A Hundred Charms and Fragrances

Lu Xun had always been the picture of grace and refinement. Once the late emperor's most beloved son, he was gravely wounded on the battlefield one day and left with crippled legs. Gradually, he became violent and tyrannical.

Someone recommended the eldest son of the Su family, a renowned perfumery clan, to the Empress Dowager. He was said to be able to make incense that soothed the mind and eased pain.

The Su family was thrown into chaos as soon as the order arrived. Their eldest son had been a good-for-nothing since childhood. Forget making incense: he couldn't even recite a single complete recipe. Sending him there would be no different from sending him to his death, and would drag the whole family down with him.

To save her family from disaster, Su Qingyuan resolutely impersonated her elder brother and entered the dreaded prince's residence.

Lu Xun assumed she was a spy sent by the Empress Dowager to humiliate him. He found fault with everything she did. Su Qingyuan endured it all for the sake of her family, until one day, when a sweet, cloying fragrance filled Lu Xun's room. She had never smelled anything like it, and her heart jolted.

The man's eyes were bloodshot as he ground out, “How utterly despicable! You actually intend to use this aphrodisiac to make me sleep with a man? If that's what you want, then so be it!”

Su Qingyuan turned deathly pale with fright and hurriedly pulled open her collar. “Your Highness, you've misunderstood! I'm not a man. I'm a woman!”

Blurb for the upcoming novel, A Beauty's Allure:

Su Mingwei saw the man bound hand and foot in the secret chamber. Her father had died of illness, and her cousin, who had married into the family in name only, had died unexpectedly. To protect the Su family's assets, her mother wanted her to find a man and borrow his seed.

Xie Heqing had just stepped off the boat when someone knocked him unconscious with a stick. When he woke, a woman was leaning against him. His eyes blazed with fury. Which local bully would dare humiliate him, a newly appointed county magistrate, like this?

Unfortunately, he had been drugged, his body was limp, and his mouth was gagged. He could only make muffled sounds. He tried to make out the woman on top of him, but couldn't see her clearly. In his hazy consciousness, he could only hear her repeatedly saying something about borrowing something, then apologizing.

After an unknown number of days, he woke again in the wilderness. There was no woman anywhere. If not for the faintly stinging scratches on his body, he would have thought it was all a dream.

With no clues at all, he assumed it had been a hallucination brought on by the exhausting journey. That is, until a woman sued her uncle in court for trying to seize her family property. Her tearful voice was exactly the same as the one in his dream. His mind exploded as he remembered that what she had said by his ear was that she wanted to borrow his seed.

Su Mingwei never imagined she would see that man again: the father of her child. Hadn't her mother said he was a poor stranger from out of town, paid off to keep quiet, whom she would never see again?

This man in court was glaring at her as if his eyes were shooting flames. No, he couldn't possibly recognize her!

Theme: There's always a way through every difficulty!