The Concubine Knows Spring (Both Reborn)

Pre-release: "After Being Offered to the Royal Court of the Grasslands." The full manuscript is complete. The blurb is below. Welcome, dear readers, please add it to your reading list!

[Chasing the Wife to the Crematorium | Both Reborn | Both Virgins]

Note: Both the hero and heroine have returned reborn. In their previous lives, circumstances kept them from revealing their feelings. Now he's working hard to win her back!

Synopsis:

At the moment Sheng Zhichun fell into the water, the only thing she could recall was the eight words in a letter from Gu Jingyan: "Deeply calculating. She must not be kept."

Until the day she died, she never understood what she had done to make Gu Jingyan hate her so much.

After being reborn, Sheng Zhichun found that everything seemed different from her previous life.

She didn't want to repeat the same mistakes. She planned carefully and schemed at every turn, yet the man kept cornering her and cutting off her escape, forcing her back to his side again and again.

She suddenly understood: those little tricks she had thought so clever had never escaped his notice.

He locked her inside his residence again. His rough fingertips gripped her slender waist and drew her toward him, making her tremble uncontrollably.

He leaned close to her ear and whispered hoarsely about how much he missed her, his wickedness, his long-laid plans, and his ulterior motives.

And so, beneath warm red candles and bed curtains, they spent a wild night together.

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Gu Jingyan carried in his heart the image of a little girl in a water-green dress, dancing gracefully beneath a pear tree.

He was desperate to see his girl again, but she treated him like a venomous snake and couldn't wait to get away from him. Worse, she now had someone else by her side.

He was consumed by jealousy and would do anything to keep her at his side.

Years later, the pampered young marquis stood before the locked courtyard gate, covered in wind and snow. He bowed deeply and said, "I have admired you for a long time. I wish to take you as my wife, to care for each other and stay together for life. Let the mountains and rivers bear witness, and the wind and snow be our proof."

Reading Guide:

1. Characters: A scheming, black-hearted illegitimate daughter vs. a loyal, jealous young marquis.

2. Both the hero and heroine are reborn, and both are virgins.

3. No angst, just sweetness.

4. This is a fictional historical setting. Everything is made up.

Pre-release: "Snake Woman" blurb:

Miaojiang Snake Woman vs. Grassland Wolf King

Si Jia first met Helian Xiao not at the formal banquet welcoming the Holy Maiden to the royal court, but in the forbidden grounds of the sky burial site.

She was being pursued and stumbled into the forbidden grounds by chance, only to crash into a broad chest behind the stone-built altar.

She pretended to be weak and collapsed to the ground, then looked up with tears in her eyes and begged, "My lord, please save me!"

The man stood ramrod straight and looked down at her for a long while before finally saying, "The Holy Maiden of Nanzhao is certainly full of tricks when it comes to winning favor."

From then on, Si Jia decided not to approach him again. She would simply stay quietly in the royal court as a pampered canary. But the man himself locked her in a dark chamber and pressed her at every turn.

"The old man is getting on in years. Wouldn't I satisfy you better than he can?"

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According to the Book of Luo, whoever obtains the Holy Maiden of Nanzhao will obtain the world. Holy Maidens were sent to the royal court one after another, but very few survived.

This time, though, things seemed a little different.

The delicate Holy Maiden slowly stepped down from her carriage. Her eyes were like those of a young deer newly born on the grasslands, clear and bright.

She was surrounded by wolves. There was fear in her eyes, though it all seemed like an act.

Helian Xiao coldly watched her being bullied, without the slightest pity. Even when she came to him for help, he casually said, "She's only a slave girl. If she wants to put on an act, let her." How could he know that she was not a White Miao Holy Maiden at all, but a Snake Woman pretending to be one?

At a grand tribute ceremony before thousands, Helian Xiao watched the Khatun charming everyone at the banquet and felt an inexplicable anger rise in him.

He dragged her out of the royal tent and forced her to the banks of the Tianshui River. Leaning close to her ear, he whispered, "The father dies and the son inherits. Surely becoming my Khatun doesn't count as marrying beneath yourself?"

Reading Guide:

1. Both are virgins, and this is a one-on-one romance.

2. The heroine is a beautiful schemer with one goal: restoring her kingdom.

3. The hero is cold at first, then becomes a lovesick puppy (not really).

4. There are mild elements of chasing the wife to the crematorium. The heroine eventually realizes the truth, but does not succeed in restoring her kingdom.

Theme: Grow through hardship and reach for the light.