One Glance at the Heroine, a Lifetime of Regret

Overpowered martial arts alliance leader and a timid commoner prince who grows into himself

Happy ending!

Another historical romance set in the same world, The Princess Wants to Take the Throne, is open for advance collection. See the blurb at the bottom!

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On a stormy night, in a gloomy temple haunted by ghosts, Yang Wuyou was so frightened by Wei Lingyun's blood-covered face that he nearly wet himself. She even took the last three baked flatbreads from his bundle.

Yang Wuyou respectfully handed her his waterskin. “You can eat the flatbreads, but then you can't eat me.”

When they met again, Wei Lingyun darted effortlessly through a hail of blades, her movements nimble and her techniques uncanny. Without breaking a sweat, she killed every last person escorting Yang Wuyou.

Watching Yang Wuyou cling to her leg and refuse to let go, Wei Lingyun didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She said she was only a junior disciple named Wei Shuxing who had escaped by sheer luck, and that he had no future if he followed her.

Yang Wuyou didn't waver. “Maybe there's no future, but at least I'll stay alive! Miss Shuxing, you're so skilled at martial arts. Take me with you!”

With no other choice, Wei Lingyun found herself with a companion from then on.

Until the emperor himself came after Yang Wuyou to name him crown prince. Seeing a familiar face named Wei Lingyun on the wanted poster beside his own, he was completely dumbfounded. “Didn't you say your name was Wei Shuxing?”

Wei Lingyun felt a little guilty, but after reading the poster, she had no trouble standing her ground. “You never told me the old emperor was your father!”

2.

At first, Wei Lingyun thought she and Yang Wuyou were just two strangers who had crossed paths. She had casually made up a name and identity to fool him. Who would have thought that the man who'd said only days earlier that they should go their separate ways would cling to her side and refuse to leave?

After risking their lives together several times, they became comrades who would trust each other with their lives. One day, emboldened by drink, Wei Lingyun leaned against Yang Wuyou's shoulder and asked what she really wanted to know. “If I weren't Wei Shuxing, would you still stay by my side?”

Yang Wuyou completely missed the meaning behind her words. Equally tipsy, he promised solemnly, “I will never leave you.”

Later, thirty thousand imperial troops surrounded them, two thousand archers stood ready to fire, and Yang Wuyou was confined in the palace. Wei Lingyun had no choice but to fight to the death.

But even giving it everything she had, she couldn't escape through the city gates. Just as she closed her eyes and accepted her fate, an imperial edict stopped the arrows that were about to rain down on her. He was still going to leave her.

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Years later, a new emperor ascended the throne. The Lingyun Sword Sect, whose entire household had been massacred years before, reemerged in the martial world. Its new leader kept a low profile, and the only way to catch a glimpse of her was to follow the wanted posters scattered everywhere.

It took the messengers two or three months to distribute the new posters to the few inns on the grasslands. The innkeeper glanced at one and said to the person by the window, disappointed, “I knew it was you. Your bounty hasn't gone up in all these years. Why go and get yourself into so much trouble?”

Wei Lingyun picked up her empty wine jar, her burning gaze reaching toward the capital a thousand miles away. “I'm waiting for someone who's worthy of being posted on the wall beside me.”

Blurb for The Princess Wants to Take the Throne, another historical romance set in the same world ↓

Tough on the outside, soft on the inside, a great general who guards the north

A mute little princess who plays the pig to eat the tiger

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When Huo Qingzhu was young, she witnessed her mother's tragic death and fell gravely ill. Afterward, she could no longer speak. Though she was a princess, the emperor considered her ill-omened and had her raised in a temple, where she went unremembered for years.

Later, Huo Qingzhu was bestowed upon Xiao Mushan, a general renowned for his military accomplishments. He knew she was meant to watch over and restrain him. Though Xiao Mushan resented the arrangement, he treated Huo Qingzhu with endless tenderness.

“The abbot told me you were given the religious name Dusheng at the temple. Now that you've married me, we are one as husband and wife. I will never let you be alone.”

Huo Qingzhu had yet to understand matters of the heart, and not a word of Xiao Mushan's speech registered. Her mind was entirely occupied with her own plans.

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“I never expected you to love me deeply, but you can't just pretend I don't exist!”

Xiao Mushan wanted to know how Huo Qingzhu felt about him, so he had people around the residence spread rumors about him nonstop:

The general had taken a fancy to a singing girl at the Sleeping Flower House.

The general had rescued a girl on the street who was selling herself to bury her father.

The general had touched a maid's hand in the palace...

Huo Qingzhu made a hand sign: Oh.

Xiao Mushan's eyes reddened, and he tearfully accused Huo Qingzhu. “You couldn't even be bothered to find out whether any of those rumors were true! You're too much!”

3.

After Huo Qingzhu fell for him, she realized that Xiao Mushan hadn't thrown a tantrum in front of her for a long time, though he still strutted around her every day like a peacock.

She decided to confess that she had been pretending to be mute for over a decade.

Xiao Mushan answered with three words: “I knew already.”

Huo Qingzhu pressed him to say when she had let her secret slip. Xiao Mushan couldn't hide the smile at the corners of his mouth.

“One night, you were sleeping soundly beside me when you suddenly called my name in your sleep.”

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