At Your Side, Waiting for the Emperor's Woman

This novel has been contracted for publication under the title Hidden Dragon, Hidden Phoenix. It is available at Dangdang, Joyo, JD.com, and Taobao.

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“If you hate me this much, then perhaps not seeing me will make it easier for you.”

A sudden bitterness rose in her throat. She swallowed it calmly as the handsome man before her blurred from view.

Blindness-inducing medicine!

She smiled, her wide eyes open, their empty gaze seeing nothing more.

Not even tears remained.

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She transmigrated here.

By day, dressed as a man and full of swagger, she is the most formidable advisor in the capital’s Six Doors, and the dream husband of every sheltered young woman in all of Beiliang.

By night, she sheds her sharp edges and returns to women’s dress. She is the hidden daughter of the Chancellor’s household, tucked away in its rear hills and kept from the light, as well as the target of those secretly searching for someone with an enigmatic past.

A fire and a conspiracy bring him to marry her.

In public, he is a prince whose face and legs were ruined in the blaze.

In private, he is a man with a cool, faint smile and graceful steps.

She learns many of his closely guarded secrets.

And she becomes his most closely guarded secret.

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She is sharp-eyed and meticulous, and every case file she handles is solved. Yet she alone cannot reach his heart.

He is composed, calculating, and full of ingenious plans, winning victories from a thousand miles away. Yet he cannot understand her feelings.

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She gives him everything she has, and he drives her to the brink.

She flees, and he lets her go.

She thinks her life is starting over, not knowing that she has merely jumped from his left hand to his right.

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But much later,

who is the woman in red, breathtakingly beautiful and dazzling enough to beguile every eye?

And who is the white-haired man, looking down upon the world, yet gazing into the blood-red sunset with utter desolation?

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