Has Miss Tan Gotten Angry Today?

[The brash, sharp-tongued, love-struck heir × the quiet, slightly mad noblewoman with hyperthymesia]

People close to Chen Fuque, heir to the Prince of Xiang, cheerfully call him amusing. Those who dislike him curse him mercilessly behind his back.

It’s all because his tongue is as sharp as it is vicious, and he loves to slowly and methodically leave people speechless.

Then he meets a sickly woman who never lets her emotions show.

Whenever they disagree, Tan Huaiyu is as still as a pool of water, while he’s the one who gets worked up.

He vows to tear off her mask.

He doesn’t care about the barbs she throws at him or her refusal to marry him, until he sees her chatting happily with the man who saved her life.

Everyone says a life-saving debt should be repaid with marriage.

Unable to stomach it, he gets drunk, climbs over the wall to find Tan Huaiyu, and plans to settle things with her.

But she steps toward him beneath the moonlight, a faint smile on her lips. “Aren’t you supposed to be able to drink a thousand cups without getting drunk?”

In his drunken haze, he says, “…I wanted to see you.”

The next day, he remembers nothing. But he gets his wish: Tan Huaiyu is angry.

This time, though, he senses a strange hint of embarrassment in her anger.

*

Everyone laughs at Tan Huaiyu for being sickly, but no one knows how many secrets she hides. The most deeply buried is her strange illness, which a renowned doctor diagnosed as hyperthymesia.

To avoid trouble, she deliberately stays away from the conflicts in the capital.

Later, when people learn that Tan Huaiyu healed the wounded and executed rebel soldiers, they say the sickly woman has finally come into her own, and she enjoys her moment in the spotlight.

Only she knows that her hyperthymesia has turned her misfortune into a blessing.

For a long time, she was like a dried-up river.

Whether she stayed away from the world or entered it, she merely wore more masks.

She has always hated losing control, yet in front of Chen Fuque, her composure always fails her.

He shines like the blazing sun, and she can’t help drawing warmth from him, letting a spring surge up inside her as if no one else were there.

Until the Qixi Festival, when the quiet night is pale with reflected light and a few voices drift from the riverbank.

On the deck, Tan Huaiyu presses the tip of her hairpin to her neck.

“The sun has gone cold, and time runs backward. We’ll never leave each other, in life or in death.”

#PureLove# #ComingOfAge# #MutualSalvation#

Note:

1. Entirely fictional, with lots of invented details. Please don’t nitpick the historical accuracy.

2. The characters aren’t perfect. Everyone has flaws.

3. The heroine has many shortcomings, and her growth runs through the whole story. Hyperthymesia affects her personality, causing her to avoid things and become conflicted and tangled up in the early and middle parts. She occasionally acts self-destructively and falls apart, but gradually opens up and finds freedom later on.

4. Contains a little warfare, domestic intrigue, and mystery, mostly in service of the romance and character growth.

Here’s another upcoming story, haha:

[The sly shamaness who never tells the truth × the proud, skeptical minister of justice]

Zhao Yuan, Junior Minister of Justice, oversees the courts and decides matters of life and death. He hates three things most: killing innocents, telling lies, and pretending to practice the supernatural.

And the shamaness Feng Ling is guilty of all three.

He’s determined to find evidence and bring her to justice.

Feng Ling doesn’t care in the least.

After all, from the moment he revealed who he was, all she’d been planning was to kill him.

#DeadlyRivals#

Note:

1. An alternate-history mystery set in the pre-Qin era. The book’s mysticism is loosely based on real traditions, but there are many fictional details, so please don’t nitpick.

2. The characters aren’t perfect. The heroine has no qualms about killing people, and she is fully formed from the moment she appears. The hero has a character arc.

3. The plot will take up a little more space.

Theme: Being seen and remaining unseen.