Pear Blossoms Fall on Silk Robes

The upcoming novel, Phoenix Tribulation, is listed at the very bottom. It will be my next book. Please add it to your collection~

[Quick-witted, brave young female doctor VS restrained, vengeful Brocade Guard]

[Blurb 1]

The physician Lihua comes to the capital to find her father, but accidentally catches the Brocade Guard Xie Zhou killing someone.

She should have fallen to her knees and begged for mercy, but instead she asks with concern, "You... you're hurt. There are bandits here. Run!"

Xie Zhou sees through her attempt to retreat in order to advance. He hates women who are full of schemes. He tries to kill her three times, but she fights desperately to save herself. Watching this girl struggle to survive like a wild weed, he finds himself softening toward her.

The first time, Xie Zhou tosses Lihua a knife and tells her, pursued by bandits, to kill herself. Instead, she uses it to kill the bandits.

The second time, Xie Zhou decides to let Lihua die with dignity and personally tends to her wounds, only for her to knock him unconscious with a needle and escape.

The third time, Lihua discovers Xie Zhou's secret. He decides to silence her, but she says, "If there can be a first and a second time, why not a third?"

[Blurb 2]

A country doctor charges into the capital. From the start, she's pursued by bandits, then forced by the Brocade Guard Xie Zhou to kill herself. When she enters the city, she's locked in a refugee camp. After finally escaping to the capital, everyone mistakes her for a little beggar...

So what if things go disastrously from the start? Lihua works every day to save herself.

Women in the Ning Kingdom aren't allowed to practice medicine, but medicine is all Lihua knows.

What, the road to becoming a physician is too difficult? Then I'll sell medicine first and find another way to achieve my goal.

What, you won't let me be a doctor? I'll do it anyway, and I'll be the best!

Lihua borrows Xie Zhou's fearsome reputation to sell medicine and make money, saves a medical clinic on the verge of bankruptcy, rescues a scholar about to jump to his death in protest, passes the exam for the Imperial Medical Academy, which has never admitted a woman, and protects poor patients whom no one else cares about.

Xie Zhou initially sees Lihua as nothing more than a pawn in the vortex of power. But the player makes one careless move and gets caught in his own game. He realizes he's deeply involved, yet can't stop himself from knowingly sinking further.

Later, Lihua becomes the capital's most famous female physician. She treats the poor and the weak, passes on medical knowledge, and saves her country. A wild weed struggles to grow into a towering tree.

Xie Zhou shakes Lihua by the shoulders and asks, "You're confidantes with Yang Zhen, playmates with Xiaochuan, like sisters with the princess, and family with Axiang. What am I to you?"

[Bonus Scene]

One day, Lihua is teaching acupuncture to her students. A male student volunteers to be her test subject, and Xie Zhou happens to see this while coming to pick her up after work. He pushes the student aside and takes his place.

Lihua: What are you doing?

Xie Zhou: I've trained in martial arts for years. I'm sturdier than this bean sprout. (He takes off his clothes piece by piece, tenses his muscles, and gently guides Lihua's hand over them.)

Lihua: Acupuncture has nothing to do with your physique.

Xie Zhou: I've been wounded many times, so I can bear pain better than he can. (He guides Lihua's hand to an old wound, the one he got when he took an arrow for her.)

Lihua: Normal acupuncture doesn't hurt, and besides...

Xie Zhou: Either way, I'm more suitable. (He plants his embroidered spring saber in the desk. If seduction and sympathy won't wake her up, he'll scare off the fool who doesn't know his place.)

That evening, in bed, Xie Zhou and Lihua lie eight zhang apart.

Lihua: What are you doing?

Xie Zhou: You don't love me anymore.

Lihua: ??

Xie Zhou: You don't even feel attracted to me anymore. (He sobs.)

Lihua: ...

[Reading Guide]

1. Single-couple romance, happy ending, plot-focused.

2. The story mainly follows the heroine's growth. The hero has less page time early on, but gradually gets more later.

3. The heroine is independent and persevering, but also relies on others.

4. A fictional setting inspired by the Ming dynasty, with a blend of clothing and official systems. Please don't nitpick the historical details.

5. The medical details are only there to serve the plot. Please don't take them as fact.

Upcoming novel: Phoenix Tribulation

[Warrior princess of a fallen kingdom VS scheming, sickly prince of an enemy kingdom]

A love-hate battle between a solid brick and a honeycomb briquette.

Revenge and putting villains in their place, secret identities, mutual salvation, and a powerful partnership.

[Blurb One]

The Yun Kingdom has an extraordinary young woman, Yun Xi, daughter of Prince Zhao. She ignores propriety and behaves outrageously. Though born a noblewoman, she practices martial arts instead of needlework, and has always despised men who can't even truss a chicken.

After more than ten years of cultivation in the mountains, she returns to the capital. In just three months, her father and brothers are falsely accused and die, while her lover's father usurps the throne. In a single night, her country falls and her family is destroyed.

She escapes when a fire breaks out in prison and adopts the name Yun Fuguang, waiting for a chance to take revenge.

The secretive organization Xuanji Tower posts a bounty list every day. To get close to her enemies, the highly skilled Yun Fuguang goes to claim a bounty, only to repeatedly fall into the hands of a frail young gentleman.

Yun Fuguang discovers that frail, delicate Pei Sanlang isn't completely useless. In fact, he's a great partner for doing bad things.

She steals chickens, and he swipes dogs.

She sets fires, and he keeps watch.

She kills, and he hands her the knife.

They work together seamlessly, like a pair of infamous demons.

She thought she'd walk the bloody road of revenge alone to the very end. Never did she expect to fall for the person she found most irritating.

After she confesses that she's a princess of a fallen kingdom, Pei Sanlang disappears without a trace.

[Blurb Two]

The eldest prince of Northern Xiao, Xiao Han, has endured a life of misery. His mother died, his father despised him, his younger brother hated him, his friends betrayed him, and his meridians were destroyed, leaving him crippled.

He despises himself, until a woman in red tells him, "Heaven creates no useless people, and the earth grows no useless grass."

He comes to his senses, establishes the intelligence network Xuanji Tower, and plots to reclaim everything that belongs to him.

When he finally finds the woman in red, he hears that her kingdom has fallen and she died in prison. Just as his heart sinks into emptiness, he turns around and spots her among the people claiming bounties at Xuanji Tower. But she has changed her appearance and no longer remembers him.

Good. They can get to know each other all over again.

Xiao Han assumes the name Pei Sanlang and approaches Yun Fuguang, helping her take revenge.

Everything he owes her, he will repay.

Everyone who hurt her will die.

Everything she wants, he will give her.

At last, even someone devoted to revenge and uninterested in romance is moved by him.

But they met through lies, and their two kingdoms are bound by old enmity. How can he make her believe that he approached her deliberately because he loves her?

[Reading Guide]

1. Single-couple romance, happy ending, no angst.

2. Plot-focused.

3. A fictional setting inspired by the Sui dynasty, with a blend of official systems and clothing. Please don't nitpick the historical details.

Theme: Don't say women cannot be heroes.