The Clever Lady

My new novel, The Foolish Beauty's Guide to Taming Her Husband, is now open for reading. Please add it to your favorites~

Blurb:

Smiling tiger of an inventor VS scheming, flirtatious childhood friend

Career-driven heroine VS love-struck hero

(Strong leads, secret identities revealed, woman disguised as a man, childhood friends)

1. When Zhang Ti was sixteen, her father was defeated in battle, and her entire family was sentenced to death.

She narrowly escaped, only to be betrayed by her childhood friend, Shen Yanjun.

Her life plunged into darkness. But her family's vengeance remained unavenged, and her parents had died unjustly. How could she accept that?

Fleeing to a neighboring country, she cast off her feminine clothes, changed her name, and kept a low profile for seven years. She invented the "Divine Mechanism" and became a highly sought-after inventor.

When she finally returned home, she gathered evidence of crimes, rescued performers, improved the waterways, and toppled Prince Jin!

She would devote her life to relations between the two nations, striving for peace and prosperity, and a long-lasting golden age.

2. At seventeen, Shen Yanjun was a genuine wastrel. But one day, he suddenly seemed like a different person.

In the end, he even took the imperial examinations and rose to become Minister of the Court of Judicial Review.

Everyone said he had turned over a new leaf. Only he knew the truth: he took the examinations and joined the Court of Judicial Review to help his most important childhood friend solve an impossible murder case!

In Shen Yanjun's memories, his Qingti was gentle, sweet, and guileless. She was always following him around, sweetly calling him "Brother Yanjun."

But when they reunited, Zhang Ti's secret identity was spectacularly exposed before him. She was shrewd, cunning, and cold as iron, and always kept him at arm's length.

Shen Yanjun secretly resolved to help her get what she wanted, then woo her, win her over, and make her fall in love with him.

3. After returning to her homeland, Zhang Ti kept her distance from her childhood friend, and they went their separate ways.

But at some point, her aloof childhood friend, the esteemed Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, suddenly changed. He was always showing up in her room, and dressing more provocatively every day.

Zhang Ti couldn't help asking him, "Lord Shen, have you taken a fancy to my room? I can give it to you."

Shen Yanjun replied without changing his expression, "I've taken a fancy to the person in the room."

Zhang Ti was shocked. "But I'm a man, Lord Shen!"

Her childhood friend replied with a perfectly straight face, "Since when has this official cared whether someone is a man or a woman?"

Zhang Ti: "Could you... maybe start caring?"

Reading Guide:

1. The hero is aloof at first, then turns into a seductive fox.

2. The heroine was formerly called Xu Qingti. After disguising herself as a man, she goes by Zhang Ti.

3. The hero never betrayed the heroine.

My new novel, The Foolish Beauty's Guide to Taming Her Husband, is now open for reading. Please add it to your favorites~

(Sweet romance, young couple, married first and fall in love later)

Shen Yan is the daughter of a minor seventh-rank official. Her skin is as fair as jade, and she is breathtakingly beautiful. But ever since childhood, people have said she is slow to understand emotions.

Gentle and dutiful by nature, she marries Jiang Shuo, the young general to whom she was betrothed as a child. Shen Yan is cautious and scrupulous in observing the rules of a wife, determined to live with Jiang Shuo in perfect harmony.

But a man's heart is as unfathomable as the bottom of the sea, and Jiang Shuo is especially hard to read.

He pours out all the soup she made with her own hands. He tosses aside the sachet she stayed up late to embroider, pricking her fingers in the process. He even rejects Shen Yan when she asks him to share her bed.

Shen Yan is determined to be a good wife. She is even understanding enough to offer to find him a concubine, but Jiang Shuo is so furious he won't speak to her for days.

Sure enough, a marriage forced upon them will only turn them into bitter enemies. Shen Yan secretly considers asking for a divorce.

But Jiang Shuo suddenly storms in, grabs The Guide to Taming Your Husband from her dressing case, and throws it down in front of her. "So all those tricks of yours came from a book?"

The young general Jiang Shuo rides his horse beside a slanted bridge, while women in red beckon from every floor of the teahouse. A handsome young man with sky-high ambitions, he had already won great victories on the battlefield by the age of eighteen.

At the height of his youthful glory, he was forced to marry the daughter of a minor official.

At first, Jiang Shuo despised her, berating her as "a girl from a humble household, deliberately reaching above her station."

