Please add my new story, "The Foolish Beauty’s Guide to Taming Her Husband," to your favorites: a beauty with a high tolerance for nonsense x a proud young general
Blurb:
Pan Tang, the second daughter of the Minister of Rites, has never been one to take a loss. But now that she is of marriageable age, her wicked stepmother is planning to marry her off to a notorious playboy in the capital!
At her wit’s end, she finds a cold and handsome young man in the snow. He is devastatingly good-looking, covered in wounds, and on the verge of death. Pan Tang looks up and meets his amber eyes.
"I’ll take you home and save you. In return, why don’t you become my bodyguard?"
The young bodyguard has lost his memory. He knows nothing of his name or background. To Pan Tang, he is a mystery.
He is loyal and obedient, sweet and easily embarrassed. His martial arts are superb, and he is always ready to stand before her with his sword to protect her.
Even more surprising, every full moon, the young bodyguard seems to become a different person, saying all the things he normally wouldn’t dare to say and doing all sorts of things that defy his station.
In the quiet boudoir, Pan Tang retreats step by step as he advances. His usually gentle demeanor is gone, replaced by a fearsome aura.
His eyes are as red as a beast’s. "Second Young Lady, you’re being naughty. Why did you kiss Zhao Cheng? He’s always making you angry."
Pan Tang is baffled. Zhao Cheng was the one who offended her in broad daylight, and the bodyguard saw it himself. So why is he this jealous?
But before she can explain, a storm of forceful kisses falls upon her, close and lingering. The young man bites her lip, tasting the sweet hint of blood. "You’re not allowed to kiss another man again. You can only be mine."
The warm breeze is intoxicating, and her hairpin sways. "How dare you!" she orders him as usual, only to be met with an even more insistent kiss.
Pan Tang: What on earth did I bring home? Two different personalities, one by day and another by night?
Pan Tang refuses to marry someone she does not love and plans to have her young bodyguard help her elope.
That night, rain pours down. Beneath an oiled-paper umbrella, the young man holds her tightly in his arms and says the most beautiful words Pan Tang has ever heard: "I’ll take you away."
Only later does Pan Tang discover that her taciturn bodyguard is actually the heir to the illustrious Marquis of Dingyuan.
Rumor has it that the heir has a beloved he cannot have, but no one knows who she is.
Until one day, dressed in a phoenix crown and wedding robes amid a grand bridal procession, the former bodyguard rides a white horse and brings his distinguished military achievements to ask for her hand.
Reader’s Guide:
1. A headstrong young lady x a loyal bodyguard with a mysterious identity, who seems well-behaved but often goes berserk.
2. A warm and sweet romance focused on the relationship. Both leads are virgins, one-on-one, happy ending.
Please add my new story, "The Foolish Beauty’s Guide to Taming Her Husband," to your favorites.
(A sweet story about a young couple who marry first and fall in love afterward.)
Shen Yan is the beautiful daughter of a minor seventh-rank official, with skin like ice and jade and looks that could topple kingdoms. Yet people have always said she is emotionally slow.
She is gentle and dutiful. After marrying Jiang Shuo, the young general she was betrothed to as a child, Shen Yan proceeds cautiously and follows every rule for wives, determined to live in harmony with him.
But men’s hearts are impossible to fathom, and Jiang Shuo is especially hard to read.
He pours out the soup she makes for him. He throws away the sachet she stays up all night embroidering, even though she pricks her fingers. He even refuses when Shen Yan asks him to share her bed.
Shen Yan is determined to be a good wife. She even thoughtfully offers to take a concubine for him, but Jiang Shuo is so angry that he refuses to speak to her for days.
As expected, a marriage forced upon them will only make them resent each other. Shen Yan secretly considers asking for a divorce.
But Jiang Shuo suddenly storms in, clutching the "Guide to Taming Your Husband" she hid in her dressing case, and throws it in front of her. "So all your tricks came from a book?"
The young general Jiang Shuo rides his horse beside the sloping bridge, while ladies in red beckon from every floor. He is handsome and youthful, with ambitions as high as the sky, and has already earned great military honors at the age of eighteen.
Yet at the height of his glory, he is forced to marry the daughter of a minor official.
At first, Jiang Shuo despises her, calling her "a girl from a lowly household, deliberately trying to marry above her station."
But after they marry, he keeps blushing in front of her despite himself. He is drawn to her fragrance and constantly finds himself captivated by her softness and tenderness. Even the deliberately attentive things she does for him are quite to his liking.
Jiang Shuo thinks to himself: Hmph, she has a few tricks. This woman is deeply in love with me.
The moment he sees that guidebook, he shakes with anger and pins the young woman to the bed. His lips, harder than stone, finally open, and he pours out all the sweet words he has been holding in. "Do you like me or not? Even if you don’t, I still won’t let you leave."
Shen Yan stares at him in a daze, then sobs. "You poured out the soup I made, threw away my sachet, rejected the person I sent you, and wouldn’t share my bed. You’re the one who doesn’t like me! I want a divorce!"
"I drank all the soup. I wear the sachet every day. I sent everyone you gave me right out of the estate."
"If you dare send another person to my room..." The young man bites her red lips, his eyes dark with desire.
Then, behind the red silk bed curtains, Shen Yan is kept in his arms for three days without leaving the bed. He insists he has to teach her things that aren’t in the book.
Reader’s Guide:
A marriage that turns into love, a slow-simmering sweet romance. The male lead convinces himself she loves him, and his words say one thing while his actions say another.
A wooden-hearted beauty x a proud young general
She understands nothing, and he refuses to say anything.
Both leads are virgins, happy ending.
Theme: Be independent and strong, and shine even in adversity.
