Crossing the Spring River

Luo Yuyan was a concubine-born daughter of the Earl of Xinyang's household. She had blossomed into a breathtaking beauty, with gentle, graceful features.

She had been betrothed to Fu Ye of the Fu family. It was a marriage above her station, but Fu Ye's mother was known for being difficult and imposing rules on everyone.

To make her future life a little easier, Luo Yuyan wanted to build a good relationship with Fu Ye in advance. All she asked was that if his mother made things difficult for her, he wouldn't turn a blind eye.

Fu Ye was studying at Qiongyu Academy. After waiting several days, Luo Yuyan finally got to meet him.

He was indeed tall and handsome, with a striking, distinguished bearing. He was simply too stern and aloof.

She gave him a handkerchief, and he tossed it aside without a word.

She made him pastries, but he didn't take a single bite.

She wrote a sentimental poem in her boudoir, and when he unfolded the paper, he said, "The meter is wrong."

Luo Yuyan: "..."

A fiancé was so hard to please!

Then one day, outside the academy, Luo Yuyan heard someone call out Fu Ye's name. The person who answered was a handsome young man.

She slowly turned around, surprised to see the composed man standing beside her.

If that young man was Fu Ye, then who was the man beside her?

The moment the young Fu Ye saw the man beside her, he hurried over, cupped his hands in a respectful bow, and greeted him, "Ninth Uncle."

The man replied, "Mm."

He was Fu Yi, the chief minister of the court and Fu Ye's ninth uncle.

Luo Yuyan's vision went black. Oh no, she'd mistaken the wrong person for her fiancé!

Fu Yi had always been diligent and disciplined, restrained and proper. Steady and reserved, he was the pillar of his family.

One day, a young girl brought him a fragrant handkerchief and secretly tucked it into his lunchbox.

She tried clumsily and earnestly to win him over, but he rejected her without mercy.

Then one day, she suddenly stopped coming.

That night, Fu Yi wondered if something had happened to her. For the first time, he experienced the misery of tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

The next day, he found her.

The young girl clasped her hands together, her gaze timid but full of hope, and asked, "Since you dislike me so much, could you give me that handkerchief back?"

It was the token of their love.

Fu Yi: "No."

She could ask for the stars in the sky, and he would give them to her. But not this.

Luo Yuyan was born into a low-ranking family. Being able to marry into the Fu family had already made many people envious.

But later, when word spread that the engagement had fallen through, everyone expressed regret to her face while secretly looking forward to the drama. If even a marriage as good as one to the Fu family had fallen apart, Luo Yuyan would have to marry down!

Then, the very next moment, the Luo family was once again matching Luo Yuyan's birth dates with a prospective groom's.

Everyone eagerly asked who it was.

The answer: Fu Yi, the top scholar Fu, the court's chief minister, whose family stood even higher than that of the Fu family son she'd been promised to.

Everyone: "..."

Theme: Never give up hope in love. If all else fails, you can always find perfect love in a novel.