Springtime in the Boudoir

Coming next: Crane Songs of the Morning Years (now updating). Blurb at the very bottom.

Blurb:

Gu Siyao, daughter of the Gu family, has been frail and sickly since childhood. A physician once declared that she wouldn't live to see twenty. She never expected to marry; her only regret was that the world was so vast, and she might not have enough time to see it all.

Who could have guessed that, out of guilt over an earlier misunderstanding involving the Gu family, the ruler would betroth her to Shen Sinian, the radiant young master of the Shen family?

Gu Siyao had heard that name before. He was an arrogant young man, and one of the most coveted matches among the noble ladies of the capital.

But with her frail, sickly constitution, wouldn't the two of them end up a pair of resentful spouses?

*

On their wedding night, afraid that Shen Sinian would dislike her, she quietly put some distance between them. But then she saw the young man with red-rimmed eyes, looking utterly aggrieved. "Lady Gu, are you keeping so far away because you don't like me?"

She was at a loss for words. Who would have thought that the arrogant young man was a crybaby?

Their married life turned out to be remarkably harmonious. Yet Gu Siyao never imagined that this arrogant young man had kept her in his heart for ten years, carefully plotting to marry her and humbly longing for even the smallest sign of affection from her.

*

At the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, Shen Sinian glanced at Gu Siyao, who was focused on escaping, and lowered his eyes. His eyes stung, but in the end he couldn't stop himself from drawing her into his arms.

He had asked himself countless times whether he could make her stay, but ultimately he couldn't bring himself to stop his carefree A-Yao from leaving. All he managed was a soft, hesitant, "Goodbye, A-Yao." Those words became the longing that filled every night that followed.

The next moment, she set herself on fire before his eyes.

Humble puppy VS. Gentle fox

● The heroine fakes her death, and the hero sees through it at a glance.

● The writing is straightforward and concise. Proceed with caution if that's not to your taste.

● The hero is humble early on, then sunny later. In the end, his unrequited love is returned.

● Lots of dialogue. Proceed with caution if that's not to your taste.

◎ Both leads are inexperienced, 1v1, sweet romance.

◎ This blurb was written on June 21, 2023, at 8:34 a.m. A screenshot was taken at 8:39 a.m.

Blurb for the next book, Crane Songs of the Morning Years:

When Jiang Zhiyu was seven, the night she was officially named the Crown Prince's fiancée by the ruler, she had a strange dream.

In the dream, a handsome, blood-soaked young man held her tightly in his arms. His eyes held a hint of reluctance as he whispered, "A-Yu, go."

Then he pushed her away. Before her eyes, he was pierced by a thousand arrows from the enemy. Afterward, someone dragged her into the darkness. When she woke, the dream felt so real that her heart ached terribly.

*

One day, Jiang Zhiyu was skipping toward her older sister's courtyard when a boy blocked her way. He asked arrogantly, "Are you the Crown Princess my father chose for me?"

At the time, Jiang Zhiyu thought some daring impostor was pretending to be the Crown Prince. She never expected that the handsome boy standing before her really was the Crown Prince.

*

From that day on, Song Jinyan came to her residence every day. From the time she was seven until she was fifteen, no matter how much she tried to get rid of him, he wouldn't leave. She'd thought the Crown Prince looked down on her, but it turned out he was clingy!

As they grew older, she was startled to realize that Song Jinyan's face was gradually becoming identical to that of the young man in her dream.

*

When she was fifteen, a palace coup erupted. Song Jinyan protected her in his arms just as he had in her dream, but she pushed him away and took a fatal blow for him. As she teetered on the brink of death, she thought she saw the Crown Prince, usually so noble and composed in public, with red-rimmed eyes.

Song Jinyan glared at the enemy forces in hatred. In the end, people said only that the Crown Prince had single-handedly cut down every last enemy with his sword.

He lifted Jiang Zhiyu, whose body was growing cold, from a sea of blood. His voice carried a hint of sick, frenzied obsession. "A-Yu, from now on, no one will ever separate us again."

Lively little rabbit VS. Proud big bad wolf

The heroine doesn't die. She wears the only soft armor the hero owns.

The hero is proud early on and genuinely deranged later, gentle only to the heroine.

● The heroine doesn't die. She wears the only soft armor the hero owns.

● The hero is proud early on and genuinely deranged later, gentle only to the heroine.

● The heroine isn't a love-struck fool. She has her reasons for saving the hero.

● 1v1, both leads are inexperienced, happy ending.

● The writing is straightforward and concise. Please don't read if that's not to your taste.

● The story starts when they are seven. Please don't read if that's not to your taste.

◎ This blurb was revised on August 14, 2023. The old version was written on June 21, 2023, and has been screenshotted.

Theme: Hold fast to your principles and keep striving for what you seek.