I Became a Bride-to-Be Widow, Hidden in the Heart of a Chaste Tycoon

[Only ever been with each other, one-on-one romance + gentle healing + an adorable child relying on them both + a reborn supporting female character brought down a peg + uncovering the truth behind a death + an abstinent tycoon’s carefully concealed, all-consuming love. No angst, sweet from beginning to end]

After transmigrating into a melodramatic rebirth novel, Yun Shuyao became the hapless almost-widow whose fiancé died on the eve of their wedding. She also had a nine-year-old orphan by her side, covered in scars and abandoned by the whole world.

Branded a woman who brought death to her husband and trapped in the cold, oppressive Pei family mansion, she faced a reborn supporting character’s schemes at every turn, while greedy relatives watched her like vultures.

Yun Shuyao’s gaze was cool as she let out a cold laugh.

Family power plays and trouble? She’d handle whatever came her way.

Protecting the child she loved? She would never back down.

She swore she’d turn this terrible hand into an unbeatable winning one.

There was only one man she couldn’t figure out.

He was Pei Yuzhou’s most trusted friend, Xiao Jingyuan, the abstinent ruler who stood at the top of the city.

Every day, he visited under the pretext of paying respects to his departed friend, silently clearing away every obstacle in her path.

When the servants mistreated her, they were all dismissed overnight. When rumors spread, they were silenced in an instant.

She always thought he was only looking after her because of his friendship with Pei Yuzhou.

Until one day, the man trapped her firmly in a corner, dark eyes brimming with the longing he had suppressed for years, his voice low and burning.

“Yaoyao, he asked me to protect you for a while.”

“But I want to protect you for the rest of your life.”

“From the day you came into this world, I’ve never been able to think straight again.”