The Azure Clouds Will Not Wait

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★ This novel will be locked starting from Chapter 24 on August 9, 2025. Thank you for your support! Blurb:

Tough, innocent refugee farm girl * domineering, shameless general of a chaotic age

Forced possession, groveling pursuit, happy ending

Gu Yun was separated from her family while fleeing disaster. When she was down to her last breath, Zhou Qiyue, riding back to the city, rescued her.

She thought she had met a good person, but when she tried to take her leave, he forced her to stay. From then on, a gray-blue curtain became her lifelong nightmare.

Life in the General's Manor was comfortable, with food and clothes in abundance, but her movements were heavily restricted. At night, she also had to endure all manner of torment from that rotten general. By chance, Gu Yun met another man.

Wang Zaixi was as vast and bright as the moon. He was accustomed to greeting everyone with a smile, and was always gentle and courteous. He was completely different from Zhou Qiyue, who cared only about his own feelings.

After several chance encounters, Gu Yun knew she shouldn't, but still secretly fell for this clean and gentle man, as bright as the moon.

The day everything came to light, she had just survived a close brush with death, only to be discovered resting her head on Wang Zaixi's lap in full view of everyone.

When she met Zhou Qiyue's icy gaze, her soul nearly left her body, and her face turned ashen.

Thrown into the dim curtained room, she was nearly burned to ashes by his fury. No matter how frantically she tried to explain or how desperately she begged, he remained merciless in his actions, as if he could not hear her.

"Will you dare do it again?"

She had long since run out of strength. She only lowered her eyes and gave a faint shake of her head.

Over and over, she was brought to the brink of death.

At last, unable to bear it any longer, she burned herself to ashes before his eyes in a great fire. After that, she was free to fly wherever the skies were high and the birds could roam. She would never again be a bird in his backyard, there for anyone to toy with!

Many years later, she finally had the life she had always wanted: loved ones by her side, a refined gentleman as her companion, and the position of Minister of Works in the new dynasty.

Who would have thought Zhou Qiyue would return?

She was on guard from head to toe, but he smiled calmly. "Lord Gu, come to my residence for a chat."

What Zhou Qiyue did not yet know was that no matter how he laid his heart bare or wore her down with endless pleading, Gu Yun would never look him in the eye again.

The brutal methods he once used had finally made him suffer the consequences.

Notes:

1. The male lead has only ever loved the female lead, body and soul. While trapped, she likes the second male lead; after escaping, she has a third male lead. Hee hee, she just doesn't like that dog of a male lead who forced himself on her. Let him chase her slowly.

2. He genuinely pursues her. Even when the male lead loses his mind later on, he only hurts himself. How could he get a happy ending without paying a price?

3. This is really a love story about two little bitter souls.

Blurb for the upcoming novel How to Stop Her from Killing Herself:

[1]

On the day Shen Yong led his rebel army to breach the imperial capital of the Great Yue, corpses littered the ground and blood filled the rivers. The royal family of the Yue dynasty was slaughtered to the last, and only the emperor's most beloved daughter, Princess Yichun, was spared.

The world envied her peerless beauty and her apparently blessed life, while also despising her for clinging to life instead of dying for her country.

But they were all wrong.

After lying low for years, Shen Yong fought his way back into the imperial capital. All he wanted was to use the blood of that tyrant's family to comfort the spirits of those who had died unjustly. He spared the icy, snowlike princess only because he wanted to toy with her, defile her, and then watch her die in despair.

But gradually, he discovered something strange about the princess: she seemed to want to die even more than he wanted her dead.

Later, staring thoughtfully at the undergarment he was washing for her, he wondered: Was this also part of his plan to torment her to death, little by little?

[2]

Liu Yichun had always been the good girl in her parents' eyes, the model student in her teachers' eyes, and the "other people's child" in the neighbors' eyes. But no one knew that she had rotted away inside long ago.

After she transmigrated, all she wanted was to die. But someone refused to let her have her way.

She couldn't die, and living obediently as she always had was unbearably dull.

What was she supposed to do? Keep trying to get herself killed, of course.

But in the end, Liu Yichun was left with nothing but questions: Why had all her attempts to get herself killed ended with her becoming empress?

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☆ Sweet and obedient on the outside, sickly devoted on the inside * ruthless and restrained; exclusive pairing, happy ending

☆ The female lead is habitually sweet and obedient to others, but sickly devoted to the male lead. The male lead is decisive and ruthless to others, but acts like a doting mother to the female lead.

Theme: Only sincerity and respect can bring love back from the dead.