Breaking the Celestial Beauty (Reborn)

*Radiant, sweet, deceptively dark young princess x aloof, otherworldly Daoist heir, her younger royal uncle

*The aloof young Celestial Master descends from his lofty pedestal for love

Ming Jin, the legitimate daughter of the Prince of Zhennan and Princess Linzhen, enjoys the income of a princess's fief. As beautiful as an immortal, she shines like a brilliant pearl, and has countless admirers. The most suitable among them is Xie Changjue, heir to the Prince of Qi.

They grew up together, childhood sweethearts, and everyone knows theirs is a match made in heaven.

But Ming Jin, reborn with memories of her past life, knows that after six years of marriage they were nothing but a bitter couple. She wasted her life, watched her parents die and her elder brother age before his time, and ultimately met a tragic end in Xie Changjue's household.

Given a chance to begin again, she wants nothing to do with a match made in heaven.

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Later, this pearl of hers remained unclaimed, and no one knew whose hands she would end up in.

Xie Changjue arrived with jade in hand, sincerely asking for her hand in marriage. But he found his aloof, noble, and high-minded young uncle already blocking the little princess before the Hall of the Three Pure Ones. The man tapped the jade pendant at her waist, his passionless eyes dark with turbulent emotion. "Your Highness, in front of the Three Pure Ones, tell him: whose jade is this perfect match?"

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Reader's guide:

[Updates daily. I'll gradually add anti-piracy measures, with a 72-hour delay. Thank you, my dears, for all your support.]

1. Both leads are each other's first and only, happy ending, with a ten-year age gap.

2. Click to see the aloof young Celestial Master descend from his lofty pedestal for love! The male lead is totally love-struck. He is head over heels!

3. The second male lead gets the crematorium treatment, ashes scattered to the winds. There will be rivalry among men.

4. The author knows nothing about dynasties or official ranks. This is a complete hodgepodge of eras, and the setting is practically nonexistent. Everything serves the romance, so please don't nitpick the historical details.

┄┅┄┅Completed: The Consort's Kisses┄┅┄┅┄

[Delicate, pampered princess x cold, sinister Commandant of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, born to humble origins]

[Marriage before love / size difference / age gap]

By imperial decree, Princess Rong Li, the Eldest Princess, marries Zhan Qin, Commandant of the Embroidered Uniform Guard. But they can barely stand one another. After two years of marriage, there is not the slightest tenderness between them. Rumor even has it that the princess won't let Commandant Zhan near her, and they have yet to consummate their marriage.

Everyone in the capital is betting on when this bitter couple will divorce. Then Rong Li falls from a cliff while hunting and hits her head, leaving her unconscious.

Zhan Qin returns to the capital from an out-of-town assignment on the very day the princess wakes.

Without even changing out of his armor, he heads straight to the princess's residence, planning to make a cursory visit and show his concern. After all, she usually won't even let him through the door. He just checks in at the courtyard and leaves. Why go to all that trouble?

But Rong Li peeks out through a little window, and the moment her phoenix eyes see him, they brim with tears. Pouting pitifully at him through the window, she says, "Hubby, give me a kiss. A-Li's head hurts so much."

Zhan Qin: "...?"

Ever since that fall, Zhan Qin feels that something has changed in the way the princess looks at him. Her gaze used to hold nothing but disgust.

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The princess hit her head, but every other memory remained intact. She only got one thing completely wrong: in her mind, she and her consort are the happiest, most loving couple in the world. Yet her servants all insist that she and her consort had planned to divorce, and had even written the divorce papers.

Nonsense! Utter drivel!

To prove that she and her consort are the best couple in the world:

When her consort goes to work, she brings him ice to beat the heat. When she grinds ink for him, she gazes at him with hearts in her eyes.

When her consort goes to the palace, she follows right behind. When she gets drunk, she clings to his sleeve and refuses to let go.

When her consort is injured, she cries and insists on stripping off his clothes to apply medicine.

The capital's betting pools change once more. Everyone wonders if the mischievous princess has come up with this scheme to disgust her consort into asking the Emperor for a divorce.

But someone notices that the Commandant's residence has quietly lost its master, while the princess's bedchamber called for water five times in one night. Even the parrot under the princess's covered walkway has been moved to a side hall.

Everyone: Wait, was I part of the game too?!

┄┅┄┅Coming soon: Stealing My Younger Brother's Wife┄┅┄┅┄

*Touch-starved little white rabbit x older, stern, star-obsessed patriarch with feudal values

*Age gap / size difference / marriage before love / long-planned seduction

Shen Li, a young relative fostered in her maternal grandfather's household, has a secret:

She suffers from skin hunger, craving touch like a thirsty person craves water.

Her childhood sweetheart and betrothed, her cousin Xie Che, is charming and has countless female confidantes, but he always treats her with impeccable propriety.

He ruffles her hair and says, "Li'er is still young." Then he turns around and embraces a voluptuous beauty.

Until one day, outside a pleasure boat, Shen Li hears him drunkenly sigh, "Marry her? She's a timid, boring little rabbit. It's just an arranged marriage, something I have no choice but to do."

She falls into the water in shock, suffers a high fever and nightmares, and her memories become jumbled.

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When she wakes, trembling all over, she throws herself into the arms of the person she fears most: her stern, ruthless elder cousin Xie Chen, who holds the power of life and death over the clan.

"Cousin," she sobs, rubbing against his bloodstained fingertips. "Hold me..."

Xie Chen lowers his gaze to the little hand that has slipped into the sleeve of his black robe.

"Look carefully. Who am I?"

Through teary eyes, she presses even closer. "You're mine."

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Later, Xie Chen traps her in his study, chains rattling softly.

His fingertip brushes her nape. "Didn't you want a hug?"

"Why are you crying? Isn't this what you asked for?"

"The proper, legitimate intimacy of skin against skin."

When Xie Che finally realizes his mistake and kneels in the pouring rain, begging to see her,

Shen Li is nestled in Xie Chen's arms, letting him slowly tie the loose sash of her robe.

Thunder booms outside the window.

He bites her earlobe and chuckles:

"Good girl, tell the person outside..."

"Whose name were you trembling and calling just now?"

*Sweet, soft little rabbit with jumbled memories x older, stern, feudal patriarch

*Both leads are very well fed

*Age gap / size difference / marriage before love / male lead has been plotting for a long time

*The second male lead gets the crematorium treatment, ashes scattered to the winds

*The male lead is chaste, no good person, and fiercely possessive

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