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Rejected Beauty Practices the Villain Play

Fengyu loved gold, silver, and jewels more than anything. Her greatest dream was to eat, drink, and enjoy life as a salted fish. Her fiancé was the third-ranked scholar in the imperial exams, handsome as the legendary Pan An. Her salted fish life was perfectly complete. Her husband was poor? No problem, she was rich! But who would have thought that the winds of fate would shift, causing her soul to transmigrate into the body of Xie Xun, a dashing and rebellious young marquis, even making him lose a leg due to her. To survive on the battlefield, the salted fish had to turn over and rise, learning horseback riding, archery, and military strategy. The young marquis, bearing her face, caused chaos everywhere. Her fiancé, deeming her wild and foolish, broke off their engagement. She got engaged, and he reneged. She made money, and he squandered it. Her mountains of gold and silver were all emptied by him, and the two became locked in a love-hate relationship. Gradually, the plot started to go off the rails. The ex-fiancé, after breaking off the engagement, regretted it and confessed his deep love. Fengyu: I've already fallen for someone else. A scheming girl at the archery range tried to kill her, only for Fengyu to stab herself instead. Fengyu: What to do now? It looks like you've committed murder. Her parents, who had defended the borders for decades, returned home only to say, "Daughter, go follow the young marquis and start a rebellion!" How did the originally carefree salted fish storyline turn into one of a villain rising? In the end… Raising a husband turned out to be a money pit, but the husband was certainly worth it! A sickly schemer hiding their true nature (Fengyu) vs. A dashing but cunning strategist (Xie Xun)
An Zhixiao · 412.5k Views

Married Off To A Cold Eyed Knight

What would you do if almost everyone around you saw you as a hindrance or not at all? What if your own father was one of those who wished you gone? That is the story of Rosemary's life. Ever since the death of her mother during accident where only she survived, Rose has felt useless. Despite her best attempts to ignore the hurtful glances and words of the royal court and her father, she can't help but feel like a wilted flower. It becomes so bad that she considers ending it all, until she is rescued by a handsome young man with cold violet eyes who promises to change her world. ---- Before long, I reached a stone bridge overlooking Kaguya river. Luckily for me, the place was empty at the moment. Although, would anyone have even bothered saving a wretch like me? At most, they probably would have just watched as I met my end in a moment of morbid curiosity. And as I stood at the edge, I remembered all the times I had cried. All the times I had hurt. But now, I was ready. I smiled as the wind whipped around me. It was time to end it. Turning around, I let my body fall backwards into the river. The sky was a sea of stars. The city lights around me sparkled like gems. It was so beautiful. For the first time in a long time, I felt a sense of calm wash over me. I didn't regret it. No, I had finally found the courage to stand up for myself in my very own way. The water was high, so the fall itself didn't kill me instantly as I had hoped. As the river enveloped me, I closed my eyes. This was the end of my journey. A journey full of misery and tragedy. If there was another life, I hoped it would be better than this one. "Sis!" I heard a voice scream. Orlin! My brother came for me? What was he doing here? Had he followed me? But why? Did he care about me? Or was it just pity? No, right? Surely at least one person in this world loved me. Why had I given up on myself so soon? I knew he loved me. Yet, I still went through with this stupid decision. I allowed those girls and Father's words inhibit my better judgment... "Sis, where are you? Rose! Please show yourself! I want to talk!" Ore yelled at the top of his lungs. Right, my life was not all misery and tragedy. There were faint glimmers of joy and hope left. Ore was a big part of that. How selfish of me... I was actually about to abandon my brother. I tried to resurface, but my swimming skills weren't the best. To make matters worse, the current was far too strong. If not for the current, I would have at least been able to dog paddle over to the edge with some effort. My right hand broke through the fierce waters and was yanked by another hand. I was pulled out of the murky depths and saw a pair of cold violet eyes staring back at me. Father? No, it wasn't him. Although, those eyes felt familiar. Before I could make out the face of my rescuer clearly, darkness swept over me. Was it too late? I didn't want to die... Not anymore!
sun_imperial · 1m Views

Our Lie

Kael Voss is the second son of a great noble house in the kingdom of Vaereth, where bloodline magic determines everything — your power, your land, your name, your worth. His blood is the weakest in four generations. His ability, dismissed by his family as a consolation prize, lets him feel what people carry emotionally. Not a fighter. Not an heir. Just a young man who notices things that everyone else has decided not to see. When a quiet, precise archivist named Nara arrives at the estate with forged credentials and a hidden name, Kael is drawn to her in the way you are drawn to someone who occupies silence the way most people occupy noise. What begins as an intellectual partnership in the family archive slowly becomes something neither of them planned for — because Nara did not come to the Voss estate to fall in love. She came for the truth. The truth is this: sixty-three years ago, Kael's grandfather orchestrated the complete annihilation of a rival noble family — the Marens — forty-seven people including children and infants, erased through an ancient illegal ritual that transferred their entire bloodline's magical strength into the Voss family. Everything the Voss name stands on — the estate, the standing, the power that Kael's brother Seran wears so naturally — was purchased with forty-seven lives. Nara is the granddaughter of the only survivor, an eight-year-old girl who was carried through a river crossing in the dark and spent her life knowing exactly who had done it. As Kael unravels the buried documentation and confronts his family one by one — his brother who has known for three years and chosen silence, his father who inherited the secret as a young man and built a life of deliberate goodness around it, his mother who chose the living over the dead and has maintained that choice with flawless, suffocating composure ever since — he is forced to ask the question that sits under all the others: can you love people completely and also hold what they have done? There is no clean answer. The love is real. The crime is real. Both things occupy the same space and neither one cancels the other out, and Kael — the overlooked one, the weak one, the one who was never supposed to matter — is the only person in the house willing to stand in the middle of that and refuse to look away.
thegoldenstylus · 1.5k Views