[The aloof beauty descends from her pedestal + age gap + possessive courtship + born into another era + devoted to each other]
Shen Qidie is the most beautiful woman at the Zuixian House, but she never entertains customers.
Until a certain case forces her to kneel at Xie Qingyan's feet.
She offers herself to him as if she were an object.
“I have no shortage of anything, so why would I need you to repay me? What a joke!”
She has no choice but to depend on him.
She only wants to solve her urgent predicament, unaware that from the moment she enters that estate, she has stepped into a carefully woven cage.
The first time she runs, he drags her back. “You’re only being made a legal wife. You’re running away just because I won’t let you be one?”
The second time she runs, he loses his temper and locks her in his arms. “You’re already my legal wife. Why are you still running?”
The third time she runs
He lowers his proud head and arrives at her door with a pair of betrothal geese he spent three days catching. “I admire Lady Shen for who she is, and my heart longs for her. I wish to prepare the six betrothal gifts and formally ask for her hand. I hope you will grant my wish.”
Qidie comes from a thousand years in the future, and her way of thinking is far ahead of the times.
But he holds power over the entire court, and what he wants has never been someone who understands him
He wants her.
Their standing is unequal, and so are their beliefs.
What he offers is not love, but a cage.
Fortunately, she is no bird, but a butterfly. How could a cage ever keep her trapped?
It's beautiful. I like this kind of forced love story.