~ Ruyi's Book (Book 1) ~ Completed, undergoing editing A young female medic, Ruyi enters the Song palace to protect her brother who has been conscripted for the war against the Qing empire. Set in a fictional world inspired by Ancient China, The Pearls is a series about four young women, Ruyi, Meilin, Jia and Yunmei, whose stories become interconnected despite their different beginnings. They are connected through the tragedy and hardships in their lives. Two empires war against one another. Nation against nation. Man against man. One woman makes it her mission to do good and to save lives. This is Ruyi's story. She is a woman in a man's world, trying to do man's work. Along the way she learns about her inner strength, finds courage in her chosen sisters, and discovers love in the most unlikely of places. All images used are credited to their owners. None of them are my own.

How can you lose something you never have? When your own mother poisons you to gain pity from others, how should you feel? Why was I, the youngest, being married off? How could I care about something that was never mine? WARNING! Viewer discretion advised: Story contains adult content that is unsuitable for children. NOTE from the writer: I'm an amateur writer so please overlook plot holes, grammar issues, or anything else a story is supposed to have. This is my original story so... as the saying goes "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all".

Two years have passed since The Decision. Two years was all it took for everything to change. Fallen Angels and Demon's roam the Earth as if it were nothing. Angels and Guard's protect humans, not secretly, but in the naked eye where they can watch them and interact with them. Two things that should never have happened. Two things that were 'once upon a time' against the Angelic Law. Alexis has been battling her way around, waiting to finally get through to the Angelic World to find her love, her rock, Gabriel. As the years went on, hope had started to diminish along with her will to trust. Time had become nothing but an object; life had become a blur. But after a visit from an old 'friend' explaining how there was a loop hole in getting into the Angelic World, Alexis finally had a spark of hope inside her... on the other hand she wasn't expecting the man guiding her to Gabriel to be one that had abandoned her in her time of need. The journey she thought would be easy turned into a journey of discovery, ill-fated feelings, war, loss... and a fight for love. In more ways than one... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *Sequel to Mark of a Fallen Angel