Honored Guests in the South

The second book in the Great Liang universe is now underway: After Parting Ways with the Powerful Chancellor. The male lead is Lord Zhang's disciple. Of course, the Princess and Lord Zhang will make occasional guest appearances!

To uncover the truth behind her father's death in battle eight years ago, Princess Rong Ling disguises herself as a widow and enters Baozhou.

Though the Princess is a formidable fighter, her memory is not so great.

She forgets that she is face-blind,

and even forgets

that she still has a husband in the capital.

So when she meets a merchant from the capital,

she confidently introduces herself:

"I'm a widow."

Merchant: "...Maybe listen to the nonsense coming out of your own mouth?"

A few days later, after she has a falling-out with the merchant,

the Princess writes to her convenient husband to complain:

"Lord Zhang is as pure and noble as the moon, and would never imagine there could be such a shameless wretch in this world!..."

The merchant reads the letter: "..."

Later, the Princess accidentally ingests an aphrodisiac.

With the last of her strength, she pushes away the merchant, who is trying to help her withstand its effects.

"Though I love you, I must return to the capital and explain everything to Lord Zhang before I can be with you. I won't dishonor him like this."

The merchant sighs and leans down to whisper in her ear:

"Princess, are you still face-blind? You still haven't recognized me today?"

But once the truth of her father's death comes to light,

Rong Ling mocks herself:

"It turns out I don't just fail to recognize faces. I can't see people's hearts, either."

Zhang Tingyu takes out a brush rest shaped like a camellia.

"Since you've forgotten the past, Princess, why not forget me, too?"

[Attention] The blurb doesn't reveal the big boss, so don't guess wrong!

The next book, After Parting Ways with the Powerful Chancellor, will be a romance with a groveling ex. Hehe!

Feel free to add it to your reading list!

Blurb:

If you asked the current county magistrate, Zhang Yuntang, what troubles her, she would probably say her ex-husband is too famous.

Her ex-husband, once a Vice Minister of Personnel and now a Deputy Chancellor, is a nuisance she can't escape, even after hiding away in a remote little county in Lingnan where birds don't even bother to poop.

And now the Emperor has come in person to inspect the newly planted mulberry trees, and this man has come along, too.

As the lowest-ranking official among those welcoming the Emperor, Zhang Yuntang can only put on a brave face and ensure that he is well fed and entertained.

Half a month later, the provincial governor hosts a long-table banquet to see off the Emperor and his entourage. The young Deputy Chancellor, who rose to high office at an early age, drinks too much freshly brewed mulberry-leaf wine and clings to her sleeve.

"Wife, the mulberry-leaf wine at home is all gone. When will you brew more?"

Zhang Yuntang suddenly remembers the first time she successfully made mulberry-leaf wine. Excited, she filled a flask and took it to his study.

But there she saw him holding his beloved, a newly widowed woman, and gently comforting her.

Zhang Yuntang thought: They had been married for three years, and she had never seen him be so gentle with her.

She drank half a vat of mulberry-leaf wine, nearly getting drunk to death on its fierce kick.

When she woke, the man was sitting by the bed, scolding her with a cold expression.

Clutching the quilt, Zhang Yuntang thought: He never asks why I did this, or whether I'm hurting, whether my heart is breaking.

She turned away, took a deep breath, and said,

"Lord Cheng, let's divorce."

Who would have thought that years later, he could act as if nothing had happened and ask her for mulberry-leaf wine?

Zhang Yuntang found it ridiculous.

She brushed Cheng Li's hand aside and respectfully bid him farewell.

"The journey to the capital is a thousand miles. Take care on the way, Lord Cheng."

Theme: Love is healing each other