Seeking Delight

In her previous life, Li Juchen, a female official of the Great Liang, was notorious and despised by everyone. She controlled the court with an iron fist for much of her life and was attacked by officials en masse, so it was only fitting that she died.

The one thing she never expected was that her nemesis, Prince Pengshan, would gladly give his life to give her a sliver of hope.

Li Juchen searched the whole world for the letter Prince Pengshan was said to have left behind. She had intended to fulfill his final wish, but when the sealed sandalwood box was opened, all that spilled out were portraits of her from her youth.

"It's almost laughable.

All my life, I drank with strange women while solving cases.

I shared a bed with refugees while providing disaster relief.

I ate at the same table as people I had never met.

I held an umbrella over women and children driven from their homes.

I loved you so much, yet we never did anything together."

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Song Mi is handsome, born into nobility, and famous from a young age. He is hailed as the most unapproachable snowy peak in the capital of Great Liang, a moon in the heavens.

But lately, he has been restless and unable to sleep. In his dreams, he is always painting the back of a woman.

Each time he puts brush to paper, his hands tremble, and a stabbing pain flares beneath his ribs.

Song Mi cannot make sense of it until one day, at a wedding banquet, he sees that very figure. Surrounded by dim, fading lights, a young woman stands with her back to him, drinking herself into a stupor at her childhood sweetheart's wedding.

Song Mi watches from a corner for a long while. He kindly leaves behind a handkerchief for her tears, then turns to go.

But she suddenly chases after him, grabs his hand from behind in the darkness, rises on tiptoe, and kisses him.

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(We never did anything together? Then let's do something!)

Reading Guide:

1. The heroine is reborn at the start, while the hero gradually remembers his previous life.

2. This story has been revised many times and differs considerably from pirated copies. If that bothers you, please stop reading in time.

3. First love, happy ending, fictional setting, very loosely based on anything.

A preview of my upcoming story, My Archnemesis Is Finally on His Deathbed

Before her death, Murong Qing was a modern woman who transmigrated into an ancient man and awkwardly lived as one for a lifetime. Her beauty appealed to both men and women, stirring up bloody chaos in Chang'an. In the end, people believed she had gotten what she deserved: she perished in a fire, leaving no intact remains.

When she opens her eyes again, Murong Qing stares at the face in the mirror, still five parts the same as before. She has only just regained her delicate female body when she is sent off to a powerful minister.

Murong Qing wakes in a daze, only to have someone wrap an arm around her waist and pull her into a broad embrace.

The handsome man sits her on his lap. His bearing is noble and elegant as he grips the back of her neck and forces her to kiss his Adam's apple.

Murong Qing's beautiful eyes widen. She has never seen Chancellor Su Jilin, so upright and proper, behave so brazenly.

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In Murong Qing's memory, Su Jilin and she were irreconcilable. He despised her for abusing power and currying favor, for bringing disaster to the country, and wanted nothing more than to be rid of her.

But the man before her searches everywhere for women who look like her, treating them as treasures and showering them with affection.

And because she still looks five parts like the woman he longs for, she has unfortunately become that woman.

In the past, whenever they crossed paths on the imperial road, Su Jilin would not even deign to look at her. He would always grumble, "Why do I keep running into you?"

Now the man wears the same gentlemanly face as always. After she fails to escape, he cruelly ties her to a chair and gazes at her with deep, shadowy eyes. "Call me husband and I'll let you go?"

Everyone says he's sick.

She thinks so, too.

Even when she tries to remind him of the old grudges from their youth, when they were sworn enemies,

all he can think about is confessing his love to her.

Murong Qing spends several days gloating. But when he proposes that they share a bed, she starts searching for renowned doctors...

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"She always said that in this world, being a man was incredibly lucky."

"But when she told me that she was actually a woman, her eyes turned red."

"I never trust anyone, yet I believed her absurd story."

(A mesmerizing beauty who can be mistaken for either sex x a deranged hero who finally accepted he was gay, only for the heroine to die)

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Theme: Say what you feel out loud!