After Four Years as a Widow, I Found Love Again

Yang Man was beautiful, yet became a widow at a young age, left to depend on one another with her young daughter.

Her husband's elder brother and younger brother coveted her land, while lecherous men dared to climb her courtyard wall, thinking a widow and child had no one to protect them. The villagers also took advantage of their lonely, helpless situation to gossip about them.

For her and her daughter's future, she gritted her teeth, sold off the family property, moved to the city, and found work at an embroidery workshop.

Widows had it hard in those days. Not only did Yang Man have to work in public, but hours of embroidery left her back aching so badly she could barely straighten up. Some people kindly advised her, "You're a woman, and a widow at that. Why put yourself through such hardship? You're still young and beautiful. You'd be better off remarrying while you can, so you and your child will have someone to rely on."

Yang Man let their words go in one ear and out the other, never pausing her needlework.

Even if she remarried, it would never be to find someone to rely on. She would do it only for love: she would have to cherish him, and he would have to hold her dear.

Someone like Jiang Zhao.

Later, Yang Man opened an embroidery workshop, and her custom orders became a roaring success. Even the county magistrate's wife became a regular customer.

Later still, Yang Man opened a clothing shop and licensed her exclusive embroidery designs. The best-selling clothes in shops across the surrounding counties were all designed by Yang Man.

There was no one in Gu'an City who didn't know Yang Man. Everyone who saw her called her "Boss Yang."

Before meeting Yang Man, Jiang Zhao's life was all about hunting. Once he went into the mountains, he might not come back for months.

But after meeting Yang Man, his eyes were fixed on her and her daughter. All he wanted was to be by their side every day.

From fellow villagers to next-door neighbors, from hunter to county constable, all he wanted was to protect her, her daughter, and the embroidery business she loved.

"Man Niang, a man like me, with no one in the world, thinks he has to follow his heart. Only then can it find a place to call home."

"And you are what my heart longs for."

Self-reliant embroidery expert x honest, devoted puppy

A country couple works hard to climb the ranks in business and politics

P.S.

1. The heroine has never been with anyone; the hero is a virgin. The heroine has a daughter, who has a role in the story.

2. The story takes place in a fictional dynasty modeled on the Song. Romance and career development, with a slice-of-life feel.

My next book will be Everything Goes Yun's Way. Here's the blurb. If you're interested, please add it to your collection!

Shen Yun was widowed at twenty-two. It's been five years now.

At the start of this year, she came down with a strange illness. She often woke in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back asleep, and an unbearable restlessness consumed her. Worst of all, though her skin had been smooth since childhood, her face and body suddenly broke out in dense clusters of pimples.

Her parents, both doctors, examined her again and again but couldn't find the cause. Neither could any of the other doctors. Several courses of medicine had no effect, and just as Shen Yun was getting desperate, a mysterious Taoist passing by suddenly told her that she suffered from an imbalance of yin and yang, and that the strange illness would cure itself once they were brought into harmony.

Though Shen Yun blushed bright red with embarrassment, she decided to remarry for the sake of her beauty!

Once the news got out, matchmakers were practically breaking down the Shen family's door.

In the end, Shen Yun married Pei Heng beneath a red bridal veil.

There's no denying that Pei Heng's skills at treating her illness have improved remarkably. Yun Niang is more satisfied with him every day!

Tender and proud heroine x steady, fatherly, devoted hero

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