Peach Blossom Dimples

Originally titled After I Was Widowed, I Became the Beloved of a God of Death

Blurb dated 2023.4.8

Straight man x sweet, delicate boy

Blurb:

Qiao Rui was handsome and pretty, with a particularly alluring pair of eyes. Unfortunately, he wasn’t very bright. His stepmother took advantage of that and sold him to a wealthy gentleman in town to be his concubine.

The gentleman enjoyed all kinds of pleasures and was a notorious lecher. They said countless men and women were carried out of his estate every year.

Qiao Rui was bundled up and carried into the estate. On their wedding night, the gentleman lifted his veil and saw the beauty beneath it. His eyes reddened and his hands trembled with excitement. But with his pants only halfway undone, he suddenly stopped breathing and dropped dead.

Qiao Rui became a widow, just like the other young women in the same courtyard, and didn’t quite understand what had happened.

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The concubines in the estate treated Qiao Rui poorly and sent him to the most isolated courtyard, Qinghui. The only person there was a tall, dark, rugged man who cleaned the stables. There wasn’t another servant in sight.

After a few days there, Qiao Rui was starving and freezing, shivering all over. With no other choice, he went to beg the man for something to eat.

The man tossed aside his wooden brush and looked down at him with a half-smile. “If I give you food, what will you give me?”

The young boy took hold of his sleeve. After thinking for a while, he bit his lip and said, “A-anything. What do you like?”

The man saw his lovely face and agreed to this highly profitable bargain.

He never expected that by agreeing, he’d end up giving himself away too.

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No one in either the north or the south had never heard of Xiao Cong. He was a killing god, a harbinger of death.

After an accident, Xiao Cong disappeared. The old forces of Beiyuan searched everywhere without finding him. Half a year later, they finally found traces of their former leader in a small town in Nanliang.

According to their spies, the arm their lord had injured back then had long since healed completely. Yet the plan to restore their former power kept being delayed. They feared the Nanliang royal family had discovered him and sent a spy to keep him trapped.

But when they finally found him, they saw this instead:

The former harbinger of death had clearly injured his shoulder, but now he looked more like he’d lost his mind.

The tall man knelt on the ground, holding a pair of snow-white bare feet in his arms, and coaxed the person hiding beneath the brocade quilt in a humble voice. “How about putting on your socks first? You’ll hurt your feet if they get cold.”

1. The gong is a pure carnivore.

2. The shou is slow to react and not very clever, but he doesn’t have an intellectual disability. He’s a fully capable person. For reference, his condition is about the same as Xiao Yao’s in my completed story, The Pretty Village Girl at the Hunter’s Home.

3. A sugary Mary Sue story.

Premise: Love requires giving it your all