You Scorn Me for Flattering You by Day, Yet Hold Me in Your Arms at Night

Xie Qianluo was once the apple of her parents' eye, cherished and pampered from childhood. But then disaster struck. Her father was beheaded, her mother took her own life, and she had no choice but to seek refuge with her aunt. Her aunt had married into the Zhou family of Qinghe as a concubine. As an outsider living under their roof, Xie Qianluo had to depend on them, always careful and cautious with her words and actions. All she wanted was to come of age soon, find a husband, and leave the Zhou family. But somehow, everything changed. She began to feel that someone was watching her from the shadows. And then there was that otherworldly man, the Zhou family's third young master. He suddenly stormed into her world. A man who was usually polite to everyone suddenly confronted her furiously, demanding to know what wicked trick she had used to seduce him. Xie Qianluo was terrified. She knew her place, and had never once entertained thoughts of the future head of the family. Not knowing how she had offended him, Xie Qianluo wanted only to escape the Zhou family as soon as possible, so she hastily settled on a marriage. Just before the wedding, someone knocked her unconscious and carried her away from the Zhou family. The person who took her was none other than Zhou Chenyu. As red candles flickered in the bridal chamber, on a bed draped in scarlet, the man traced Xie Qianluo's crimson lips with his rough fingertips. “A Luo, in life you're mine, and in death you'll be my ghost.” Only then did she realize that the one who had watched her day and night, and carefully laid plans to keep her captive, had always been him. But why did he keep insisting that she had been the one to pursue him first...? What on earth was going on?