At fifteen, Mu Xiali became an orphan and was sent to live with the Li family because of her betrothal.
On her eighteenth birthday, her fiancé nearly raped her.
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Li Lanzhe, the Second Master of Shangjing, was ruthless, cold-hearted, and merciless. Nicknamed the “Living Yama,” he was her fiancé’s uncle.
And yet, a man like him saved her twice.
Desperate to escape the marriage, she went to him. “I want to break off the engagement.”
“Uncle, you’ll help me, won’t you?”
Sure enough, he helped her...
In front of the Li family elders, he fought his own nephew for her hand. “Don’t forget, I’m a Li too.”
Then he asked her, “Will you marry him or me?”
Could she just marry neither of them?
Wasn’t this supposed to be about breaking off the engagement?
Why did having him as her husband give her goosebumps!
Then the man tossed her a contract. “Three years. We’ll only be a married couple in name.”
After the wedding
He was so gentle~
Who said he was the Living Yama!
Did they really have to be just a fake couple?
By chance, she learned he had a first love, and then saw a woman leave his room.
Well, then!
His image as a man who kept his distance from women and lived an ascetic life was all an act.
She turned cold toward him, and that was when the man panicked:
“I want to confess my feelings to you.”
Sorry, she wanted a love that lasted from beginning to end!
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One night, the man wrapped an arm bandaged in gauze around her and pulled her into his embrace. “You still won’t say yes?”
“If you really like me, then end things with your first love.”
His gaze wavered. It took him a long moment to react. “Lili, I don’t have a first love. There’s only ever been one person I’ve loved, and that’s you!”
