[Traditional Historical Romance and Household Intrigue] [Reborn Legitimate Daughter] [A Proud, Untouchable Man Seizes Her Heart by Force]
Mu Chaoyan, the legitimate daughter of the Minister's household, had been sensitive and stubborn in her previous life, strictly abiding by convention.
She repeatedly tested Pei Jingzhi's feelings for her, but in the end, she gave up hope.
After being murdered and given a second life, she decided to cut off all romantic entanglements and repay every grudge.
In her previous life, she was proud and foolish. Someone schemed to make her fall into the water, ruining her reputation and leaving her unable to bear children.
Her nominal husband conspired with outsiders to bring about her tragic death.
Her loyal personal maid married the wrong man and eventually hanged herself.
Her own younger brother became a useless wastrel and their relationship soured, all because someone had turned them against each other.
The son she adopted was carousing night after night before the seventh day after her death had even passed.
Her mother's death, too, had not been an accident. Others had joined forces to cause it.
In his previous life, Pei Jingzhi was gentle and peerlessly elegant in public, but unfathomably calculating in private. He kept his desires in check and repeatedly turned down Mu Chaoyan's feelings.
After Mu Chaoyan was reborn, she treated Pei Jingzhi like a stranger.
Whenever the woman who had grown distant from him rejected him, Pei Jingzhi would spend another late night suppressing his filthy desires, stroking keepsakes from his childhood. When malice welled up inside him, he lost himself in special drugs.
Yet in this life, when Mu Chaoyan touched Pei Jingzhi, nothing happened. She only saw his fingers tremble, as his eyes fixed on her, concealing terrifying waves of emotion.
On the day Mu Chaoyan planned to enter a Buddhist temple, the usually dignified and composed heir seized her halfway there and forcibly took her back to his residence. His cool, low voice brushed her ear: "Zhaozhao, how can you leave me behind?"
Reader's Guide: They remain faithful to each other in both lives. The male lead is a master of disguises, driven to madness by love.
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