The Beautiful Young Lady from Ancient Times

Ongoing novel: Has Lord Wei Taken the Bait Today? Please add it to your reading list. The blurb is at the very end.

[Eight-Year Age Gap]

On the day after her engagement, Xia Yuan and her mother transmigrate from several centuries ago to the modern day.

In this era, she goes by Xia He and is a fourth-year fashion design student.

The first thing the mother and daughter do after transmigrating is pick up their embroidery needles again. To their surprise, the first screen they embroider is bought by Jin Shiyuan, CEO of the Jin Group, and given to his grandmother.

Grandma Jin loves the embroidered screen made by Xia He and her mother. She is also impressed by Xia He's talents in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. So Jin Shiyuan offers to hire Xia He to keep his grandparents company.

To Xia He, she and Jin Shiyuan have nothing more than an ordinary employer-employee relationship.

To Jin Shiyuan, she's a young woman his grandmother admires.

So he does his best to look after her. Afraid she'll get the wrong idea, he explains, "Don't read too much into it. I think of you as a younger sister. If I were a few years older, you could even call me Uncle."

But after spending time with her again and again, he is the first to fall for her. He goes from keeping his feelings restrained to openly crushing on her, until everyone around them knows he likes her.

Xia He always remembers that she was once engaged, and she's also worried she might suddenly return to ancient times.

So whenever Jin Shiyuan tests her feelings, she turns him down, time and again, before the love she can't bring herself to confess can be spoken aloud.

Until one night, when he gets drunk and comes to the foot of Xia He's apartment building, using his drunkenness as an excuse to act up.

"A Yuan, come here. Let me hold you."

Xia He stares at him in disbelief as he pulls her into his arms. Breathing in the fragrance in her hair, he takes his boldness a step further. "A Yuan, can I kiss you?"

What Jin Shiyuan never expected was that, just when he had finally won her heart after all his efforts,

a man claiming to be Xia He's fiance would suddenly appear,

and Jin Shiyuan would see the two of them embracing with his own eyes.

Though he is furious, he can only send her a painfully humble message: "Have you made up your mind?"

"Made up my mind about what?"

"Whether you're going to dump me."

[Bonus Scene]

Xia He sits on the edge of the bed, and he stands in front of her. Without meaning to, her gaze falls on a certain spot.

Her eyes go a little unfocused, and she can't seem to look away.

"What are you looking at, little girl?" Jin Shiyuan's voice is full of seduction.

Xia He snaps back to her senses, her face turning red. She hurriedly covers it with her hands.

The man suddenly leans close to her ear, wickedly asking, "Curious?"

Xia He looks at him in disbelief. "Jin Shiyuan, you're getting more shameless by the day."

"I need to save face? My girlfriend's about to run off with someone else. If I don't save face, I'll get to hold you and kiss you. What do I need face for?"

…Next Novel…

Has Lord Wei Taken the Bait Today? "Male lead transmigrates from ancient times to the modern day" (Now publishing, add it to your reading list!)

[Flirtatious, high-maintenance beauty VS Stoic, impossibly patient man from the past]

Li Mo has just been dumped and lost her job, and she's hit rock bottom when a System suddenly appears.

The System's task is brutally straightforward: seduce Wei Yanzhi, a man whose soul has transmigrated from ancient times into the modern world.

Complete the task, have your memories erased, and receive fifty million.

She expects a man from the past to be old-fashioned, proper, traditional, and stuffy.

But the reality is that he's fierce, cold, and completely unapproachable!

She smiles at him, and he keeps a straight face.

She acts cute, and he tells her to stay away.

Later, Li Mo tries every trick in the book and finally gets the man into bed.

Just as things are growing more and more heated,

he suddenly pushes her away, turns around, and leaves???

Li Mo throws a pillow at him. "Wei Yanzhi, have you kicked a drug habit? How can you resist even this? Are you even a man?"

Later, she accidentally learns that in ancient times he really wasn't a man. Not only that, he was a disgraced eunuch whose name was still infamous.

Li Mo's legs go weak, and she wants to give up the task, but Wei Yanzhi won't let her go.

One day, after he showers, he approaches her step by step, his bathrobe hanging open and revealing the tantalizing lines of his waist and abdomen.

Li Mo's heart pounds wildly as she asks nervously, "W-what are you going to do?"

Wei Yanzhi's eyes are dark. "I've only studied the theory. I have no practical experience. Li Mo, will you teach me?"

Li Mo completes the task and disappears without a trace.

They meet again several years later.

Wei Yanzhi appears perfectly calm, but inside, his emotions are in turmoil.

He thinks she's just as good at pretending to be composed as he is.

But the truth is that Li Mo has forgotten him.

And that's not even the worst thing she's done.

What breaks Wei Yanzhi's heart even more is that Li Mo is married and has a daughter.

What is he supposed to do? He's such a traditional, proper man. All he can do is...

Wei Yanzhi gets Li Mo drunk. When the man comes to pick up his wife, Wei Yanzhi helpfully warns him, "You'd better divorce her soon. I'm sure Mr. Feng wouldn't like being cuckolded."

The man takes Li Mo and replies sarcastically, "President Wei, as the head of the illustrious Zhuosheng Group, this is a rather undignified thing to do."

Wei Yanzhi's lips curl into a faint smile. "Whether I act with dignity is up to you. If you divorce her, I can keep my dignity. If you don't, we'll both lose face."

[Before You Read]

1. The male and female leads are in the same timeline, in a fictional alternate world.

2. The male lead is entirely fictional and not based on any historical figure. Please don't make that association.

3. The male lead's soul transmigrates. Ahem, his modern body is intact.

4. The female lead and the second male lead are married in name only.

5. A cute child appears later, and adorable pets feature throughout.

Theme: The clash between traditional values and modern ideas