Snow Fell Across the Sky at Our Unexpected Meeting

The Chao family grew too powerful, arousing the emperor's suspicions.

The emperor offered amnesty to the Song family of Lingnan, hoping to take control of the Chao family's military forces.

As her family faced ruin, Chao Heng sought a way to survive and set her sights on the Song family's death-exemption token.

With a plan in mind, she approached the supposedly simple and kindhearted Third Young Master Song.

Chao Heng teased him as she came closer, using every trick she could to tempt him. Seeing the young man's cheeks turn faintly red, she found it amusing.

Until the Qixi Festival gathering, when Chao Heng took Song Zhi to the Bian River to set a lantern afloat. He spoke, and she wrote.

"The seventh day of the seventh month, the sixth year of Jianxing," Song Zhi said quietly.

Chao Heng didn't understand. Thinking it was a Lingnan custom to write the date before making a wish, she picked up her brush and wrote it down.

What she didn't see was the slight smile in Song Zhi's eyes as he spoke softly:

"Chao Heng."

"Hmm?"

"I like you."

"..."

Chao Heng never thought Song Zhi would truly fall for her.

This was a deception. There shouldn't have been such sincere feelings.

Chao Heng had wanted to scheme against Song Zhi, but not against his ardent, genuine heart.

Just as she was preparing to end this ridiculous relationship, a great fire destroyed the Chao family, and Chao Heng was taken to Lingnan by her mother.

Unexpectedly, Song Zhi was taken back to the Song family by his older brother before she arrived.

In Lingnan, the Jiang and Song families held the greatest power. As the young head of the Jiang family, Chao Heng had no choice but to interact with Song Zhi.

At the family recognition banquet, the two met by chance. Chao Heng wanted nothing more to do with him. Meeting Song Zhi's gaze, she slowly pulled her hand away and said, "Third Young Master Song, I don't know you."

Song Zhi gave a cold laugh and didn't press her, but that very night he had her bound and taken away.

"If you don't know me, then get to know me slowly. And you can slowly repay what you owe me."

Song Zhi thought he ought to hate Chao Heng.

He hated that she'd approached him with ulterior motives, that she'd faked her death and left without a word, and that she clearly hadn't lost her memory yet pretended not to recognize him.

But after all that hatred...

What he hated most was that she didn't love him.

Upcoming novel: "Yangzhou Slow"

Ten miles of spring breeze along Yangzhou Road, the moon's cool light sounds across the Twenty-Four Bridges.

Xiaoman was sent to Yangzhou on an assignment from her master. One of her master's friends found her a companion named Wen Xun, who was frail and often ill.

As they spent more time together, Xiaoman increasingly felt that something was off about Wen Xun.

His words and actions matched the person buried deep in her memories, and she found herself instinctively relying on him.

But no matter how many ways she tried to test him, Wen Xun remained firm about who he was.

Just as Xiaoman was growing despondent and preparing to give up, an accident nearly caused her to go into a dangerous cultivation deviation.

And then the man who had always kept his mask firmly in place took it off of his own accord.

"A Nian, it's me."

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Because my parents got married on the day Xiaoman was born, everyone close to me calls me Xiaoman.

But I have another name: A Nian.

Only one person calls me by that name.

A little scene.

What everyone else says after learning Xiaoman and Wen Xun are together:

Senior brother: "There's no way Xiaoman likes Wen Xun. She already likes someone... What! Wen Xun is Xie Yunhua!"

Junior sister: "You're so stupid, Senior Brother. How could Xiaoman hold hands with anyone else? That person could only be Xie Yunhua."

Cousin: "What stray boy is trying to steal my little sister away... Oh, it's Xie Yunhua? Then it's fine."

The elders: "She's new to the martial world. We always worry she'll get hurt."

"You say Xiaoman and Yunhua are traveling together?"

"That's enough. Go have fun."

#Everyone around them assumes they're a couple.

#Xie Yunhua: a man whose name alone puts everyone at ease.

#Shocking! Shen Xiaoman is possessive.

#If someone said the two of them had gotten together, everyone might stop what they were doing and stare in surprise. But if they said the two would love and support each other and face every challenge hand in hand, everyone would nod and say, "That's how it should be."

Theme: Cherish the present.