A Portrait of Beauty in the Capital

My next novel will be My Uncle Is Handsome and Can Fight! It's a lighthearted, adorable, sweet martial arts romance, guaranteed sugary and tooth-rottingly sweet. Please add it to your library, everyone! Its blurb is below this novel's blurb.

[This Novel's Blurb]

[Political Intrigue] [Face-Slapping] [Faking One's Death and Escaping] [The Wife-Chasing Road to Ruin]

Shen Si, Minister of Rites, is imprisoned for treason and colluding with the enemy. The young lady of the Shen family is jilted by the son of a marquis, and even the Shen family's adopted son takes the opportunity to flee with their money.

The people of the capital sigh. Such a powerful family has fallen just like that. Who knows how the stunning Miss Shen will survive?

The idle gossips wait for a show, but the delicate young lady ends up joining the Court of Judicial Review to help solve cases, and even knocks on the door of Prince Su's residence.

Some sneer that entering Prince Su's residence is hardly a good thing. The man inside despises wicked and treacherous people above all else. Surely the daughter of a convicted traitor will be torn to pieces in there.

But before long, everyone hears another shocking piece of gossip.

Prince Su leads men into Grand Tutor Liu's home and confiscates the treasured ink stick he had kept for twenty years, leaving behind only the words, “Miss Shen needs it in an emergency.”

Prince Su waits outside Qianxifu from the hour of the Tiger, just to buy the first batch of freshly steamed Eight-Treasure Pastries for Miss Shen.

Prince Su...

After the Shen family is cleared of its charges and Minister Shen is reinstated, everyone thinks order has been restored and Prince Su will finally act like a normal person again. But when Miss Shen goes to Jiangnan, Prince Su seems to have been bewitched and follows her there.

Han Lingjing once thought he would be trapped in a murky world of black and white, struggling until the day he died. Then Miss Shen came toward him, step by step, carrying all the splendor of the mortal world.

Miss Shen lifted a face as if washed clean by frost and snow to look at him, the corners of her eyes still red with pain.

“Your Highness, do you believe my father is a good man?”

Of course he did. He had forged the evidence against her father himself.

He knew she was only humoring him, but he craved that light, that warmth, the dazzling beauty she brought to his dreary world, so he kept her by his side.

Until she learned the truth, became furious, and fled. Only then did he finally come to his senses and pursue her relentlessly.

[Bonus Scene]

At dawn, the moment the gate to Shen Weihua's courtyard opens, Prince Su, drenched in a night's worth of frost and rain beneath the wall, comes forward to greet her.

Han Lingjing wipes the cold rain from his face and breaks into a smile. “Good morning, Weihua. What a coincidence.”

Shen Weihua is both angry and worried. “Han Lingjing, can't you have some self-respect?”

Han Lingjing carefully reaches out and tugs at the corner of her sleeve, gazing at her pleadingly. “No, not unless you forgive me, Weihua.”

Reading Guide:

1. Happy ending, one-on-one romance, both leads are each other's one and only.

2. An alternate world with many original elements. Please don't take it too seriously.

3. The wife-chasing arc is a little rough, but this is ultimately a lighthearted, sweet romance.

[My Uncle Is Handsome and Can Fight!] Preview:

[Quirky Demon Cult Girl Bravely Roaming the Martial World x New Martial Alliance Leader Who Seems Gentle but Is Secretly Cunning and an Expert at Pretending]

[Mystery and Case-Solving] [Full of Secret Identities] [Fake Uncle and Niece Turn into Husband and Wife]

A martial arts legend dies mysteriously, and everyone says the Demon Cult is about to return and wreak havoc on the world.

The Demon Cult Leader tells his precious daughter, Ji Xinxin, that disaster is about to befall their family. The orthodox martial arts sects are plotting to storm the Demon Cult and kill them all. Afterward, he gives her half a jade pendant and tells her to find his sworn brother.

Ji Xinxin accepts the mission in their hour of crisis, but she never expects to lose the token.

One day, she meets a white-robed gentleman who can hurt people without leaving a trace with a mere flower petal or leaf, and who also wears half a jade pendant at his waist. She sticks to him for months, and finally brings him home.

The Demon Cult Leader looks at the white-robed gentleman before him, whose aura clashes with his own.

The leader demands of his daughter, “You were gone so long, and this is who you bring back?”

Well, how to put it? Yu Yunchang has plenty of identities: the newly appointed Martial Alliance Leader, master of Mingyue Manor, Marquis of Pingyang, and the most handsome man on the martial world's beauty list...

Ji Xinxin picks the one her father is most likely to accept. “My uncle!”

The leader: ...I really want to smack this unfilial daughter who has no sense at all!

Yu Yunchang, the capital's most carefree young marquis, is ordered by the emperor to bring the martial arts sects under control. Instead, he unexpectedly meets a very troublesome young woman.

After she tries playing the victim, acting pitiful, demanding repayment for a favor, and even seducing him, only to fail, Yu Yunchang wants to see what other tricks the girl has up her sleeve. But as he watches her, she somehow manages to captivate him and steal his heart.

The girl was born with a bewitching charm, beautiful without realizing it. Drunk, she leans against him with her head tilted back, eyelids raised, gazing up at him with bright, confused eyes. Her slender pale hand still remembers to stroke the jade pendant at his waist.

“Are you really my uncle? Are you?”

Her voice is soft and murmuring, like a spring breeze brushing his ear.

Yu Yunchang's heart tightens. He puts an arm around her slender waist and lies through his teeth. “I am!”

[Bonus Scene]

In a secluded room in the back courtyard, the Demon Cult Leader and the Martial Alliance Leader face off.

The leader stands his ground. “Enough talk! Let's settle this with a fight to the death!”

The alliance leader smiles like a gentle breeze beneath a bright moon. “There's no need for that, sir. There is another way to turn hostility into friendship.”

Hope of survival immediately shines in the leader's eyes, which had been prepared to face death.

The alliance leader composes himself and respectfully bows to him. “Your daughter is lovely and charming, and I sincerely adore her. I humbly ask for your blessing and your permission to marry your precious daughter...”

Ji Xinxin, eavesdropping while clinging to the window, is stunned: !!!

#I thought of you as my uncle, but you were thinking of making me your wife!#

#Can a marriage between people of different generations really be happy?#

Theme: Be independent and strong, and never stop striving!