Coming soon! My completed novel next door, Reborn Before Breaking with the Princess, is great, trust me!
*Orphan x general: adopted younger puppy x gentle, chaste, untouchable beauty
*Untouchable beauty reborn and pursuing love: from chaste to insatiable
*Ten-year age gap, angsty romance, older woman and younger puppy
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Jiang Xun had been dreaming a lot lately. She dreamed of her older sister holding her. Her sister's hands were soft, her kisses hot, and when she leaned close, her breath enveloped Jiang Xun like the scent of flowers.
After waking, Jiang Xun would come to her senses and realize that she and her older sister could never be together.
General Qi Wuxi of Xuanji had guarded Xiao Pass for many years. Kind and benevolent, she cared for the people and had adopted ten orphans at her residence. Jiang Xun ranked ninth and was called Little Ninth.
All the orphans at the residence called Qi Wuxi Older Sister. They learned martial arts or studied the classics, and every one of them regarded her as a strict teacher and loving mother. Jiang Xun was the only exception.
She called her Older Sister, but in her heart, she wanted to share her bed every night and whisper with her beneath the clouds of Mount Wu.
This love had burned in her for years, only to be rejected and scolded by her older sister time and again.
Her sister said she treated Jiang Xun like a younger sister, like a child, and felt nothing more for her. She even told Jiang Xun to put aside such delusions.
Those words were heartbreaking. So humiliating.
At last, Jiang Xun understood that the untouchable beauty could never be hers, and she ought to let go of her own delusions.
Jiang Xun resolved to let go of her obsession and be the good child her sister wanted. But a fever-induced dream dragged her back into the abyss.
She kept dreaming of her older sister, of making love with her. It was absurd, yet she sank deeper and deeper.
The dream clung to her like a ghost, growing more vivid and intense with every passing day.
Several times, she awoke at dawn with a dry throat and found her hand in a damp mess. She felt utterly depraved, convinced that someone as filthy and despicable as her was even less worthy of her sister...
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But in the dream and out of it, it was like paradise and an endless inferno.
Jiang Xun couldn't escape the dream. She longed for it even as she felt ashamed. The more passionately she made love to her sister in her dreams, the less she dared face her after waking. Pleasure and pain tormented her day after day, leaving her no choice but to distance herself and run away from her sister.
But somehow, something had gone wrong. Jiang Xun tried to keep her distance, only to find that whenever she did, her sister treated her more gently than before and drew closer to her...
Jiang Xun felt she was about to go mad. She was going to lose her mind.
For the first time in her life, she thought of running away. She wanted to leave the general's residence, leave Xiao Pass, and go somewhere her sister wasn't, so she could wash her filthy heart clean.
But that night, the autumn rain poured down. Someone lost their senses, someone let their heart go astray. The instant the candle in the bedroom went out, Jiang Xun squeezed her eyes shut and heard her sister speak to her, her breath close enough to feel.
She heard her sister ask, her voice like a clear spring striking stone, piercing straight through her heart: "Don't like it? Want to leave? Then why are you asking me to go faster, to give you more...?"
Before you read:
1. The older woman is reborn.
2. The setting is entirely fictional, with no historical research.
3. The author focuses on romance. Please don't overthink the political intrigue.
Theme: You alone are my salvation
