Do Wildflowers Smell Sweet?

Wei Qingzhao is a theatrical personality. She loves to put on a show and has no genuine feelings.

She returned home for one purpose: to seize power and become the next head of her family.

On her climb to fame and fortune, handsome, high-quality men are just pretty flowers along the way.

Her acting is so convincing that these heirs to the world think they're the one destined for her.

So they go crazy pursuing her, hoping she'll make their relationship official.

Wei Qingzhao sighs. "Why confess? Now we can't even be friends."

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In public, they're impeccably dressed. In private, they beg and grovel, resorting to every trick in the book.

They see one another as romantic rivals, as thorns in their sides, and hate each other with a vengeance.

"I knew Qingzhao first. It's all you shameless sluts, parading around in front of her every day!"

"You're my own brother, and you're stealing my girl right from under my nose. How are you any different from a seductress?!"

"Big sis felt my abs last night and said I'm the only one she loves. You washed-up old men, still hoping to compete with me? Ha!"

[They claw at one another, competing as men, fighting until they're covered in bruises, all to fight for the position of her one true love.]

[Reader's Guide]

1. The heroine has a past; all the men are inexperienced. None of the characters are good people.

2. A harem of men, a shameless Mary Sue, and heaping helpings of melodrama, including lots of rival showdowns and men competing for the heroine.

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Upcoming: The Swallowtail

Blurb:

Cheng Jiasui is the envy of every woman in Hong Kong, Mrs. Tan.

Her husband, Tan Yongxu, is handsome and refined, tall and distinguished, and comes from one of Hong Kong's most prominent families. He's the new head of the Tan family, with wealth, power, status, and prestige beyond compare.

To outsiders, she has a happy marriage and adorable twins, a boy and a girl.

In reality, Cheng Jiasui lives in constant fear with a madman.

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"4.18: My Jiasui took the children and sneaked back to her parents' home, and she won't answer my calls."

"5.3: Jiasui forgot the curfew and didn't get home until after midnight."

"6.26: Darling, you actually met up with your old lover behind my back."

Tan Yongxu's terrifying need for control leaves Cheng Jiasui gasping for air. Every time, he sends the servants out with the children so he can punish her without restraint.

"How should I punish you, hmm? My beloved Jiasui."

Cheng Jiasui can't take Tan Yongxu's intense punishments or his ever-changing ways of spicing up their marriage. She can't help thinking that someday she'll die... (?).

She wants a divorce.

She doesn't want to stay with him anymore.

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Cheng Jiasui and Tan Yongxu know that their sick, twisted marriage was wrong from the very beginning.

At the time, Cheng Jiasui already had a childhood friend who was her fiancé.

Tan Yongxu was the other man who stole her away.

Theme: Everyone has the right to pursue happiness