After Trying on the Wedding Dress for the Enemy Princess

Next novel: The Faint Fall of the Stairs, also known as The Faint Fall of the Stairs: Slaying Spring and The Strange Affairs of the Official Road

Blurb:

A woman disguises herself as a man and becomes a constable to find her brother

and

a general disguises himself as a woman to clear his name

on their road to being found out: The Official Road!

A thousand miles of barren land, corpses of the starving as far as the eye can see. Only along the official road do plants grow wildly,

A thread of hope, yet also a place of death!

----When the shadowy steps of the official road come alive, the boundless heavens are as bleak as the underworld!

The blurb for this novel:

The seamstress Wu Xinrun has just turned sixteen when her father drags her off to the capital.

She goes to relieve herself in a bamboo grove and is held up at knifepoint, forced to stand in for a princess at a wedding-dress fitting!

When she wakes, a handsome, cold-faced man in finery grabs her hand and demands, "Come to my chambers with me!"

A little snack guide:

1. A short story

2. Testing the waters first, then falling in love

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