Playing the fool while hiding her claws · Marriage first, love later · Face-slapping and falling hard
Everyone said that Regent Rong Che had married an unlucky husband: Mo Wen, a concubine-born son of the Marquis of Pingyang who could only tell fortunes. He was obedient and timid, trembling at the sight of Rong Che and too afraid to speak above a whisper.
On their wedding night, Rong Che slashed Mo Wen’s wedding robe with his sword and coldly ordered, “Know your place.”
Mo Wen nodded with red-rimmed eyes, so obedient it was irritating.
Later, when Rong Che was afflicted by a gu poison and writhed in agony, barely conscious, Mo Wen raised gu worms for him. He even bit his own lip and clumsily leaned in to feed Rong Che his blood. Rong Che grabbed him by the back of the head and kissed him fiercely, deeply. He just wanted to kiss him.
Dazed by the kiss, Mo Wen sat on Rong Che’s lap, blood at the corner of his mouth, panting. He thought: Is he serious about me? I’ve been taken in.
Rong Che, meanwhile, thought: He kissed me. He has feelings for me.
Each had their own agenda: one was pretending to be obedient, while the other had fallen hard.
All Mo Wen wanted from the beginning was justice. As for the regent’s feelings, he didn’t have time to care about them yet.
Rong Che, however, was already figuring out how to bring this pretends-to-be-obedient cat home for good.
Reading guide: One-on-one romance, happy ending.
A cold and stern seme who falls hard × a seemingly weak but clear-eyed uke. The seme thinks he’s raising a well-behaved cat, but the cat has eight hundred schemes up his sleeve.
Not bad, very good. The characteristics of the characters are relatively distinct, and the development is slow but steady.