The two long novels next door are the ones I actually wrote seriously.
"Pearl Lost, Crossing Back"
Lin Yan grew up by Chu Yi's side. She managed his intelligence network from a brothel for three years and learned a great deal. When the princess chose a husband, the curtain fell on their act of favored lover and confidante. Lin Yan leapt from a high pavilion, severing their ties. Years after they parted, they met again in Binhe Prefecture. Chu Yi was an honored guest of the prefect, while Lin Yan was a Dogdi dancer.
The ever-composed Fourth Young Master Chu calmly wiped a drop of water from the back of his hand and said to the prefect of Binhe, "May I ask, sir, if you would be willing to let me have this dancer?"
In the guest room, Lin Yan could not avoid Chu Yi. She wept bitterly and threw a tantrum. "That's right! My life has been awful without you, absolutely awful! I pretended to be a Dogdi person, and pretended to be deaf and mute, just so I could fetch a higher price. Are you happy now?"
Chu Yi was at a loss, seeing her cry, and tried to comfort her. "I'm happy you're alive, Yan'er. You don't know how much I've regretted everything and missed you this past year. Let's get married. If the sky falls, I'll hold it up for you. Don't be afraid."
Lin Yan asked timidly, "Young Master, I heard that the bandit chief Lin Qiong gathered a rebel army of three hundred thousand and ruined your plans. What would you do if she fell into your hands?"
Chu Yi answered without hesitation, "Sacrifice her to the banners."
That night, Lin Yan disappeared. Chu Yi immediately led his troops to attack the city, only to see forty banners bearing the name Lin fluttering atop the walls of Binhe Prefecture. A woman in armor, a sword at her waist, stepped onto the battlements:
Lin Yan was Lin Qiong.
The brothel's top courtesan commands an intelligence network, her alluring gaze matched by her thunderous methods;
The treacherous minister's descendant wears infamy as armor, a gentle blade hidden in his sleeve as he becomes the one to turn the tide.
Yan illuminated Chu Yi's difficult, lonely path through life, while Chu Yi helped Lin Yan restore the land from end to end.
The companion series about a grandfather and granddaughter, "Three Shadows at Play (The Hostage Princess Is a Drama Queen)":
A drama queen little princess with layers of secret identities X a loyal little emperor with great ambition
One-line summary: The more secret identities you have, the more you can profit as a middleman.
Yun Fei, young master of the Songyuan Yun clan, is frail and sickly.
Yan Fei, a princess sent to the capital as a hostage, is sweet on the outside and dark within.
At the New Year's Eve palace banquet, a wastrel made a lewd remark: "That Yun clan heir looks like a gust of wind could knock her over. She probably wouldn't last a quarter of an hour in bed. How could she compare to a princess?"
A cup of wine was immediately thrown in the wastrel's face. Yan Fei told the emperor, empress dowager, and all the officials, "Young Master Liang said the Yun clan heir wouldn't last even a quarter of an hour in his bed!"
Yun Fei was the apple of the little emperor's eye, and he flew into a rage.
The real culprit naturally had to be punished, but the little emperor would not let her off either. How dare this princess from Yan use his little sister Yun as a pretext?
That New Year's Eve, Yan Fei was punished by being made to kneel for a long time in Weiyang Hall.
The little emperor was thinking only of his beloved little sister Yun, and he raced on horseback to the Duke's residence. But there was no way he could see her. That frail, sickly young master of the Yun clan was being punished by his imperial decree to kneel in Weiyang Hall.
P.S. Yan Fei = Yun Fei = Shen Fei = Shen Fei
Theme: Promote traditional culture
