My ongoing novel, Ruyi: No Need for Two Knives to Kill the Bastard Men, is available in my author profile. Everyone is welcome to check it out!
The Grand Academician's daughter, Lin Ruyi, wants to save the state and reform its corrupt institutions, but is trapped by being a woman, burdened by her beauty, and confined to the palace. Her talent is eclipsed by her looks, and her reputation is tormented by rumors of romance.
On the eve of the kingdom's fall, this frail woman, imprisoned in the inner palace for nearly ten years, stands dressed in mourning white in the Hall of Golden Chimes. Before her stands the former lover, more radiant than ever. Behind her is the new lover, whose throat she has just slit, his body not yet cold.
Holding a blade stained scarlet, she steps forward. "Though my name is Ruyi, nothing in my life has gone as I wished. If you still remember our past, will you grant me one request?"
The man, love and struggle roiling in his eyes, finally sighs. "I can give you anything but my life."
Hearing this, Lin Ruyi shows no disappointment. She tosses the blade aside, strokes the face that still faintly resembles the one she remembers, and nestles against his neck with a radiant smile. "I knew you wouldn't give me your life, so..."
The man shoves the warm, fragrant beauty in his arms away and leans against a nearby golden pillar carved with a coiling dragon, his body teetering.
Though he immediately holds his breath, his vision still grows increasingly blurry.
In his swaying field of vision, he sees the woman pick up the blade and walk toward him, step by step.
At last, cold steel slides across his throat. Colder still is her voice. "I'll take your life myself."
Novel blurb:
The thirteenth year of the Zhenyuan reign, Mount Biyun.
The Divine Firmament Commandery Princess Ji Yu, traveling under the alias Hengbo, descends the mountain with a sword at her side. She carries a bundle, a broken knife stained with blood, a wooden box that has not seen daylight in over a decade, and a sword also named Hengbo.
At the same time, a letter that reads, "Yu'er descends the mountain, her sword pointed at Yujing," rides the spring breeze toward the desolate northwestern border, where all is still.
Half a month later, Jiangnan.
A hand, pale and lustrous as cold jade, reaches beyond the railing. Shen Guitang, on her way to the capital to sit the imperial examinations, feels which way the wind is blowing and smiles. "The northwestern wind is already rising. It's time for us to set off too. We shouldn't keep our old friend waiting."
Behind the bloodstained broken knife lies a feud between two martial-arts factions, buried for years.
The old wooden box seals away the hidden history beneath the bones of a changing dynasty.
A few words in a letter ignite the blood-soaked flames of war along the bitterly cold frontier.
And the meeting between a fugitive orphan and the Demoness of Zhennan is the most unexpected story in the spring scenery of Jiangnan.
From then on, the bright moon falls forever, the Divine Firmament vanishes, and yellow sand sweeps across white jade. A demon smiles as she plucks a flower:
"The show is about to begin. I invite you all to enjoy it."
Bonus scene:
Young Master: He can't make her stay, just as the picturesque Jiangnan can never keep the Xifu crabapple.
Wen Tinglan: Ji Yu and I grew up together, childhood friends with no secrets between us.
Shen Guitang: Even if she has a fiance, I'll accept it.
Interviewer: Miss Ji, how did you win the hearts of three outstanding men?
Hengbo: ...I'm just an ordinary, helpful citizen.
On the surface: a swordsmanship prodigy who spent over a decade honing her blade on the mountain x a newly appointed top scholar who stuns the world as soon as she enters the game
In essence: airhead x grouch
Character verses released so far:
Ruan Wangshu:
Her heart is as bright as the moon, her body sways like duckweed. Her soul vanishes where the broken blade lies, quietly.
Ji Jin:
In life, he served with complete loyalty. In death, he rests in a lonely tomb beneath a thin coffin. He swallowed countless burdens of the heart.
Yanran x Xiao Huaian:
Fragrance fills the courtyard, her bones are bewitching, vermilion lips touch up in the mirror.
Last night's frost cuts to the heart, yet cannot shake the broken silver spear.
Surging, surging, mandarin ducks weep tears in pairs.
Theme: After hardship comes happiness.
Babies! The next book opens "Ruyi": Men don't need two knives to kill dogs. The female protagonist of The Bird in the Cage Nirvana and Transformed into a Phoenix The specific copy can be found in the author's column. If you like it, please go to the column to collect it!
The author's column currently has two articles to be published: 1. After traveling across the ocean in order to compile (Fantasy); 2. Ruyi (ancient proverb) If there is something you like, you can collect it first, and the author will decide which article to open based on the number of collections. Love you!
"Nothing strange happened to my subordinates" is a big mistake for the author~ Is it a discovery?
I'm really heartbroken. Wen Tinglan, Shen Guitang and Chu Qingchen are all my favorite male protagonists. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I don't dare to watch anymore. Hengbo is also a very, very, very good baby. I will be sad if any of the three of them doesn't win the beauty, okay? (Crying cat head)
The second male and the third male are all so good, why can't Hengbo be allowed to be with them? Cry…
The author's column has added a pre-collection of the fantasy novel "After crossing the ocean in order to prepare a plan", a dangerous and cunning female fairy × a heroic and tender male mother. Everyone is welcome to collect!
Hey, I wanted to save more to read and found that I just saved one chapter hahaha
Old man hahahahahahahahahahahaha
I don't know how many chapters this article will have.
It's finally tied. The author should work hard to write more words, haha! I really like this story. The characters are so well drawn!