After My Late Husband Became Chief Councilor

Pre-release: Honeymoon on Huangdao with My Ex-Boyfriend. Little Yellow Flower x Big Hunk. Please add it to your favorites!

Blurb:

Money-grubbing widow from the streets x her late husband’s brother, a powerful official

"My wife ran off and left me with grass growing green over my grave."

Blurb:

A troublesome major case has come up on Minnan Road.

A woman disguised herself as a man and opened a kiln, eating and lodging with the male workers. Not only was it immoral, it might even constitute illicit relations.

The woman claimed that her husband had died in battle and she had nowhere else to turn. She only wanted to make a living with a family trade.

Ye Shaoqing furrowed his brow and asked one question too many. "What was your fallen husband's name, and whose command did he serve under?"

Yao Yue'e glanced away and said, "My late husband was named Feng Xigou. They say, they say he served under someone called Huan Lang."

"What kind of dog and badger nonsense is that? Were you fighting a war or hunting?" Ye Shaoqing stopped short.

Wait... The current emperor, the founding emperor of Dazhao, wasn't his childhood name Huan Lang?

And the Xigou she mentioned... wasn't that Feng Lingduo, the current Grand Secretary, who had been searching desperately for his wife?

*

When Yao Yue'e was fifteen, her aunt sold her to the Feng family in Yizhou for ten taels of silver, to become a concubine.

Young Master Feng was as noble and refined as moonlight, a dream lover to every girl.

He taught her to read and write, and punished the wicked servants who bullied her.

Yao Yue'e thought she might like him a little.

Later, the realm fell into chaos. The eldest young master resolutely joined the army and disappeared with the fellow from next door, the one called Huan Lang. It was as if he had completely forgotten her.

A small courtyard in the inner residence could hardly compare with the realm he dreamed of protecting. If so, she might as well assume he was dead!

With the rewards Young Master Feng had given her, Yao Yue'e escaped the Feng estate.

She bought a small kiln and opened a little shop, intending to make her own living with the craft her father had taught her.

Besides, there were plenty of broad-shouldered, slim-waisted men working at the kiln. Who was Feng Xigou, anyway?

Yao Yue'e had long forgotten him.

*

Yet as he looked at the dossier Ye Shaoqing presented, Feng Lingduo asked darkly, "She even made a tomb for her late husband, with his clothes and hat?"

Ye Shaoqing answered, "Yes," then added, "But no one's tended the grave in years. It's covered in green grass now."

"Crack!" The dossier was torn in half.

Feng, who never let his emotions show, lost his composure for the first time and snapped at Ye Shaoqing, "Anyone who dares call me and His Majesty by our childhood names can be executed on the spot!"

Execute her?

Looking at the sachet at someone's waist, rubbed pale from being touched, Ye Yijian sneered:

A man wants to save face, so his wife walks away.

Tsk, serves him right!

Reading Guide:

1. The male lead has no legal wife and has always kept himself chaste. There are also investigation scenes.

2. The female lead has her own business, and it doesn't always go smoothly.

3. There is a secondary couple: sharp-tongued gossip Ye Shaoqing x straight-shooting General Feng, the male lead's younger sister. Childhood friends, though I just realized their scenes can pretty much be ignored...

4. The male lead likes the female lead more, but he's also a jerk. I agonized over whether to call this a sweet romance...

5. One-on-one, both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending, but the male lead will have some excellent rivals in love...

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Pre-release novels:

1. When My Boss Hacked My Crush's Account. Please add it to your favorites!

Beautiful, big-hearted international student x devious, reserved interpreter

Hates it when a childhood friend becomes her boss. Pretends to be a charming stranger and beats the real rival to the punch.

Xu Zhiyun is an international student in the UK, majoring in interpreting.

She has always wanted to seduce an older student in her department, who graduated and went to work for the UK's largest interpreting company, TROSOL.

So every night, she diligently flirted with him and asked him for spicy photos, until one day Xu Zhiyun put on a lace lingerie set and showed off her figure.

But the next day, in a sealed-off office, chief interpreter Yan Lu cornered her against the desk and gritted out, "Why do you send photos like that to men so casually?"

"..." Xu Zhiyun was speechless.

What did he mean, "photos like that"?! And when had she ever sent them casually?!

He'd sent her several first, and only then had she reluctantly returned the favor, hadn't he?

And another thing! How did he know what she and her senior had been chatting about?

2. A Guide to Transmigrating as an Author of Explicit Fiction. Please get in line to follow!

Struggling author transmigrates into a pitiful young woman x old-fashioned, upright censor

Let an experienced hand show the old fuddy-duddy the ropes

In her previous life, Su Nianyao was a struggling writer of explicit fiction. After suddenly dying from overwork, she transmigrated to an era governed by Cheng-Zhu Confucianism, where people upheld heavenly principles and suppressed human desires.

As the family's overlooked concubine-born daughter, she didn't mind being treated coldly or having her allowance cut. She had a secret identity and a brush, and could write all kinds of blush-inducing little stories.

Perhaps her fame had grown so widespread that it drew the attention of the Censorate. The stern, proper, utterly unromantic Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief heard the rumors, searched the entire capital for her, and ordered her arrest.

The night before she planned to flee, Su Nianyao was framed. In front of a crowd, she grabbed the Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief, and they fell into Qingxi River.

Feeling that he had ruined her reputation, the old-fashioned Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief proposed to the Su family that very night.

Su Nianyao was speechless: ...How am I supposed to run away now?!

Blurb screenshot dated 2024.08.09

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