Has the Anonymous Matchmaker Been Unmasked?

[Next up: [Douluo Dalu] Chronicle of the Spring Goddess. Please add it to your library; the blurb is at the end.]

Yu Nanzhi, the real daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo's household, is delicate and timid, with nothing going for her but her looks. She's a nobody in Chang'an.

Everyone says she's nowhere near as refined and lovable as her adopted elder sister.

Yu Nanzhi: Who cares?

She listens to the big orange cat and the willow tree gossip, and her writing flows like a divine hand

Orange cat: Nothing in the Duke of Zhenguo's residence can be kept from me.

Willow tree: The heir of the Marquis of Wu'an has been on eight blind dates this month, and not one young lady has taken a fancy to him.

One day, every noble young lady is clutching a copy of Nanzhi Que's little newspaper, eagerly discussing the ideal types of various talented young men, hoping to win their hearts.

The anonymous matchmaker Yu Nanzhi just smiles and says nothing.

When she learns that her family has drawn up a list of potential husbands for her, Yu Nanzhi decides to investigate them one by one.

But

At the Shangyuan Festival lantern fair, the second son of the Marquis of Quling falls in love at first sight with a famous courtesan;

A boat trip on Qujiang Pool: the only son of the Minister of Revenue gets drunk and can't make their meeting;

A spring outing on Youle Plain: Li Wulang takes an unfortunate tumble from his horse...

Yu Nanzhi teases the snow-white cat in her arms, then casually looks up and catches sight of its owner. Dressed in white with a golden crown, he has eyes like snow resting on a high mountain.

Yu Nanzhi smiles. "Your Highness, why is it that every time I arrange to meet a young gentleman, something unexpected happens?"

The young man leans close, his warm breath brushing her neck. "Little magpie, haven't you figured it out yet?"

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Cui Zixu, Prince of Qinghe, is praised by all as a jade-like gentleman and the pride of the Cui clan. He is the dream lover of half the young women in Chang'an.

Yet he alone is unsmiling and cold toward others.

Now past twenty and still without a sweetheart, he has become a source of endless worry for the Grand Princess.

On the sixteenth day of the second month of the fifth year of Xihe, Nanzhi Que's article, "On the Possible Marriage Partners of the Cui Clan's Pride," takes Chang'an by storm.

When Cui Zixu hears that he's become the subject of gossip, he doesn't get angry. He simply takes out a little notebook and makes a note.

Until one day, he catches his little magpie in his hand and points to the notebook. "This article names every noble young lady but you, my dear. You are the one who suits me best."

#Completed works: The Idle Fish Only Wants to Read Gossip and Watch the Show; [Pride and Prejudice] Camellia's Guide to Teaching; [Dream of the Red Chamber] Cultivating Immortality with Daiyu#

#Reading Guide#

1. First published on Jinjiang. Comments on individual paragraphs are open. Updates at 11 p.m., follows the ranking before signing, then updates daily.

2. Single-couple romance, happy ending. A seemingly delicate noblewoman x a genuinely jealous aristocratic young master.

3. After falling ill, the heroine accidentally awakens a golden finger that lets her understand animals and plants. She doesn't become a spirit and doesn't transmigrate.

#Blurb for the upcoming [Douluo Dalu] Chronicle of the Spring Goddess#

With a hellish start from the start, Lin Luge's entire village is wiped out. To escape the people hunting her, she flees blindly into the Star Dou Forest.

The bad news: the spirit beasts around her are all eyeing her hungrily. She nearly gets killed and served up as dinner.

The good news: She unexpectedly awakens her spirit and is rescued and adopted by a kindhearted person.

But this unremarkable Tulip Town is full of hidden talent

The granddaughter of the Spirit Master Academy's principal turns out to be descended from angels!

The wealthy young lady tormented by musical notes every day turns out to be a mechanical genius!

Unable to beat them, the perfectly ordinary Lin Luge chooses to join them. She becomes a support-leaning assault-type battle spirit master. In her spare time, she grows medicinal herbs, works as a little physician, and treats every ailment in town, great or small.

One day, years later, Lin Luge looks at the patients coming to her door one after another and suddenly realizes that, without meaning to, she has become... famous across the continent.

Luckily, she doesn't have to worry about patients making trouble, because this doctor knows more than just medicine. She's handy with her fists, too.

Many years later, Lin Luge's followers pray in their hearts, asking the Goddess of Life what they should call her.

She answers, "The Spring Goddess, because spring's return to the earth marks the beginning of life and the cycle of rebirth. It is always full of hope."

Theme: Everyone has the right to pursue happiness.