[Coming soon: "The Butcher She Married Was Actually an Assassin", blurb below
Strong-minded heroine x love-struck hero, blind woman x assassin, childhood friends]
Blurb
Dark, controlling business tycoon x carefree fallen heiress
1
Jiang Yun'an first met Shen Linyuan by chance.
Her boyfriend led her over to greet Shen Linyuan, and Jiang Yun'an smiled along and called him Second Uncle.
Shen Linyuan lounged in a leather sofa by the window, a cigarette already half-burned between his fingers. The backlighting made his face difficult to see, but his imposing aura, born of years at the top, was unmistakable.
"I've heard Xingwei say Miss Jiang is beautiful. Now that I've seen you..."
The weather was wonderfully clear. Jiang Yun'an stood beside his nephew.
The two young people leaned close together, respectfully calling him Second Uncle. A lovely young lady and her handsome young man, a perfect match.
He tapped the ash from his cigarette. "You really are extraordinary."
As they left, her boyfriend held her hand. She glanced back, and her eyes met Shen Linyuan's gloomy gaze, as fierce and hungry as a wolf's or tiger's, without a trace of concealment.
In broad daylight, a chill ran down her back.
2
Winter in Beicheng was far too long, and the snowstorm lasted for days.
People said Shen Linyuan had been in business for years, that he was ruthless and didn't care about feelings.
Jiang Yun'an was certain he would come.
On that snowy night, she got into his car and started calling him "Mr. Shen." Later, when he was rough with her, she would even beg him in a jumble of "Daddy" and "Uncle"...
3
Everyone in Beicheng's social circle knew he kept the Jiang family's daughter. He let her make a fuss and laugh as she pleased. Then one day, she left without a word.
When they met again, she picked up a teacup with her white-jade fingertips and called him in a familiar, cloying voice: "Mr. Shen."
Jiang Yun'an couldn't make it on her own anymore, so she went back to an old lover. Everyone waited to see her make a fool of herself.
Instead, Shen Linyuan took the teacup and drained it in one go.
In the hazy night, a Maybach sped all the way to an apartment halfway up the mountain...
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Eleven-year age gap
The hero is very jealous
She takes shameless advantage of his devotion
My next book will be "The Butcher She Married Was Actually an Assassin". Please add it to your collection~
Strong-minded heroine x love-struck hero, blind woman x assassin, childhood friends
Wang Xiuxiu, the butcher's son, could recite poetry at three and write essays at five. He was a prodigy known throughout the town.
His father slaughtered pigs to pay for his schooling. "Our Xiuxiu is born to be a top scholar."
Yingniang, the daughter of the incense shop owner, was beautiful. The older women all said she would surely marry the boy next door, the son of the Wang family, and become the wife of a top scholar.
Unfortunately, she was blind.
The women changed their tune, saying no top scholar in the world would marry a blind woman.
Yingniang nudged Xiuxiu, who was crouching nearby to help her. "Would you marry me?"
"I would."
His father tried to reason with him, appealing to his feelings:
"You can come for her after you pass the top scholar exam."
"Do you want riches and glory, or that girl?"
Xiuxiu said nothing.
He had made his choice ten years ago.
The Wang boy failed the exam.
Xiuxiu returned home, took up the butcher's knife, and went on being a butcher.
"Dad, you sell in the morning, and I'll sell in the afternoon from now on."
The incense shop owner's daughter and the butcher's son were well matched. After they married, they were deeply in love and lived happily.
Until...
"On the sixth day of the tenth month in the thirteenth year of Jinghe, with so much to do lately and Yingniang soon to give birth, I must earn more for our household as soon as possible. Also, Yingniang can see again, and now that she's seen me kill, she looks at me like I'm an evil ghost from the underworld."
The title is taken from Wang Guowei's "Caisangzi: The City Gate Drums Sound, the Orchid Lamp Goes Out"
Life is like willow fluff before the wind: joy comes in scattered moments, sorrow in scattered moments, all of it drifting like duckweed across the river.
Theme: Love life
