Spring Sounds Across the Northern Ferry

My next novel, Five Years Later, We're Newlyweds, is coming soon. Please add it to your collections! Blurb below~ [Savage Steppe Hound x Gentle Golden Branch] Princess Yong'an Xiao Yueyin was married off to the northern steppe in a political union. Her betrothed's Han name was Pei Yansu. He had been the top scholar, winning first place in all three imperial examinations, but in truth, he was a prince of the northern steppe court who had grown up in exile in the Central Plains. Everyone knew that Pei Yansu and Yueyin's twin sister were deeply in love. Before returning to the steppe, the only thing he had asked of the emperor was permission to marry the pampered eldest princess. But the elder sister suddenly fell gravely ill and could not be seen by anyone. In the end, the burden of the political marriage fell on Yueyin, whose very existence was unknown to the world. The northern steppe court was a den of wolves. Yueyin thought Pei Yansu would be her greatest support. He was deeply in love with her sister. If Yueyin devoted herself to imitating her, copying her spoiled ways and her every move, she could surely avoid being exposed. But she never expected Last month, Pei Yansu had a chef brought all the way from the Central Plains to make a pastry he and her sister had once enjoyed together. Yueyin called the “Pear Blossom White Jade Pastry” a “Chrysanthemum White Jade Pastry.” The month before, Pei Yansu had invited her to admire the snow and compose poetry. She struggled to come up with half a line, but he pinched her cheek and said, “Yizhou isn't a little boat like an ant. When we exchanged poems at the palace banquet last time, Princess, you weren't like this.” Today, Pei Yansu suddenly took hold of her delicate waist. His thin lips brushed her ear, his breath warm and fragrant as he murmured: “Three months ago, during the Dragon Boat Festival boat ride, you deliberately threw yourself into my arms. Your waist was a good deal thicker then.” Yueyin was utterly crushed. The top scholar was no longer the noble, elegant gentleman he had once been. He craved blood and slaughtered without restraint, leaving countless wronged souls and evil spirits in his wake. If the future chanyu discovered that she was an impostor, he would likely turn her head into a drinking cup, filling it with fine wine as he caroused each day with his beloved concubines and beautiful consorts. Pei Yansu had been mature beyond his years, always planning several steps ahead. He had sought the princess's hand only to keep a hostage at his side, someone he could use to control both sides. But he never expected to catch a glimpse of the princess, who seemed so wantonly spoiled on the surface, hiding in a corner and silently weeping over an injured kitten, her almond-shaped eyes swollen like walnuts. “The cat I raised from when it was little suddenly died, too, after breaking a leg...” She was nothing like the woman in the imperial palace who had once feigned affection for him. Later, the palace servants the chanyu had specially brought to the northern steppe huddled together one day, whispering: “Has the princess forgiven the chanyu?” “He stood outside the tent all night, insisting that last year's Dragon Boat Festival boat ride had only been the two of them, the top two in the imperial examinations, aboard.” “When will the high platform the chanyu is building so the princess can see the aurora be finished?” “Soon, I expect. Once the princess feels better, the little prince in her belly will probably give her less trouble, too.” #The story of a pitiful girl born without a mother and with a father who favors someone else, who is adored by her husband after becoming a substitute bride - One-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first and only, happy ending - Neither lead is perfect - A tiny bit of kindergarten-level scheming. Please don't tell me if you drop the story. - Entirely fictional setting, with heaps of original worldbuilding. Please don't nitpick the details. ++++ My next novel, Five Years Later, We're Newlyweds: rekindled romance + running away with a baby + marriage before love Please add it to your collections: Hong Kong vibes | rekindled romance | marriage before love | running away with a baby | size difference | age gap Proud, stubborn, beautiful prodigy x reserved, devoted tech tycoon After dropping her son off at kindergarten, Yu Ruoqing got a call. It was from her husband, whom she hadn't seen in five years. “The time we agreed on is almost here.” Cheng Jing'an was coming to Harbor City to discuss their divorce. - When their friends learned they'd been secretly married for five years, their jaws dropped. “Wait, Yu Ruoqing and you were childhood friends, but you haven't had anything to do with each other for years!” Outsiders saw them as the most dazzling couple at North City University. She was an academician's only daughter, and he was her father's star student. But those in the know understood perfectly well that her father had practically raised him as his own son. A friend pressed him: “Why did you marry her? Because she's beautiful? Because of her inheritance? Or did you pity her for being a genius whom Academician Yu deliberately ignored, and want to make it up to her this way?” “No, wait. Yu Ruoqing hates you most of all. She's stubborn and proud. Would she really accept you?” Cheng Jing'an fell silent. The man's handsome brows and eyes lowered as he watched the last wisp of smoke rise from between his fingers. It was just like that night, when she snatched the cigarette from his lips and put it in her own mouth, pulled him onto the sofa, then pressed her lips to his. “Help me...” “Please...” She said it three times in all. Later, the sofa was soaked three times, too. “That's all in the past,” his friend consoled him. “She is now the youngest professor at Harbor City University, and you've made a ten-digit fortune on your own. You never should have married in the first place, and you don't have children or shared assets to tie you together. Maybe you should give her some of your wealth as compensation?” Before he arrived in Harbor City, Cheng Jing'an had already prepared everything. He no longer resented her for pretending to care, or for using him and then tossing him aside. He didn't mind that work was all she cared about and that she truly went five years without contacting him. He didn't care that whenever he called, she couldn't even be bothered to humor him. Those two bright red certificates were the first time their names had appeared side by side, and they would be the last time in this life. But at a private party atop Victoria Peak that night, when someone spotted Yu Ruoqing's beauty and the adorable little boy at her side and was about to approach, the tech tycoon, currently at the height of his fame, stopped him without a trace of courtesy. Cheng Jing'an stood tall, his handsome features darkening as he looked down at him. “Has no one told you that she's my wife and that's my child?” - One-on-one romance. The leads are each other's only ones, body and soul. Happy ending. - The story focuses on the push and pull between the leads. Raising the child is just a bonus. Please add it to your collections, please! wwwww Theme: Love is the recognition of one soul by another.