[Historical romance / sweet romance / everyday life]
[The leads aren’t each other’s firsts, but he’s devoted to her from the beginning to the end. No angst.]
[Ruthless, decisive, hopeless romantic vs. spoiled, fickle little green tea]
Yan Yuying drags a half-dead man back from outside a frontier town. She diligently nurses him, cares for him with all her heart, and uses both her beauty and her wiles to finally convince him to take her to the capital.
It is prosperous and bustling, full of powerful families.
But he is only a low-ranking officer. His status, position, and family background are nowhere near enough for her.
All she wants is to climb to the highest branch.
So Yan Yuying runs away, leaving him a grand gift before she goes.
*
Who could have guessed that on her wedding night, she would meet an old acquaintance in a foreign place?
The night the Third Prince chooses her as his concubine, Yan Yuying sees the hem of her husband’s black brocade robe through her veil. When he roughly lifts it, she looks up with feigned shyness and adoration, only to find the man she poisoned and killed standing before her, his face livid.
He bends down, wraps an arm around her waist, and whispers in her ear:
“Yingying, why did you run?”
“Didn’t you say you liked me, that you loved me?”
She trembles helplessly, unable to utter a word.
He bites down on her delicate shoulder again.
*
During the twelve hours of agony after drinking the poisoned wine Yan Yuying had personally brought him, Ji Yanzhou cannot help hating her. Yet deep down, he is relieved that he has everything she wants.
“She’s vain, vicious, and spoiled beyond taming, but I still love her. I can’t help myself.”
