[My completed novel, The Young Madam's Guide to Getting Rich, and my upcoming novel, The Moon Trapped in the Eastern Palace. The blurb is at the bottom. Please add it to your reading list.]
----Blurb----
The hairpin banquet in Bianjing has always been held to help noble young ladies choose their future husbands. On the day Shen Yuanshu came of age, she pointed at the new top scholar, Xie Yuchen, and said at the banquet, "He's handsome and talented. I'll take him."
Meng Cinian, who had lost out, wanted to curry favor with the general's household. When Shen Yuanshu went to burn incense at Hanxuan Temple, he staged a "hero saves beauty" scene and hired people to pretend to be Xie Yuchen's concubines, ruining his reputation.
Shen Yuanshu didn't want to marry into the Xie family only to have to fight another woman, so she asked her father to cancel her previous engagement and married Meng Cinian instead.
On their wedding night, Meng Cinian seemed like a different person, distant and cold toward her. After they married, he never once set foot in her room.
Shen Yuanshu thought that as long as she treated him wholeheartedly and was a virtuous, obedient wife, they could still grow old together in love.
But before long, Meng Cinian accused her family of treason, led men to ransack her former home, and personally oversaw the execution of all 141 people there, including her father.
The death-exemption token Meng Cinian had earlier coaxed from her with soft words had actually been meant to save her half-sister.
Shen Yuanshu finally saw the truth. She wrote out a divorce agreement by hand and gave it to Meng Cinian. Without a second thought, he tore it to pieces and said coldly, "Want to leave? Only if I divorce you."
After being cast aside, Shen Yuanshu became a laughingstock throughout Bianjing. When she finally rose again, Meng Cinian dropped his pride, wagged his tail before her, and begged her to take him back.
Shen Yuanshu scoffed. "If you crawl on your knees, bowing your head at every step, all the way along the road I took when I married, and reach the gate of your own residence, I'll say yes."
Meng Cinian froze for a moment, then gritted his teeth and knelt. After crawling the whole way, he rushed to propose to Shen Yuanshu. But she feigned surprise. "I was only teasing you. I didn't think you'd actually do it."
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After Shen Yuanshu broke off her engagement, Xie Yuchen volunteered for a post at the frontier. Before leaving, he gave her a pearwood box.
Years later, Shen Yuanshu suddenly remembered it. She carefully opened it to find a gold hairpin and a jade comb.
----A hairpin as a gift for his wife, a comb as a wish to grow old together.
She had chosen the right man from the beginning, only to miss out on so many years with him.
Reading guide:
1. Set in an imaginary world, partly modeled on the Song dynasty. Many original details, so please don't nitpick.
2. All the settings serve the plot. Please don't read anything into them about the author.
3. The male lead schemes for power at first. After they marry, he and the female lead do not consummate the marriage.
4. If anything makes you uncomfortable, please stop reading. It's fate that brings people together, so let's part on good terms.
5. The male lead suffers a long road to redemption, and the second male lead ends up with her.
----Upcoming novel----
Jiang Shiyu was the beloved late-born daughter of the current prime minister, cherished and pampered since childhood.
At sixteen, she got her wish and married Pei Huaisi, the crown prince of the Eastern Palace.
But before they could consummate the marriage, a strange celestial phenomenon appeared. For no apparent reason, a transmigrator possessed her body, trapping her consciousness in endless darkness.
After five years, she finally wrested control of her body back through sheer force of will. Just as she was about to tell Pei Huaisi about all the suffering and pain she'd endured, he suddenly pointed his sword at her. His face dark, he snarled, "You're not her. Get out and give her body back!"
Jiang Shiyu's heart turned to ash. She grabbed the tip of the sword and slit her own throat without hesitation.
It was her body, and she would decide what to do with it.
When she opened her eyes again, Jiang Shiyu had returned to the night before her wedding. She ran outside the city in the middle of the night, dug a pit, and waited to bury herself alive the moment the celestial phenomenon appeared.
She waited and waited, but no strange phenomenon came. Instead, Pei Huaisi appeared, reborn with his memories intact.
Pei Huaisi roughly pulled her out of the deep pit and, choking her as if he'd gone mad, said, "You don't get to die before she comes."
Jiang Shiyu was confined in the Eastern Palace and became Pei Huaisi's pastime in his spare hours. Until the transmigrator appeared, she would never be free.
Later, when the third prince launched a rebellion and marched straight for Taiyuan Hall, Jiang Shiyu seductively lifted the chin of her childhood sweetheart, pointed at Pei Huaisi, and smiled. "Kill him and chop him up to feed the dogs, and I'll marry you."
[Notes]
1. The story opens after the female lead has been reborn.
2. In his previous life, the male lead loved the transmigrator. After being reborn, he loves the female lead.
3. The male lead is unhinged. Later, he'll be tormented physically and emotionally, all the way to a satisfying end.
4. A long road to redemption. The ending depends on the story.
Theme: Keep your eyes open
I skipped it and read it, Don't Be Crematorium, it's another funny plot about a scumbag who dominates the world but lives alone, which can only be said to be the spiritual victory method of a loving wife.
Will the female protagonist make a fool of the male protagonist, so many families in the copywriting are embarrassed?
The heroine is really stupid. Due to the strict ethics in feudal society, aristocratic families will not raise a woman who has any contact with foreign men. It is recommended that the author read more history before writing the article.
Oh, Mo Dada has started to update again, but don't give up.
Flying stone message hahahahahaha
The plot is so explosive. I'll watch it again when you finish it.