[There Is a Couple, Adoptive Older Brother]
The north wind howled, and cold snow swirled through the air.
The realm was in chaos, the tides of war were rising, and heroes everywhere vied for supremacy.
The enemy soldiers tied her to the city wall and said to Luo Huaiqin, "Choose one: your fiancée or Cui Lanjun."
She looked at Luo Huaiqin, swaying unsteadily. Amid the wind and snow, she heard him choke out, "Save Lanjun."
Hearing that, she smiled faintly, then leaped from the wall. Her red robe, like blood, stood out starkly against the snow.
Later, Luo Huaiqin took the city in a decisive victory and killed Cui Lanjun with his own hands.
But none of it had anything to do with her anymore. When she heard the news, she had already faked her death successfully and was sitting in a teahouse, sighing over it all.
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The above is the climactic scene in the novel featuring Cui Lanjun.
After learning she had transmigrated into a book and realizing she was one of the choices, Cui Lanjun was left speechless.
Unfortunately, she learned the plot too late. Everything had already bolted like a runaway horse, veering wildly off course.
She looked at the snow swirling overhead, then at the man on the city wall.
The enemy commander grinned exactly as he had in the book. "Choose one: your fiancé or Luo Huaiqin."
Cui Lanjun: "...Yikes."
Then, under Luo Huaiqin's devastated gaze and her fiancé's hopeful eyes, she spoke.
"I choose neither."
"You're both obstacles to my conquest of the realm."
"Heartless? Not at all. I'm devastated!"
"Love? Of course I do!"
"Lonely? Absolutely. So I'll spend the rest of my life mourning them, find eighty stand-ins who look nothing like them, and numb my suffering soul with power and beauty..."
"A heartbreaker? If that's what you want to think, there's nothing I can do."
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Blurb written on November 6, 2024
Theme: Power is the best beauty treatment
