A bestselling author of steamy stories transmigrates as a pitiful young woman × a stuffy, old-fashioned censor
Let an experienced hand show the old fuddy-duddy the ropes
Blurb:
In her previous life, Su Nianyao was a renowned writer of explicit fiction. Her works were optioned across every medium, and she made more money than she could count.
Then she suddenly died of overwork and transmigrated into an era that upheld heavenly principles and suppressed human desire.
As the family's unwanted concubine-born daughter, she doesn't care about being looked down on or having her allowance cut. She has a secret identity and a pen, and can write all kinds of steamy little stories that make readers blush.
Perhaps her reputation had grown too loud, for it caught the attention of the Censorate. Hearing rumors, the stuffy, stern, and unromantic Left Censor-in-Chief launched a citywide search and ordered her arrest.
The night before she planned to run away, Su Nianyao was framed. In full view of everyone, she grabbed the Left Censor-in-Chief, and the two of them fell into the Qingxi River.
Worse still, feeling he had ruined her reputation, the Left Censor-in-Chief proposed to the Su family that very night.
Su Nianyao was speechless: ...How was she supposed to run now?!
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Pei Jihan, courtesy name Xuechen, was born into a prestigious family and earned the top score in the imperial exams. At a young age, the emperor appointed him to the Grand Secretariat, and he rose to the position of Left Censor-in-Chief.
Perhaps because excellence invites jealousy, Pei Jihan was framed by political rivals at a palace banquet and forced to marry a concubine-born daughter of a low-ranking official.
Raised on the teachings of the sages and shaped by their influence, Pei Jihan never went back on his word. That very night, he sent betrothal gifts to the Su residence, willing to marry the Su family's concubine-born daughter.
He had always thought his wife was timid, shy, demure, and reserved, until one day he overheard the wife who usually barely dared to speak to him, confidently giving her younger sister advice about the marital bedroom.
Pei Jihan was stunned: "Shameless and indecent! But, um... what technique was that? Could you repeat it?"
Reader's Guide:
1. The heroine was carried in the womb into this life, and her soul was already twenty when she was born. She is seventeen during the story, and the hero is eight years older.
More to come if I think of anything else.
Blurb saved on 2025.02.11
Theme: There's no need to be ashamed of desire.
