Xing Lan was the legitimate daughter of the prime minister's household, but because of her family's cruel custom of abandoning daughters, she was cast out at birth.
Her adoptive parents abused her in every way and treated her as a way to make money, hoping to sell her as a concubine to an old and ugly rich man.
Fortunately, her childhood sweetheart Wen Xiuyuan treated her with deep affection and promised to marry her after placing first in the imperial examinations. Before long, he really did achieve top honors in all three examinations, but then he suddenly vanished without a trace.
Xing Lan traveled thousands of miles to the capital to demand an explanation, only to learn that her former sweetheart had become the emperor's son-in-law. After weeping bitterly, she resolutely cut off her feelings and severed all ties with the faithless man.
The world was hard, and life was even harder for women. Xing Lan relied on her medical skills to scrape out a living in Bianjing, a city full of the powerful. Her exceptional beauty quickly made her famous, and she became the "immortal female physician" whom the young noblemen all vied to pursue.
For a time, young dandies pretended to be ill just to get close to her, leaving Xing Lan thoroughly fed up.
Of them all, Xiao Ye, the second young master of the Imperial Uncle's household, irritated her most. He had a terrible reputation and was also the cousin of her romantic rival, Princess Zhaohua, so naturally she wanted to avoid him.
Yet when Princess Zhaohua plotted against her and left her facing execution by flogging, he was the one who defied imperial authority and the law, storming Kaifeng Prefecture to save her.
Xing Lan had drifted through half her life like a blade of grass, like duckweed on the water. For the first time, she experienced what it felt like to be cherished. But she knew clearly that the gulf between them was immense, and a relationship between two people from such mismatched backgrounds could only end badly.
She tried to suppress her feelings and refused to let herself fall for him, but she could not withstand Xiao Ye's green-tea-style persistence and competition for her affection.
An alternate-history Northern Song setting, both leads have no previous partners, mutual healing, one-on-one happy ending
Synopsis posted on April 16, 2025, and screenshots have been saved as proof. The full manuscript is complete and updates will be steady. Please take pity on this poor writer, little fairies, and add it to your favorites, pretty please!
Theme: Even in darkness, turn your heart toward the light
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The Top-Tier Starlet Is Doted on by a Tycoon
After the Fallen Prince's White Moonlight Was Wiped Out
The Long Night Will Finally Give Way to Dawn
Starlight Reflected in His Eyes
Time Never Left You Behind
When He Came, There Was Firelight
□□'S Guide to Making Stars
You Gently Passed Through My Heart
Goodbye, My University
I Loved You So Much in the Best Years of My Life
I Would Build a Cage Around Myself for You
What a weird plot! Since it is a family tradition, how can the father not know about it? How come he was still unprepared and actually killed his first two daughters. And since the third daughter can be saved, why not the first two daughters? What kind of logic is this? Is it to highlight the rationality of the heroine being sent away, to ensure that her parents love her but must send her away? But in this case, the factual logic is completely wrong.
Of course it is unacceptable. The rules of a family are not known to the core members of the family, and in the author's setting, this rule is invisible. Then this rule cannot be guaranteed by violence, but will be attacked by legal violence. Rules must be protected by violence to be effective, especially rules that harm people's lives. Without extreme violence to protect them, who would care about them. And this anti-humanity rule cannot be supported by violence. In addition, the cold-bloodedness of the father needs to be shown by the author through description... But from the article, I just saw a normal person, and then he was able to kill his own child miraculously in seconds... Although men do not have the glory of motherhood, they are still individuals and have no special experiences. However, they followed a rule that did not support violence and anti-human nature and killed themselves and their beloved daughters, and also killed two. Where did this cold-bloodedness come from?
"When Qiao Jun heard this, his face suddenly..." This is a big bug for the author~ This is a family tradition, and my father just found out about it... Is this logical?
As a girl, seeing the word "recruit" makes me feel physically uncomfortable.
The writing is good, keep it up [Compare your heart]