The Tenth Beile of the Eastern City wants to take her as a concubine? She is neither a lady from a distinguished family nor someone with power or influence. How could she presume to marry into the nobility? Besides, she yearns for the Westerners' “one husband, one wife” system and has no intention of sharing a husband with anyone!
She thought the only way out was to make the Beile call off the engagement himself. But after entering the Beile residence, a wickedly handsome man unexpectedly took her innocence by force...
The virgin who stirred his desire to fever pitch that night wasn't the “bed warmer” he kept at Xinyuan, but the secondary wife his grandfather had chosen for him? What a calculating woman! He hadn't even agreed to bring her into his household, and already she'd eagerly climbed into his bed. Now she was playing the chaste maiden in front of him, resisting his every touch, then brazenly declaring that she didn't want to marry him as a “concubine”!
So all that talk about breaking off the engagement was just a ploy to retreat in order to advance. What a pity! Though he was taken with her peerless beauty, he wasn't foolish enough to let her have her way. Still, until he lost interest in her, he had no plans to expose her true nature...
Could the Beile really be so cruel? Not only had he imprisoned her in Xinyuan, he had humiliated her in public! Worn down in body and spirit, she suddenly felt so vulnerable that she longed for a strong, forgiving shoulder to lean on. The irony was that the man who had taken her virginity came and went from Xinyuan as he pleased and knew all about her plight. Yet she had never seen his face clearly, much less learned who he was...
