The Young Lady Is Delicate and Frail

A general's wife, already past fifty, gives birth to her youngest daughter, a frail, delicate girl who is never without medicine.

A Daoist declares that she must live under an assumed name for eighteen years, and only then return to the family home if she hopes to live out her life in peace.

The general's household takes no chances and quietly sends Lu Shiyu to Lin'an.

They also keep her existence a secret for the time being.

When disaster strikes the general's household, everyone is simply grateful that she isn't listed in the family records.

That should let her escape the calamity.

What they don't know is that the frail Lu Shiyu was a peerless master in her previous life, a swordswoman who could conquer mountains and rivers, with countless souls claimed by her blade.

Though she has spent over a decade in this life tending flowers and feeding cats in Lin'an, she still can't change her nature of using martial strength to keep the world in line.

So, when she hears of the trouble befalling her family in the capital, she sets off at once with her sword.

Reading Guide: 1. The female lead is at the very top of the power scale.

Here's a preview of My Role as the Abusive Romance Heroine's Sidekick

Meng Xihe transmigrates into a book as the only daughter of an imperial merchant family worth a fortune: beautiful, busty, and empty-headed.

She's also the abusive romance heroine's sidekick.

When the male and female leads fight, she gets caught in the crossfire.

When the heroine is bullied by the villains, she takes the hits and gets stabbed.

Even when the heroine jumps off a cliff, she has to jump first and break the heroine's fall.

Later, when the heroine wants to seize the throne for the male lead, Meng Xihe rushes to offer up her family's fortune.

In the ending, the male and female leads have twins, a boy and a girl, and ascend the throne, while the heroine arranges for Meng Xihe to marry the male lead's bodyguard.

She goes with him to live in the vast, sandy desert.

Her husband is full of righteous ideals and spends every day out fighting for justice, while she has to wash clothes, cook, raise their child, care for his elderly mother, and run a street stall to support the family.

When the heroine, now empress, hears about it, she smiles in satisfaction. "Xihe may be living a hard life now, but she's found fulfillment and meaning. She's also shed her mercenary ways. I'm so happy for her."

Luckily, it's still early. Meng Xihe has only just met the heroine, who hasn't yet been acknowledged by the prime minister's family and is trying to sell herself to pay for her father's burial. Grabbing Meng Xihe's skirt, she gazes at her tearfully. "Miss, please be kind and buy me. I'm only asking for twenty taels of silver."

"I wouldn't take you even if you paid me two hundred," Meng Xihe says coldly.

The heroine, not realizing what's going on, is already kowtowing. "Thank you for your great kindness, Miss..." She stops mid-sentence, then looks up in astonishment. "Y-You're not buying me?"

Meng Xihe stares at the heroine's confident expression. "??? Did the heroine get reborn too?"

Theme: Even in adversity, keep striving to improve yourself.