I'm the Only Ordinary One in My Family

[Coming soon: The blurb for Casting Spring Light is below. If you're interested, check it out in my author page. Mwah!]

Xie Jiaojiao, the fifth daughter of the prime minister's household, woke up one day to discover that she was the only ordinary person in her family.

A storybook appeared in her mind, documenting all her family's secrets.

Secrets they couldn't speak aloud...

Her mother was actually a female teacher who had transmigrated here, but Xie Jiaojiao had never thought her mother was unusual. Aside from running a school for girls, a shelter, and an orphanage, she was simply an ordinary mother: gentle, kind, dignified, and gracious.

Her father was a tragic, compelling villain with a rebirth-and-revenge story written for him. He had once overturned the entire court single-handedly, but after marrying her mother, he turned to the right path and helped the future emperor ascend the throne.

Her eldest sister, who never played by the rules, had once been a female general among the stars. Now she was the foremost female general, stationed at the border with the dissolute second son of the Zhenyuan Great General's family. Neither of them ever returned to the capital without a reason.

Her second brother was the unattainable love of a tragic romance heroine, the one who got away. He had become famous at sixteen, but according to their mother, he was a shut-in whose greatest dream was to live off his parents.

Her third sister was a doomed love-struck side character. She had been betrothed to the emperor's sixth son since childhood, but he loved someone else and only wanted to use her. In the end, she died horribly and the entire family was wiped out.

Her fourth brother, who had been muttering strange things since he was little, was the most outrageous of all: he was a Daoist!

Her Daoist fourth brother even told her, "Eat whatever you want, just watch out for bad romances."

What a joke! Did he think everyone was as love-struck as their third sister?

[Notes:

1. Her older siblings are adopted, not blood relatives.

2. The heroine is mixed-race, born to a mother who transmigrated into a book and a native father.

3. The eldest sister and fourth brother are not natives. The second brother and third sister are.

4. The heroine will grow up gradually. A prophetic dream won't make her truly mature.

5. I'll add more if I think of anything.]

[First version of the blurb written on June 9, 2023; revised on August 31, 2023. Screenshots have been saved as proof.]

Coming soon: Casting Spring Light

Meng Yichun lost her mother as a child and was orphaned young. Fortunately, her maternal grandmother took pity on her and brought her to the distinguished Xie family to be raised.

The Xie family had a cousin named Xie Junheng, who stood tall and elegant as an orchid tree and smiled like the moon shining in one's arms.

Hoping to win his favor, Meng Yichun contrived to run into him, speaking sweetly and acting gentle and obedient. But her cousin remained unmoved.

Xie Junheng appeared aloof and distant, yet inside his heart pounded. He meant to confess his feelings and marry his cousin, only to learn by chance that she was already promised to someone else.

His heart turned to stone. He strictly observed propriety and never crossed the line again.

And now his cousin was going home to get married.

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Knowing her cousin was hard to win over, Meng Yichun turned her attention elsewhere.

As she grew older, she had to make plans for her future.

Her fiance was not a good man, and returning home to marry him was a desperate choice, but it was the only path open to her.

Meng Yichun swallowed her tears and resolved to return home, only to be kidnapped on the eve of her departure.

Her cousin, cold and pure as jade, imprisoned her in his private residence and gazed at her with a dark look.

"Cousin, you stole my heart. Do you think you can just run away?"

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