make his heart flutter.

Sometimes Pei Jingci would think that keeping her by his side as a favored concubine would be lovely.

But who could have imagined that his A Yin would die in a fire?

Pei Jingci had thought he would never lose himself in love, but he was in so much pain over her that he could hardly bear it.

So, when he saw her again a few months later, dressed up in exquisite, seductive finery with another man peeling crabs for her, the two of them acting so intimate, he was driven mad with jealousy.

For the first time in his life, the mild-mannered, self-controlled Prince Jing smiled coldly, malice in his eyes.

He locked her in a room, his long fingers digging into her snowy skin as he used the lives of her companions to threaten her.

"Why aren't you listening to me anymore, A Yin?"

"Just coax me like you used to, and I won't hold it against you."

Later, for the first time, he left her too weak to get out of bed.

He thought he was the one in control, but in the end, he was the one left begging for love.

Reader's Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending. [Possessive pursuit] [Groveling reconciliation] [Rivals in love]

2. The heroine is clear-headed and independent. She knows what she wants and can plan her own future.

3. The hero loves the heroine without realizing it. Later, he loses his mind and desperately pursues her, humbling himself to beg for her love. The groveling arc is long.

4. The story has plenty of fictionalized details. Please don't scrutinize them. If you drop the story, please don't tell me. The author is fragile, so please be gentle.

"After the Love Curse Is Broken, the Rugged Man's Regret Comes Too Late"

Possessive pursuit + groveling reconciliation + false replacement and the true white moonlight

[Rugged, overbearing general X delicate, sickly beauty]

Xia Zhitang is a concubine-born daughter of the Xia family. Though both beautiful and talented, she is lowborn and sickly, so everyone looks down on her.

When she was brought back to the Xia household from the countryside, Xia Zhitang fell in love at first sight with Mu Yegui. He was the second son of the Mu family, the Crown Prince's companion, and the celebrated General Dingbei of the capital.

They were worlds apart. He was beyond her reach.

Xia Zhitang hid her feelings carefully, and no one knew about them. But then her elder sister exposed her crush in front of everyone.

After that, Mu Yegui began looking at her strangely.

During an accident, Xia Zhitang inadvertently dragged Mu Yegui into trouble, and he was afflicted with a love curse.

The curse was terribly dangerous. It could make a person wish they were dead, but it could also make them feel as if they were floating in bliss.

Seeing the young general burdened by the curse, the corners of his eyes red, Xia Zhitang felt sorry for him.

She leaned down and held Mu Yegui's feverish face. Her sweet, fragrant breath brushed his lips.

"Young General, let me break the curse for you."

And so, every time Mu Yegui's love curse flared up, the Third Miss of the Xia family would claim to be ill and stay home.

-

Xia Zhitang knew Mu Yegui despised her. His heart belonged to a goddess, his white moonlight.

Mu Yegui was cold and violent by nature, indifferent to everyone and incapable of tenderness.

Even though she broke his love curse night after night, and her elder sister humiliated her in public while the powerful bullied her,

he never once turned back to look at her.

When people asked about the Xia family's concubine-born daughter, he would say coldly,

"She's just a lowborn woman I use as medicine. Why should I care?"

She had thought that if she gave him all her heart, Mu Yegui might spare her a glance.

But in the end, it was nothing but a dream. The Mu family was about to arrange his engagement.

Her disappointment had reached its limit, and Xia Zhitang decided to keep her distance from Mu Yegui.

On the final night she would break his love curse, Xia Zhitang lay across his shoulder and said weakly,

"Let's end this tonight."

That night, Mu Yegui was even more frantic than before,

and the "marks" on Xia Zhitang's body were more numerous and more obvious than ever.

She recuperated at home for half a month, then resolutely donned her wedding dress and married into the He family.

-

Mu Yegui was ordered to lead an expedition in a moment of crisis, but halfway there he suddenly heard that the Third Miss of the Xia family was marrying into the He family.

He had met plenty of women like Xia Zhitang. They all wanted to use him to climb the social ladder.

He found her attempts to win his favor and act meek, as well as the rumors forcing them together, irritating and repulsive.

He thought of her as medicine for breaking the love curse, and believed that once it was broken, he could finally get rid of her.

He had no idea that a powerful emotion was growing wildly in his heart.

When he learned that she was going to marry someone else, he could no longer hold back his anger and jealousy.

Why should she be allowed to seduce him and then just walk away whenever she pleased?

On the night of her wedding, Mu Yegui angrily stopped her bridal sedan.

He lifted her veil, the corner of his mouth curling into an arrogant, possessive smile. He was sure of his victory.

"Does your husband know how shy and sweet you are in my arms every night?"

Pseudo-sibling possessive romance, "I Married the Wrong Brother"

Blurb:

[Pseudo-siblings] [Possessive pursuit] [Rivals in love]

Ambitious, rugged older brother X sister who flirts without realizing it

"After his once-disdained sister kisses him, he decides to keep her by his side forever."

When Wen Zhixue was ten, her father brought a young man home. His eyes were bright as stars, his features refined, and he was unlike any other man.

His name was Wen Mushen, and her father told her to call him "Older Brother."

Her older brother was a dashing young general who had never lost a battle, and many women admired him.

But he was wooden and dull, with no sense of romance. He was like a block of wood, and even to Zhixue, he was cold and curt.

Zhixue was terribly worried. How would her brother ever find a wife if he was like this?

So she took it upon herself to teach him how to make girls happy and understand what they really meant...

As she taught him, her brother would only sit there, expressionless, and nod along, seeming very impatient.

Then one night, Zhixue got drunk and, in a daze,

mistook her older brother for her fiance and kissed him.

After that, Zhixue noticed that her brother began treating her differently.

He would make her happy, shelter with her under a pavilion from the rain, press his forehead against hers, and intertwine their fingers...

It was only when her brother wrapped an arm around her waist and looked at her with increasingly dark, burning eyes

that Zhixue was shocked to realize these were the tricks she had taught him to charm girls. Was her brother actually...?

As she stared at him in astonishment, Mushen lifted a hand and gently stroked her rosy lips, revealing his ambition.

He leaned close to her ear, his smile seductive and captivating. "Little sister, that man isn't right for you."

Later, on her wedding night, her older brother barged into her bridal chamber and lifted her red veil himself.

His expression was dark and possessive as he hoisted Zhixue, dressed in her wedding clothes, over his shoulder.

"Since you kissed your older brother, little sister, you have to take responsibility."

Mushen looked at his good little sister as a burning tide gradually rose in his eyes.

"Good little sister, you were the one who came after your big brother first."

Theme: Cherish the person in front of you.