Jade Beauty

[This novel has been revised from around Chapter 20 onward. The entire second half has been rewritten. Please don't read pirated copies.]

The newlywed wife of the Marquis's household is peerlessly beautiful, charming, and coquettish, and she is madly in love with Marquis Dingyuan.

Marquis Dingyuan, Zong Ling, however, dislikes her for two reasons.

First, she is frivolous and spends all day speaking rudely to him. Her mind is full of that sort of thing. She has no shame and not a trace of a proper lady's demeanor.

Second, she is too clingy. She follows him everywhere, constantly putting her arms around him and embracing him, easily disrupting his thoughts.

His wife leaves much to be desired, but he has married her already. He might as well let things go on as they are.

Then one day, in a moonlit forest hazy with night mist, he takes her out to catch fireflies.

He turns around, and she presses the hairpin he gave her against his throat.

"Let me go," she says calmly.

*

Cui Xiuxuan is an assassin, but this mission is unusual.

She must play the role of a wife and win her husband's affection.

Her husband is handsome, with sharp brows and bright eyes. After she repeatedly pursues him, she decides he's tolerable enough to swallow.

Later, her master's plan is exposed. Caught up in the fallout, she is confined to Zong Ling's tent.

"You aren't killing me because I'm still useful to you," Cui Xiuxuan declares with certainty.

The man looks at her in silence.

"I'll tell you what you want to know. Then you'll let me go, okay?" she bargains.

Zong Ling's dark expression changes abruptly.

He stares at her coldly. "Leave? You can forget about ever leaving in this lifetime."

*

It takes Cui Xiuxuan years to understand who is behind the dreams that haunt her night after night.

One day, she wakes and accidentally touches her lips, damp and red.

She never expected that this cold and arrogant man had secretly fallen for her back then.

One-on-one, both leads' first time, happy ending

Reading guide:

1. The heroine overacts and behaves boldly, but is slow to understand her own feelings.

2. The hero seems cold and arrogant, but is actually the champion of imagining things.

4. About their fighting abilities: the heroine is agile and explosive, while the hero is strong and has great stamina.

3. A romance with a sweet tone. Every plot point serves the relationship. Hope you enjoy reading!

Blurb for the next novel, After I Picked Up a Mean, Clingy Puppy

[From vicious dog to loyal dog, a dog-training romance]

Bai Huaixi lost her parents when she was young. Since then, she's made a living growing medicinal herbs on the mountain behind her home. With no one else around, she can only confide her thoughts to the flowers, plants, and little dog in her yard, aside from gathering and selling herbs.

One day, while gathering herbs in the mountains, she finds a handsome young man lying in a patch of medicinal plants. He is badly injured and unconscious, so Huaixi takes him home.

The young man soon wakes up. He seems harmless, gentle, and obedient, but he clings to Huaixi far too much.

When Huaixi goes out to gather herbs, he follows behind with a basket on his back. When she boils water and cooks, he stays by her side to help.

When she talks with her childhood friend from the neighboring household, he comes over and asks her to pat his head.

The young man grows more and more clingy, even wanting to press his skin against hers...

At last, the handsome young man is found by his family and leaves the village.

Huaixi is sad all day, and that night she is knocked unconscious and abducted.

When she wakes, she finds herself lying on a luxurious bed.

Beyond the sheer curtains, a tall figure approaches slowly. Long, jade-like fingers undo the buttons at his collar.

Only then does Huaixi learn that the handsome young man she picked up was Lian Jihan, heir to the Marquis of Zhongxin, a man of immense power who stops at nothing.

She hides at the foot of the bed, trembling as the young man approaches with a predatory gaze.

So the stories were right: you really shouldn't pick up men by the roadside :(

Shy and lustful heroine x clingy, vicious dog-like hero. The hero has no empathy, no morals, and no shame.

Sweet romance | Dog-training shenanigans | Building a harmonious human-pet relationship | One-on-one, both leads' first time

Starting soon! Babies, please add it to your favorites to help me launch. I'm begging you, Your Majesties. Long live the emperors!

Theme: Mutual trust and honesty are what make love last