When Spring Comes, the River Runs Green as Jade

Jiang Huaining, an eighteen-year-old medical apprentice at the Anhe Clinic in Qingzhou, is as beautiful as a flower, with an ethereal grace. She resembles her mother, but is even more beautiful.

One day, Jiang Huaining went to the lakeside to pick lotus seeds and happened to save a noblewoman who had fallen into the water. She thought it was nothing more than an ordinary good deed. But when the woman came to thank her and introduced the man beside her, Jiang Huaining met his cool, aloof gaze and began to suspect that the person she had saved was no ordinary woman...

Chu Heng, heir to the Marquis of Jing'an, has traveled the world and seen much. He has never spent more than three seconds dwelling on any woman. Yet the day he first saw Jiang Huaining, his gaze kept chasing after her without his realizing it.

Then one night, as he watched the pure, graceful woman beneath him, shyly on the verge of tears, her eyes glistening, he abruptly woke from the fantasy and looked down. A mocking laugh escaped him. He had always prided himself on being a gentleman, but it turned out he had been coveting her all along...

Chu Heng is decisive, never the sort to hesitate. Once he recognized his feelings, he made no attempt to hide them and pursued her head-on.

Jiang Huaining was reluctant to face her feelings because of the difference in their social status. That is, until one day, some ruffians cornered her in an alley. The man, cold and murderous, beat them until they fled in a panic.

He turned and pinned her against the wall behind him, his gaze dark and his expression icy. "Are you avoiding me?"

Looking at the imposing man before her, Jiang Huaining suddenly realized that if he wanted someone, there was probably no one he couldn't get...

As the investigation into the corruption case went deeper, Jiang Huaining and her mother were unexpectedly drawn into it as well.

This time, Jiang's mother chose to stop running. With help from Chu Heng and his sister, mother and daughter returned to the capital to face their enemies with courage and wit.

One-on-one, both pure

A heroine with a universally adored aura x a scheming, calculating hero who's hopelessly in love

#LoveAtFirstSight

#AloofOnTheOutside, HopelessRomanticOnTheInside

#EnsembleCast

#Unhinged

Coming soon: Four Seasons in the Countryside (Farming). The full manuscript is complete. Visit the author's profile to find it.

1.

The Yun family had a silly daughter. She wasn't just stupid, she was also incredibly ugly.

One day, the villagers saw a beautiful, fresh-faced young woman stride out of the Yun family's shabby little courtyard. They stared, then couldn't resist asking the little tagalong behind her, "Little Donggua, is she a relative of yours?"

Little Donggua beamed with innocent delight. "No, that's my aunt!"

He proudly puffed out his chest and marched after Yun Zhao, leaving everyone staring at one another in shock and disbelief.

The Yun family's ugly girl had transformed into a heavenly beauty!

2.

The foolish daughter of the Yun family's second son had accidentally fallen into the water and was unconscious. Wen Yan, suspected of being the one responsible, was in agony.

If everyone found out that he'd been taken advantage of by a fool, how could he ever show his face again?

Wen Yan anxiously guarded his "secret." Then he heard that the Yun family's silly daughter had survived and woken up. He breathed a sigh of relief. Thank goodness she hadn't died. As for that kiss, as long as she didn't bring it up, he could pretend it had never happened...

Later, Wen Yan's fear never came to pass, because the fool had actually forgotten him!

She remembered the village ruffians who bullied her, her greedy and heartless uncle and aunt, the hard-of-hearing butcher who sold pork in town, and Aunt He, the gossipy busybody. She even remembered the big yellow cat raised by the XX family, yet somehow she had forgotten him!

He should have been glad that he no longer had to worry about being threatened. But watching the bright young woman busy planting crops, selling vegetables, and selling rice, Wen Yan suddenly felt inexplicably annoyed.

She was the one who had taken advantage of him, so why could she act so carefree around him while he kept getting thrown into disarray?

3.

Lin Yu, a graduate student at an agricultural college, stayed up all night writing her thesis and accidentally transmigrated to a backward, impoverished mountain village in ancient times. She woke up as the Yun family's second son's foolish, ugly, mentally disabled daughter.

Optimistic and upbeat by nature, Lin Yu looked at the thatched hut, which was bare inside and ready to collapse, and secretly vowed to give her family a life of comfort and abundance!

She sold rice, vegetables, and fruit. Yun Zhao's life as a farmer was full of flavor, and before long she had made a fortune and moved her family into a grand mansion.

With food, drink, and money to spend, Yun Zhao was very content with her comfortable life. But as the days went by, the girls her age in the village began marrying and starting families. Her family grew anxious about her future, and her sister-in-law even thought Yun Zhao couldn't bear to leave home and began considering finding her a live-in husband.

On one side were her well-meaning parents, and on the other, her persistent suitors. Yun Zhao was at her wits' end.

Then one day, she happened to meet the newly appointed county magistrate on the street. Wen Yan stepped in front of her, and Yun Zhao looked up in confusion, meeting a pair of deep, cool eyes. The man lowered his gaze, his eyes unfathomable.

"Would you marry me?"

"Marry you?!"

Yun Zhao stared at the man, as bright and clear as a gentle breeze and moonlight, her eyes wide with disbelief.

Clever, capable, pure, bright, adorable, beautiful, and charming heroine x scheming, calculating, tea-sipping hero

#Amnesia

#MarriageFirst,LoveLater

#LongPlannedScheme

#SchemingAndCunning

#Face-Slapping

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Theme: Love doesn't change. It's people's hearts that become corrupted.