You Forced Me to Marry for Peace, Tyrant. Why Do You Regret It Now?

[Both leads are virgins, happy ending + marriage first, love later + scheming, possessive, emotionally intense male lead who has plotted for years and fights to claim her + second male lead suffers a painful regret-filled pursuit + not a strong female lead]

[Fragile early on, then a beautiful, unhinged woman × a sickly, beautiful ghost-king and tyrant. The male lead is not a good person.]

Yun Xiang was rescued by Xie Zhiyu after she became lost in the common world as a child. That was what Xie Zhiyu told her.

She regarded him as her benefactor, fell in love with him, and willingly stayed by his side without a name or status.

Until she heard him with her own ears, laughing with the Crown Princess: “She’s just a little bird for people to amuse themselves with. I’d feel dirty even touching her.”

Later, Xie Zhiyu used the excuse of repaying a debt of gratitude to force her into a political marriage in the Northern Kingdom.

Yun Xiang’s heart died completely.

Gao Yu, the emperor of the Northern Kingdom, had murdered his father and brother and was cruel and merciless.

Yet on the very night she entered the palace, he held Yun Xiang tight and wept bitterly.

Yun Xiang was horrified: This tyrant really is insane!

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Yun Xiang thought she would die soon after being sent away to marry into another kingdom. Instead, not only did she survive, but the tyrant spoiled her until she could do as she pleased, giving her a devotion she had never known before.

At the same time, unfamiliar yet strangely familiar memories began to surface in her mind.

…

After sending Yun Xiang away, Xie Zhiyu was beside himself. He remained that way until he heard she was pregnant and about to be crowned empress.

He went mad overnight, leading an army north and swearing to take Yun Xiang back.

Xie Zhiyu’s eyes were bloodshot. “Yun’er, I was wrong… Come back with me, please?”

Hearing Yun Xiang softly agree, he was overcome with joy and pulled her into his arms, only to feel a sharp pain in his back.

Xie Zhiyu collapsed, trembling. Yun Xiang wiped the blood from her dagger and smiled, sweetly and madly: “Then… I’ll trade you and the Southern Kingdom for it.”

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Gao Yu once glimpsed the moon from the mud and kept it hidden in his heart. After exhausting every means, he finally drew that bright moon into his arms.