My Wife Is Forever Young

[A low-born woman convicted of a crime rises through the ranks x a heaven-blessed heir who foolishly chases after his wife]

-Promo for the ongoing novel "The Young Lady Omega Is the Most Popular Girl at Military Academy"-

The Cang family has fallen.

Overnight, Cang Li went from the heir to Cangsheng Pharmaceuticals, someone others could only look up to, to a penniless debtor.

Everyone was waiting to laugh at the spoiled young lady.

After all, although she acted arrogantly, she was a bona fide omega, physically weak and now enrolled in military school. She was sure to suffer.

Would she sob and curse her cruel fate? Give up in self-pity? Or use her omega status to climb the social ladder?

None of that happened.

Cang Li calmly gave up her fine clothes, applied to the school for financial aid, and went to the cafeteria every day without fail. Then...

Then she became a mech ace at the military academy, the kind who could impatiently pin the head of someone who'd kicked her while she was down beneath her foot during combat training.

Before long, people realized it was impossible to watch Cang Li fall on hard times.

Before she turned eighteen, she had everything she wanted thanks to the family she was born into. After eighteen, she made herself the most dazzling cadet in the Alliance.

Even the alphas who usually thought they were above everyone else now circled around her.

A business tycoon who started from nothing and rose to become a new power: I'll make you pay for humiliating me back then, but not right now. For now, say you'll be with me.

Her childhood friend from a political dynasty, with a smooth path to office: You chose me first. Is it wrong for me to cling to you? Is it wrong for me to want to be your dog?

The genius commander just back from the front, her childhood betrothed: I don't know who those people are, but we're engaged. I was destined to be yours from the moment I was born.

The whole Alliance is eager to find out which of them Cang Li will choose after graduation.

Cang Li: Choose? Don't you know you can have lots of pets?

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-Promo for this novel-

Zhu Changqing was exiled to Lingjiang for five years. Then, one day, she was summoned back to the capital...

With the emperor's orders, she would atone for her crimes through service.

Everyone in the capital said the orphaned daughter of the Zhu family was lucky. Though she was the child of a condemned official, she had the emperor's favor, and as a woman, she could still sway the currents of the court.

Zhu Changqing was speechless:

I've got a house and land in Lingjiang, and a happy life. Back in the capital, I have to sleep with one eye open. You can have this good fortune. Do you want it?

She knew that she was nothing more than a blade in the emperor's hand,

meant to cut down the Feng faction, whose influence had grown too far.

And the sheath for her blade

was none other than the noble heir of the imperial clan, the heir apparent of the current dynasty:

Li Pinglan.

At first,

Li Pinglan thought her glib and stubborn. Mounted on his tall horse, he blocked her path as she tried to flee back to her hometown.

He threw a sharp sword down in front of her and spoke coldly, impartial as iron:

"Either come back to the capital with me, or die."

Later,

after Zhu Changqing gained power at court, fulfilled her mission, and finally retired to her hometown as she had always wished, Li Pinglan stood alone in front of her carriage.

Zhu Changqing lifted her eyelids and asked coolly, "Lord Li, what is the meaning of this?"

The heir, who had always looked down on the world, had red-rimmed eyes. He forced out just three words: "Take me with you."

After spending all those years immersed in court politics, Zhu Changqing understood:

A blade that is too rigid will snap; a courtier who rises too high will inevitably fall.

Better to sheath her blade while it was still sharp.

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Theme: Stand on your own, stay strong, and keep going.