When Honeysuckle Meets Spring (Reborn)

[Coolheaded, Brilliant Career Woman x Scheming, Two-Faced Man Who Will Do Anything to Win Her Back] [Mutual Healing? A Long-Laid Plan]

Rong Zhi never believed that women should be virtuous rather than talented.

Though she held the noble title of Mingyue County Princess, she was determined to practice medicine and save lives.

Unfortunately, an epidemic devastated the people, and she died in despair amid the chill of early spring.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back five years in the past. Rong Zhi wanted only to build her career,

but then she came across a young man covered in blood and barely clinging to life.

Out of compassion, Rong Zhi helped him.

The second time they met, Xie Chenzhou risked his life to gather herbs for her and ended up covered in bruises.

Rong Zhi asked indifferently, "What do you want?"

He looked at her with an innocent, harmless gaze. "I only ask for a place to stay."

"..."

Without a second thought, Rong Zhi pulled out some silver and tossed it to him.

"Let's go our separate ways. May we never meet again."

The next time they met, Rong Zhi finally couldn't take it anymore.

She thought, This man is up to no good. He must be killed.

Beneath the moonlight, the cold tip of a knife pressed against his jaw.

A bead of blood welled up. All it would take was a little more pressure for Xie Chenzhou to die.

But he didn't struggle. He only whimpered softly, panting, "It hurts..."

As if possessed, Rong Zhi dropped the dagger.

"I'll give you a home."

She was determined to keep him by her side and find out what he was after.

**** (Male Lead's Perspective)

Shang Zui was the orphaned grandson of a deposed crown prince. The royal family refused to acknowledge him, so he took his mother's surname, Xie.

Then, in the second year of Yuanhe, he supposedly died of illness on his way home.

But no one knew that Shang Zui hadn't died.

In the vast snow, he used the last of his strength to clutch Rong Zhi's sleeve.

"Please... kill me."

The young woman crouched down, her small body striving to shield him from the snow and frost.

"Don't be afraid. I'll save you."

The girl's fingertips were warm as they brushed his dirty face.

At death's door, Xie Chenzhou smiled.

So there really were gods in this world.

Ten years after they parted, he finally found Rong Zhi again.

He hid his identity as a royal grandson and pretended to be weak and pitiful. Just as he expected, she took the bait.

This time, he would never let her cast him aside again.

On the day Rong Zhi helped Xie Chenzhou reclaim the throne, news spread throughout the capital that she was looking for a husband.

At last, he shed the mask of a gentle gentleman, grabbed her wrist, and cornered her against the wall.

His eyes darkened as he rasped, "A Yue, who do you want to marry?"

Rong Zhi smiled brightly, flipped him over, and pinned him beneath her.

"Don't you know? You're the one I'm looking to marry."

Reader's Guide: 1. Shang Zui and Xie Chenzhou are the male lead's two names.

2. There are political machinations, but the romance is sweet.

3. The female lead is independent and strong-willed; the male lead is an innocent romantic.

4. Click to watch the leads love and fight each other, with plenty of intense push and pull.

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Everyone in the capital knows that He Yao and Xie Hanzhang are sworn enemies.

He despises opportunists, and Xie Hanzhang was appointed Crown Prince's Junior Tutor without even taking the imperial exams. She flatters those above her and seizes power, a femme fatale who brings ruin.

As it happens, Xie Hanzhang dislikes He Yao, too. He kills without mercy and doesn't blink when he razes a city.

Each serves a different master, and they scheme against each other, neither willing to yield.

The day the imperial decree of marriage arrived, He Yao was cleaning his sword and took it as a joke.

He would sooner rebel than marry her.

Someone in the army teased him, saying that Xie Hanzhang of the Eastern Palace was so beautiful she was beyond compare.

He Yao scoffed and replied, "Don't gouge your eyes out. You're already blind enough."

When Xie Hanzhang heard about the imperial marriage decree, the smile she usually wore vanished for the first time.

Did she have a death wish, marrying that mad dog?

She had planned to find a way around it, but the Crown Prince suddenly lost power, leaving her with only one option:

Win He Yao over.

For that reason, she swallowed her pride and waited for him at the general's residence in the rain.

As expected, she couldn't even get through the front gate.

The second time, Xie Hanzhang acted first and asked questions later, brazenly grinding ink for him in his study.

She wore a light, sheer robe, her skin as smooth and white as jade.

He Yao glanced at her once and looked away, his tone amused and casual. "You think this will make me marry you?"

Was he the sort of man who could be seduced by a pretty face? How shallow.

A few days later, in that very same study,

He Yao ground ink and picked up his brush, but not to attend to military affairs.

He pinned her beneath him,

using her body as his paper, while his black ink traced its way across her.

Hot kisses fell one after another.

Across her smooth, pale back, he wrote stroke by stroke: "Marriage Proposal."

Extra Scene:

Rumor had it that the Defender General and the Crown Prince's Junior Tutor had been married for a long time without consummating their marriage and that they were on bad terms. Emperor Tianlin began to consider taking a concubine for him.

"The court is saying that Your Excellency is unhappy with the Xie family's appearance... Have I wronged you?"

The man, who usually left his collar open but had covered himself up from head to toe today, licked his bitten lip and swept his displeased gaze across the court officials.

"If you don't need your eyes, I'll gouge them out for you."

What a joke! If A Zhang wasn't beautiful, who was?

Reader's Guide: 1. The male lead gets a serious case of eating his words: stubborn at first, then wagging his tail like a puppy.

2. A sweet romance, not a political power fantasy with a strong female lead. Everything serves the romance.

3. The female lead's claim that he razed a city is based on her perspective; there's a misunderstanding.

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Theme: Never bow to fate