Crane Dance in the Dawn Clouds

(The book is complete, so feel free to dive in! My new book is out, a prequel to Dance of the Crane. If you’re interested, come check it out, ladies! Mwah!)

Her carefree days seemed to be coming to an end, and Ling Qingyu was feeling rather dejected.

Her own mother had abandoned her and gone off to seek adventure, while her father was using the opportunity to bundle her off to someone else.

An arranged marriage would be one thing, but her future husband had turned out to be flamboyantly gay!

The two childhood friends who had been her backup options had avoided her like the plague ever since they were little. To them, she was a terrifying beast.

At least one of them eventually found his conscience, only to head off to the frontier without a backward glance.

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She admitted she was a little greedy, a little lazy, a little scatterbrained, and not the brightest…

Didn’t everyone say that a woman’s lack of talent was a virtue? So her ignorance and incompetence weren’t her fault.

But she refused to believe no one could appreciate her virtues!