[Angsty at first, then sweet enough to make you jealous + a groveling chase for his wife + coercion + his white moonlight + male rivals competing for her]
A ruthless regent in a turbulent age vs. a delicate yet resilient widow
After her husband dies in battle, Wei Nianqing keeps vigil for him. But she never expects her late husband's cousin to force her to become his concubine. That night, a man kicks down the door, breaks the cousin's arm, and advances on her with murder in his eyes.
When they first meet, the man, radiating menace, pins her in front of her late husband's coffin. His cold lips part: “As a daughter of the Wei family, you betrayed your late husband. Such a crime deserves death!”
Later, when he sees her laughing and chatting with another man, he lets out a cold snort. That night, he enters her room and pins her against the wall. “It seems you still haven't learned your lesson. Shall I, your prince, teach you what proper conduct means?”
With the man pressing her at every turn, Wei Nianqing raises her hand and slaps him across the face, then proves her innocence.
Later still, she wants nothing more than to stay away from him and live a quiet life. But the look in his eyes grows increasingly strange.
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When Pei Yuan first meets her, he sees only a seductive woman who has brought ruin to the Pei family and flouted her wifely duties.
He uses force to make her learn to behave.
Only when he sees her disappear into a sea of flames, clutching her late husband's spirit tablet, does he realize that he is the true prisoner of this turbulent age.
When they meet again, she is the wife of an imprisoned prefect. In court, she holds her young child and begs for her husband's name to be cleared.
That night, his eyes bloodshot, he pulls her into his arms and puts a dagger in her hand. “If you're going to marry again, why not make me your late husband first?”
In this turbulent age, I would find you a place of peace, and willingly bow my head and submit to you.
(The male lead is a real jerk, but he loves only the heroine. The story features a struggle for supremacy in a turbulent age, and he eventually becomes emperor. The heroine has a white moonlight.)
After reading the introduction, I really liked it😍but I felt like it was discontinued and I didn't dare to read it🫣