Mistaken Rain, Late Cold

[Coming soon: The Immortal Maiden's Inheritance Is a Male Demon]

[Easygoing Sweetheart Turns into a Scheming Queen]

[Emperor Pretends to Be in Love, Then Truly Bows His Head for Love]

[A Hell for the Scumbag, With No Way Back]

[The Imperial Consort Climbs the Ranks One Job at a Time] [Four Male Leads, That's the Fun]

Xue Fen, daughter of a distinguished Minister's household, discovers on her wedding night that her husband is a thief. Unfortunately, she doesn't dare say a word, for the sake of her family's lives.

She intends to follow the Three Obediences and Four Virtues, serve her husband well, bear him heirs, and live as a carefree rich girl. But someone just won't let her.

"Look at the son of the Grand General who Protects the Nation. He's a young hero, handsome and distinguished, and most importantly..."

Xue Fen is practically laughing with rage.

He's not just a burglar who sneaks into people's homes, or a thief who steals a nation. He's even trying to make his new bride seduce another man! What a lecher!

An emperor like him is truly unprecedented.

Suppressing her disgust, Xue Fen steadily helps him prop up his crumbling imperial authority, waiting for the day she has grown strong enough to spread her wings.

Cen Shi is a handsome, useless, spineless emperor, a puppet chosen by the imperial clan. Amid countless rivers and seas, he has only ever clung to Xue Fen. He doesn't even mind destroying her engagement.

He doesn't love her that much, yet insists on taking her by force.

She is so clever and charming, so bright, so bright that she escapes the layers of palace walls all alone right under his nose!

"Your Majesty, Her Highness has fled while pregnant!"

"Catch her! At any cost!"

That night, a raging fire burns Xinglong Temple until it glows with heat. A charred corpse is left among the ashes, and Cen Shi is beside himself with fury.

Could Xue Fen really be dead? Impossible.

Later, Xue Fen returns to the palace. Her face is calm, with not a trace of a young girl's shyness left. She holds out a bowl of pitch-black medicine and tells him to drink it.

"What are you going to do this time?" Cen Shi asks, overjoyed to the point of tears, his fingers trembling.

"Let him go."

On the cold bed, Cen Shi still wants to know who she loves.

Meet the couples

[Scheming Beauty of an Emperor + Married Before Falling in Love + A Wife-Winning Hell + Soulmates]

[Proud Wolfish General + Love at First Sight + Direct, Open Pursuit]

[Younger Puppy-Like Leader + Mutual Devotion + Secret Identity Concealing Love + Sweet and Angsty Mutual Affection]

[Abstinent, Mature Scholar + Humble Secret Crush + Protecting His Beloved]

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The story travels through: Imperial Palace - West - Southwest - Back to the Palace

The palace storyline features romance and power struggles; the commoner storyline features adventure and romance.

A battlefield of romantic rivals. Take your time discovering the destined couple. The heroine is very clear-headed. Readers who require both leads to have no prior partners, beware!

Ensemble cast, ensemble cast, very much an ensemble cast.

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An upcoming xianxia novel:

A self-loathing, irritable immortal maiden with a sharp tongue meets a younger, scheming flirt who loves to act cute

Also known as How to Make Big Sister Inherit Me and Even If I'm a Substitute, This Puppy Is Here of His Own Free Will

Shu Yao doesn't believe in fate. No matter how often she calls herself a disgrace to her sect, ruthless and heartless, she still has one last thing to do: send her daughter into the cycle of reincarnation.

Her enemies? She has already killed them all. There will be no retribution.

Unfortunately, a quick divination reveals that her life star is about to fall. She has very little time left!

The only way to delay the inevitable is to find the relic left behind by her twin elder sister and take the spiritual energy sealed inside it.

A bargain-bin treasure arrives right then and there, brimming with pure spiritual energy, making it impossible not to want to absorb it.

But everyone knows Shu Yao as a revered, upright immortal maiden, with shrines built in her honor across the land. An idea strikes her: "Kid, want to become my disciple?"

Her disciple is pretty, lively, obedient, and eager to please. Shu Yao enjoys it, but what is she supposed to do with someone so clingy and affectionate, who won't stop no matter how much she scolds or beats him?

She watches him again and again. One day, gazing at his peaceful sleeping face in her arms, she realizes in shock: this is exactly how her dead husband looked!

What a boomerang. How can she bring herself to kill him now? No, no, she doesn't want to fall into the same kind of love again.

But as she looks at her disciple's peerless true form, worthy of a phoenix, she stammers, "You... aren't you just a chicken spirit?"

After He Yan cultivates his human form again, a divine being often appears in his dreams, guiding him down the mountain to find his elder sister.

He is a spirit bound to an artifact, abandoned by his elder sister.

But what he hears from his bargain-bin master is that he is a relic. He's meant to be drained of blood and have his marrow sucked out, since his owner is gone.

Fortunately, she hasn't recognized him. He Yan is overjoyed.

A good disciple should of course accept everything without complaint, flatter his master, and act cute and clueless. Uh... even sleep beside her to keep her warm? But what if his master looks exactly like his elder sister?

He Yan holds his image-recording tile as he searches for his sister's face night after night, but he becomes less and less certain which of them abandoned him and broke her promise all those years ago.

At last, the divine being from his dreams appears in the mortal world. Dragging his long, magnificent tail feathers, he says, "He Yan, I am you."

Shu Yao breaks down. The one she has fallen in love with twice is actually a divine being's incarnation undergoing a trial?

"You were the one who killed our daughter!"

Hatred, nothing but hatred. Her fury is boundless, and she swears to make even the gods kneel and beg forgiveness!

But before He Yan falls, he still firmly denies it: "Elder Sister, I am me. I don't know him."

Content warnings:

This is a xianxia story with a happy ending.

It's a romance novel; xianxia is just the setting.

No three lifetimes, no reincarnation.

No cultivation power-leveling.

The male lead has no prior partners; the female lead does.

The outline is tentatively planned, and the story will not be abandoned.

Theme: Take control of your own life.