But after they married, he kept blushing in front of her despite himself, drawn to her scent and constantly captivated by her softness and tenderness. He even found himself enjoying the favors she offered him so obviously.

Jiang Shuo thought, Hah, she has a few tricks. This woman is deeply in love with me.

The moment he saw the guide, he trembled with rage. Pinning the young woman to the bed, he finally let his stone-hard lips speak, pouring out all the sweet words he'd been holding in. "Do you like me or not? Even if you don't, I won't let you leave."

Shen Yan was bewildered and tearful. "You poured out the soup I made, threw away my sachet, rejected the person I offered you, and won't even share my bed. You're the one who doesn't like me! I want a divorce!"

"I finished the soup. I wear the sachet every day. And I drove every person you offered me out of the house."

"If you dare send anyone else to my room..." The young man bit her red lips, his eyes dark with desire.

After that, behind the red curtains, Shen Yan was kept in bed by him for three days. He insisted on teaching her things that weren't in the book.

Reading Guide:

Married first, fall in love later; a slow-burn sweet romance. The hero wins himself over, all bark and no bite.

Wooden beauty x proud young general

Completely clueless x refuses to say a word

Both are each other's first, happy ending

Please add my next novel, Notes on Assassination After Marriage, to your favorites~

As the most formidable assassin in the martial world, A Qi is certain that pretending to be a delicate young lady will be a piece of cake.

The real Lin Chan is dead. With a face similar to hers, the assassin A Qi takes her place and marries into the Zhang household.

Her "elder brother" says, "Keep an eye on Zhang Xun and report back regularly."

To make sure her "undercover" assignment goes smoothly, A Qi diligently writes her Notes on Assassination. She even takes a muscle-relaxing drug so she won't give away her martial arts skills.

But that night...

[The dose of muscle-relaxing drug was too high. I was unable to resist Zhang Xun's request to share a bed.]

[He is eight feet tall, his waist measures xx inches, his chest xx inches, xx measures xx inches. His heart is three inches to the right. One stab will kill him.]

[He carries no weapons when we share a bed. I can assassinate him then.]

[His kissing skills are clumsy, consistent with the reports that he is uninterested in women.]

[He likes to draw women's eyebrows. His work is hideous.]

[Correction: His kissing skills are good. His disinterest in women is questionable!!]

[He doesn't like scallions.]

[Questionable: Does going out for fun increase the frequency of sharing a bed?]

[Correction: Meeting other men increases the frequency of sharing a bed.]

[My husband is obsessed with sex. I don't understand...]

[My husband said he'll protect me for the rest of my life. What a pity his life is so short.]

[Questionable: My husband says he never lies.]

[My husband never lies.]

[My husband wants me to escape the capital first?!]

[Sharpened a knife today *^o^*]

[Mission complete. Assassination successful ^ω^]

If it weren't for the need to bring good fortune to the family patriarch, Zhang Xun had never imagined that he would marry.

Especially not a delicate, sickly beauty.

As the feared commander of the Imperial Brocade Guard in the capital, Zhang Xun had never shown the slightest mercy to a prisoner in the Imperial Prison. But when it came to his wife, he was willing to learn how to be a "good husband."

Still... Why was a woman's body so fragile?

A squeeze of her wrist made it turn red. Raise his voice a little and she would cry. The slightest trace of blood made her retch.

He carefully measured how to treat her, offering her the greatest freedom a man accustomed to violence could give.

On one condition: she had to be a dutiful wife.

But then a palace coup broke out, and Prince Yan seized the imperial palace. Zhang Xun protected the emperor as they fled through a secret passage.

At the moment between life and death, the one who plunged the final knife into him was his delicate wife.

Three years later, Zhang Xun ran into Lin Chan again. She had married another man, and a bastard child of unknown parentage was at her side.

In the interrogation room, Zhang Xun lifted her chin with his whip. "Do assassins have to get married and have children before they kill someone?"

"Then come kill me, and have a child with me."

Lin Chan watched helplessly as she was taken from the Imperial Prison to a villa outside the city. Every day when she opened her eyes, she saw Zhang Xun's grim face.

She expected a sweeping vengeance from Zhang Xun. So why wasn't he saying, "I hate you"? Why was he saying, "Don't leave me"?

Lin Chan opened the notebook she always carried and found a line in the corner: [My husband never lies.]

A possessive old-fashioned husband whose passion flares late x An emotionally clueless, sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside female assassin

Theme: Embrace universal love and oppose aggression