Crossing the Tan Flower

🌟 Bickering couple | Mutual healing | Happy ending

💓 Quirky, spirited heroine × gentle, scheming marquis

🍀 Coming next: the pre-release novel Falling in Love Online Has Been Triggered [Keyboard MMO]~

Sunshine PVP powerhouse heroine × poker-faced, adorable gaming newbie hero

[Blurb]

After her master took her in, Lu Tan became famous throughout the Xiaoyao Sect as its “little tyrant,” thanks to her exceptional martial arts skills.

From the eldest senior sister to the youngest junior brother, everyone agreed she was a martial arts prodigy.

Lu Tan thought that one day she would leave the mountain, conquer the jianghu, then retire in glory and return to Xiaoyao Sect to live the pampered life of a little layabout.

That was, until she found a three-year-old plea for help on her master's desk.

The letter was from her eldest senior sister, who had been out of touch for three years. It mentioned Dujing, a city thousands of miles away that Lu Tan had never visited.

Lu Tan packed her bags and resolutely descended the mountain.

Before she could conquer the jianghu, she had to rescue the eldest senior sister who had always doted on her!

But the journey proved treacherous, and Lu Tan suddenly realized the jianghu wasn't as simple as she'd imagined.

When bandits threw their weight around at an inn, Lu Tan cracked her whip and sneered, “Your granny's here to teach you how to behave.”

When a massacre at an escort agency was shrouded in mystery and all the jianghu wanderers kept their distance, Lu Tan deliberately stepped into the fray to uncover the truth.

A martial arts tournament brought long-buried secrets to light. At last, Lu Tan realized that the most terrifying thing in the world wasn't the cudgels and swords in people's hands, but the hearts hidden beneath their polished exteriors.

Then she would tear that respectable facade away and expose all the filth beneath!

All the while, a handsome young gentleman who claimed to be a jianghu wanderer stayed by Lu Tan's side.

When Lu Tan lashed out at bandits, Ling Zhixu protected the helpless people hiding behind her.

When Lu Tan resolved to investigate a case, Ling Zhixu helped clear away the obstacles in her path.

When Lu Tan set out to expose hidden crimes to the world, Ling Zhixu gave her the sharpest sword he could find, helping her cut through the corruption around them.

Later, when he found a lead on her eldest senior sister, he cheerfully presented it to her with both hands.

Lu Tan asked Ling Zhixu what he wanted in return.

Ling Zhixu tucked a flower into her hair and gently kissed the top of her head.

Lu Tan stood frozen for a long while. “Does that flower smell that good?”

*

It was a long time before Lu Tan realized he hadn't been smelling the flower. He had been kissing the person beneath it.

By then, she had already learned about his other identity: the Marquis Huaizhao, feared by everyone in Dujing.

A marquis and a jianghu wanderer should have been leading two entirely separate lives.

But so what?

Since he had set his heart on her, he would become the east wind and carry her through this journey.

# Mutual healing + Bickering couple + Both virgins + Happy ending

[Pre-release blurb: Falling in Love Online Has Been Triggered [Keyboard MMO]]

Sheng Zhao has recently been harassed by a man.

He has a model's face, a breathy voice, deep pockets, and an eight-pack.

Whenever Sheng Zhao logs in, she can always spot him nearby within five seconds.

Along with him comes a System notification: “Enemy swordsman [Lan Yue Ting Feng] detected, 10 feet away.”

It's been half a month, and the man is like sticky toffee: she can't drive him off or shake him loose.

Enough is enough.

Sheng Zhao grabs her keyboard and types out a furious question mark.

Looking for online romance?

She, the great swordswoman Sheng Sheng Man, hates men who throw themselves at her like this.

Too much eagerness makes you cheap!

[Server-wide announcement] Lan Yue Ting Feng: Recruiting for our guild. We offer allowances for the wilderness and faction battles. You name the amount. [Sheng Sheng Man], interested?

Sheng Zhao: ? That's not how this is supposed to go!

*

Not long after, the game Swords of the Jianghu updates its romance system.

As soon as Sheng Zhao logs in, a System notification appears on the screen.

Swordsman [Lan Yue Ting Feng] has requested to become your romantic partner.

Sheng Zhao is deeply moved and clicks “Reject.”

Shen Yu'an, sitting in the gaming chair beside her, leans over and asks innocently why.

Sheng Zhao holds out her palm. “Boss, that's going to cost extra!”

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